Pennsylvania: Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation Grants 2023 - fundsforNGOs

The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation is seeking grant applications with an aim to enhance the health and wellness of area residents, providing education, funding and programs that motivate people to adopt healthy lifestyles.

Donor Name: Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation

State: Pennsylvania

Borough: Pottstown

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 02/01/2023

Size of the Grant: exceed $100,000

Details:

The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation service area is defined by a 10-mile radius around Pottstown. However, your funded organization does not need to be located in their area—it only needs to serve people in their service area.

Program Areas

One of primary ways The foundation aims to achieve their purpose and, ultimately, their mission is to partner with organizations in the area by investing in solutions aimed at long-term improvement in healthy behaviors. Specifically, the Foundation will invest in the following two core pillars and their defined program areas:

Developing Youth Potential

They believe that investing in their community youth, is investing on their community’s future. To that aim, they seek to invest in their community youth, especially those less served, by supporting their overall development in these core program areas:

Early Childhood Development
- providing expecting and new parents with the tools and resources to ensure the development of young children (0-5).
School Programs (K-12)
- integrating best practices to promote wellness as a core component of school culture and student achievement.
Youth Preparedness
- helping youth obtain the cognitive, social, and emotional skills necessary to succeed in life.

Promoting Equitable Health & Wellness

In their community and throughout the United States, health equity and equal opportunity are inextricably linked. The challenges of disease and poor health in comparison to the benefits of wellness and good health are inequitably distributed among groups of people. To address these inequities, they will invest in programs in these core program areas:

Built Environment
- promoting community wellness through the development and improvement of and access to active living spaces and programs for all.
Health Access & Delivery
- improving access to affordable, high quality, culturally and linguistically appropriate care for all community members.
Health Equity
- removing barriers to health and wellness to ensure all community members have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential.
Community Engagement
- As they strive to continue to serve their community as partners, conveners, and innovators, their third pillar focuses on supporting the youth potential and community health & wellness through different types of investments:
Collaborating for a Healthier Future
- Working with a diverse set of constituents and partners to actively work, learn, and support a healthier future for all residents:
- Community Collaboratives: working with partners to address systemic health and wellness issues throughout the community.
- Education & Learning Opportunities: providing information and training on health and wellness best practices throughout the community.
- Future Fund Development: identifying opportunities to grow the level of investment in the community and the work they support.

Funding Information

Capital Grants PAHWF may award a capital grant for up to 50 percent of the total allowable costs of the project. If seeking capital funding, specifically for proposals for the Built Environment, the request cannot exceed $100,000 and you must show you’ve raised at least 50% of required funds. Capital grant expenditures may include application costs, site surveys, architectural, and engineering fees, but may not include relocation costs or developer’s fees.

Eligibility Criteria

The foundation serves nonprofit organizations with a tax-exempt status in good standing with the IRS which strive to promote priorities that are in line with their mission. The Foundation does not give grants or loans to individuals.

Ineligible Funding Areas