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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust on Wednesday granted $15,000 to Midwest Street Medicine to support the organization’s mission to provide compassionate, low-barrier healthcare to people experiencing homelessness and housing instability.

A coalition of experts and leaders from the nonprofit, government, and philanthropic sectors provides a first-of-its-kind roadmap to address the needs of homeless New Yorkers experiencing sustained behavioral health crises.

NEW YORK, November 14, 2025 — Breakthrough T1D and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, together with Roche and Sanofi’s Global Health Unit, announced the launch of the Alliance for Integrated, Government-led Networks for T1D (ALIGN-T1D) on World Diabetes Day. Comprising the largest funders of global type 1 diabetes (T1D) programs, leading producers of diabetes medicines and…

This week, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center marked a major milestone in ophthalmic care with the inauguration of a state-of-the-art Eye Institute, designed to provide comprehensive services to tens of thousands of patients annually – both children and adults.

The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is proud to announce that The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded a $10 million grant to support the construction of a state-of-the-art Emergency Underground Hospital in the new Rehabilitation Tower at Ichilov Hospital. This pivotal project aims to provide a comprehensive solution to the urgent need for protected hospital…

BOSTON and NEW YORK, October 22, 2025 – Blue Circle Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D), is expanding its free, virtual program that provides clinical care, education, and support to adults with T1D to five more states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. With this expansion, the organization is…

WASHINGTON, D.C. and NEW YORK, October 9, 2025 — The Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) Foundation and four of its member health will pilot models to expand access to care for millions living with diabetes, thanks to a $4.2 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.   Building on previous work supported by the…

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust is granting nearly $2.4 million to the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police (WASCOP) to help officers across the state’s rural and frontier landscape provide Wyoming residents in crisis with 24/7 access to behavioral health professionals via telehealth.

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded $1.5 million in grants to Sustainable Coastlines Hawai‘i (SCH) and the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project (PMDP) to fight plastic pollution threatening the state’s coastlines, oceans, and communities.

The University of Hawaiʻi (UH) received two privately funded grants totaling more than $1.5 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to tackle pressing health disparities across rural Hawaiʻi and the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands. Through community-centered healthcare and policy research, the projects aim to improve access, quality and coordination of care in some of the most…

LEWISTOWN, MT, June 6 —CMMC has opened a new, state-of-the-art cancer center with the support of a $9 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to better serve the needs of communities in Central Montana.  In addition to the generous grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust, Norm Asbjornson donated over $3.35 million, and Larry and Kathleen…

BILLINGS, MT, June 5 — Billings Clinic held ribbon cutting ceremonies today for the Helmsley Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and the Helmsley Regional Operations Center. The SICU is designed to elevate trauma and complex care for patients across Montana and Wyoming and the operations center will support patients and clinicians across Montana and Wyoming, enhancing communication with rural hospitals,…

RIVERTON, WY, June 4 — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has granted $4 million to the Riverton Medical District to fund equipment for a new hospital that will bring locally controlled healthcare services back to the central Wyoming community. The 71,000-square-foot facility, expected to open in late 2026, will restore Level III trauma care to the…

Researchers at the Jaeb Center for Health Research along with leading diabetes in pregnancy investigators from across the country have opened an observational study to evaluate automated insulin delivery (AID) in pregnancy with type 1 diabetes. The aim is to facilitate a better understanding of real-world type 1 diabetes (T1D) management during pregnancy. Funded by The Leona M. and Harry…

HONOLULU, May 15, 2025 – The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has donated $1.6 million to support the expansion of The Queen’s Medical Center & Clarence T.C. Ching ECMO Program (Queen’s). Currently, Queen’s has a program that utilizes ECMO machines as part of the therapy options to help patients whose lungs and/or heart are unable to function…