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Goodwill Industries of Orange County
“ATEC Children’s Services” ($4,000)
Goodwill Industries of Orange County will use these funds to support operating costs associated with helping more than 200 children with assistive technology assessment, training and technical support.

Working Wardrobes for a New Start
“Job Seekers Center” ($4,000)
Working Wardrobes will apply these funds toward hiring a part-time Job Developer to staff their Job Seekers’ Center, and to underwrite workshop materials and books for the jobseekers’ library.

Discovery Science Center
“Science Center Field Trip” ($5,000)
These funds will help underwrite the cost for 750 students to attend a Science Center field trip. In addition, teachers will receive “Making the Grade” classroom curriculum materials.

Irvine Adult Day Health Services, Inc.
“Adult Day Health Care & Adult Day Care Programs” ($5,000)
Funds will help provide care and services for at-risk frail, elderly and disabled adults, who otherwise would not have the means to participate in the Center’s programs.

Camp del Corazon
“Summer Camp” ($10,000)
Camp del Corazon will use these funds toward supporting for their annual summer camping program for children with cardiovascular disease.

Project Tomorrow
“Community Science Night” ($10,000)
These funds will enable economically disadvantaged families to attend a Community Science Night program, designed to stimulate excitement in science among elementary school children and their parents.

Orangewood Children's Foundation
“Children’s Trust Fund” ($12,000)
These funds will be used to underwrite college scholarships for foster children and emancipated youth.

American Heart Association: Orange County Division
“2006 Heart Walk” ($15,000)These funds will help support the 2006 Heart Walk, which will help further fund key cardiovascular research and education programs.

Dare to Care Foundation
“Dare to C.A.R.E.” ($25,000)
These funds will be used to purchase clinical equipment and fund personnel necessary for satellite sites providing free cardiovascular screening in Anne Arundel and surrounding counties. The program also seeks to impact the behavior of each community involved and modify medical practice patterns in detecting and treating cardiovascular disease.

Children's HeartLink
“Building Sustainable Pediatric Cardiac Programs in Kenya” ($25,000)These funds will support a humanitarian mission in Kenya focused on sustainable and comprehensive cardiovascular programs for developing-world children. By training medical professionals totreat more children effectively in their own countries, partner cardiac programs will increase both capability and capacity for caring for pediatric cardiac patients.

The Larry King Cardiac Foundation
“Save a Heart a Day” ($50,000)
Funds will support the direct care of “working poor” patients at supporting hospitals, which arewaiving a considerable amount of costs, including donations of physician time and medical products. The “Save a Heart a Day” program’s goal is to treat 365 patients a year.

Conemaugh Health Foundation
“Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Program” ($51,161)Conemaugh Health Foundation plans to use these funds to support a community screening, education and treatment program for low-income, uninsured, and/or minority at-risk patientsin Western Pennsylvania.

The HeartGift Foundation
“Mending Hearts” ($60,000)
HeartGift will use these funds to support humanitarian pediatric cardiothoracic surgery for children from the Dominican Republic. Funding will be applied toward direct medical care delivered at Children’s Hospital of Austin, as well as expenses associated with housing the child and their caregiver while in the United States.

St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center
“Improved Late Cardiac Surgical Outcomes in Underserved Greater Toledo, Ohio Patients” ($95,155)
St. Vincent Mercy plans to uses these funds to support a two-year, post-CABG patient screening program targeting low-income, minority, and underserved patients in the Toledo, Ohio area.

Alliance for Aging Research
“The Heart Truth” ($74,018)
These funds will support “The Heart Truth” project, enabling the Alliance and NHLBI to produce a scientifically up-to-date communication tool and guide for California physicians (particularly family practice and OB/GYN) to use when talking to female patients over the age of 40 about heart disease.

La Amistad de Jose Family Health Center, A licensed community clinic of St. Joseph Hospital
“From the Heart” ($99,500)
St. Joseph Hospital Foundation will use these funds to support its “From the Heart” program, providing community screening, education and treatment for low-income, uninsured and/or minority at-risk patients in Santa Ana, California and neighboring communities.

Surgeons of Hope Foundation, Inc.
“From Maputo to Phnom Penh” ($100,000)
Surgeons of Hope will use these funds to support a humanitarian medical mission, in which teams of surgeons, catheterization cardiologists, echocardiograph cardiologists, anesthesiologists, perfusionists, and intensive care nurses will travel to Cambodia for 10 days and provide much needed cardiovascular care.