Green Tree Community Health Foundation

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in February of 2013:

Contact Greater Philadelphia: $3,000 for their Reassurance Contact program, providing a free dialing telephone call to older adults living alone. For more information about Contact Greater Philadelphia, and the Reassurance Contact program, click here.

The Food Trust: $15,000 for their Healthy Corner Store Initiative, providing training and resources to help corner stores stock and market healthy foods while engaging youth and adults in nutrition education and activities to build healthy skills. For more information about The Food Trust, and Healthy Corner Store Initiative, click here.

Maternity Care Coalition: $20,000 for their Northwest MOMobile, connecting pregnant women and new mothers to prenatal care, pediatric and women's health care and other vital community resources. For more information about Maternity Care Coalition, and MOMobile, click here.

Mount Airy Learning Tree: $1,000 to scholarship elderly individuals' participation in local programming. For more information about Mount Airy Learning Tree and their local programming, click here.

New Directions for Women: $3,600 to fund The Food Trust Program staff. For more information about New Directions for Women, Philadelphia, click here.

VNA Community Services, Inc.: $25,000 to fund The Ginny Coombs Children's Health Centers. These centers provide primary health care services to un/underinsured at-risk children. To learn more, click here.

Women's Medical Fund: $15,000 to provide emergency financial and supportive assistance to low-income women and teens seeking an abortion. For more information about their supportive care, click here

Grant Distributions: The Green Tree Community Health Foundation distributes grants to organizations whose applications meet the priorities of the Foundation. Grant applications are accepted at any time, but awards will be made on a quarterly basis. Applicants are encouraged to use the Common Grants Application of the Delaware Valley Grantmakers. The Common Grants Application is found on www.dvg.org. Click on Quick Links and then go to Common Grant Application.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in November of 2012:

Bebashi - Transition to Hope: $5,000 towards their outreach, education, counseling, medical case management and research in the areas of sexual health and prevention of STD's. Additional programs include hunger relief, support groups and breast health education and screening.
To learn more about Bebashi - Transition to Hope, click here.

Breastfeeding Resource Center (BRC): $4,000 for general operating support for clinical and educational breastfeeding services, provided by board certified lactation consultants on a sliding fee scale.
To learn more about Breastfeeding Resource Center, click here.

Community Legal Services (CLS): $7,500 for their Aging and Disabilities Unit, which provides legal assistance to low-income seniors, conducts community outreach and advocates on policy issues affecting the elderly.
To learn more about CLS, click here.

Delaware Valley Community Health, Inc. (DVCH): $15,000 for general operating support for their federally qualified health care center in Norristown, providing primary health care services to all Montgomery County residents regardless of their ability to pay.
To learn more about DVCH, click here.

Dragonfly Forest: $5,000 to provide free overnight medically supervised summer camp to children with serious illnesses and disorders.
To learn more about Dragonfly Forest, click here.

Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund: $5,000 to provide assistance for families experiencing financial needs due to the serious illness, injury or disability of a child.
To learn more about Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund, click here.

KeystoneCare: $10,000 for their Palliative Care Consultation program, a new program focusing on pain and symptom management to address the physical, emotional, and psychosocial needs of the patient thus alleviating suffering, improving quality of life and reducing re-hospitalization.
To learn more about KeystoneCare, click here.

Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly: $5,000 towards general operating support to help utilize volunteers to visit and provide social gatherings in order to reduce isolation of the elderly.
To learn more about Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly, click here.

Montgomery Child Advocacy Project: $5,000 for general operating support to provide free legal representation to abused and neglected children.
To learn more about RSVP of Montgomery County, click here.

Philadelphia Children's Alliance: $5,000 for general operating support to conduct forensic interviews and provide supportive services to child abuse victims.
To learn more about Philadelphia Children's Alliance, click here.

SeniorLAW Center: $7,500 for general operating support, providing free legal assistance, community education and outreach, referrals to seniors. The proposal also includes a "Life Planning" clinic to be held at a local community or senior center.
To learn more about SeniorLAW Center, click here.

Temple's Time Out Respite Program: $7,500 to support their Time Out Respite program which matches college and/or graduate school students with seniors, providing low-cost in home respite care.
To learn more about Temple's Time Out Respite Program, click here.

Youth Service, Inc.: $5,000 towards supporting the Sally Watson Crisis Nursery in Germantown, providing emergency respite care for pre-school age children.
To learn more about Youth Services, Inc., click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in September of 2012:

Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE): $7,500 towards their CARIE Line, a free telephone information, counseling, and problem-solving services for older adults and their care-givers. To learn more about CARIE, click here.

Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment: $2,000 to underwrite scholarships for seniors to attend the center's workshops and classes. To learn more about Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment, click here.

Concern for Health Options: Information, Care and Education (C.H.O.I.C.E.): $5,000 for general operating support for their efforts to increase access to reproductive and maternal child health services and to provide sexual and reproductive health education to the under/uninsured. To learn more about C.H.O.I.C.E., click here.

Cradles to Crayons: $2,500 for their Emergency KidPacks program, supplying a week's worth of essential items, customized for the child in need. To learn more about Cradles to Crayons, click here.

Face to Face: $10,000 towards programmatic support for their nurse-managed health center providing free services to approximately 360 individuals a year. To learn more about Face to Face, click here .

Healthy NewsWorks: $7,500 for general operating support of their program which promotes health education and literacy through student-produced media. To learn more about Healthy NewsWorks, click here.

North Light Community Center: $10,000 for general operating support. The center serves 3,000 people a year through its various programs for at-risk children and their families in Roxborough. To learn more about North Light Community Center, click here.

Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (NPIHN): $7,500 towards services to graduates of and families in their shelter program.. To learn more about NPIHN, click here.

RSVP of Montgomery County: $5,000 for their Eldercare Services, including Help on Call, Eldercare visiting, and Apprise counseling. To learn more about RSVP of Montgomery County, click here.

Squash Smarts: $5,000 for general operating support. Their program combines squash with academic tutoring and mentoring to help disadvantaged, urban youth develop self-esteem and discipline with the goal of getting students through middle school, high school and then college. To learn more about Squash Smarts, click here.

St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic: $20,000 for general operating support, providing comprehensive primary medical care to uninsured adults. To learn more about St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic, click here.

Students Run Philly Style: $5,000 for general operating support towards their program promoting healthy behaviors to at-risk youth through long-distance running, training, connecting children with adult mentors to set academic and personal goals. To learn more about Students Run Philly Style, click here.

Supportive Older Women's Network (SOWN): $2,500 towards their "Supporting Older Women in Our Community" program which aims to lessen isolation of older women through support groups, counseling and case management. To learn more about SOWN, click here.

