Grants
Our Grants
It is our honor to help our fellow San Diegans through our grant program. Below are some of our grant recipients throughout the years. To protect their privacy, first and last names may not be displayed.
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The Elizabeth Hospice: Grant to Camp Erin
The Elizabeth Hospice: Grant to Camp Erin
This grant paid for camper equipment and supplies related to grief activities for children campers attending Camp Erin San Diego. Camp Erin is a free overnight weekend camp experience that addresses the needs of children and teens grieving the loss of someone close to them. Hosted by Center for Compassionate Care of The Elizabeth Hospice, this annual weekend summer camp is open to children and teens ages 6 to 17 and will be held June 5 – 7, 2015 in Julian. This unique camp experience combines traditional, high-energy camp activities with grief support and education. Camp Erin San Diego is part of the largest nationwide network of free bereavement camps for children and teens ages 6 to 17 years of age who have experienced the death of someone close to them.
Grant made February 2015
Toby L.
Toby L.
This grant paid for extensive medically needed dental work that was not covered by insurance for a senior of limited financial means.
Grant made September 2014
USCA 2014 Youth Lounge
USCA 2014 Youth Lounge
This grant provided partial funding for the creation of the West Coast Lounge used by youth attending the 2014 USCA Youth conference. Held on the UCSD campus in La Jolla, this very successful conference provided educational, psychosocial and networking activities for children and teens.
Grant made August 2014
San Diego Unified School District
San Diego Unified School District
This grant provided funds for a storage shed to secure the outdoor toys, bikes, water play materials, balls, and other equipment donated by the community to benefit students in the Auditory/Oral DHH Program at Whitman Elementary.
Grant made August 2014
Donna J.
Donna J.
This grant provided a low income senior citizen funds for a medically necessary bone graft, so that she could get dentures.
Grant made July 2014
Foster and Displaced Children in Court
Foster and Displaced Children in Court
The Rob Benzon Foundation once again provided more than 500 new stuffed animals to comfort the scores of scared children in our county’s juvenile dependency court rooms. The children are there for hearings which include taking kids away from their parents, and placing kids in foster homes after abuse or neglect. Each child gets to pick out a stuffed animal for comfort during the hearing and then is surprised with the news that they keep their new friend and take it home.
Grant made July 2014
H.P.
H.P.
H.P. is a 22 y/o, newly diagnosed, gender fluid individual who had ran into very tough times. He had little family support and gender fluidity presented challenges for housing and employment. His landlord illegally evicted him from his apartment without any notice and immediately changed the locks. H.P. had been able to scrape up the last of his money to pay for a hotel room for three days but would have been back on the streets and homeless without quick assistance coordinated by his caseworker and paid for by RBF to get him temporary housing. H.P. is a very motivated and resourceful person and the Foundation was glad to be able to help H.P. with a short-term emergency need to keep him from homelessness and give him the bridge he needed back to safe self-sufficiency.
Grant made May 2014
Margaret I.
Margaret I.
Margaret I.is a 75 year old woman who has the diagnosis of chronic respiratory failure. She is on constant oxygen and is chair bound. She is slight of build. The chair she has is very uncomfortable and she is starting to have painful skin breakdown on her heels and her elbows. The chair makes her back hurt and she has difficulty getting in and out of the chair. Rob Benzon Foundation was able to get her a medically recommended chair that enabled Margaret to get in and out with creating sores and pain and helped provide much needed comfort to this lovely woman.
Grant made April 2014
PFLAG Scolarship Fund
PFLAG Scolarship Fund
Donation made for the PFLAG Rob Benzon Scholarship Fund which is awarded to a bisexual, transgender, lesbian or gay student planning to attend a post-secondary educational institution. The purpose of the PFLAG scholarships is to recognize outstanding LGBT seniors in high school, undergraduate and graduate students, to encourage them to continue post-secondary education, and to promote a positive image of LGBT youth. The recipients this year were Gabriel Figuroa & Juan Carlos Ortega.
Grant made March 2014
Felicitas G.
Felicitas G.
Rob Benzon Foundation was able to give 72 year Felicitas and her family comfort and relief in her final months of life. Felicitas has a terminal diagnosis of respatory failure, a history of stroke, heart problems, and renal failure. She was a pre-school teacher for most of her life and her husband was a maintenance man. Felicitas could not afford the breathing machine that would give her comfort and help her sleep through the night. RBF stepped in and quickly covered the cost of the machine to get Felicitas immediate help. Felicitas died peacefully a few months later. Her lovely family was struggling with how to cover her medical bills. With the help of her amazing social worker who negotiated the bill down, Rob Benzon Foundation was able to help the family so they were left with memories of Felicitas and not medical bills.
Grant made January 2014