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Bob Kreidler's Dana Foundation in New York City, of which" he is president, appropriated over $10,000,000 in grants during 1984 to an interesting array of highly specialized and directed programs in the health care and higher education fields. The foundation's policy is to place its small seed money into developing programs; as the programs grow, they may attract and qualify them for the support of the highly active larger foundations.

Bob's colorful areas of programs include some of the following areas; $200,000 to Bates College to provide students with opportunities to work closely with faculty members on research projects related to the student's academic interests; $200,000 to Cooper Union, which integrates liberal arts disciplines into programs of architecture, engineering, and art and to provide students with financial assistance as compensation for educationally valuable work; $200,000 to Kalamazoo College to help students finance their education by undertaking academically relevant work in hospitals, museums, arts organizations, and private corporations; $200,000 to Mount Holyoke to provide academically enriching summer jobs in settings such as scientific laboratories and congressional offices; $200,000 to Gettysburg College to attract and retain young faculty members in art, biology, history, and physics because 72 percent of its present faculty is older and tenured, and there were limited prospects for expansion; $200,000 to Haverford College for junior faculty appointments in areas of psychology and economics; $300,000 to Lafayette College to develop cross-disciplinary programs designed to provide students with greater breadth as well as depth in their education and to combine the theoretical approaches of liberal arts with the problemsolving orientation of engineering; $300,000 to Bowdoin where it faces unusual constraints on its ability to increase the size of its faculty and where the grant will support the appointment of junior faculty members in computer science, chemistry, biology, and art; and $75,000 to the American Council on Education to support the establishment of a senior executive leadership service which will organize and consolidate a wide range of executive search activities for private liberal arts colleges.

Health Care grants address the health risks from environmental agents, the nutrition-related health problems of the aged and the application of occupational medicine to the general. Some examples are: $650,000 to the University of Washington Medical School to support the sustained collaboration in research and training between scientists in the fields of human and medical genetics and those in the disciplines currently involved with identifying, assessing, and ultimately countering the dangers to human health posed by environmental agents - toxicology, molecular urology, epidemiology, and environmental health risk assessments; $635,400 to Harvard to create the curriculum materials and support the new teaching effort needed to introduce and thoroughly integrate chemical epidemiology into its undergraduate curriculum; $515,000 to Yale to establish a program of post-doctoral fellowships in the field of occupational medicine that combines clinical experience with advanced training; $384,000 to Johns Hopkins to support clinical research and clinical training within a new center for acute brain injuries; $320,000 to Tufts to investigate how nutrition influences health and disease and links between diet, life-style, and aging and how nutritional imbalance may be important in osteoporosis and other disorders of metabolism, certain arthritic conditions, and immuno-deficiencies. Also to support a center to prepare physicians and basic medical scientists proficient not only in nutrition and gerontology but in application of those fields to care for the aged; $228,000 to Harvard to support the sciences of toxicology which have been vital to preventative medicine and especially in identifying potential hazards of new drugs and now facing the enormous challenge of predicting the extent and nature of human risk from tens of thousands of substances already present or continually being introduced into the human environment; $125,000 to the American Institute of Architects to identify, evaluate and, where necessary, initiate and manage the research needed to promote cost effective design of all types of health care facilities; and $50,000 to New York Hospital for special surgery to develop and perfect techniques for removing hip, knee, and other joints from severely arthritic patients and replacing those joints with artificial ones as well as to train surgeons from the U.S. and abroad in the use of computer-aided custom prosthesis systems.

And so, the list goes on, making me feel secure in knowing the future looks good in these highly specialized fields that are still problem areas.

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