Results from social-emotional education lessons in partnership with Fundación Atención Atención and Direct Relief highlight urgent need to expand youth mental health programs across Puerto Rico. #NewsismyBusiness
The latest addition was delivered in partnership with Universidad Albizu. #NewsismyBusiness
The nonprofit presented a study that details its contributions to communities. #NewsismyBusiness
The alliance seeks to ensure that homeless people, children, older adults, and vulnerable communities have access to health services. #NewsismyBusiness
The project seeks to improve health care in southern communities over a six-month period.
The Women's Center seeks to directly serve the women of the eastern area of the island, as well as the residents of Vieques and Culebra.
Puerto Rico-based Center Lane Capital announced a $290,000 donation to Direct Relief in Puerto Rico, consisting of more than 50,000 packets of sanitizing wipes for nonprofit organizations, primary healthcare centers and hospitals on the island “to keep patients sanitized and safe,” Center Lane CEO Brian Morrison confirmed. Morrison is also the founder and part owner […]
Nonprofit organization Direct Relief inaugurated a $277,000 solar energy project in Guánica’s Fire Station, through a grant from biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, which donated $50 million for these types of projects. The project will allow for these first responders to continue serving the people even in the event of natural disasters that may affect primary services, […]
Direct Relief, with the support of pharmaceutical company AbbVie, awarded a $1.9 million grant to nonprofit organization Por los Nuestros — dedicated to providing renewable energy solutions, advocacy for communities and public health — to install renewable energy systems in 25 rural aqueducts in communities without drinking water service. The Anones Maya rural community aqueduct […]
With the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season starting tomorrow, nonprofit organization Direct Relief is announcing a $3 million investment in new resilient power projects at six Puerto Rico health centers — part of a $5 million commitment to install solar power generation and battery storage at critical sites across the island. The projects include: Prymed Medical […]
Nonprofit Direct Relief and AbbVie teamed up to donate $90,000 to Solar Responders to install solar panels and a battery storage system at the Cataño Fire Department. “Energy resilience is one of the five pillars of Direct Relief’s mission on the island. Installing renewable and resilient energy systems in strategic locations such as health clinics […]
Nonprofit organization Direct Relief has awarded $1.3 million in grants to five community health centers in Puerto Rico, also known as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) for the purchase of medical mobile units and off-road vehicles. With this funding, Direct Relief will have now equipped all 22 FQHC corporations and their 85 clinics throughout the […]
Nonprofit organization Direct Relief confirmed it has committed more than $3 million in Puerto Rico during the past five months due to the emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “In our ongoing commitment to facilitate medical access in Puerto Rico to those most in need, and even more so in the face of the Covid-19 […]
Nonprofit Direct Relief this week awarded a total of $900,000 in cash grants to 18 federally qualified health centers in Puerto Rico, each of which, as is the case with Health Pro Med, received the amount of $50,000. In the past two months, Direct Relief has also awarded another $150,000 in cash to 15 health […]
Atlantic Medical Center, a 330 Primary Health Center in Barceloneta, recently completed the installation of a rooftop solar energy grid to prevent service interruptions to patients, the company announced. Atlantic Medical Center, which serves more than 14,000 patients each year, installed solar panels that can withstand hurricane winds, and have backup battery storage, “which will […]
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