Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust has awarded 21 grants totaling $3.3 million for innovations in pediatric hospice care, fighting childhood obesity, expanding a popular entrepreneurial training program for youth and creating a new Jewish history center on the site of the first synagogue in Phoenix.

"Piper Trust is honored to support projects that introduce new models and best practices, and build on the rich heritage of the Valley," said Judy Jolley Mohraz, Ph.D., president and CEO of Piper Trust. "These grants will make a difference in the lives of our youngest to our oldest residents throughout the Valley."

$3.3 million in grants made to Maricopa County nonprofits.

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