“This is always a special night,” proclaimed Elly Reinhardt, Chair of the Temple University Hospital-Jeanes Campus Community Advisory Board.
With this sentiment, Reinhardt opened the recognition ceremony and reception on May 29, 2024 for recipients of the TUH-Jeanes Campus 2023-2024 Community Grant Program.
Every year, TUH-Jeanes Campus honors the important work of community not-for-profit organizations during this special event held in the Cheltenham Friends Meetinghouse on the hospital’s campus. This year, the program bestowed 17 local community groups with grants totaling $59,000, provided by the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation.
The event also encourages community networking and idea sharing across organizations to promote collaboration and to strengthen their overall efforts.
The local groups represent a wide demographic range across the TUH-Jeanes Campus service region, but share many commonalities in addressing such issues as poverty, addiction, food insecurity, elder care, education, and homelessness.
“Anna T. Jeanes gave money in her will to benefit many of the causes represented here among the organizations supported by this program,” Reinhardt said. “Some of the challenges we face today may be different, but the need is the same. Your work makes living in the world easier.”
Anna T. Jeanes: A Legacy of Service
The namesake of Temple University Hospital – Jeanes Campus (originally Jeanes Hospital), Anna T. Jeanes (1822-1907) was a wealthy philanthropist and social activist in her day. She was active in the anti-slavery movement and, following the Civil War, began the Negro Rural School Fund with Booker T. Washington to educate students and train new generations of teachers within the freed slave community. Her work became known in both the recovering South and the movement of African Americans to the North, and she strove to embody Quaker ideals of acceptance and peace.
The Foundation continues her work today through programs like the TUH-Jeanes Campus Community Grant Program, which has been funding innovative work in the community for more than 20 years. Each year, the Foundation solicits a call for proposals, and the TUH-Jeanes Campus Community Advisory Board selects projects that best match up with the current Community Health Needs Assessment that TUH-Jeanes Campus is required to produce regularly as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Grant presentations this year were made by Foundation members James Fitzgerald and Martin Ogletree and TUH-Jeanes Campus leadership, including James Hazlett, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, and Michael McCormick, AVP, Finance.
Community Grant Recipients (2023-2024)
AIM Angels In Motion
Funding will help AIM in its mission to assists individuals suffering from addiction. This group provides up to three weeks of rent in a recovery house, and help with obtaining state identification to facilitate getting into treatment, staying in treatment, and finding employment.
Burholme Emergency Medical Services
Funding will support this organization’s program, “Stop The Bleed,” which provides skills and hands-on training on controlling bleeding in an emergency setting. This group also offers American Heart Association Compression-Only CPR/AED training and instruction on early recognition of signs and symptoms of a stroke.
Cheltenham Jayvees Inc. – Cheltenham Sports
Funding will support efforts to hire a local training company to assist in running this organization’s soccer program so that it can continue to serve the community.
CORA Services
Funding will support the pilot phase in developing a new Family Navigation Center to provide early intervention to clients needing behavioral health and education assistance. In addition, CORA will collect data that demonstrates the need for the Center and the efficacy of this type of model.
eCLOSE Institute
Funding will enhance a cross-city collaborative research effort that supports students in technical high schools to pursue biomedicine. It will also help create a science-focused culture among students, empower them to address community health needs, include and engage more students in the program, and support more students in pursuing science and medicine careers.
Family Promise of Philadelphia – Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network
Funding will support this group’s work in the Northeast, including providing case management and access to emergency food support/grocery cards, transportation, emergency childcare, student activity or summer camp fees, and other family emergency needs.
Fox Chase Town Watch
Funding will support this group’s efforts to keep the community safe and free of blight by purchasing paint, solvents, and other graffiti removal supplies as well as materials to aid in their street beautification projects.
Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry
Funding will help this organization to support clients living in the 19126-zip code who are in need of financial assistance to prevent eviction, foreclosure, utility shut-off, or to address other essential needs.
GROW (Northeast Community Services)
Funding will help provide scholarships to purchase course materials and cover registration fees for students in need of assistance, and to support program pantries providing students with no-cost access to grocery essentials.
La Famiglia dei Fratelli
Funding will support cooking/packaging meals at Caring for Friends, preparing sandwiches for distribution to the Veterans Multi-Service Center, preparing Thanksgiving baskets for community distribution including gift cards, and purchasing food items for community pantries as needed.
Memorial Presbyterian Church of Fox Chase – Food for Hope Food Pantry
Funding will support efforts to enhance the health and wellness of community residents by helping to feed families that are having difficulty.
Peter Bressi Northeast Senior Center
Funding will help promote a sense of unity and positivity to the community by offering a large-scale “Mind, Body and Spirit Day,” planned for 2024. The event will offer various exercise and wellness programs, placing emphasis on violence prevention with various speakers on the topic.
St. Mark’s Church, Frankford
Funding will support antiviolence programming in the community with the purchase of gift cards for use during gun buyback events.
Socks for the Streets
Funding will help assemble and distribute bags with snacks, hygiene products, and other necessities for distribution to the homeless in the malls and surrounding areas of 19152 and 19154.
Tikvah AJMI
Funding will help continue this group’s regular skill-building activities in the Northeast section of Philadelphia that integrate the pursuit of wellness in the physical and mental domains.
Upper Moreland Youth and Drug Council (AKA Aldersgate Youth Service Bureau)
Funding will help launch two initiatives – one offering community education events on topics such as underage alcohol use, helping your anxious child, bullying, and vaping; and another offering group counseling for community members as well as some therapeutic group activities for teens.
Watch God Move Deliverance Ministries
Funding will help this organization in hosting a series of topical information sessions and interactive lunch-and-learn events focused on self-care, mental health, stress management, and emotional wellness for individuals and families.