Whosoever Gospel Mission: $5,000 for general operating support for their 51-bed mission serving homeless men in Germantown. To learn more about Whosoever Gospel Mission, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in May of 2012:

Bridging the Gaps - $5,000 Providing health-related services in economically disadvantaged communities with the training of future health and social service professionals. To learn more about Bridging the Gaps, click here

Center in the Park - $20,000 General operating support for their Senior Center in Germantown. Providing various arts and humanities programs, health and wellness education, exercise and fitness programming, volunteerism, case management, and social services and housing support. To learn more about Center in the Park, click here

Centro Nueva Creacion - $5,000 Serving 5-12 year old children in Fairhill, a largely Latino neighborhood in North Philadelphia for its 2012 summer camp program called Healthy People, serving 50 children over the 6 weeks. To learn more about Centro Nueva Creacion, click here

DePaul USA - $5,000 Provides housing and supportive services to homeless men in Germantown. Their program has a holistic approach, meeting the residents' physical and mental health needs while providing job skill development and employment linkages. To learn more about DePaul USA, click here

Inter-Faith Housing Alliance - $10,000 Provides housing and supportive services to homeless adults and their children through their emergency shelter and transitional housing programs. Families receive case management, therapeutic counseling, budgeting classes, and life skills training. Emergency shelters are provided for up to one month's time. Transitional housing is provided for up to two years at Hope Gardens apartment building in Ambler. To learn more about Inter-Faith Housing Alliance, click here

Journey's Way - $10,000 General operating support for Journey's Way: Resources and Programs for People 55+ in Northwest Philadelphia. The program includes a senior center with a variety of health-related presentations, screenings, exercise and educational programming; adult day services; geriatric mental health programming; housing counseling; benefits and entitlement counseling; assistance with home repair; homebound visitation. To learn more about Journey's Way, click here

Laurel House - $10,000 The only comprehensive domestic violence agency in Montgomery County. Their work includes a hotline, shelter, and advocacy efforts. Up to 27 people can be accommodated in the Laurel House shelter at one time. Families can remain for 30 days. An additional 12 families can reside in the organization's transitional housing. To learn more about Laurel House, click here

Legal Aid of Southeastern PA - $5,000 Provides free legal representation to low-income, older adults and frail elderly in Montgomery County, as well as community education programs and a telephone helpline. Approximately 35% of Legal Aid's caseload resides in our service area. This request is for their services to older adults and frail elderly. To learn more about Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, click here

MANNA - $5,000 Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) provides medically appropriate meals, free of charge, to people at risk from life-threatening and chronic illnesses. Registered dietitians assess and counsel clients as well as lead workshops open to the public and healthcare professionals. To learn more about MANNA, click here

Mission Kids - $7,500 General operating support for its program in assisting child victims of abuse through forensic videotaped interviews, thereby protecting the child from multiple interviews and court appearances. To learn more about Mission Kids, click here

Starfinder Foundation - $5,000 To expand their Soccer Girls Rule program at Jay Cooke Elementary School in the Logan section of Philadelphia, targeting 3^rd and 4^th grade girls. There are currently 35 girls in the program, meeting twice a week for two hours. The program is designed to address the social, personal and physical issues that inhibit urban girls' interest and participation in sports and wellness activities. To learn more about Starfinder Foundation, click here

Why Not Prosper - $3,500 Providing counseling and referrals for victims of domestic abuse who were returning from incarceration at its transitional home site in Germantown. To learn more about Why Not Prosper, click here

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in February of 2012:

BCS YES! Youth Empowered to Succeed - $2,000 Support for their Health, Fitness and Nutrition program for residents of the School House Lane Group Home for Girls. Providing Nutrition education, fitness activities and encouraging participation in organized school and community sports. To learn more about BCS YES! Youth Empowered to Succeed, click here.

Gearing Up - $5,000 General operating support to help expand and strengthen their program that uses cycling to help women in recovery and/or transition to improve their physical and emotional health. To learn more about Gearing Up, click here.

Maternity Care Coalition (MCC) - $17,500 To support the Northwest MOMobile program doing community based outreach and home visiting to ensure families are well educated in maternal and child health while helping the family's access health care, benefits and social services. To learn more about MCC, click here.

My Place Germantown - $7,500 Provides housing with on-site social service and medical support for disabled, formerly homeless men. Their program is run out of a former convent, converted into 12 efficiency apartments in Germantown. To learn more about My Place Germantown, click here.

Penn Asian Senior Services, Inc. - $2,000 Support to improve their outreach activities and homecare services to Cambodian, Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese communities by making the hours of their Cambodian and Chinese Community Coordinators full-time. To learn more about PASSi, click here.

Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks - $3,000 A Childs Garden of Exercises at Grumblethorpe, a spin-off of their You are What You Eat program which we helped support in 2010. Grumblethorpe partners with 3 schools in Germantown, working with children from Kindergarten through 6th grade. This request would fund 30 exercise workshop classes, emphasizing healthy eating habits accompanied by a pattern of daily exercise. Approximately 900 students would be reached. To learn more about Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, click here.

Public Citizens for Children & Youth (PCCY) - $15,000 General operating support. PCCY advocates at the city, state and federal levels to improve policies to protect and support children. Their work stretches through the early child care system, the educational system, healthcare, juvenile justice system. To learn more about PCCY, click here.

Valley Youth House - $7,500 Provides prevention and intervention services, shelter, counseling, life skills, and behavioral health services to abused, neglected, and homeless youth. Their proposal requests funding to underwrite the cost of mental health counseling for 12 youth ages 18-19 who have been emancipated from foster care, participating in Housing 101 in Norristown. To learn more about Valley Youth House, click here.

VNA Community Services, Inc. - $25,000 Providing at-risk children the opportunity to have disease prevention, health promotion, follow-up and parenting education services. VNA provides uninsured and under-insured children in Montgomery County with consistent quality primary care services in its nurse-managed centers. To learn more about VNA Community Services, click here.

Women's Medical Fund - $10,000 General operating support for this agency which provides assistance to low income women in need of abortion services in a safe medical environment. To learn more about Women's Medical Fund, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in November of 2011:

Bebashi - Transition to Hope: $5,000 supporting their work to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections; provide assistance for those living with HIV/AIDS; and education and referrals for breast health exams. To learn more about Bebashi - Transition to Hope, click here.

Breastfeeding Resource Center (BRC): $5,000 towards general operating support. The BRC provides education for healthcare professionals, parenting classes, and lactation consultation services. It also offers support groups and one on one consultation on a sliding fee scale. To learn more about BRC, click here.

Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels: $5,000 towards meals provided at no cost to low income homebound elderly in Northwest Philadelphia and Eastern Montgomery County. To learn more about Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels, click here.

Family Services of Montgomery County: $10,000 for project HEARTH (Helping Elderly Adults Remain in Their Homes), serving the elderly in our service areas. To learn more about Family Services of Montgomery County, click here.

Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund: $5,000 to help provide financial assistance to families living in Northwest Philadelphia and Eastern Montgomery County who are caring for seriously ill, injured or disabled children. To learn more about Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund, click here.

Keystone Hospice: $10,000 towards general operating support. Keystone Hospice provides hospice services to medically indigent or underinsured individuals in their homes and provides 24/7 care at Keystone Hospice for inpatient care when necessary. To learn more about Keystone Hospice, click here.

LaSalle Neighborhood Nursing Center at LaSalle University: $15,085 towards expanding their health promotion services to mature adults living in Germantown, Logan, Olney and West Oak Lane. Services provided are health education, screenings for timely follow-up, interventions that help individuals and families navigate medical and other health resources in their community. To learn more about LaSalle Neighborhood Nursing Center at LaSalle University, click here.

