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Racquet Up Detroit

Building Futures: Next Level College and Career Support for Detroit Youth
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation awarded $200,000 over two years to sustain support of Racquet Up Detroit’s college and career readiness programming.

Details
Racquet Up Detroit ensures that every student who stays engaged through high school graduation and beyond has the resources they need to succeed. Funds will provide college and career programming for existing students and support new, younger program members to begin their multi-year college and career exploration journey.

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Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts

Instrumentation Ramp-Up for Instruction at The School at Marygrove
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation awarded Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts $50,000 to expand an in-school instrument and vocal music program at The School at Marygrove.

Details
Support from the Foundation will enable Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts to acquire musical instruments and related equipment for the music program at The School at Marygrove. The instruments and equipment will serve as the foundation for the program’s future expansion.

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Covenant House Michigan

Nutritional Program for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation has awarded a $31,773 grant to Covenant House Michigan to provide meals for young adults experiencing homelessness.

Details
Covenant House Michigan provides shelter, resources, and support to young people between the ages of 18 and 24 who are experiencing homelessness. The grant will support the provision of nutrient-dense meals at the Detroit campus.

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Regents of the University of Colorado

Identifying the Role of SF3B1 in the Metabolic Reprograming of Myelodysplastic Syndrome Stem Cells
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation granted the Regents of the University of Colorado a $250,000 grant over two years for early career investigator Dr. Maria L. Amaya.

Details
Dr. Amaya with the support of her mentor, Dr. Craig Jordan, will develop effective and well-tolerated treatments for SF3B1-mutant myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Dr. Amaya hypothesizes that SF3B1-mutant MDS cells have unique metabolic needs that can be targeted, leading to new treatment strategies for this population.

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Identifying alternatively spliced targets to develop T cell receptor (TCR) T cell therapies for myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS)
2024

Overview
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center was awarded a $250,000 grant over two years to support early career researcher Dr. Melinda A. Biernacki.

Details
Dr. Biernacki will conduct this research with the support of her mentor Dr. Aude Chapuis to examine alternatively spliced neoepitopes from a recurrent SRSF2 mutation and begin preclinical development of TCR-engineered T cells (TCR-T) directed against them.

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Oregon Health & Science University

Targeting MLL in SETBP1-mutant MDS/MPN overlap disorders
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation granted Oregon Health & Science University a $500,000 grant over two years for established investigator Dr. Julia Maxson.

Details
The goal of Dr. Maxson’s project is to understand key dependencies in SETBP1-mutant dysplastic syndromes, enabling the development of effective therapeutics.

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Winning Futures

College Support Fund for Winning Futures College Students
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation granted $40,000 to Winning Futures to provide financial assistance for students.

Details
Winning Futures provides financial support for students’ essential and basic living expenses, ensuring extenuating financial circumstances do not prevent them from completing postsecondary education. Funds will be used for students’ utilities, tuition, transportation, and other costs.

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The Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Detroit

Camp Ozanam
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation has granted The Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Detroit $50,000 to ensure youth in Southeast Michigan are able to access overnight summer camp.

Details
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Detroit provides camp experiences for families in need, children in foster care, those who have a parent who is incarcerated, those who have recently lost a parent, and those who could not afford a camp experience otherwise. Children at Camp Ozanam have all their needs provided for at no cost.

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MCREST

Hotel Sheltering of Men
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation granted $65,000 to MCREST to provide housing assistance for men while they work towards securing permanent housing.

Details
MCREST will provide accommodations for men who need housing assistance during weeks when rotating church shelters are unavailable. MCREST staff will also offer case management services to help residents transition to stable housing.

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Jewish Family Service of Colorado

Food Assistance Programs
2024

Overview
The Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation granted $25,000 to Jewish Family Service of Colorado to support its Community Resources for Stability food assistance programs.

Details
Jewish Family Service’s Community Resources for Stability has two food assistance programs, the Weinberg Food Pantry and the Mobile Food and Hygiene Pantry. These two programs will provide approximately 2,000 Denver households, including 3,000 youth, with access to healthy and culturally-relevant foods.

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