Elana Amsterdam, author of Elana's Pantry and a New York Times best-selling author, is donating $13.5 million to help people of color and other communities of color get access to mental health care.
Her husband, Rob Katz, is the founder of the Katz Amsterdam Charitable Trust and Foundation, which awarded $2.46 million in mental and behavioral health grants to community-based organizations in nine mountain communities across North America, including Lake Tahoe, Calif., reports the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation.
"We continue to be amazed at the work happening in mountain communities to improve behavioral health systems," Katz says in a press release.
"The creative efforts of these nonprofits make a difference in the lives of so many every day."
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