For Immediate Release

The Health Care Foundation is pleased to announce our 2023 grant awards totaling $444,669 to the following community recipients and programs.

  • Children’s Community Resources has been awarded $86,667 to improve access and increase capacity of pediatric medical and mental health care for children. For more information: https://cowlitzkids.org/

  • Children’s Justice & Advocacy Center has been awarded $17,500. These funds will help provide trauma counseling to victims of child abuse. For more information: https://www.cowlitzcountycjac.com/

  • Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic has been awarded two grants totaling $115,000. These funds will support operations of the Free Medical Clinic operations and the Denture Dental Program. For more information: https://www.chpwa.org/

  • Community House on Broadway has been awarded a $30,000 challenge grant to pay for Substance Abuse Disorder treatment. For more information: https://www.choblv.org/

  • Family Promise of Cowlitz County has been awarded a $25,000 outright grant and a $10,000 challenge grant. These funds are to help families avoid the loss of housing. For more information: https://www.fpcowlitz.org/

  • FISH of Cowlitz County has been awarded a $17,200 outright grant and a $15,000 challenge grant to provide emergency health care. For more information: https://fishofcowlitzcounty.org

  • Hello Life Eating Disorder Recovery Services was awarded a $65,000 outright grant and a $5,000 challenge grant to support to eating disorder services. For more information: https://helloliferecovery.org/

  • Lelooska Foundation has been awarded $2,777 to fund the purchase of AED (automated external defibrillator) to provide emergency care to visitors of the Lelooska Cultural Center. For more information about Lelooska: http://lelooska.org/

  • Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation of Cowlitz County has been awarded a $15,000 challenge grant to provide low income individuals access to eye and hearing care. For more information about the Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation call (360) 578-10

  • Lower Columbia Community Action Program, CAP has been awarded $5,525 to purchase a subscription to a nutritional databased. For more information: https://lowercolumbiacap.org/

  • Lower Columbia School Gardens has been awarded a $25,000 challenge grant. These funds will support operations of the Lower Columbia School Gardens including the food distribution program. For more information: https://lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org/

The Health Care Foundation is a local organization, founded to perpetuate the community’s investment in the Monticello Medical Center.
Since its inception in 1984 over $13 million have been distributed to local health care organizations.

For more information about The Health Care Foundation please visit our webpage at www.thehealthcarefoundation.org or call (360) 423-3591

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to promote the physical and mental health and health care of the people living within the service area of the Longview, Washington acute care hospital.