Alzheimer’s Association, WV Chapter
Increase the AAWV presence in Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, and Wayne counties by improving access to care and chronic disease management, conducting physician outreach, convening stakeholder meetings, and conducting on-going identification and training of volunteers to lead and present educational programs.
Grant Awarded: $15,300
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Alzheimer’s Association, WV Chapter website
Arts in Action, Inc.
Support for the performance and classroom expenses of the SuperStars program, which provides weekly dance and music classes for approximately 150 students with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Grant Awarded: $14,080
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
Arts in Action, Inc. website
Branches Domestic Violence Shelter
“Welcome Home” Project providing emergency supplies and essential household items for victims of domestic violence who have found safe, permanent housing.
Grant Awarded: $30.000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
Branches Domestic Violence Shelter website
Catholic Charities West Virginia
Travel, training, and program marketing support for the volunteer homemaker program, which assists the elderly and disabled with personal care, transportation to medical appointments, light housework, and cooking.
Grant Awarded: $3,462.50
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Catholic Charities West Virginia website
Center for Rural Health Development, Inc.
Provide Wild Wonderful Healthy West Virginia monthly coaching calls to support the Logan Community Health Improvement Committee in advancing community health outcomes and economic development.
Grant Awarded: $3,840
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Substance Use Disorder; Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
Center for Rural Health Development, Inc. website
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia
Provide food, infant essentials, and personal care items for families utilizing the Nancy Tonkin Children’s Resource Center.
Grant Awarded: $4,500
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Substance Use Disorder
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia website
Children’s Therapy Clinic, Inc.
Contract speech therapy services for children with special needs that are uninsured, under-insured, and/or economically disadvantaged.
Grant Awarded: $25,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
Children’s Therapy Clinic, Inc. website
City of Huntington Foundation
Outfit the First Responder Wellness Center with cardio exercise equipment as part of the Compass Program to address compassion fatigue and total wellness for the city’s police and fire departments.
Grant Awarded: $31,869
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
City of Huntington Foundation website
Developmental Therapy Center, Inc.
Acquisition of equipment needed to provide occupational, physical, and speech-language tele-therapy services for children and adults with disabilities.
Grant Awarded: $24,405.32
Focus Area: Mental and Behavioral Health
Developmental Therapy Center, Inc.website
Ebenezer Medical Outreach, Inc.
Support for the clinic’s pharmacy program, which provides access to pharmacy services to uninsured or under-insured patients.
Grant Awarded: $43,999
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Ebenezer Medical Outreach, Inc. website
Faith in Action of the River Cities, Inc.
Transportation support and personal safety items for the volunteer driver program which transports seniors to grocery stores, pharmacies, and doctors’ appointments by providing transportation reimbursements, face covers, and sanitizer to the volunteers. This project also provides cleaning supplies to “care receivers.”
Grant Awarded: $11,941
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
Faith in Action of the River Cities, Inc. website
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond
Trauma and ACES trainings for Girl Scout Troop volunteers, parents, and staff to better equip them to assist Girl Scouts residing in foster and kinship care.
Grant Awarded: $18,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond website
Golden Girl Group Home
Support for preparation and outfitting of an exercise space for Golden Girl residents to utilize for health and wellness activities.
Grant Awarded: $24,318.82
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
Golden Girl Group Home website
Harvest for the Hungry
Distribution of protein supplements to elderly food pantry clients.
Grant Awarded: $11,013
Focus Area: Food Insecurity
Harvest for the Hungry website
Huntington Museum of Art, Inc.
“Arts in Medicine” project that provides art- making interventions to patients undergoing chemotherapy treat at Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center, and Hoops Family Children’s Hospital.
Grant Awarded: $14,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
Huntington Museum of Art, Inc. website
Ironton- Lawrence County Community Action
Support for the “Youth Mental Health Initiative” by providing funding for an ADHD assessment, treatment plans, and enhanced play therapy at four of FMC’s locations as well as a new school-based health center.
Grant Awarded: $10,500
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
Ironton- Lawrence County Community Action website
Kanawha Valley Home, Inc.
Counseling services and drug screening supplies for clients of this residential treatment home.
Grant Awarded: $11,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder
Kanawha Valley Home, Inc. website
KPCC Counseling
Facilitator assistance for the “Families Motivating Recovery” addiction support group for families and loved ones of those struggling with addiction.
