2007 BHWF Grants

The Berwick Health and Wellness Fund awarded new grants totaling $1.1 million between January 1, 2006 until May 31, 2007. In addition, the foundation is paying out multi-year grants in 2006, including the Berwick Public Library and  the Nurse-Family Partnership.

Construction on the new Berwick Public Library is well under
way and expected to be completed in late fall 2007.

The foundation awarded over 120 new grants to more than 70 different non-profit organizations. Some of the grants were approved through the foundation's annual grant review process in which organizations receive an open opportunity to apply for grants. Other awards were made through a strategic process that targeted particular goals of the foundation.

In determining which grants to award, the grant-making committee looks at the major goal areas in addition to factors such as the organization's bility to measure outcomes and the future sustainability of the project.

 

 

Following is a list of the organizations and the grants they have been awarded in 2006-2007.

• Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders - $2,500 for maintain Your Brain
  
  

• American Cancer Society, Columbia Unit - $175 for Daffodil Days; $75 for Basket of Hope; $1,000 for Telethon of Hope

• American Heart Association - $500 for Central Susquehanna Valley Heart Walk 2006

• American Red Cross, Bloomsburg Chapter - $2,250 for Disaster Trailer

• American Red Cross, Greater Berwick Chapter -$6,176 for Care Giving Programs; $15,000 for disaster preparedness

• AYSR Foundation - $7,000 for work in BWWF area

• Benton Area School District - $9,192 for Rock Climbing Wall; $4,354 for Camp Ophelia Program

• Benton Borough - $1,000 for police car camera

• Benton Council of Churches - $4,000 for Supplemental Fuel Assistance Program

• Berwick Area Ministerium - $3,000 for heating fuel program

• Berwick Borough Police Department - $9,228 for Community Policing Project

• Berwick Area School District - $25,000 for drug and alcohol prevention counselor; $23,550 innovative Math Lab; $7,040 for READY Preschooler/Toddler Kits; $15,000 for Preschool Summer School Program; $6,432 for Summer School Program; $2,000 for D.A.R.E.; $1,000 for Salem Elementary Physical FitnessIncentive; $13,950 for Summer Youth Recreation program; $4,500 for Making Connections; $4,972 for Camp Ophelia; $500 for Girls and Boys Tennis Program; $2,400 for Pennsylvania Education Policy Program; $2,500 to Salem Elementary for Lifetime of Fitness program; $1,500 for Senior Citizens Thanksgiving Dinner

• Berwick Area United Way - $235 for United Way retreat; $800 for general use

• Berwick Area YMCA - $600,000 towards Capital Campaign; $1,000 for Teen Night Program (YIP)

• Berwick Public Library - $200,000 for new building project; $2,600 for Summer Reading Program

• Berwick Senior Center - $190 to sponsor a senior at Camp Ladore

• Berwick Youth Football League - $15,000 for Youth Football and Cheerleading Equipment

• Bethany United Methodist Church - $4,450 for Bethany Blessings Preschool and Daycare

• Beyond Violence - $20,000 for additional hours for children’s counselor; $500 for general use

• Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble - $3,600 for Theatre in the Classroom; $500 for general use

• Borough of Berwick - $31,500 for Ber-Vaughn Park Pool Feasability Study; $4,500 for Summer Concert Series

• Bloomsburg University - $1,500.00 for Racial Equity Diversity Conference; $3,600 for Thaddeus REX Celebrity Artist Series Camp Cadet Troop “N”, $500 for Camp costs for BHWF area cadets

• The Carl & Emily Weller Center for Health Education Mobile Outreach Programs - $46,441 for study to address/identify risk behaviors; $1,500 for Benton Schools programming (YIP); $2,000 for Berwick Schools programming (YIP)

• Caring Communities for AIDS - $800 for CCFA Technology Improvement Project

• Central PA Food Bank - $2,500 to purchase a 9500 cu. ft. freezer

• Central PA Youth Ministries - $1,000 for repairs at Berwick Youth Center; $4,250 for Berwick Youth Center

• The Children’s Museum - $2,000 for Mighty Mouth Model; $250 for Preschool Discovery Days

• Columbia County Commissioners - $46,120 for Columbia County Parenting Classes

• Columbia Child Development Program - $5,750 for Kindergarten Readiness Event; $4,800 Mental Health Support; $1,365 for obesity prevention; $1,500 for Fatherhood Conference; $2,700 for NAEYC Accreditation

• Columbia-Montour Council No. 504 Boy Scouts of America - $16,679 to rebuild footbridge at Camp Lavigne; $7,100 for organizational fund

• Columbia-Montour Family Health Inc. - $650 for SCORE Conference

• Columbia-Montour Home Health - $1,000 for NFP Emergency Assistance Fund; $8,000 to support Camp Courage; $2,700 to purchase network computer system; $4,000 for NFPScholarship program

