FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Christine Rogers
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North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation Awards 25 Community Grants
(Raleigh, NC) – The North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation is pleased to announce the second round of grant recipients for its Small Community Grants Program. In celebration of the Foundation's 20th year, grants of up to $3,000 will be distributed to a variety of North Carolina organizations and government agencies working to improve the health of women of reproductive age. The recipients include:
Alamance County Health Department
Albemarle Regional Health Services
Ashe Memorial Hospital/Ashe County Healthy Carolinians
Catawba County Public Health
Children and Family Resource Center of Henderson County, Inc.
Coalition for Families
Crossworks, Inc.
El Pueblo, Inc.
Florence Crittenton Services, Inc.
Garner Road Family YMCA
Guilford County Coalition on Infant Mortality
Healthy Yancey-Toe River Health District
Life Support Institute
Madison County Health Department
Martin-Tyrrell-Washington District Health Department
Mission Healthcare Foundation, Inc.
Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc.
N.C. Cooperative Extension-Buncombe County Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Pa'lante
Partnership for Children of Lenoir and Greene Counties
Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina
Richmond County Health Department
Urban Ministries of Wake County
Warren County Free Clinic, Inc.
Western North Carolina AIDS Project
"We are delighted to support these outstanding organizations," says Janice Freedman, Executive Director of the North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation. "These grants will help fund community based programs dedicated to the health and well being of women and children in our state. We know in difficult economic times that it is often difficult for nonprofit organizations to be able to fund all their important initiatives. This one-time grant program supports our agency's mission of improving the health of women and young children in North Carolina. and we are grateful to be in a position to be able to provided financial assistance to these worthwhile programs."
Priority was given to counties with high rates of infant mortality, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, drug use, smoking, inactivity, obesity and other at risk behaviors. Funds could be used for new initiatives or to expand existing services and programs. For more information about the N.C. Healthy Start Foundation and its services, please visit www.NCHealthyStart.org.
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The N.C. Healthy Start Foundation, a
nonprofit organization established in 1990, conducts
ongoing public education campaigns, advises state and
local policy makers, and provides technical assistance
and professional training focused on reducing infant
death and illness and improving the health of women
and young children in North Carolina.
