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A week earlier the foundation celebrated
the upcoming festival with its fifth
annual Garden Party, which netted a
record $57,000 — more than $16,000
above the previous year’s net proceeds.
Cochaired once again by Mary Holleran
and Katherine Lovell, the party was
hosted for the fifth time by Jennifer and
Bob McNeil at their Springbank Farm.
More than 400 guests enjoyed a light
supper, cocktails, the popular “Battle of
the Berries at Brandywine” restaurant
dessert contest and fireworks.
Bob and Jennifer McNeil, Frances Sheehan and
Garden Party cochairs Katherine Lovell and Mary
Holleran.
To honor the McNeils, the foundation
announced during the party that it
was establishing the McNeil Children’s
Lending Library in the waiting room
of the new Brandywine Health &
Housing Center. To encourage reading
among children who have limited
access to books, the library will lend
books to children who come to
the center with their families. The
Outreach Committee from Freedom
Village Retirement Community is
coordinating book donations.
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CONVERSATION
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Grants and Scholarships Provided
from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007
SAFETY NET HEALTH CARE
SERVICES
$1 million to ChesPenn Health
Services (second year payments in
a three-year pledge period)
To support start-up of a Federally Qualified
Health Center in the city of Coatesville to
provide primary care services to people of all
ages and incomes, with a focus on the
uninsured and underinsured.
$225,000 to Chester County
Community Dental
To continue to reach out to a growing number
of patients, hire a new executive director,
develop a strategic plan for the future and
prepare to move into the new Brandywine
Health & Housing Center in early 2008.
$15,000 to Community Volunteers in
Medicine
To serve approximately 1,300 patients from
the foundation’s service area with primary
and dental care, largely provided by volunteer
practitioners in CVIM’s West Chester location.
$10,000 to Family Service of Chester
County
To expand, for the fifth year, bilingual,
bicultural counseling services from one day to
one-and-a-half days per week on a slidingscale
fee basis at the Family Service office in
the Coatesville Center for Community Health.
$15,000 to La Comunidad Hispana’s
Project Salud
To serve approximately 110 patients from the
Coatesville area who travel to Kennett Square
to be seen by experienced staff at this fully
bilingual, bicultural, nurse-managed health
center.
$30,000 to Planned Parenthood of
Chester County
To provide family planning services,
gynecological care and HIV+ primary care to
more than 2,200 patients from the greater
Coatesville area.
SAFETY NET HEALTH SUPPORT
SERVICES, OUTREACH AND
ADVOCACY
$15,000 to Center for the Blind and
Visually Impaired
For the second year, to expand services from
Delaware County into Chester County.
$10,000 to Center on Hearing and
Deafness
For the third year, for outreach and advocacy
for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community
with health care providers in central and
western Chester County.
$20,000 to Chester County Health
Department Nurse-Family Partnership
To provide intensive parenting and home-visit
assistance to first-time teen mothers as part
of a national program with documented
positive outcomes in reducing the number
of low-birth-weight babies and promoting
healthy parenting of children in low-income,
high-risk families.
$6,500 to Coatesville Area Senior
Center
To fund a wide range of exercise programs,
including the ongoing fall prevention series,
and the PACE/PACENET/Medicare Part D
prescription assistance program at this senior
center in Coatesville that serves more than
2,200 seniors a year.
$10,000 to Coatesville Center for
Community Health
For a collaborative effort to coordinate
bilingual health and social services provided
in the center’s building.
$5,000 to Delaware Valley
Grantmakers
To participate in a collaborative of health
foundations exploring ways to more effectively
treat behavioral health problems in lowincome
populations through the integration of
behavioral health services in primary care
settings, such as ChesPenn Health Services.
“I am so very pleased that the foundation is investing in the future of some of our area’s