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GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS
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Let's Talk Menopause
Perimenopause Public Awareness Campaign
Let’s Talk Menopause works to advance education, storytelling, and public awareness around menopause and midlife women’s health, helping more women access credible information and feel seen in an often-overlooked phase of life.
In September 2025, the Foundation made a $199,000 grant to Let’s Talk Menopause to expand its public awareness efforts during Perimenopause Awareness Month, including a new PSA campaign and taxi topper campaign designed to reach women with clear, accessible information about the years leading up to menopause.
With the Foundation’s support, Let’s Talk Menopause brought the campaign to taxi toppers in New York City and in-screen taxi televisions in Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, New Orleans, Portland, Sacramento, and San Francisco.
The grant also supported Let’s Talk Menopause’s third annual symposium, bringing together leading menopause and midlife women’s health experts to share research, resources, and practical guidance with a broader audience. Together, these efforts reflect the Foundation’s commitment to elevating women’s health, reducing stigma, and supporting resources that help women better understand and advocate for their care.
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The Menopause Society
NextGen Now Digital Education Platform
In October 2025, the Foundation awarded The Menopause Society a $5 million gift to support the digital innovation phase of NextGen Now, a multiphase initiative designed to expand menopause education and training for current and future healthcare professionals.
The grant will help create a comprehensive digital ecosystem, including an integrated learning platform, virtual and augmented reality modules, and a mobile app that expands access to evidence-based menopause education. The Foundation’s support reflects its commitment to addressing long-standing gaps in medical training and care in women’s health by supporting innovative educational opportunities that can improve care for women in midlife and beyond.
“Support for women in menopause has been delayed for far too long. We are proud to support The Menopause Society. Nobody should be confused about their symptoms and suffer in silence.”
Treasure Coast Food Bank
Hunger Relief Expansion
Treasure Coast Food Bank, the largest hunger relief organization on Florida’s Treasure Coast, serves communities across St. Lucie, Indian River, Martin, and Okeechobee counties through direct service programs and a network of more than 300 community partners.
In March 2025, the Foundation awarded Treasure Coast Food Bank a $5 million gift to support construction of a new 132,000-square-foot distribution center, which will consolidate operations, expand storage for fresh produce, proteins, and dairy products, and strengthen the organization’s ability to serve the region during emergencies. In helping the organization establish a greater distribution capacity, the grant represents the Foundation’s commitment to supporting long-term solutions that help communities build greater food security.
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Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Cohen Exploration Center
In November 2025, the Stamford Museum & Nature Center unveiled its new Planetarium & Astronomy Center, supported in part by a $1 million gift from the Foundation. The facility expands access to high-quality science education for students, families, and visitors across Connecticut and the broader region, with a 100-seat planetarium theater, two classrooms, an outdoor observatory deck, and solar and lunar telescopes.
The first-floor classroom, named the Cohen Exploration Center, will help ensure that thousands of students, including those from Title I and low-income schools, have access to dynamic planetarium and STEAM programming directly within their community.
The gift reflects the Foundation’s commitment to creating meaningful educational opportunities that help local and regional students explore science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics in engaging, hands-on ways.
Caridad Center
Dental Clinic, Care Expansion
Caridad Center, a West Palm Beach, Florida-based nonprofit, operates one of the largest free dental clinics in the state, providing compassionate care for uninsured and underinsured neighbors who might otherwise go without care.
In March 2025, the Foundation awarded Caridad Center a $300,000 grant to expand access to dental care for Palm Beach County residents living below the Federal Poverty Guidelines, helping reduce barriers to treatment and improve appointment availability. This grant reflects the Foundation’s commitment to supporting essential health services that help people access care with dignity, close to home.
The Regents of the University
of California,
San Francisco
Exploring Psilocybin’s Anti-Inflammatory Potential in Parkinson’s Disease, Co-Occuring Depression
The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation gave a $1.9 million grant to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to study the anti-inflammatory effects of Psilocybin in Parkinson’s Disease and co-occurring depression.
Harnessing cutting-edge multi-omics approaches, this study will be the first to provide a thorough evaluation of inflammatory activity in a clinical trial of psychedelic therapy and the first to investigate psilocybin’s effects in a disease driven by inflammation.
The Giving Tour, a key Foundation initiative created by President Alex Cohen, is on a mission to discover and support inspiring nonprofit organizations in all 50 states. 2025 took us to Central Florida to visit changemaking organizations making a difference in their communities.
