Educational attainment is associated with improved health outcomes by empowering individuals with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to make informed decisions about their health and access quality healthcare.
Those facing barriers to educational success often find themselves asking:
Our work to break down these barriers includes investment grants awarded to these organizations:
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase and provide for students during the COVID pandemic desks and chairs constructed of anti-micro bacterial materials.
$30,000
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To provide for repair trail maintenance equipment and secure storage, thus ensuring safe equipment is available to volunteers, including Macon County Schools STEM students, during the COVID pandemic.
$66,367
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To support the establishment of a Nurse Aide program to address training for and access to jobs.
$33,828
To purchase an HVAC to better serve their after-school participants; then, to support measures required to safely serve participants during the COVID pandemic.
Emergency Services Department
$50,000
Collaborative Health Innovation Program
To support the launch of an Emergency Management Technician Training Fellowship, which offers students a viable career option, as well as increases the EMT department’s available manpower.
$70,346
To construct a greenhouse for use by Academy students; to support expansion of the peer-to-peer program; and repair a freezer that was putting food safety at risk.
$38,000
Inaugural Awards
To support their tiny house construction program, which teaches participants construction and marketing skills.
$2,500
31 Days of Giving Holiday Match Program
To support their work to educate the youngest residents of our community.
$225,000
Igaugural Awards
To support subsidies for families seeking childcare for children ages 0 – 3.
$140,360
To support development of their optical program; to purchase a chemistry analyzer for health student education use; to initiate safety protocols during the COVID pandemic; and to expand their Project SEARCH program to provide instruction to disabled young adults.
$10,000
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase personal protective equipment and other materials required to ensure the safety of students and staff during the COVID pandemic.
$85,000
Youth and Young Adults Initiative
To provide an after-school academic platform for the county’s elementary students.
$9,616
Needs Immediately Met Initiative
To purchase a nursing infant simulator to address nursing students’ need for access to training.
