EFTA00300051.pdf

Financial Trust Company, Inc. J. EPSTEIN VI FOUNDATION, INC. Charitable Contributions General $243,500 These are charities such as: • An entity to establish and maintain suitable facilities for the care, assistance, housing, and disposition of abandoned animals, disability rights; • A crisis intervention, counseling, emergency shelter, court advocacy and other services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes; • A research and policy development institution specializing in approaches to peace and security issues and promoting effective responses to new and emerging issues and crises through research, analysis, and policy development. Faith-Based $ 10,225 These are initiatives affiliated with, supported by, or based on a religion or religious group Educational, Summer Enrichment and Reading $349,950 These are primarily programs that take place during or after school which are to provide care for and educational enhancement to children. They are learning activities that go beyond the regular curricular activities. These enrichment programs which take the form of reading programs, special classes or special schools for the financially challenged, intellectually challenged and the gifted. They may involve teachers who provide regular classroom teachers with help for their students and programs for educating these students which that broaden and deepen knowledge and skills through extra activities, projects, field trips, or mentoring. Health $162,000 These entities provide the resources, information, and support for cancer screening, mental illness, Alzheimer's and related dementias and music therapies The funding supports: • Research, patient services, early detection, treatment and education of breast and other cancers. • Advancing knowledge about the neurobiological foundations of music • Fighting diseases that impair the capacity to perceive, learn, and perform music • Treating children and adults suffering from neurological and other diseases. • Developing technology that enhances intellectual growth, brain recovery, and mental health through music • Educating general, professional, and patient audiences around the world about scientific advances, medical resources, and available therapies for learning and rehabilitation EFTA00300051  • Offering hope and opportunities for people living with mental illnesses to develop their full human potential. Youth Sports Entities $ 24,100 Symposium $133,860 The purpose of the meeting was to plan for a conference in 2012 about "Coning with Future Catastrophes" - the need to anticipate new challenges like engineered bio-threats, rogue self-replicating nano-machines, super intelligent computers, and high-energy chain-reactions that might disrupt the fabric of space itself. In particular, the new social-network systems which could place humans on the threshold of new types of cognitive disasters, such as: • New Religions, in which new dogmas swiftly spread through the entire world population. • Philosophic Epidemics, in which new, super-persuasive arguments permeate our societies. • Machine Dominance, in which a super-intelligent artificial intelligence takes over all of our resources. TOTAL $923,635 EFTA00300052