Arizona 📍 Arkansas 📍 California 📍 Colorado 📍 Connecticut 📍 Florida 📍 Illinois 📍 Indiana 📍 Iowa 📍 Kansas 📍 Kentucky 📍 Louisiana 📍 Maryland 📍 Massachusetts 📍 Michigan 📍 Minnesota 📍 Missouri 📍 Nevada 📍 New Jersey 📍 New Mexico 📍 New York 📍 North Carolina 📍 Ohio 📍 Pennsylvania 📍 Rhode Island 📍 South Dakota 📍 Tennessee 📍 Texas 📍 Utah 📍 Washington 📍 Wisconsin 📍 Wyoming 📍 Puerto Rico 📍
Where We've Been:
Second Harvest Food Bank
of Central Florida
A Gift for Teaching
A Gift for Teaching provides educational resources to public school teachers and students in Orange and Osceola counties at no cost to them or their schools. Through its free teacher supply stores, mobile programs, and “A Gift for Music” program, the organization helps ensure students have access to classroom essentials and enrichment opportunities that support their learning and creativity. The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation committed $183,000 to support A Gift for Teaching’s school supplies, back-to-school, “A Gift for Music,” and teacher shopping programs.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida is a hunger relief organization that serves its community through a network of feeding partners. Second Harvest provides food assistance for families, children, seniors, and individuals experiencing homelessness, while also offering medically tailored meals, emergency response, and workforce development training. The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation awarded Second Harvest a $800,000 grant to expand access to fresh produce distribution, medically tailored meals, the “Feeding the Unhoused” program, and direct home delivery for those who may otherwise face barriers to reaching the organization’s services.
Black History Month
African Communities Together
Black Women’s Blueprint
All Star Code
Mother’s Day
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County
Nido De Esperanza
New York Milk Bank
International
Overdose
Awareness Day
Liberation Programs
Next Harm Reduction
Women’s History Month
Dignity Grows
GlamourGals
Groove With Me
Mercy Learning Center
Yes She Can, Inc.
Pride
Month
Circle Care Center
Out in Tech
Rainbow Railroad USA
Hispanic Heritage Month
Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders
El Sol, Jupiter’s Neighborhood Resource Center
Neighbors Link
Earth Day
DigDeep
Inner City Green Team
South Fork Sea Farmers
The HOPE Program
Father’s Day
Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of
Southern CT
Good+ Foundation
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
HairToStay
Pink Aid
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EDGE OF MEDICINE
Watch the full summit here.
“We know the future of women’s health will be driven by collaboration between researchers, clinicians, and women sharing their own experiences. Today, I’m proud to celebrate their voices and ideas. They are the catalysts for the solutions that will shape not only the next chapter of medicine, but the next chapter of how women age.”
- Alex Cohen
This summit serves as a dynamic platform for leading experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore advancements and ideas shaping the future of medicine.
Made possible by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Edge of Medicine 2025 convened leading voices in women’s health to foster collaboration and conversations around the complex health challenges that women face as they age. The program’s presentations, workshops, and discussions highlighted the higher burden of disease among women, the power of lived experience to inform action, neurocognitive health across the menopausal transition, and opportunities to improve care throughout a phase of life that all women will experience but that has been underfunded and overlooked for decades.
The Foundation’s support further underscores its commitment to addressing the health needs of women throughout their lives and advancing innovative, evidence-based, and patient-centered clinical care solutions for women’s health.
Watch the full summit here.
Edge of Medicine
“We know the future of women’s health will be driven by collaboration between researchers, clinicians, and women sharing their own experiences. Today, I’m proud to celebrate their voices and ideas. They are the catalysts for the solutions that will shape not only the next chapter of medicine, but the next chapter of how women age.”
This summit serves as a dynamic platform for leading experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore advancements and ideas shaping the future of medicine.
Made possible by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Edge of Medicine 2025 convened leading voices in women’s health to foster collaboration and conversations around the complex health challenges that women face as they age. The program’s presentations, workshops, and discussions highlighted the higher burden of disease among women, the power of lived experience to inform action, neurocognitive health across the menopausal transition, and opportunities to improve care throughout a phase of life that all women will experience but that has been underfunded and overlooked for decades.
The Foundation’s support further underscores its commitment to addressing the health needs of women throughout their lives and advancing innovative, evidence-based, and patient-centered clinical care solutions for women’s health.
Watch the full summit here.
2025 Annual Report
2025 Annual Report
