Brandywine Health Foundation Pushes $100K Into Coatesville Projects

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Brandywine Health Foundation
Last month crowds gathered to kick off Coatesville's Centennial.

Well before sickness, homelessness and joblessness, the Brandywine Health Foundation is bringing the most critical components of wellness to the Coatesville community through an infusion of four grants totaling $100,000.

This year’s six-figure investment aims to develop new solutions and new leaders for positive and lasting change by transfusing $60,000 into the Coatesville Youth Initiative’s summertime ServiceCorps program; $25,000 into lifeguard training and water safety at the Brandywine YMCA, Ash Park Pool and Coatesville Summer Camp; $10,000 into a Main Street Manager Challenge Grant for the Coatesville Area Partners for Progress; and $5,000 into security upgrades at the Coatesville Area Public Library.

“Through rigorous leadership development training, community-building activities, team service projects and extensive life and academic skill-building seminars, young people will be inspired and poised to carry the Coatesville community toward a positive future,” President and CEO Frances M. Sheehan said of the Coatesville Youth Initiative in particular, which serves 40 local teenagers.

Faced with significant health disparities based on race, income, ethnicity and the Coatesville location, the Brandywine Health Foundation has used its grant program — now with nearly $14 million invested since 2002 — to act on its belief that everyone deserves to be healthy and to grow up in a vibrant community.

Brandywine Health Foundation’s biggest fundraiser, the Brandywine Strawberry Festival, is at the end of this month and they’re still looking for volunteers. Find out more by contacting special events coordinator Stephanie Vargas.

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