Recent Grants

Examples of recent grants helping communities address unmet medical needs include:

  • Princeton HealthCare System Emergency Telepsychiatry Program – A grant to Princeton HealthCare System in New Jersey is enabling its Princeton House Behavioral Health unit to expand telepsychiatry services, a form of telemedicine in which Princeton House psychiatrists use videoconferencing to more quickly evaluate hospital emergency room patients who may need behavioral health services.
  • African-American Cardiovascular Disease Awareness – Bristol-Myers Squibb is a supporter of the African-American Cardiovascular Disease Awareness Outreach Project, a heart disease education and prevention initiative focusing on New Brunswick, New Jersey, administered by Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s Community Health Promotion Program (CHPP). Previous Bristol-Myers Squibb support for the hospital’s CHPP included a grant to help fund a variety of health promotion and education programs for New Brunswick’s diverse and low-income residents.
  • Capital Health’s Patient Assistance and Health Literacy Programs – A grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb helped establish a medication access program at Capital Health’s Family Health Center, an outpatient clinic in Trenton, New Jersey, that serves the uninsured and underinsured. Capital’s Patient Assistance Program helps qualified people obtain free or low-cost medicines by connecting them with numerous public and private medication access programs. Bristol-Myers Squibb also provided support for the Family Health Center’s Health Literacy Program, an initiative that helps patients with low literacy skills understand and comply with their prescribed course of treatment. Read our success story >>
  • Somerset Home for Temporarily Displaced Children – A grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb helped create a program to prevent HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases for adolescents at the Somerset Home for Temporarily Displaced Children, a non-profit agency in Bridgewater, New Jersey, that provides temporary housing and supportive services to homeless youth.
  • Children’s Home Society of New Jersey Cuna Program – Bristol-Myers Squibb provides support for a prenatal and parenting program for new and expectant Spanish-speaking parents in Trenton, New Jersey. The program, called Cuna, the Spanish word for cradle, was created by the Children’s Home Society.
  • HiTOPS Center for Adolescent Health – HiTOPS is a non-profit organization in Mercer County, New Jersey, that promotes adolescent health through counseling, workshops, pregnancy prevention programs and health care services. Financial assistance from Bristol-Myers Squibb is helping to support the organization’s Princeton health center that provides affordable reproductive and basic health care services to adolescents and young adults.
  • Mercer Street Friends - Home Health Care for the Elderly – A grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb is helping Mercer Street Friends transition from a paper-based to an electronic medical record system to improve the delivery and coordination of home health care services for sick, elderly and disabled residents of Trenton, New Jersey.

Examples of recent grants that help provide essential services to people in need include:

  • Interfaith Caregivers of Trenton – Helping the Homebound Elderly and Disabled – A grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb is helping to sustain the efforts of Interfaith Caregivers of Trenton, New Jersey, a non-profit group that recruits and trains volunteers who assist homebound elderly and disabled individuals in the region with daily tasks, so they can continue living safely at home.
  • Children’s Home Society of New Jersey’s “Positive Impact” – Bristol-Myers Squibb supports Positive Impact, an after-school program in the Trenton Public School District that works with youths engaged in negative behaviors while also addressing the root causes of violence, truancy and other problems.
  • Hopewell Valley Senior Services – Hopewell Valley Rides – Hopewell Valley Rides, a program of Hopewell Valley Senior Services in New Jersey, provides low-cost rides to older area residents no longer able to drive. A donation from Bristol-Myers Squibb helped create the program, which serves residents of three central New Jersey municipalities.
  • The ARC Mercer – Educational Enrichment Program – Bristol-Myers Squibb helps support an arts, music and literacy program for pre-school children with developmental disabilities from the Trenton Public School District. The program is administered by the ARC Mercer, a non-profit agency that serves people with developmental disabilities in Mercer County, New Jersey.
  • Court-Appointed Special Advocates of Mercer County – A grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb helps support the work of Court-Appointed Special Advocates of Mercer County, a New Jersey group that works with the family court system to help children who are living in foster homes, group homes and other facilities after being removed from their family homes due to abuse or neglect.

Examples of recent grants to help improve the quality of science and technology education include:

  • Robotic Programs in Local Public Schools – The New Brunswick Public School District in New Jersey, in partnership with the New Brunswick Education Foundation, is establishing a robotics program in the district’s middle school. Bristol-Myers Squibb, already a major sponsor of a number of New Jersey high school robotics teams and a similar program at Lawrence Middle School, in partnership with the Lawrence Township Education Foundation, supported this effort to introduce younger students to robotics and inspire their interest in science and technology.
  • Trenton Public Education Foundation – The Trenton Public Education Foundation works with the Trenton Public School District to expand educational opportunities for district students. Grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb have helped to support various foundation initiatives designed to prepare students for college and careers.
  • Drew University Governor’s School in the Sciences – Each summer, as a way to inspire more students to pursue scientific careers, Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, invites a select group of high school juniors to live on campus for an immersive, summer-long study of math and science. Contributions from Bristol-Myers Squibb and other sponsors enable the university to offer its Governor’s School in the Sciences at no cost, opening doors for talented students from across New Jersey.
  • Mercer County Community College – Biology Expansion – A grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb is helping Mercer County Community College in New Jersey purchase additional lab and classroom equipment to increase the number of biology classes offered on its Trenton campus.
  • Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association “Natural Link” Program – Bristol-Myers Squibb helps inner-city youth experience the fun of summer camp and learn about nature through its support for the Natural Link Camp Program of the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association, a New Jersey conservation and environmental education organization.
  • Genetics Education – A grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb supported an educational program that introduced middle school students in the New Brunswick Public School District to the study of genetics. A previous grant supported an environmental and health studies program in this urban district, in which students collected air, water and soil samples in their community and compared them to samples collected in a rural community.
  • Robotics – Bristol-Myers Squibb sponsors 11 high school robotics teams in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.