Montgomery County Advocacy Project (MCAP): $10,000 towards general operating support. MCAP provides legal advocates for abused and neglected children as they navigate through the legal system. They also provide prevention education in the community. To learn more about MCAP, click here.

Temple's Time Out Respite Program: $10,000 for their low-cost resource for in-home respite care for families caring for elderly relatives in Philadelphia. College students are trained and matched to provide caring companionship, mental stimulation and assistance with activities of daily living.To learn more about Temple's Time Out Respite Program, click here.

Victim Services Center of Montgomery County: $10,000 for general operating expenses. Victim Services of Montgomery County provide services for children and families that have experienced violence. Programs include risk reduction and safety Education programs to the elderly. To learn more about Victim Service of Montgomery County, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in August of 2011:

Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment: $2,500 to provide scholarship funds for needy older adults to enroll in activities at the center. To learn more about Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment, click here.

Children's Crisis Treatment Center: $5,000 towards their family support program benefiting children with moderate to severe behavioral and emotional problems. To learn more about Children's Crisis Treatment Center, click here.

Chipping Hill Micro Farms: $7,500 for general operating support for their programs at both Wyck Gardens and North Light Community Center, providing the children with an opportunity to learn to grow fruits and vegetables using heated boxes year round. To learn more about Chipping Hill Micro Farms, click here.

Delaware Valley Community Health, Inc.: $12,500 to support their Norristown Regional Health Center, providing medical care and supportive services. To learn more about Delaware Valley Community Health, Inc., click here.

Dragonfly Forest: $2,500 for Nursing and Medical staff salaries at the overnight camp provided free of charge for children that have chronic medical conditions. To learn more about Dragonfly Forest, click here.

Face to Face: $12,500 to support their Health Center that provides nursing care, health education, footcare, HIV testing/counseling, complementary wellness modalities and social service referrals. To learn more about Face to Face, click here.

Foundations, Inc.: $4,000 for their Seeds for Learning-Beyond the Farm program at Martin Luther King High School. Providing healthy eating education initiatives for the community and students. To learn more about Foundations, Inc., click here.

KenCrest Centers: $1,200 for their music therapy program for kids with disabilities that have extended stays in a home located in Chestnut Hill. To learn more about KenCrest Centers, click here.

Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (NPIHN): $7,500 towards a full-time social worker, part-time parenting educator for weekly workshops, education and career counselor for teens and to help expand the part-time therapist position. To learn more about NPIHN, click here.

St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic: $20,000 for general operating for their clinic that provides primary care for uninsured and under-insured. To learn more about St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic, click here.

Students Run Philly Style: $7,500 to support their program that helps to combat childhood obesity pairing adult mentors with at-risk youth for physical training sessions for 9 months, 8 road races, summer cross-training, all with healthy eating instruction, culminating with the Philadelphia Marathon in the fall. To learn more about Students Run Philly Style, click here.

Won Community Services Center: $2,000 towards their English as a Second Language program and for social services primarily for non-English speaking Korean families. To learn more about Won Community Services Center, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in May of 2011:

• Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia (AVP): $10,000 to implement the Student Anti-Violence Education (SAVE) program in three Kindergarten – 8^th grade schools in Northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about AVP and their SAVE program, click here.

• Community Legal Services: $10,000 to support their Aging and Disabilities Unit for low-income elderly, providing legal assistance to gain/retain medical coverage, long term care services and/or benefits. To learn more about Community Legal Services, click here.

• Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP): $5,000 for general operating support. LASP provides services to the elderly through casework and free support services in the Norristown area. To learn more about Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania, click here.

• North Light Community Center: $15,000 for general operating support. North Light Community Center supports the welfare of the community including social, educational and athletic development of the youth. To learn more about North Light Community Center, click here.

• Philadelphia Children’s Alliance: $10,000 for general operating support. Philadelphia Children’s Alliance provides services for child abuse victims by conducting forensic interviews, support services and collaboration with other agencies to streamline the process and start the recovery early. To learn more about Philadelphia Children’s Alliance, click here.

• Playworks Education Energized (Playworks): $15,000 for general operating support. Playworks provides programs to help improve the health and well-being of children by increasing the opportunities for physical activity by leveraging recess for learning while attacking childhood obesity. To learn more about Playworks, click here.

• Ralston Center: $12,500 for their "My Way" project. The "My Way" project provides seniors in Germantown and Mt. Airy access to affordable general contracting services to help maintain the safety of their homes at a low cost. These services are provided to low income seniors who do not qualify for entitlements. To learn more about Ralston Center and their "My Way" project, click here.

• Supportive Older Women’s Network (SOWN): $10,000 to support groups, case management, counseling and educational programs for older women in Northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about SOWN, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in February of 2011:

• Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE): $10,000 to support their CARIE Line. The CARIE Line is a hotline for the frail elderly and their caregivers. To learn more about CARIE and the support line, click here.

• Center in the Park : $30,000 for general operating support for services for more than 80 classes and other programs serving the elderly in Northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about Center in the Park, click here.

• DePaul USA: $5,000 for their housing program for homeless men, 20-50 years old. Case management is also provided to get these individuals integrated back into society. To learn more about DePaul USA, click here.

• Laurel House: $7,500 to help offer a full range of supportive services, advocacy, community education, professional education, and housing for victims of abuse. Individuals and group counseling are provided for all women and children at Laurel House. To learn more about Laurel House, click here.

• Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA): $10,000 to help support costs of home delivered meals and nutrition support services to individuals and families in need. To learn more about MANNA, click here.

• Mission Kids: $2,500 for general operating support for services to child abuse victims and their families.
To learn more about Mission Kids, click here.

• Penn Asian Senior Services (PASSi): $5,000 toward training and helping to provide culturally compatible home health aides to the frail elderly Asian community living in our service area. To learn more about PASSi, click here.

• Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Montgomery County (RSVP): $5,000 to support for their Eldercare Services, providing volunteers for home visits to the elderly in Montgomery County. To learn more about RSVP, click here.

• Visiting Nurse Association Community Services (VNA): $33,000 to provide primary health care services in Montgomery County to at-risk children who are uninsured or under-insured. To learn more about VNA, click here.

• The Wyck Association: $2,000 for general operating support for their various urban farming programs, providing nutrition education to the Northwest Philadelphia community. To learn more about Wyck, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in November of 2010:

• Breastfeeding Resource Center (BRC): $15,000 for general operating expenses, providing lactation consulting to under/uninsured women. To learn more about Breastfeeding Resource Center, click here.

• Family Services of Montgomery County: $15,000 for their HEARTH program, serving frail elderly, to recruit more volunteers and have a dedicated staff member for the program. To learn more about Family Services of Montgomery County, click here.

• Gearing Up: $5,000 for the expansion of their bike program for recovering women in Northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about Gearing Up, click here.

