Season of Giving: Sisters Health Foundation recognizes 90 organizations with $1M in grants
Judith Minear, Congregation of St. Joseph Ministries, speaks to a group gathered at the Grand Pointe Conference Center Friday for the Sisters Health Foundation’s 24th annual Grant Partner Luncheon. (Photo Provided)
Marian Clowes, Renee Steffen, Deanna Shuler, Betsy Anderson, Shei Sanchez pose for a picture Friday at the Grand Pointe Conference Center during the Sisters Health Foundation’s 24th annual Grant Partner Luncheon. (Photo Provided)
Betsy Anderson, executive director of Women for Recovery, speaks to a group gathered at the Grand Pointe Conference Center Friday for the Sisters Health Foundation’s 24th annual Grant Partner Luncheon. (Photo Provided)
Judith Minear, Congregation of St. Joseph Ministries, speaks to a group gathered at the Grand Pointe Conference Center Friday for the Sisters Health Foundation’s 24th annual Grant Partner Luncheon. (Photo Provided)
Marian Clowes, Renee Steffen, Deanna Shuler, Betsy Anderson, Shei Sanchez pose for a picture Friday at the Grand Pointe Conference Center during the Sisters Health Foundation’s 24th annual Grant Partner Luncheon. (Photo Provided)
Betsy Anderson, executive director of Women for Recovery, speaks to a group gathered at the Grand Pointe Conference Center Friday for the Sisters Health Foundation’s 24th annual Grant Partner Luncheon. (Photo Provided)
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VIENNA -- A total of 90 organizations serving the Mid-Ohio Valley that were previously awarded more than $1 million in funding from the Sisters Health Foundation (SHF), were recognized at their annual event Friday, a release said.
The SHF, formerly the Sisters of St. Joseph Charitable Fund, held its 24th annual Grant Partner Luncheon at Grand Pointe Conference Center to acknowledge the efforts and successes of those organizations who completed their grants in the past year.
Guests included representatives from the local grant partner organizations, the SHF staff and board of directors, Sisters of St. Joseph and funding partners, the release said.
It said the SHF has been active for 27 years in supporting organizations in their eleven-county service area, eight of which are in the Mid-Ohio Valley region of West Virginia and three in southeast Ohio. The service area is the same region that St. Joseph's Hospital once served for over a century, the release said.
The foundation serves Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Tyler, Wirt and Wood counties in West Virginia and Athens, Meigs, and Washington counties in Ohio.
"The purpose of our luncheon is to celebrate and express our gratitude to our grant partners who completed grants in the past year. Nonprofit leaders work tirelessly to meet needs of people in our community so this is our way of saying thank you," Renee Steffen, executive director of the SHF said in the release. "There's truly something magical about the positive energy of getting over 100 amazing nonprofit leaders in the room at the same time."
During the luncheon, the release said two organizations that SHF supported shared the work they do in the community. It said Betsy Anderson, executive director of Women for Recovery based in Athens County, spoke about the importance of recovery housing in the region and Deanne Shuler, director of the Department of Community Health and Wellness at Memorial Health System, spoke about the FARMacy program at the former Sistersville General Hospital in Tyler County, and how chronic health conditions are addressed through a healthy fresh food diet, regular exercise, and social connectivity.
Due to the pandemic, the release said this was the first time the annual event was held since 2019.
"This is our largest gathering across our eleven-county region so it was meaningful to be in-person again to celebrate everyone," Steffen said.