• Columbia-Montour Women’s Conference Inc. - $1,000 for 2007 Columbia Montour Women’s Conference

• Commission on Economic Development - $3,000 for Summer Meal Program Outreach

• Council on Foundations - $3,220 for membership

• Dental Health Clinic - $3,488 for capital and operating expenses

• EOS Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc. - $4,536 for Buy-A-Ride Program; $100 in memory of Arlo D. McMurtrie

• First Baptist Church - $2,000 for general use

• Garrison Memorial Elementary PTA - $7,500 for renovation of elementary playground

• Geisinger Health System - $15,000 for Psychiatry and Special Berwick School Counseling

• Girl Scouts of Penn’s Woods Council - $5,000 for Financial Assistance Program; $1,500 for College 101; $1,000 for “Good to Great” project; $1,000 for the purchase of AED for Camp Louise; $5,000 for outdoor recreational facility

• Good Samaritan Mission - $1,000 for aid for needy children

• Historical & Preservation Society of the Greater Business Association of the Greater Shickshinny Area - $20,000 to FLT/Oddfellows Building Project

• Hunlock Township - $11,000 for Boat Launch

• Huntington Mills Parent Teacher Organization - $10,000 for Elementary Playground Equipment

• Luzerne County Community College - $250,000 for Public Safety Training Institute; $9,950 for Job Ready PASSport Program

• Masonic Learning Center - $15,000 for computer equipment and office upgrades

• MS Society Central PA Chapter - $1,000 Education/financial assistance program

• Nescopeck Borough - $3,100 for Nescopeck Youth Center Electrical Project; $260 for AED Battery

• Nescopeck Township - $32,800 for the development of trails at the Nescopeck Township Park

• The Nicholas Wolff Foundation, Inc. - $12,512 for Camper Full Scholarship Project

• Northcentral AHEC - $3,000 for Oral Health Conference

• Northern Columbia Community & Cultural Center - $75,000 for equipment; $3,500 for Skateboard Park

• Northwest Area School District - $51,369 for Jump Start Program; $7,943 for Dancercise Program; $3,400 for First Alert Program; $750 for 8th Grade Spaghetti Dinner and Carnival (YIP); $4,250 to the Biology Club for outdoor classroom (YIP); $5,446 for Theatre Project

• Pennsylvania Environmental Council - $15,000 for Central Susquehanna Valley Wellness Trails Partner

• Philharmonic Society of Northeast Pennsylvania - $4,886

• Rainbow Hill School - $2,000 for National Accreditation/Staff Development; $2,000 for general purpose

• Salem Elementary (SESAME) - $10,000 for playground equipment

• The Salvation Army - $21,742 for air conditioning units for ARM; $2,500 for Back to School; $1,800 for general purpose

• Setebaid Services, Inc. - $10,000 for Camp Setebaid Teen Camp

• Shickshinny Borough - $10,000 for North Canal Street Park

• Special Olympics Pennsylvania - $4,000 for Bocce Ball Court; $2,500 for powerlifting and sporting equipment

• Suncom Industries Inc. - $2,500 for automatic doors; $1,700 for support chairs for Bloomsburg facility

• Susquehanna Institute - $9,645 for drug and alcohol prevention for youth

• Susquehanna Valley House of Hope - $3,000 for strategic planning and development; $80 for fundraising dinner

• Susquehanna Warrior Trail Council - $3,700 for Susquehanna Warrior Trail

• Union Township - $15,000 to develop parking access for hiking/walking trail

• Volunteer Fire Companies - $3,000 offered to each company in the BHWF service area; $57,000 distributed to 19 companies

• Wesley United Methodist Church - $1,000 for Nescopeck Area Community Cupboard

• West Berwick Hose Co., Ladies Auxiliary - $2,500 for community refrigerator

• WVIA - $140 for general purpose
  

Youth Philanthropy Grants:

Every year, a group of 10-15 juniors and seniors from each school are responsible for making grant decisions. The Berwick Health & Wellness Fund provides each school with $5,000 to allocate in grants. This year the Central Columbia Education Foundation matched the BHWF with a donation of $2,500 to make the program
possible at Central Columbia.

Northwest Area School District - : Tolerance Troupe (a group of students from Selinsgrove High School who perform skits dealing with teen issues) and outdoor classroom.


Berwick Area School District: D.A.R.E., Berwick Public Library (teen furnishings), and YMCA scholarships for teen members

Benton Area School District: Wyoming Valley Drug and Alcohol to offer interactive programming in the classroom, Camp Ophelia, Club Grey (a diversity club) and the Northern Columbia Community and Cultural Center.

Central Columbia School District: Muscular Dystrophy Association (local fund), C.A.R.E. club, and House of Hope.

 

 

Central Susquehanna Community Foundation • 309 Vine Street, Berwick, PA 18603 Phone: (570)752-3930 • Fax: 570.752.7435 • Eric DeWald, edewald@csgiving.org