• Healthy NewsWorks: $15,000 for Healthy NewsWorks, formerly known as Healthy Times, that empowers student journalists in the Conshohocken and Norristown School Districts, encouraging health education and literacy, advances school health efforts, and serves as a rich source of reading enrichment. To learn more about Healthy NewsWorks, click here.

• Keystone Hospice: $15,000 towards providing hospice care for individuals that are medically indigent. To learn more about Keystone Hospice, click here.

• Maternity Care Coalition (MCC): $25,000 towards funding of their MOMobile in the Northwest Philadelphia and Norristown sites. The MOMobile assists pregnant women and new moms in connecting with health care, services, education and other resources within their community. To learn more about the MOMobile and Maternity Care Coalition, click here.

• Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY): $15,000 to support general operating expenses for research for advocacy of children's issues throughout the Foundation's service area within Northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about PCCY, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in September of 2010:

• BCS YES! Youth Empowered to Succeed: $5,000 to support their program for at-risk youth residents to take an interest in a healthier lifestyle by providing access to education about nutrition, health and wellness in addition to fitness memberships. To learn more about BCS YES!, click here.

•Best Buddies International: $2,500 to provide the Chapter, held at Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School, the opportunity to develop one-to-one friendships among students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. To learn more about Best Buddies, click here.

• Journey's Way: $15,000 for services to assist older adults to remain safe and independent in their homes and community and to prevent isolation. To learn more about Journey's Way, click here.

• Presby's Inspired Life at Interfaith House in Germantown: $6,240 to fund their seniorcize fitness instructor. To learn more about Presby, click here.

• Squash Smarts: $5,000 to provide mentoring through academic tutoring and squash instruction five days per week, recruit volunteer tutors and squash instructors, provide individual attention and one-on-one mentoring. Squash Smarts works with schools, parents and students to get the kids through middle and high school and into college. To learn more about Squash Smarts, click here.

• Temple's Time Out Respite Program: $15,000 for their low-cost resource for in-home respite care for families caring for elderly relatives in Philadelphia. College students are trained and matched to provide caring companionship, mental stimulation and assistance with activities of daily living. To learn more about Temple's Time Out Respite Program, click here.

• Victim Services Center of Montgomery County, Inc.: $10,000 to support general operating. Programs serve children, families and the elderly who have experienced violence. Educational programs are also provided to all age ranges with the emphasis on risk-reduction and safety. To learn more about Victim Services, click here.

• Women of Faith & Hope: $15,000 to support breast cancer educational programs for African American women through their Parish Nurses program. To learn more about Women of Faith & Hope, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in July of 2010:

• St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic: $32,525 to support general operating expenses. St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic, a clinic that serves the uninsured, is located in Germantown. To learn more about St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in May of 2010:

• After School Activities Partnerships (ASAP): $5,000 to support local clubs in Northwest Philadelphia. Serving approximately 200 kids with an emphasis on physical activity and exercise. To learn more about ASAP, click here.

• Aid for Friends: $3,750 for general operating support. Aid for Friends provides food to the elderly. In addition, while delivering and visiting they assess needs within the house that pose dangers. To learn more about Aid for Friends, click here.

• Cradles to Crayons: $7,500 to support their expansion efforts to meet the increasing demand for services and general operating support. Cradles to Crayons service more than 23,000 children in the Philadelphia region. To learn more about Cradles to Crayons, click here.

• Foundations, Inc.: $15,000 to support the Seeds for Learning program at Martin Luther King High School to teach them about healthy foods, planting, growing, cooking, etc…It also involves the community in events in which students cook for the community members while learning more about health foods and healthy choices. To learn more about Foundations, Inc., click here.

• Inter-Faith Housing Alliance: $20,000 to support general operating. Inter-Faith Housing Alliance serves the homeless, and does homeless prevention by providing life skills on jobs, savings, food assistance and more. To learn more about Inter-Faith Housing Alliance, click here.

• North Light Community Center: $15,000 to support general operating expenses. North Light promotes the welfare of the youth within the community, providing social, educational and athletic development resources after school. To learn more about North Light Community Center, click here.

• Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (NPIHN): $20,000 to support the continuation of a full time social worker, employ a part-time parenting educator and employ a counselor to provide education and career counseling for teens. NPIHN works with homeless families, providing support and resources to get them back on their feet. To learn more about NPIHN, click here.

• Philadelphia Society of the Preservation of Landmarks: $2,500 to support the Grumblethorpe School partnership program, serving a low-income neighborhood in Germantown. The program, You are What you Eat, will be implemented throughout the year through a series of events that will integrate multiple horticultural and science lessons throughout the school year. To learn more about the Philadelphia Society of the Preservation of Landmarks, click here.

• Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse, Inc.: $2,000 to support general operating expenses so that Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse can continue to provide a free or low-fee safe, creative and fun environment for children ages 1-10 years to play and exercise. To learn more about Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse, click here.

• Won Community Service Center: $2,500 to support Won’s program that provides education, counseling and social work for non-English speaking Asian-Americans in partnership with communities and schools. Benefits from this program are also realized within the medical field through translation. To learn more about Won Community Service Center, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in February 2010.

• Depaul USA: $10,000 in support of their residency program which provides an opportunity for up to 25 homeless men to live independently, to find a job/s, to reunite with family and to rebuild their health. Three meals a day are provided, seven days a week as services for recovery from addictions. Health promotion and education are also provided to residents throughout their stay. To learn more about Depaul USA in Philadelphia, click here.

• Face to Face: $20,000 to support general operating expenses for their Health Center which serves the un-and under-insured and under-served community of Germantown. Face to Face provides education, nursing and podiatry care and links clients with health and social services, including primary healthcare. To learn more about Face to Face, click here.

• Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy: $5,000 to support its Safe Expressions program, held at Carson Valley School in Flourtown. Safe Expressions enables youth to express themselves through music, art and dance movement. To learn more about Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy, click here.

• Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP): $15,000 to support legal services to low-income and vulnerable older adults. To learn more about LASP, click here.

• Norristown Area School District Education Foundation (NASD Education Foundation): $6,000 to support a project for rebuilding a playground at the Whitehall Elementary School. The playground will be accessible not only to students at the school, but to the community as well. Monies for this grant came from a fundraising event in Norristown--Rabbit Years--featuring the art of Chestnut Hill artist, Anna Bell Loeb. To learn more about NASD Education Foundation, click here. To learn more about the work of Anna Bell Loeb, click here.

• Penn Asian Senior Services, Inc. (PASSi): $20,000 to support their Southeastern Asian Senior Home Health Project which facilitates the utilization and delivery of needed home-care services among frail low-income Asian American seniors in Montgomery County. To learn more about PASSi, click here.

• Philadelphia Children’s Alliance: $10,000 to support the salary of a forensic child specialist. Philadelphia Children’s Alliance represents children in a variety of child abuse cases. To learn more about Philadelphia Children’s Alliance, click here.

• Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Montgomery County (RSVP): $10,000 to support programs under their Eldercare Services. RSVP recruits older volunteers to help the frail elderly in their activities of daily living. It also offers volunteer training on health insurance to help advise seniors of what their health and pharmacy benefits are. To learn more about RSVP of Montgomery County, click here.

