Area schools & organizations receive grant funding from PAHWF

The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has awarded $1,755,755 in grant requests during the spring grant round of fiscal year 2015-2016 to 41 non-profit organizations, schools and municipalities.

“These programs play a vital role in championing health and wellness in the community, fulfilling the mission of the Foundation,” Foundation President Dave Kraybill said.

Grant requests are submitted based on the following priority areas: 1: Healthy Behaviors 1A: Promoting healthy living through nutrition, activities and programs in public and private schools to reduce obesity and encourage healthy living

1B: Improving parks, programming and the built environment to increase access to physical activity

1C: Creating and promoting social networks involving healthy living

2: Physical And Health

3: Strengthen Non-Profits

The following list identifies the 41 organizations receiving funding during the Foundation’s most recent grant round:

PRIORITY #1A: Promoting healthy living through nutrition, activities and programs in public and private schools to reduce obesity and encourage healthy living ($813,020).

Boyertown Area School District: Brain Body Connection

Brookeside Montessori: B Well

Coventry Christian School: Events Center Expansion

Coventry Christian School: Project Purpose

Daniel Boone Area School District: Healthy for a Lifetime Program Emotional

Falkner Swamp Nursery School, Inc.: Child Development Health and Wellness Initiative

Owen J. Roberts School District: Fit for Life

Perkiomen Valley School District: Perkiomen Valley Vikings Vitality Program

Pottsgrove School District: Student Resiliency Part II

Pottstown School District: Healthy School Communities Initiative

Pottstown School PEAK Health Wellness Initiative

Spring-Ford Area School District: Wellness Matters 2016-17

St. Aloysius Parish School: Health in Mind, Body, and Spirit

The Blazer Foundation: Amity Elementary Center Nature Initiative

The Wyndcroft School: Health for Life

West-Mont Christian Academy: Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies District: and

PRIORITY #1B: Improving parks, programming and the built environment to increase access to physical activity ($114,000).

Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust: Secret Valley Greenway Trail Planning and Implementation Phase 1

Limerick Township: Limerick Center Road Sidewalk Connection

West Pottsgrove Township: Manatawny/West Trail Pedestrian Bridge Murgia Park - Phase 3

PRIORITY #1C: Creating and promoting social networks involving healthy living ($278,285).

Boyertown Area BranchPhiladelphia Freedom Valley YMCA: Gymnastics Program Enhancement & Development

Expressive Therapy Concepts Inc.: Documenting Health Benefits by Physiological Measurement

Expressive Therapy Concepts Inc.: Smashville Badminton and

Greater Pottstown Tennis & Learning: Year round tennis & character-building programs

Green Valleys Association: Outdoor and Environmental Education Programs at Pottstown Schools

Helping To Inspire Positive and Healthy Opportunities for Progress: Bully Bounce - HIP HOP Inc. Anti-Bullying Program

Julian Dorsey Foundation: Building a Broader Pottstown

Olivet Boys & Girls Club: Body, Mind and Soul Approach to Youth Health and Wellness

Pottstown Branch - Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA: Sports Court

Pottstown Parks & Recreation Foundation Inc.: Pottstown Rumble Technology & Field Renovation Support

Trinity Evangelical Congregational Church: God’s Community Garden

PRIORITY #2: Funding programs for physical health and emotional wellbeing ($146,000).

Accion Comunal Latinoamericana de Montgomery County: ACLAMO Community Health Connections

Community Health and Fitness Programming Dental Care. Inc.: Program Development Initiatives

Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County: Healthy Start and Family Benefits Programs

Spring-Ford Counseling Services: Signs of Suicide Prevention Programs for Boyertown and Owen J. Roberts School Districts

PRIORITY #3: Funding learning opportunities and strategic planning to strengthen non-profits ($404,450).

Foundation for Boyertown Education: Board Development

Foundation for Pottstown Education: Operating Expenses

Pottstown Area Industrial Development Inc.: 2016 Operations

SAVE Alliance Foundation: Regional Outreach Program

TriCounty Community Network Inc.: Community Collaborative

United Way of Boyertown Area: Matching Grant

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey: Matching Grant to Increase Philanthropy and Investing in Impact in Western Montgomery County