Grant Awarded: $6,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder
KPCC Counseling website
Lewis County Family Resource Network
Support for five “Try This” mini- grant projects directed at addressing chronic disease and obesity.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder
Lewis County Family Resource Network website
Marshall University Research Corporation
Establishment of the “Southern West Virginia Blessing Box Community Pantry Project” by providing two community ‘Blessing Boxes’ in each of the Foundation’s nine West Virginia counties that will provide nonperishable foods, personal hygiene items, and baby supplies.
Grant Awarded: $50,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder; Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
Mountain Comprehensive Care Center, Inc.
Support and training for autism assessment, therapeutic rehabilitation, and play therapy supplies at locations in Boyd, Carter, and Greenup counties in Kentucky.
Grant Awarded: $14,360
Focus Area: Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder
R L B Ministries/Backpack Buddies
Food, cleaning, clothing, and hygiene supplies to meet increased pantry need as well as support to launch a new infant pantry.
Grant Awarded: $23,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
Rea of Hope, Inc.
Support for resident needs including clothing, medications, uniforms, hygiene, and household supplies.
Grant Awarded: $10,000
Focus Area: Substance Use Disorder
Recovery Group of Southern West Virginia, Inc.
Integration of a holistic mental health and life skills program curriculum into the existing programming of two residential recovery homes.
Grant Awarded: $21,000
Focus Area: Substance Use Disorder
Religious Coalition for Community Renewal
Lockers and cleaning equipment for a new “Transitional Storage Facility,” which will offer safe storage of personal belongings for individuals experiencing homelessness on the East End of Charleston.
Grant Awarded: $20,172
Focus Area: Health and Wellness
River Valley Child Development Services
Support for the “Baby Bites Pantry and Care Closet” through food items, care closet items, and promotional materials.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
Ronald McDonald House of Huntington, WV
Food assistance for families staying at the House while their infant receives treatment for neonatal abstinence syndrome at Cabell Huntington Hospital or Lilly’s Place.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder; Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
Safe Harbor of Northeast Kentucky
Access to art therapy for women and children who have become victims of domestic violence.
Grant Awarded: $5,000
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder
Scioto Christian Ministry
Supplies for a job readiness program for individuals experiencing homelessness and for Covid-19 related safety supplies for its homeless shelter and food pantry.
Grant Awarded: $9,022.06
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder
Sostento, Inc.
Expanding current public health outreach efforts in Lincoln and Logan counties in West Virginia by funding peer recovery workers who conduct community outreach to people in active addiction.
Grant Awarded: $20,540
Focus Area: Substance Use Disorder
St. Vincent Mission, Inc.
Support for gardening equipment and supplies to strengthen a sustainable agriculture program for individual and community gardens.
Grant Awarded: $5,119
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
Steven A Hunter Hope Fund
Food assistance for backpack program that assists food insecure school youth in Scioto County, Ohio school system.
Grant Awarded: $30,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
The David School
Food assistance for food insecure students attending a non-traditional school serving at-risk youth.
Grant Awarded: $15,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
The Education Alliance
Development of a “Student Mental Health Toolkit” for use by mentors working with students in Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, and Wayne Counties.
Grant Awarded: $10,060
Focus Area: Mental and Behavioral Health
United Way of Central WV
Food, cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene assistance for clients of food pantries and WV 211.
Grant Awarded: $23,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition
Expands the “SNAP Stretch” and “Farm to Senior” programs across the Foundation’s West Virginia counties to make the purchase of fruits and vegetables more affordable and more accessible for low income individuals, especially children and seniors.
Grant Awarded: $47,000
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
West Virginia Health Right, Inc.
Support food supplies needed for cooking classes for patients participating in S.C.A.L.E.® (Sustainable Change and Lifestyle Enhancement) weight loss project.
Grant Awarded: $4,200
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness
Williamson Health & Wellness Center, Inc.
Marketing, design, printing, and patient incentive support for the “Hiking for Health” project in Mingo County, West Virginia, which will promote physical activity along underutilized trails through increased wayfinding signage, collaborative social support, a guided hike series, and improved communications.
Grant Awarded: $16,620
Focus Area: Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder
Wings of Hope
Support for community center programming expenses for exercise, gardening, and cooking classes for at-risk youth and older adults.
Grant Awarded: $25,446.02
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health; Substance Use Disorder; Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
YMCA of Huntington
Food assistance for the “Fuel for Kids” after school program and equipment for the “Kids in Motion” nutrition, fitness, and healthy lifestyle program.
Grant Awarded: $15,227
Focus Area: Food Insecurity; Health and Wellness; Mental and Behavioral Health
