Past Community Grants

In keeping with the The Firland Foundation's mission of support for medically underserved individuals with TB and other chronic respiratory problems, and for the often under-funded agencies that advocate for them, grant applications that address such care needs are encouraged. Following are examples of projects supported by Firland over the past several years.

2011

Washington State 2011 Annual State TB Meeting. Washington State Department of Health. (PI: Sheanne Allen). $6,000

Washington State 2011 World TB Day Celebration. Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (PI: Theresa Britschgi). $2,900

Strengthening Tuberculosis Care in Rural Lesotho. Partners in Health. $25,000

2012

October 4-6 Seattle Clinical (2 day)/Nursing (1 day) Intensive Courses. Curry International TB Center/University of California, San Francisco (PI: Masae Kawamura). $4,213

Public Health and Community Partnerships. Public Health Seattle & King County, TB Control Program (PI: Dorothy Gibson). $5,501

TB Education and Outreach to Foreign-Born Communities. Public Health Seattle & King County, TB Control Program (PI: Denise Wolf) $11,187

2013

TB Voices Project. TB Photovoice (PI: Teresa Rugg). $40,620

2014

Monitoring Compassionate Use of New TB Drugs for MDR-TB and XDR-TB. RESIST-TB. (PI: Robert Horsburgh). $13,500

LTBI Education to Foreign-Born Communities. Public Health Seattle & King County, TB Control Program. (PI: Kurt Wuellner). $9,994

Student TB Epidemiologic Studies Consortium Project. Public Health Seattle & King County, TB Control Program. (PI: Kurt Wuellner). $37,197

TB Voices Project for Snohomish and King County: TB Education and Awareness Campaign. TB Photovoice. (PI: Teresa Rugg). $5,250

TB Clinical Intensive & Nursing Workshop, Seattle. Curry International TB Center. (PI: Jeannie Fong). $8,682.

Washington State 2014 Annual State TB Meeting. Washington State Department of Health. (PI: Justina Novak). $5,500

2014 World TB Day. Washington State TB Action Coalition. (PI: Allison Moroni). $3,500

2015

Nakuru, Kenya TB Photovoice Project. TB Photovoice. (PI: Teresa Rugg). $7,000

TB Short-Term (or Temporary) Housing. Public Health Seattle & King County, TB Control Program (PI: Kurt Wuellner). $10,500

Educational Materials for LTBI. Public Health Seattle & King County, TB Control Program (PI: Betsy Hubbard). $11,000

TB Clinical Intensive & Nursing Workshop, Seattle. Firland Northwest TB Center (PI: Jessica Matthews). $8,991

Washington State 2015 Annual State TB Meeting. Washington State Department of Health. (PI: Justina Novak). $5,500

2015 World TB Day. Washington State TB Action Coalition. (PI: Sherry Carlson). $3,500