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Americares Foundation Inc.

• www.americares.org
• Health and Well-Being

Astellas USA Foundation partners with Americares to support medical care for uninsured and underinsured patients across the United States. With Astellas USA Foundation's support, Americares provides medicine, medical supplies, education and training to safety net health facilities serving more than 7 million patients in need. More than 1,000 free clinics and health centers nationwide benefit from the program, which helps to increase capacity, provide comprehensive care, improve health outcomes and reduce costs for patients. In 2017, Astellas USA Foundation provided emergency relief efforts following Hurricane Harvey. These efforts and funding supported local health centers and response teams, as they worked to treat people injured in the storm and help them access critical medicine.

Boys Town National Hotline

• www.yourlifeyourvoice.org
• Health and Well-Being

Astellas USA Foundation collaborates with Boys Town to promote positive mental health and raise awareness about teen suicide warning signs and prevention. Thanks to a grant from Astellas USA Foundation, the Boys Town National Hotline® and it’s Your Life, Your Voice website connect teens from across the country by phone, online messaging and mobile texting to highly trained Crisis Counselors who can help them conquer challenges, such as depression, anxiety and bullying. Boys Town Crisis Counselors receive more than 180,000 calls and messages each year – about 500 per day – from teens and parents in all 50 states, and thousands more use the online resources available at www.yourlifeyourvoice.org.

CommunityHealth NFP

• www.communityhealth.org
• Health and Well-Being

As the largest volunteer-based health center in the U.S., CommunityHealth delivers comprehensive, high-quality and patient-centered health care at no cost to low-income, uninsured individuals. Astellas USA Foundation funding supports CommunityHealth's Take Action! Classes and Diabetes Care Group for more than 200 patients. The approximately 20 classes help individuals diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes better manage their conditions by offering classes, nutrition education and medication.

GrowingGreat

• www.growinggreat.org
• Science WoRx

Astellas USA Foundation funding supports GrowingGreat’s "My First Garden” program, a national expansion of the organization’s past programming. My First Garden teaches preschoolers about where fruits and vegetables come from, how to grow them and the importance of a healthy diet. The program targets children from low-income families who may have limited access to STEM education to provide equal opportunities for young students to live healthier lives.

Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired

• www.hadley.edu
• Health and Well-Being

Astellas USA Foundation is proud to support Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired and its Low Vision Focus @ Hadley (LVF) program. Program funding helps older adults remain independent and safe at home by sharing practical ways to address daily living skills made difficult by vision loss. LVF also teaches adult children of seniors living with low vision how to help their parents. While most people living with low vision are seniors, the program is open to individuals of any age who experience low vision. This year, Astellas USA Foundation has helped provide more than 65,000 visually impaired people with opportunities to learn life skills through Hadley’s LVF courses and videos.

How Girls Code

• www.howgirlscode.com
• Science WoRx

Astellas USA Foundation is proud to support the HowGirlsCode Needs-Based Outreach Program that provides free after-school computer science courses in Howard County, Md. Astellas USA Foundation’s 2018 grant supports five courses and provides up to 100 girls with technology instruction, STEM education resources and after-school programs that might otherwise be out of reach.

iBIO Institute

• www.ibioed.org/education/stellar-girls.html
• Science WoRx

By providing a grant to iBIO Institute, Astellas USA Foundation supports iBIO’s Stellar Girls Program and its STEMgirls Summer Camps. The Stellar Girls After-School STEM program introduces girls to “Big Ideas” in STEM fields through hands-on activities and exposes them to ideas that are used to feed, fuel, heal and save the world, and the STEMgirls Summer Camps in Illinois help improve access to STEM education in high-need communities by offering two 5-day summer camps for 200 3rd-8th grade students. In 2018-19, both programs will offer opportunities to over 2,900 girls, including interactive activities with STEM professionals and field trips, and a family day on the last day of camp where students showcase and celebrate their STEM exploration. Through its continued support of Stellar Girls and STEMgirls Summer Camps, Astellas USA Foundation empowers young girls to consider careers in STEM to help ultimately close the gender gap in these fields.

Miracle Flights

• www.miracleflights.org
• Health and Well-Being

Through its Flights for Kids program, Miracle Flights provides free commercial airline flights to seriously ill children in need of medical care far from home. Since 2016, Astellas USA Foundation has provided funds for over 200 flights to transport children to top medical facilities across the county to help accurately diagnose and treat rare medical disorders or receive valuable second opinions. In 2018, Astellas USA Foundation will help Miracle Flights continue to connect children and their families to needed medical care.

Project Lead The Way, Inc.

• www.pltw.org/
• Science WoRx

As part of its Rural Spark Project™ program, Astellas USA Foundation partners with Project Lead The Way (PLTW) to bring transformative STEM learning experiences to schools in underserved rural communities. Through this partnership, Astellas USA Foundation has funded school grants that have empowered 26 rural Illinois schools to train 52 teachers, equipping them with the resources and skills necessary to provide specialized, hands-on learning to more than 2,100 middle school and high school students. The three-year grants awarded to schools through this partnership also expand student and teacher access to PLTW coursework in subjects such as computer science, engineering, and biomedical science.

Science Buddies

• sciencebuddies.org
• Science WoRx

Science Buddies inspires and educates students of all ages with hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) experiments and explorations that reflect their unique personal interests. Over 16.5 million K-12 students and educators every year use the high-quality science projects, activities, lesson plans and STEM career profiles written by Science Buddies scientists. With support from Astellas USA Foundation and other sponsors, Science Buddies is open access and free to all thus leveling the playing field and allowing every student the same opportunity to learn science and engineering. Since 2012, the funding from Astellas USA Foundation has helped Science Buddies develop dozens of new resources and reach more than 3.1 million students from all walks of life. Together we're helping students across the nation discover a passion for STEM.

United Nations Foundation's Shot@Life Campaign

• shotatlife.org
• Health and Well-Being

The United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life Campaign helps expand access to lifesaving childhood measles vaccines. 2018 marks the fourth year that Astellas USA Foundation has supported the United Nations Foundation Shot@Life campaign’s efforts to eradicate measles in Latin America by immunizing more than 300,000 children between 2015-2017. In 2018, Astellas USA Foundation’s grant will help the United Nations Foundation to immunize more children against measles, particularly those in hard to reach areas.

World Food Program USA

• www.wfp.org
• Health and Well-Being

World Food Program USA brings the American people together to support the lifesaving and life-changing work of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the global leader in the fight to end hunger. Last year, WFP provided food assistance to more than 90 million people in over 80 countries worldwide, including mothers and children in need who are among the most vulnerable to malnutrition. In 2018, Astellas USA Foundation is funding a year-long project in Colombia to provide health services, nutrition support and training for 1,000 women and children who have been victims of violence.

In years past, WFP connected approximately 800 pregnant and lactating women and children under the age of two with monthly nutrition vouchers made possible by a grant from Astellas USA Foundation. Vouchers were redeemed at local markets for SuperCereal+, a highly fortified blend of corn, soy and dairy that contained crucial vitamins and minerals necessary for healthy growth and development.