Sunbury Area Health Foundation

Similar to the Berwick Health & Wellness Fund, the Sunbury Area Health Foundation (SAHF) was born out of the sale of a community hospital. With more than $3 million in assets from that sale, the goal of the SAHF is to improve healthcare in the Sunbury region. In 2006, the Sunbury Area Health Foundation affiliated with the Central Susquehanna Community Foundation. This allows the SAHF to retain its stated purpose while moving toward greater growth of the foundation funds. In 2007, the SAHF awarded its first grant to A Community Clinic, Inc., a non-profit medical clinic, and is looking forward to investing in other projects.

Grant Applications

During competitive grantrounds, the Sunbury Area Health Foundation seeks to invest in programs and projects that specifically target the following priority areas:

• Children’s Health
• Early Childhood
• Oral Health
• Issues regarding the working poor
• Coronary Care

SAHF recently completed a grantround in August 2009. The next grantround will be announced in 2010.

Scholarship Applications

The Sunbury Area Health Foundation offers scholarships to high school seniors as well as college students who are pursuing a degree in a medical/health related field. All candidates must reside in the Shikellamy, Selinsgrove or Line Mountain school district. The amount for each scholarship is determined on an individual basis.

Please note that scholarship recipients are obligated to work in the scholarship service area, in a health-care related occupation for a minimum of three years.

To download an application please click on one of the following links:

Nursing Scholarship To be eligible, a student must major in one of the following for the 2010-2011 academic year: nursing and nurse practitioner. Enrollment in an undergraduate or certification program.

SAHF Health Professions Scholarship To be eligible, a student must be accepted in a two or four-year college with a declared health profession major or a one- or two-year certification program. A health profession is broadly defined to encompass the many and varied health-related careers, ranging from vocational nursing and dental assistant, to health education, to dentistry and medicine.

SAHF Health Professions Scholarship for non-traditional students To be eligible, applicant must be accepted in a two or four-year college with a declared health profession major or a one- or two-year certification program (as described above).

Applications are in a form document that should be completed, saved and emailed to kseesholtz@csgiving.org. Instructions are found on the front page of each application. The deadline for students to complete and submit an application for any of the SAHF's scholarship awards is Friday, April 16, 2010.

For more information, please contact Kara Seesholtz at 570-752-3930.