ASHEBORO - For 2019, the Randolph Health Community Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded 17 health and wellness grants totaling $93,816. This is the 22nd year the Foundation has provided funding for health and wellness programs throughout Randolph County.
“The announcement of this year’s grant recipients is always an exciting time for the Foundation. But for 2019, the Foundation Grants Committee saw an opportunity to impact our school children and help improve several elementary school playgrounds across Randolph County. These are areas that have not been able to be addressed under recent school budgets and the Foundation is happy to put our resources to work and make a difference,” said April Thornton, president of the Randolph Health Community Foundation.
For 2019, The Randolph Health Community Foundation funded grants which will engage volunteers and organizations to motivate our community to make healthy lifestyle choices. The Foundation’s priorities are programs which support at least one of the following focus areas:
- Randolph Health – projects that support the mission of Randolph Health and its efforts to provide quality health care;
- Nutrition – projects that benefit nutrition in the areas of education, training and research;
- Physical Fitness – promotion of healthy living through programs that initiate, expand and improve physical fitness;
- Substance Abuse – education and prevention programs that ease the transition of becoming free from the health problems associated with abuse of alcohol, tobacco and/or illicit drugs.
“Each year, the Randolph Health Community Foundation awards grants to assist with various health and wellness initiatives,” noted Thornton. “Once again, this was a competitive year, with 28 grant requests totaling over $740,000. The grants awarded have the potential to make a tremendous difference in the lives of many, helping to create a healthier community.”
The 2019 grants awarded by the Randolph Health Community Foundation include:
$1,500 Communities in Schools of Randolph County to support and expand the current GoFar after-school fitness program to include one additional site in 2019.
$5,640 Community Hope Alliance to supply needles, sterile equipment and provide resources, such as Naloxone, to save the lives of those with substance abuse problems.
$3,150 Franklinville Elementary School to promote physical fitness and nutrition by adding diverse action stations and nutrition education to the outdoor play area.
$12,600 Love InDeed, Inc. to provide a free community meal each week to people living in the rural Caraway Mountain area of Randolph County.
$6,500 Nailed 4 You Outreach Ministry to purchase additional food for the expansion of the hot meal program to the homeless and less fortunate in Randolph County.
$8,000 Randleman Parks and Recreation to provide an alternative workout area for families to use as they are at Randleman Park for events or using the playground area.
$3,000 Randolph Community College to offer a symposium to local professionals in May 2019 that will focus on current substance abuse and mental health trends.
$6,450 Randolph County Health Department to increase the number of post overdose response participants, increase the number of community members trained in overdose prevention, and increase the number of people tested for communicable diseases.
$4,000 Randolph Health to acquaint parents of the nearly 700 newborns at Randolph Health with the important role they play in their baby's brain development by reading to them beginning day one of their life.
$2,000 Randolph Health to launch an Indigent Person's fund that will be used to provide prescription medication for uninsured patients who can't afford them.
$1,000 Randolph Health Cancer Center to purchase education material to be distributed to all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients at Randolph Health.
$7,250 Randolph Health Maternity Services to provide two comfortable sleeper sofas for support individuals who stay during the day and overnight with mothers who have delivered their babies at Randolph Health.
$4,000 Randolph Partnership for Children to transform the outdoor learning environments and play spaces at four child care centers located in three different parts of the county, impacting nearly 250 children.
$7,000 Seagrove School PTO to improve the school playground to ensure the safety of students and promote physical fitness/healthy living within the school and the community.
$3,300 Town of Liberty Parks and Recreation to install a 1/4 mile walking trail at Paul Henry Park in Liberty.
$16,860 Town of Ramseur to grade and surface the portion of the Deep River Rail Trail that will complete the Ramseur segment.
$1,566 Uwharrie Charter Academy to build an aquaponics system of sustainable agriculture.
“Whether impacting the future of agriculture by providing Uwharrie Charter Academy with the tools to start an aquaponics system or assisting the Community Hope Alliance and Randolph Community College with their work to help those affected by substance abuse, each of these grants enable important community endeavors to succeed,” said Thornton. “Every grant recipient indirectly helps Randolph Health fulfill the second half of its mission, ‘foster health and wellness’, in unique ways in the community and across Randolph County.”
To learn more about the Randolph Health Community Foundation or to make a donation, call (336) 633-7755 or visit Randolph Health’s website at www.randolphhealth.org and click on “Foundation”.
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