For Immediate Release

We are excited to announce our 2024 grant awards totaling $300,694 to the following community recipients and programs.

  • Community Health Partners/Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic has been awarded a $35,000 challenge grant and an outright grant of $95,000. These funds will support the Free Medical Clinic operations and the Denture and Dental Program. For more information: https://www.chpwa.org/

  • FISH of Cowlitz County has been awarded a $30,000 challenge grant and an outright grant of $19,600. to provide emergency health care for clients within our community. For more information: https://fishofcowlitzcounty.org

  • Safe Kids Lower Columbia has been awarded a $15,000 outright grant to support the Child Passenger Safety Program and assist with the purchase of car seats. For more information: https://www.safekidslc.org

  • Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation of Cowlitz County has been awarded a $10,000 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) 578-1095.

  • Longview Library Foundation has been awarded a $10,000 challenge grant to financially support the purchase of a mobile library to serve our community. For more information call (360) 442-5300.

  • Lower Columbia College Nursing Program has been awarded a $53,044 outright grant to provide nursing scholarships for 10 students who have been accepted into or are currently enrolled in the LCC nursing program. For more information: https://lowercolumbia.edu/foundation

  • Lower Columbia School Gardens has been awarded a $9,400 challenge grant. These funds will support operations of the Lower Columbia School Gardens including the food distribution program. For more information: https://lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.org/

  • Youth and Family Link has been awarded a $23,000 outright grant to fund an afterschool social and emotional learning group for young people in our community. For more information: http://www.linkprogram.org

  • Lifeworks has been awarded a $5.650 outright grant to purchase Ukeru Equipment to assist their clients learn new behaviors. For more information: http://lifeworkswa.org

The Health Care Foundation is a local public non-profit organization, founded to carry-on our community’s investment in the Monticello Medical Center. Since its inception in 1984 over $13 million dollars have been distributed to local health care non-profit 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.