• Supportive Older Women’s Network (SOWN): $20,000 to support services to older isolated women, some of whom are sole guardians to their grandchildren, through support groups. SOWN’s goal is to decrease isolation and depression, provide support, and identify resources for these women. To learn more about SOWN, click here.

• Visiting Nurse Association Community Services (VNA): $47,500 to support services providing at-risk children the opportunity to have disease prevention, health promotion, follow-up and parenting education services. VNA provides uninsured and under-insured children in Montgomery County with consistent quality primary care services in its nurse-managed centers. To learn more about VNA, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in November of 2009:

• Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia (AVP): $15,000 to support the SAVE (Student Anti-Violence Education) Program incorporating it into the SELF programs – SAVE Extended Learning Format, available in the High School settings. To learn more about AVP, click here.

• Awbury Arboretum: $7,500 to support services to teach and motivate adults and children within Germantown, West Oak Lane and Mt. Airy to adopt healthy lifestyles, good nutrition and regular physical activity through their healthy programs. To learn more about Awbury Arboretum, click here.

•The Birth Center: $5,000 to support general operating for uninsured women in their out-of-hospital birthing center which specializes in holistic midwifery. To learn more about The Birth Center, click here.

• Breastfeeding Resource Center (BRC): $15,000 to support services to the under and un-insured families for access to board certified lactation consultants offering breastfeeding services to families in the Philadelphia area. To learn more about the Breastfeeding Resource Center, click here.

• Center for Advocacy for the Rights & Interests of the Elderly (CARIE): $15,000 to support a free telephone and on-site information and counseling service that is relied upon by older adults, their families and other caregivers, and professionals in the aging, healthcare, and law enforcement fields. To learn more about CARIE and its services, click here.

• Episcopal Community Services (ECS): $5,000 to support services helping to keep low-income, elderly people of Northwest Philadelphia to sustain their independence and remain safely in the comfort of their own homes. To learn more about ECS, click here.

• Maternal Wellness Center: $10,000 to support services that help providing the Healthy Moms Initiative to their newly founded priority service area of low-income women and teens. To learn more about the Maternal Wellness Center, click here.

• Maternity Care Coalition: $20,000 to support the MoMobile services in Northwest Philadelphia, Norristown and Bridgeport. The MoMobile assists pregnant and new moms in connecting with health care, services, education and other resources within their community. To learn more about Maternity Care Coalition, click here.

• Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY): $5,000 to support a survey on the healthcare needs of immigrant children. To learn more about PCCY, click here.

• The Wyck Association: $7,500 to support educational farming programs that encompass and teach healthy habits and good choices for children and families of the community. To learn more about Wyck, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in August of 2009:

• Burn Foundation: $2,000 for burn education/safety for elderly living in Northwest Philadelphia in their homes, senior centers, apartment buildings, etc…To learn more about Burn Foundation, click here.

• Community Legal Services: $10,000 to support services to 100 low-income, elderly individuals within the Foundation's 30-zip code service area through Community Legal Services' Aging & Disabilities Justice Project that helps the elderly secure benefit programs that provide income/subsidies as well as assist them in securing medical care (Medicare/Medicaid/personal insurance) and medical equipment (if needed) to help them stay in their homes. To learn more about Community Legal Services, click here.

• Gearing Up.: $7,000 to support general operating expenses. Gearing up provides adults through their recovery from incarceration with skills & equipment needed to safely ride a bike for exercise, transportation, personal growth as well as a possible job training experience. This also takes on the role of obesity, prevention and solutions. To learn more about Gearing Up, click here.

• HealthLink Medical Center: $5,000 to support general operating expenses for volunteer-staffed, free medical and dental for working individuals/families without insurance. Requirements are that patients live in Bucks or Montgomery County and earn less than 200% of the federal poverty level. To learn more about HealthLink Medical Center, click here.

• Mercy Neighborhood Ministries: $10,000 to support general operating expenses. Mercy Neighborhood Ministries provides an Adult Day Care in the Tioga community that also provides services for individuals with special needs. Their programs are safe, secure and promote independent living. To learn more about Mercy Neighborhood Ministries, click here.

• St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic: $35,500 to support general operating expenses. St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic, a clinic that serves the uninsured, is located in Germantown. To learn more about St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic, click here.

• Temple Time Out Program: $15,000 to support the Time Out Program that provides respite services to caregivers of the frail and infirm elderly. This is an intergenerational program that also promotes continued living in-home and community. To learn more about the Temple Time Out program, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in May of 2009:

• BCS YES! Youth Empowered to Succeed: $5,000 for the Health, Nutrition and Fitness Program of the School House Lane Group Home for Girls. To learn more about BCS YES! click here.

• Best Buddies International: $1,000 to support their chapter at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School Providing friendship for children with and without disabilities. To learn more about Best Buddies at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, click here.

• Foundations, Inc.: $10,000 to expand Seeds for Learning-Beyond the Farm program at Martin Luther King High School. The current program includes an on-site farm, farm stand and marketplace program. The additional programs will add a Community Lunch summer program and Food for Thought nutrition workshops. To learn more about Foundations, Inc., click here.

• Inter-Faith Housing Alliance: $10,000 to support their transitional housing, homeless shelter, Food cupboard, hotline and hope garden, a two year transitional housing opportunity. Inter-Faith Housing Alliance meets the needs of homeless and near homeless families as they are assisted in becoming permanently self-sufficient through the continuum of comprehensive care. To learn more about Inter-Faith Housing Alliance, click here.

• Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (NPIHN): $17,000 to further support the strengthening of NPIHN’s Life Skills Education Initiative by continuing their full-time social worker and a full-time position for a therapist who will provide family therapeutic services to women, children and teens served in the shelter and post-shelter. To learn more about NPIHN, click here.

• Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse: $2,000 for general operating support. To learn more about Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse, click here.

• Tabor Children’s Services: $10,000 to improve and expand their Supervised Independent Living program. A program that targets youth ages 16-20 in Philadelphia approaching emancipation. They provide a parenting program that helps cover nutrition, post-partum depression, positive child development and discipline techniques, in addition to many other services. Their goal is to enhance the parenting knowledge and skills of the clients, teach them about healthy pregnancies, health babies and how to maintain physical and mental postpartum health. Although they angle the proposal from a parenting education perspective, they do state the majority of the funding will go to provide assistance with educational needs for the clients enrolled in educational or vocational programs. To learn more about Tabor Children’s Services, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in February of 2009:

• First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG): $15,000 to support their general operating expenses for the After School Program for students of Germantown High School. To learn more about FUMCOG and their After School Program, click here.

• Journey's Way: $10,000 to support their Volunteer and Outreach project. This project addresses the aging in place phenomenon in the community through the effective use of volunteer support and outreach. This program helps to prevent isolation, maintains homes and improves home safety. Services provided to families include, but aren't limited to, linking them to exiting services and offering ongoing support. To learn more about Journey's Way and their Volunteer and Outreach project, click here.

• Keystone Hospice: $15,000 to support their Hospice Care services. Services would be provided to elderly patients, 65 years and older, who do not have available caregivers and who, upon verification, have neither insurance nor personal means to afford hospice services. To learn more about Keystone Hospice and the services they provide, click here.

