2005 Community Report - Brandywine Health Foundation

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OUR MISSION The Brandywine Health & Wellness Foundation’s mission is to initiate and support programs to improve the health and well-being of our community. La mision del Brandywine Health & Wellness Foundation es la de iniciar y darle apoyo a programas para mejorar la salud y el bienestar de nuestra comunidad. www.brandywinefoundation.org
IMPROVING OUR COMMUNITY’S HEALTH “We have launched the foundation, established grantmaking priorities and expanded the healthcare safety net in meaningful ways – all in partnership with you, our community.” As the Brandywine Health & Wellness Foundation completes its fourth year of operation, we’re pleased to reflect on how far we have come in that short amount of time. We have launched the Foundation, established grantmaking priorities and expanded the healthcare safety net in meaningful ways – all in partnership with you, our community. Without the inspired contributions – in so many different ways – of our many friends, volunteers and partners, such rapid, encouraging progress would not have been possible. Most notably, during this past year, together we succeeded in making both primary healthcare and preventive dental care available to Coatesville’s uninsured and underserved, thanks to the arrival of the ChesPenn Health Center Inc. and Community Dental. We’re also tremendously excited about our plans to give these two agencies, as well as the Child Guidance Resource Center and Human Services, a permanent home with a new four-story building planned for Coatesville. As you review the valuable projects we have supported this year, we hope you’ll see evidence of our efforts to address problems that have always been with us, such as improving healthcare for the poor. We also seek to use the Foundation’s resources as efficiently as possible to help our community take the big leaps forward in addressing newer problems. For instance, how can we help our burgeoning county expand the number of professionals trained to help you and your neighbors in an emergency And, through our grantmaking, we hope to help all of us better understand those problems about which we still know so little. For instance, how can we help our young people live healthy lives if they have increasingly inactive lifestyles and make poor food choices The answers may seem obvious, but with limited foundation resources, we must choose wisely to have the greatest impact – both in serving people now and in learning how to serve them in the future. Looking forward as our fifth anniversary approaches, we are in the early stages of a major planning process to determine where to focus our energies during our next five years. Our planning committee will be guiding our board of directors in identifying our long-term goals and the best means to achieve them. But as we begin this exploration, we also want to hear from you, our loyal community supporters. Please let us know how you think we can continue to strengthen our community’s safety net and improve overall health. Finally, if you are new to the Foundation and our work motivates you, we would love to have you join us as a donor. With many thanks, Albert W. Eastburn Board Chair Frances M. Sheehan President/CEO 1
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