$512K

$512K Awarded to Crisis Text Line

Crisis Text Line would like to be the 911 of crisis messaging. The intention is to be the ONLY national text line, preventing data fragmentation and needless expense to other cities/orgs. With an expanded budget, we would first blanket all major cities with marketing for the text line as well as widespread Crisis Counselor recruitment efforts.

$250K

$250K Awarded to CWAE (Center for Wellness & Achievement in Education)

The goal of CWAE is to develop the deep meditation Quiet Time for Public Schools concept to its full potential in terms of effect size, cost efficiency, and reach. The big vision would include every school district in America, and around the world, having access to the program. CWAE’s outreach to state and federal agencies will lead to long-term funding for a National Quiet Time program.

$205K

$205K Awarded to The Saks Institute for Mental Health, Law, Policy & Ethics

Society takes for granted the right to make choices in daily life – unless a person has a disability or illness. Saks Institute wants to use SDM to empower people with mental illness to optimize their decision-­making authority, and in the process, educate the community that choice is possible, preferable, effective, and cost­-efficient.

$200K

$200K Awarded to Center for Mind-Body Medicine

Vision: To create a model of self-­care and group and community support for young people on the Pine Ridge Reservation that will reduce completed and attempted suicides by addressing stress, anxiety and trauma. CMBM envisions creating a national network of leaders from Native American and other disadvantaged communities that will bring its model to those most in need.

$138K

$138K Awarded to Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Services (ACCESS)

Scale proven ACCESS peer grief support model to facilitate the recovery of the 5­7 million individuals who are left grief­-stricken each year following all types of sudden loss in the US. Create national database of trained grief mentors who have survived the sudden loss of a loved one years earlier to pair with the grief-stricken according to the relationship lost and type of death.

$119K

$119K Awarded to StrongMinds

StrongMinds’ vision is to treat and improve the lives of 2 million Africans with depression by the year 2025. With the support of a major giver and expanded resources, StrongMinds can slow down and even end the depression epidemic that is devastating the lives of over 60 million women, their children, and communities, 85% of whom currently have no access to treatment.