Five organizations in Central New York, the Southern Tier, and the Mohawk Valley took home grants from the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York in the first half of 2012, the foundation said today.
The Buffalo–based health foundation, which changed its name from the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York on July 1, granted a total of over $740,000 to organizations in its coverage area in the first half of the year. The independent, private foundation aims to improve health and health care for Central New York and Western New York residents.
Its largest grant in the Central New York, Southern Tier, and Mohawk Valley regions went to the United Way of the Southern Tier in Corning. The health foundation gave $63,250 to the United Way to support a Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Developmental Services Screening project in Chemung County and a Healthy Families child-abuse prevention home-visiting program in Steuben County.
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It also awarded a $46,000 grant to the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome. The funding will set up a pilot program for transgenerational mentoring for traumatized and at-risk families with the Neighborhood Center of Utica.
Those grants were in addition to three awards the foundation made to midwifery services operating in the Syracuse region. Linda Lovig Midwifery Services in Syracuse, Upstate University Hospital at Community General in the town of Onondaga, and Oswego County OB-GYN, P.C., which has locations in Oswego and Fulton, each received $15,000 grants.
The health foundation earmarked the grant for Linda Lovig Midwifery Services so the private practice could expand to serve more Medicaid patients. It sent the grant to Upstate University Hospital at Community General to help the hospital plan a new midwifery practice. And it awarded Oswego County OB-GYN, P.C. its grant to add another midwife to its practice and implement the Centering Pregnancy care model.
In addition to its Buffalo headquarters, the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York operates a Syracuse office in suite 250 at 431 E. Fayette St. The foundation’s endowment is nearly $110 million.
Contact Seltzer at rseltzer@cnybj.com