• Visiting Nurse Association Community Services, Inc. (VNA): $47,500 to support their general operating expenses for the Children's Health Centers of VNA-Community Services, Inc. To learn more about VNA-Community Services, Inc., click here.

• Women of Faith and Hope: $15,000 to support their Parish and School Nurse Program that would reach more African American women living in Northwest Philadelphia and support them if they are at risk or living with breast cancer. To learn more about Women of Faith and Hope and the programs they offer, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in November of 2008:

• Episcopal Community Services (ECS): $10,000 to support their effort in helping low-income elderly stay in their home with independence and safety within the Northwest Philadelphia area. To learn more about ECS, click here.

• The Food Trust: $10,000 to improve elementary school children's health and literacy through student-written Healthy Times newspapers in 5 schools, 4 of which were in Norristown and Jenks School in Chestnut Hill. To learn more about The Food Trust, click here.

• Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy: $5,000 to support their Safe Expressions program at Carson Valley Children's Aid School. Safe Expressions objective is to provide music, art and dance/movement therapy to at-risk youth. To learn more about Kardon Institute, click here.

• Legal Aid of Southeastern PA: $10,000 to support general operating expenses used towards supporting its work in Eastern Montgomery County with frail and vulnerable older adults. To learn more about Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, click here.

• Penn Asian Senior Services, Inc. (PASSi): $20,000 to provide in-home health services to 90 frail elderly Asian seniors through linguistically appropriate care givers. To learn more about PASSi, click here.

• Supportive Older Women's Network (SOWN): $10,000 to support their services for older isolated women to help improve the quality of life to continuing to live independently in their own homes. To learn more about SOWN, click here.

• Retired Seniors Volunteer Program of Montgomery County (RSVP): $15,000 to sustain and enhances RSVP services; Eldercare, Help on Call; Apprise; Response; VITA in Eastern Montgomery County. To learn more about RSVP, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in August of 2008:

• Aid for friends: $7,500 to sustain the Quick-serve meal programs to the inner city. To learn more about Aid for Friends, click here.

• Awbury Arboretum Association: $30,000 to support healthy programs that will teach and motivate adults and children within Germantown, West Oak Lane and Mt. Airy to adopt healthy lifestyles, good nutrition and regular physical activity. To learn more about Awbury Arboretum, click here.

• Breastfeeding Resource Center: $15,000 for general operating support for its promotion and support of breastfeeding in northwest Philadelphia and eastern Montgomery County. To learn more about Breastfeeding Resource Center, please click here

• Center for Advocacy for Rights & Interests of the Elderly (CARIE): $20,000 to support their free telephone and on-site information and counseling service that is relied upon by older adults, their families and other caregivers, and professionals in the aging, healthcare, and law enforcement fields. To learn more about CARIE, click here.

• Crossing the Finish Line: $10,000 to provide support towards general operating expenses to help provide young adult cancer patients and their families a respite excursion. To learn more about Crossing the Finish Line, click here.

• Dragonfly Forest, Inc: $7,500 to support the medical elements for approximately 100 children and to take the camp program (Dragonfly Away) to hospitals and rehab centers. To learn more about Dragonfly Forest, Inc., click here.

• Mercy Neighborhood Ministries of Philadelphia, Inc.: $10,000 to support the Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Adult Day Care Program. To learn more about Mercy Neighborhood Ministries of Philadelphia, Inc., click here.

• Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA): $15,000 to support MANNA's home delivered meals and nutrition support services to individuals and families in Northwest Philadelphia and Eastern Montgomery County who are at acute nutritional risk from a life-threatening illness including Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Heart Disease, Diabetes and others. To learn more about MANNA, click here.

• Philadelphia Children's Alliance: $10,000 to support programs and services for sexually abused children. To learn more about Philadelphia Children's Alliance, click here.

• Philadelphia Outward Bound Center: $7,500 to provide unique transformational programs for disadvantaged and at risk 7th and 8th grade students from the Shawmont School in Roxborough. To learn more about Philadelphia Outward Bound Center, click here.

• Philadelphia Senior Center, Inc.: $10,000 to support the Tioga Senior Center which enables older adults to have their basic needs met and lead healthy, fulfilling lives. To learn more about Philadelphia Senior Center, Inc., click here.

• St. Catherine LaBoure Medical Clinic: $47,250 for general operating support to provide a free, dignified and quality primary care clinic in Germantown serving the uninsured. To learn more about St. Catherine LaBoure Medical Clinic, click here.

• Time Out Respite Program at Temple University: $20,000 to support their student volunteer program to go into the homes of chronically ill seniors who are living with and dependent on constant care from their families and provide periods of respite for the family. To learn more about the Time Out Respite Program at Temple University, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in April of 2008:

• Albert Einstein Healthcare Network: $30,000 to support the West Oak Lane NORC (naturally occurring retirement community). To learn more about the NORC, click here.

• Community Legal Services: $25,000 to support Northwest Philadelphia seniors retain access to medical coverage and remain in their homes. To learn more about Community Legal Services, click here.

• Face to Face: $25,000 to support a health center in East Germantown providing nursing care, alternative healing modalities and social services. To learn more about Face to Face, click here.

• Inter-faith Housing Alliance: $20,000 general operating support for a homeless continuum and prevention services including, Hope Garden, an eight-unit, transitional housing, and apartment building. To learn more about the Inter-faith Housing Alliance, click here.

• Little Brothers—Friends of the Elderly: $43,750 through a three year grant supporting outreach to the homebound elderly in Northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, click here.

• Maternity Care Coalition: $25,000 to develop a Northwest Philadelphia MOMobile to assist pregnant and new moms to connect with health care, services, education and other community resources. To learn more about the Maternity Care Coalition, click here.

• Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network: $30,000 for a full-time social worker to support the needs of homeless guests and post-shelter families. To learn more about the Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in January of 2008:

• Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia: $15,000 for the Student Anti-Violence Education (SAVE) training program for middle school students. To learn more about the Anti-Violence Partnership click here.

• BCS Yes! (formerly Baptist Children's Services): $20,000 for the Health, Nutrition and Fitness Program of the School House Lane Group Home for Girls. To learn more about BCS Yes! click here.

• First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG): $15,000 for an after school program for Germantown High School students. To learn more about the FUMCOG after school program click here.

• Journey's Way (formerly Intercommunity Action, Inc. or Interac): $37,670 to cover volunteer personnel salaries for aging programs. To learn more about Journey's Way programs click here.

• KenCrest Centers: $3,689 to provide communication training to low-income families with young children who have autism spectrum disorder. To learn more about KenCrest click here.

• Maternal Wellness Center: $5,000 for general operating support and $5,000 for scholarships for low-income women or parents. To learn more about the Maternal Wellness Center click here.

• Philadelphia Flying Phoenix-Healthy Dragons Program: $8,500 for equipment to start the Northwest Philadelphia Middle School Dragon Boat Association to develop a model obesity prevention program that focuses on healthy lifestyle choices, academics, self-esteem, teamwork and conflict resolution. Schools involved in the collaboration are the Lingelbach and Henry public schools, Wissahickon Charter School and the private William Penn Charter School.

• Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY or formerly Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth): $25,000 to increase public awareness, issue briefing papers and build support for actions to increase the number of safe, opportunities for children to play and exercise, identify parenting programs for at-risk families and increase children's access to behavioral health supports in communities and schools. To learn more about PCCY click here.

• Roxborough Family YMCA: $13,600 for a two-panel, interactive Sports Wall for the youth fitness program and healthy dinners for low-income families enrolled in the Body Rox program to prevent childhood obesity. To learn more about the Y's youth fitness programs click here.

• Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse: $10,000 for general operating support. To learn more about Smith Playground and Playhouse click here.

• Support Center for Child Advocates: $35,000 through a three year grant for access and treatment to behavioral health services for child victims of abuse and neglect. To learn more about the Support Center click here.

• Tabor Children's Services, Inc.: $10,331.34 to expand the Supervised Independent Living Program for Philadelphia youth approaching the age of emancipation. To learn more about Tabor Children's Services click here.

VNA-Community Services, Inc. (Visiting Nurse Association): $50,000 for primary health care and health education to at-risk children and their caregivers in Montgomery County. To learn more about VNA Community Services, Inc., click here.

Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in November of 2007:

• Keystone Hospice: $35,000 for indigent care for residents in the Foundation’s service area. To learn more about Keystone Hospice, please click here.

• Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP): $20,000 to support elder care services programs. To learn more about RSVP, please click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in August and October of 2007:

• BREAKFREE Youth Design: $5,000 to support a design, sewing and entrepreneurship classroom and after-school programs for at-risk youth in Philadelphia. To learn more about BREAKFREE, please click here.

• Build-a-Bridge: $10,000 to develop curriculum for caregivers in transitional housing to gain skills to improve the welfare of vulnerable children through parenting education. Additionally, the Foundation will provide the services of its parenting educator to assist. To learn more about Build-a-Bridge, please click here.

• Cradles to Crayons: $25,000 to support a warehouse program of collecting/recycling gently-used and donated garments and other items for distribution to children who are homeless and living in poverty. To learn more about Cradles to Crayons, please click here.

• Episcopal Community Services (ECS): $15,000 to help low-income, frail elderly persons in Northwest Philadelphia to sustain their independence and remain safely in the comfort and dignity of their own homes. To learn more about Episcopal Community Services, please click here.

• Family Services of Montgomery County: $110,000 through a three year grant to provide in-home mental health counseling and other support services to homebound frail elderly persons. To learn more about Family Services of Montgomery County, please click here.

• The Food Trust: $35,000 to improve elementary school children's health and literacy through student-written Healthy Times newspapers. To learn more about the Food Trust, please click here.

• JEVS Human Services (Formerly Jewish Employment and Vocational Services): $20,000 a year for three years for home abatement and adaptation for homebound elderly. To learn more about JEVS Human Services, please click here.

• Jewish Family and Children's Services of Greater Philadelphia (JFCS): $10,000 to support NORC (naturally occurring retirement community) programming to assist elderly adults age with dignity and safety in the comfort of their own homes and in the communities of Elkins Park, Jenkintown and Cheltenham. To learn more about Jewish Family and Children's Services, please click here.

• Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy: $10,000 to provide music, art and dance/movement therapy to at-risk youth. To learn more about the Kardon Institute, please click here.

• Legal Aid Society of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP): $15,000 to support legal work in Eastern Montgomery County with frail and vulnerable older adults. To learn more about the Legal Aid Society, please click here.

• Penn Asian Senior Services (PASSI): $30,000 for recruitment and training of Asian-speaking home health aides to support the ailing Asian American seniors who are isolated by language barriers. To learn more about Penn Asian Senior Services, please click here.

• Philadelphia Early Childhood Collaborative: $50,000 for pre-school obesity prevention program to fund exercise equipment that can be used in smaller spaces. To learn more about the Philadelphia Early Childhood Collaborative, please click here.

• Temple's Time Out Respite Program: $27,000 for their low-cost resource for in-home respite care for families caring for elderly relatives in Philadelphia. College students are trained and matched to provide caring companionship, mental stimulation and assistance with activities of daily living. To learn more about Temple's Time Out Respite Program, click here.

• Women of Faith and Hope: $45,000 to support African American women living in Northwest Philadelphia at risk or living with breast cancer.

• WON Community Services Center (WCSC): $5,000 for community service programs targeted to non-English speaking immigrants related to the health and wellness of individuals and families. To learn more about the WON Community Center, please click here.

Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in July of 2007:

• Neighborhood Interfaith Movement (NIM): $152,392 for a three-year grant for the creation of the ROAL Program, a resource for older adult living. To learn more about NIM and the ROAL program, click here.

• Pennsylvania School for the Deaf: $37,500 to support its early childhood program for hearing children. To learn more about Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, please click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in June of 2007:

• Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE): $20,000 for a free telephone and on-site information and counseling service for older adults. To learn more about CARIE, please click here.

• Center in the Park: $87,500 through a three year grant for general operating support. Center in the Park's mission is to promote healthy, positive aging. To learn more about Center in the Park, please click here.

• Chestnut Hill Garden District: $2,100 in support of the "Walk a Healthy Mile" program.

• Chestnut Hill Senior Services Center: $10,000 for general operating support.

• Child Home & Community: $7,200 for prenatal and support groups for adolescent parents at the Maternal Wellness Center in Mt. Airy. To learn more about Child, Home & Community, click here.

• Dragonfly Forest: $10,000 for seriously ill children to enjoy overnight camp in an environment designed to meet their physical medical needs. To learn more about Dragonfly Forest, please click here.

• Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund: $20,000 to support families dealing with chronically or terminally ill children. To learn more about the Memorial Fund, please click here.

• Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture, a program of Lutheran Children and Family Service of Eastern Pennsylvania: $25,000 to fund case management services for victims of torture. To learn more about Liberty Center, please click here.

• MANNA: $30,000 to increase services in northwest Philadelphia. MANNA provides meals and other services to HIV positive, as well as AIDS patients. For more information, please click here.

• Philadelphia Children's Alliance: $33,000 to fund a forensic interviewing specialist to increase access to services for northwest Philadelphia children and non-offending caregivers during sexual abuse investigations. To learn more about Philadelphia Children's Alliance, click here.

• St. Catherine LaBoure Medical Clinic: $50,000 for general operating support for a free clinic in Germantown serving the uninsured. To learn more about St. Catherine LaBoure Medical Clinic, click here.

The Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in February of 2007:

• Awbury Arboretum Association: $30,000 for an afterschool program for Germantown area children who participate in planting gardens, learning about nutrition, and harvesting and then cooking vegetables. To learn more about Awbury Arboretum Association, please click here.

• Dignity Housing: $25,000 for a support program for family reinforcement for the homeless in Germantown. To learn more about Dignity Housing, please click here.

• First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG): $15,000 to support the after-school program for students of Germantown High School. To learn more about First United Methodist Church of Germantown, please click here.

