Highmark Foundation Awards nearly $600,000 in grant funding to 135 schools benefitting students throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia
July 25, 2024 | PITTSBURGH
PITTSBURGH (July 25, 2024) — Officials from the Highmark Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2024-2025 Highmark Foundation School Grants and Awards Program, totaling $595,345. The organization received more than 300 applications from across Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Public, private, parochial, charter and vocational high schools throughout the two states were eligible to apply.
The goal of the grants program is to create healthier school environments that experience positive, sustainable and lasting change through comprehensive strategies and awarded grants relating to physical health, school-based health, and social health programs.
"This dynamic grant program puts student wellbeing first, bringing health and safety resources to schools in the Highmark Foundation's service regions," said Highmark Foundation President Yvonne Cook. "The Foundation supports the integral role schools play in students' wellbeing through preventative health programs and early intervention initiatives, and this program demonstrates that commitment."
This is the 12th year for the Highmark Foundation's School Grant and Awards Program, and it has awarded more than $4.8 million to date to help bring about healthy changes in schools in Highmark Foundation's service region.
View the complete list of schools, programs and award amounts.
About Highmark Foundation
The Highmark Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) private, charitable organization dedicated to improving the health, wellbeing, and quality of life for individuals who reside in the communities served by Highmark, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates. We fulfill our missing by awarding high-impact grants to charitable organizations that implement evidence-based programs aimed at improving community health. Central to the Foundation's mission is identifying and continuously reevaluating our region's prevailing health care needs. By doing so, the Foundation remains at the forefront of those needs, well-equipped to pinpoint the issues that more urgently need support.
In 2021, two new restricted funds were established at the Highmark Foundation — the Highmark West Virginia Charitable Fund for Health and the United Concordia Dental Charitable Fund. These funds support the ongoing work of the Highmark Foundation across its footprint and beyond.
For more information, visit www.highmarkfoundation.org and follow the Highmark Foundation on LinkedIn.
Contact:
Bethany Ross
Highmark Health
Bethany.ross@highmarkhealth.org