GHR Foundation is joining forces with industry, other philanthropic partners and the United States National Institutes of Health on a game-changing undertaking – the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. One important study GHR is supporting is The Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, which is working to define the impact of Alzheimer's on the population and develop a screening approach to identify those at risk.

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GHR supports innovative new approaches to address the impact of Alzheimer’s disease. If you are interested in learning more about GHR’s Health Initiative, contact us.

GHR Foundation's Inter-Religious Action funding works to improve development outcomes, build lasting community connections and advance peace by mobilizing religious leaders and communities to address common challenges. Inside Philanthropy recently identified GHR as a top funder working to promote peace throughout the world.

The piece describes how general philanthropy is climbing while funds dedicated to peacekeeping remain a very small fraction of giving. However, violence in recent years is driving up peace-focused funding, along with a new generation of funders. The piece also highlights the Central African Republic Peacebuilding Partnership, a collaboration between USAID, GHR and other donors as an innovative funding model. 

If you’re interested in partnering with GHR to support inter-religious collaboration, contact us.

GHR envisions a world where all children—especially those at risk of losing or without parental care—are living in a stable, positive, long-term family or family-like environment. One crucial element of this is social service. Having trained, culturally-relevant social workers is critical to improving the care for orphaned and vulnerable children. GHR recently partnered with the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, and as part of the larger project, they created a report on the state of social service worldwide.

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance was established as a network to bring more attention and support to the workforce that plays such a critical role in supporting families and children. GHR is partnering with the Alliance to help fill critical gaps in information and evidence, galvanizing future support for workforce strengthening initiatives that will ultimately better support families and communities to provide safe and nurturing environments for children.

The Alliance strives to strengthen evaluation tools and resources while consolidating evidence and data. This report is the first installation of an effort to gather information on the workforce throughout the year and compile it into a State of the Social Service Workforce Report. The report includes examinations of 15 countries, including GHR Children in Families geographic focuses Zambia and Cambodia. The report notes a great need in Cambodia, where the investment in social welfare is low and there is only one social welfare worker per 25,000 people.

The report also includes data and case studies on education and training, examinations of government and non-government workforces, the role of professionals and efforts towards policies and legislation. If you are interested in learning more about the state of the social service workforce and how GHR is working with the Alliance to track and establish best practices, read the full report (PDF) or contact us.

GHR Foundation is joining forces with philanthropic and industry partners to fund groundbreaking Alzheimer’s prevention research. One such partnership is the APOE trial, a prevention study that will launch by early 2016 and last five years. GHR has partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association and Fidelity Biosciences Research Initiative to provide $10 million in new research funding to support the study.

The API APOE4 trial, conducted by the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, is focused on how two new therapies may prevent or delay the development of Alzheimer’s symptoms in a population known to be at high risk for the disease because of their age and genetic status. The trial will test two different potential approaches to see if one or both can prevent the development of memory and thinking symptoms of Alzheimer’s.

The new funding will support three aspects of the API APOE4 trial, including the expansion of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Registry, the evaluation of two remote genetic counseling approaches and new scans including Tau PET imaging, amyloid PET imaging and FDG-PET imaging. If successful, the trial will not only to evaluate investigational prevention therapies, but will help find faster ways to evaluate promising prevention therapies in the future.

To learn more about how the Foundation is targeting funding to improve some of the largest research efforts in the field, contact us.

GHR Foundation's Catholic Schools funding works to ensure Twin Cities’ urban Catholic schools are faith-filled, academically excellent educational communities that prepare children to be college-ready, productive citizens. GHR has recently been highlighted in the news for our commitment to closing the achievement gap by funding urban Catholic schools.

The Catholic Spirit recently highlighted GHR’s contribution to St. Pascal Baylon Catholic School in St. Paul, Minn., which will help them solidify their future as an anchor of the city’s East Side. St. Pascal plans to implement the STEM learning model, and is a recent recipient of City Connects, an innovative program connecting urban Catholic school students with resources to meet their out-of-school needs. The funding, which is supplemented by the Richard M. Schulze Foundation and the Catholic Community Foundation, will support the needs of students for several years.

For more information about GHR’s funding to Catholic schools, contact us.