• Friends of the Children's Park in Chestnut Hill: $5,000 to repair playground equipment, and another $5,000 challenge grant for lead paint removal on the Jenks School Playground. To learn more about Friends of the Children's Park, please click here.

• Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania: $50,000 to support their Bodyworks program (obesity prevention) among transitional housing families in Ambler. To learn more about Health Promotion Council, please click here.

• North Light Community Center: $87,500 through a three year grant for general operating purposes for their after-school program in Manayunk. To learn more about North Light Community Center, please click here.

• Visiting Nurse Association Community Services: $50,000 to support immunization and general health efforts among uninsured children. To learn more about Visiting Nurse Association, please click here.

• YMCA of Roxborough: $13,900 to purchase a climbing wall for children as part of the Y's program in preventing childhood obesity. To learn more about YMCA of Roxborough, please click here.

The Chestnut Hill Health Care Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following organizations in December of 2006:

• Albert Einstein Healthcare Network: $40,000 to develop a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) in West Oak Lane. To learn more about Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, please click here.

• Breastfeeding Resource Center: $10,000 for general operating support for its promotion and support of breastfeeding in northwest Philadelphia and eastern Montgomery County. To learn more about Breastfeeding Resource Center, please click here.

• Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels: $10,000 for general operating support.

• Intercommunity Action, Inc. (Interac): $27,047 to recruit staff to manage their volunteer program. To learn more about Intercommunity Action, Inc., please click here.

• Montgomery County Health Department: $5,000 to support their safe child care seat initiative. To learn more about Montgomery County Health Department, please click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following organizations in September of 2006:

• Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia: $20,404 for its Student Anti-Violence Education (SAVE) training program. To learn more about Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia, please click here.

• The Center for Women's Reproductive Health: $20,000 to support its program of counseling for un- and under-insured women suffering from postpartum depression.

• Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly of Greater Philadelphia: $25,000 to support its program of friendly visits to homebound elderly. To learn more about Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, please click here.

• Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (NPHIN): $20,000 to support its program of providing temporary housing and counseling support services for the homeless. To learn more about Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network, please click here.

• Pennsylvania School for the Deaf: $50,000 as part of a two-year funding program to support its early childhood program for hearing children. To learn more about Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, please click here.

• Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP): $20,000 to support its program for elder volunteers supporting elders. To learn more about Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, please click here.

• Young Lives Delaware Valley: $10,000 to support its program of supporting teen parents and their children. To learn more about Young Lives Delaware Valley, please click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in June of 2006:

• Breakfree: $5,000 for nutrition counseling in their teen empowerment workshops. To learn more about Breakfree, please click here.

• Episcopal Community Services: $10,000 to provide home care services to low-income elderly patients in northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about Episcopal Community Services, please click here.

• Family Services of Montgomery County: $15,000 to provide in home mental health counseling and other support services to frail homebound seniors in Eastern Montgomery County. To learn more about Family Services of Montgomery County, please click here.

• Jewish Employment and Vocational Services: $17,000 for home abatement and adaptation for homebound elderly in Mount Airy and Germantown. To learn more about Jewish Employment and Vocational Services, please click here.

• Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy: $6,000 to provide music, art, and dance/movement therapy to at-risk youth, ages 10 to 17. To learn more about Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy, please click here.

• Keystone Hospice: $40,000 for a passive monitoring program utilizing home placed instruments and web interaction and monitoring for single, elderly, homebound chronically ill patients as well as recent elderly discharges from an inpatient setting. To learn more about Keystone Hospice, please click here.

• PresbyHomes & Services: $25,000 for the purchase of exercise equipment for the community elderly. To learn more about PresbyHomes & Services, click here.

• Penn Asian Senior Services: $30,000 for the recruitment and training of Asian American native speaking home health aides in order to provide home health services to senior Asians living at home who had chronic health conditions and who did not speak English. To learn more about Penn Asian Senior Services, please click here.

• St. Catherine Laboure Medical Clinic: $50,000 for general operating support for a free clinic in Germantown serving the un-insured. To learn more about St. Catherine LaBoure Medical Clinic, click here.

• Support Center for Child Advocates: $35,000 for general operating support specifically geared to advocacy efforts for children in northwest Philadelphia who had serious and chronic medical needs and who are subject to protective proceedings in Family Court. To learn more about Support Center for Child Advocates, please click here.

• Temple University, Center for Intergeneration Learning: $25,000 for a student volunteer program to go into the homes of chronically ill seniors who are living with and dependent on constant care from their families, and provide periods of respite for the family. To learn more about Temple University, Center for Intergeneration Learning, please click here. Click here for an article on Temple University’s Time Out Respite Program.

• Unitarian Universalist House: $21,153 for a home-based physical exercise program led by social workers trained in senior exercise for residents of northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about Unitarian Universalist House, please click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in March of 2006:

• Aid for Friends: $6,580 to home safety abatement (installation of grab bars, bath tub seats, window installation, and more) to client residents in northwest Philadelphia. To learn more about Aid for Friends, click here

• Carson Valley School: $10,000 to provide a Benefits Bank for low income families to access their entitlements through Medicaid, CHIP. WIC, tax credits, etc. To learn more about Carson Valley School, click here. To read the news article: click here.

• Center in the Park: $30,000 to provide health and wellness services and screenings to its Germantown population. To learn more about Center in the Park, click here

• Chestnut Hill Garden District: $5,000 to develop the "Walk a Healthy Mile" program in conjunction with other Chestnut Hill businesses and agencies. To see related news article, click here.

• Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund: $20,000 to support families dealing with chronically or terminally ill children. To learn more about the Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund, click here

• Maternity Care Coalition: $15,000 to provide cribs to northwest Philadelphia low income families in an effort to reduce SIDS-related deaths. To learn more about the Maternity Care Coalition, click here

• North Light Community Center: $12,500 to provide support for KidZone after school program for northwest Philadelphia children, providing exercise, nutrition, and social counseling. To learn more about North Light, click here

• Springfield Ambulance Association: $645 to provide water and fans for needy elderly community members during the summer months in an effort to prevent heat stroke and related deaths. To learn more about Springfield Ambulance Association, click here. To see news article, click here.

• YMCA of Roxborough: $15,500 to provide exercise equipment and scholarship funds for their childhood obesity prevention program. To learn more about the YMCA of Roxborough, click here.

The Green Tree Community Health Foundation was pleased to make grants to the following community organizations in December of 2005:

• Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels: $2500 to assist with the cost of meals. To see news article, click here.

• Chestnut Hill Senior Center: $10,000 to further outreach efforts. To see news article, click here. To see related news article, click here.

• First United Methodist Church of Germantown: $15,000 for their after school program with Germantown High School. See www.fumcog.org. To see news article, click here.

• Neighborhood Interfaith Movement: $30,000 for the program to counter childhood obesity. To learn more about NIM, click here. To see press release, click here. To see news article, click here.

• Women of Faith and Hope: $20,000 for outreach to minority women for breast cancer screening. To learn more about Women of Faith and Hope, click here. To see news article, click here.

Grantmaking Priorities: The Green Tree Community Health Foundation's priorities for funding for the year 2005 through 2006 related to the outcomes of its community assessment. The identified needs, then, are for community services in support of: