Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1989 — Health grant money workshops set up [ARTICLE]
Health grant money workshops set up
Nearly $2 million to 13 community health care projects run by and for Amenean lndians and Alaska natives has been awarded in grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Pnnceton, N.J The grants are believed to mark the first commitment by a major foundation to work directly with tribal governments, said Leighton E. Cluff, MD, foundation president. Among those awarded grants are projects designed to prevent aleohol and drug abuse, eontrol diabetes, reduce domestic violence and īmprove matemal and infant health among tribal populations in eight states. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was established as a nahonal philanthropy in 1972. Since then, it has awarded more than $996 million in grants to improve health care in the United States.