Mental health issues frequently appear when members of the armed forces make the transition from military life to civilian life. One group is helping - one puppy at a time. Since Guardian Revival’s inception in 2019, the program has given out 10 dogs.

Woodson Center Community Affiliate Network will provide grants to local grassroots leaders solving America's most pressing problems in their neighborhoods

David Atkinson, Gulf War Veteran, discusses his prostate cancer journey and the impact of his participation in a clinical trial.

Gianna Buccieri dreams of breaking barriers and bursting through the glass ceiling by working as a strong woman in the STEM fields.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the 16-year-old junior at Maria Regina High School in Hartsdale was initially afraid it would set her back in achieving those aspirations.

John and Daria’s son, Matthew and his now wife Dr. Courtney Barry are both big supporters of the JoyJ Initaiative. Pre-pandemic, Matthew and Courtney spent many weekends volunteering. Together they have led JoyJ groups for several homeless outreaches, helped coordinate the activities and groups during the Annual JoyJ walk, and donated generously to the organization.

With the addition of 2 new centers, the PCF has established 12 COEs to date, executing the ambitious mission of improving patient care for U.S. Veterans with prostate cancer. Located in Boston, MA, and Portland, OR, these new COEs join 10 other established Centers in cities across the U.S. in delivering advanced precision oncology treatments to save the lives of Veterans battling prostate cancer. The John and Daria Barry Foundation currently supports the centers based in Manhattan, NY and Tampa Bay, FL and are excited to watch the network develop overtime.

Thank you to the John and Daria Barry Foundation for its ongoing support of Simply Smiles! We’re excited to tell you about some of the recent developments from the Simply Smiles Children’s Villages in Oaxaca, Mexico and on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota.

The regional nonprofit organization Save the Sound released results of its “2020 Long Island Sound Report Card” on October 6. For the first time, in addition to open-water testing, the biennial report includes water quality grades and findings for 50 bays and bay segments in the Long Island Sound. The report revealed surprising results, raising concern about the current ecological health of local bays and their resilience in the face of warming trends and ongoing pollution from Sound communities. Funding for the Report Card is provided by the John and Daria Barry Foundation

For the third year in a row we are thrilled to support Fritz and his orphanage in Port au Prince, Haiti. Through the recent violence, food shortages, coronavirus and Hurricane Laura, Fritz has maintained a peaceful and joyful home for 30 kids! We continue to be amazed at his resourcefulness and commitment to the children.

In a few months from now, the John and Daria Barry Scholarship will send its first full cohort of recent baccalaureates to the oldest and arguably greatest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford, for two years of graduate study. This is not an award tied in any way to the pandemic — the recipients learned of their selection last December — but it is one whose recipients, individually and as a group, possess qualities that will lead all of us, including members of the academy, into a safe and just new normal: respect for truth, difficult or complicated as it may be, and that rare combination of scholarly rigor and joy in discovery that makes every professor’s heart sing.