Community Grant Applications Now Available

(Honesdale, April 30, 2024) …The Wayne Memorial Health Foundation is once again offering community grants to nonprofit groups providing healthcare related programs or services to residents in the Wayne Memorial Health System service area which includes Wayne and Pike Counties, the Greater Carbondale region of Lackawanna County, and Forest City in Susquehanna County. Past recipients include the Wayne County Library in Honesdale (photo), which was awarded funds in 2023 to purchase a life-saving Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

The Wayne Memorial Health Foundation (WMHF) will accept 2024 applications from organizations whose focus includes health care-related services in the areas of injury and disease prevention and treatment and the promotion of good health and wellbeing.

Applicants must complete a WMHF Program Application that includes proof of their IRS 501(c)3 tax-exempt status; submission of their group’s non-discrimination policy; demonstration that they are not providing unnecessary duplication of services in the community; provision of a written statement of their objectives, target population, anticipated benefits, activities and evaluation procedures.

Applications and guidelines may be downloaded from Wayne Memorial Hospital’s website, www.wmh.org or requested by emailing kneier@wmh.org, calling (570) 253-8422 or by writing to Wayne Memorial Hospital, 601 Park Street, Honesdale, PA 18431, Attention: Carol Kneier. Completed applications are due no later than June 21, 2024 via email or hand delivered to the above address.

The Wayne County Public Library purchased the AED as part of its Save a Life at the Library Program. “We are absolutely thrilled”, said Library Director Tracy Schwarz. “We serve thousands of people from the community each year and have been operating without this life-saving equipment until now. This is a game changer for us,” she added.

pictured l to r: Cinda Tietjen, board member, WMHF and member, Community Grants Committee, WMHF

                       Carol Kneier, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES, community health manager, WMH and member, Community

                       Grants Committee, WMHF

                         Brooke James, board member, WMHF and member, Community Grants Committee, WMHF

                        Tracy Schwarz, Library Director, Wayne County Public Library

                        Diane Wylam, board member, WMHF and member, Community Grants Committee, WMHF

                        Martha Wilson, board member, WMHF and chair, Community Grants Committee, WMHF

                        Lisa Champeau, director Communications & Development, and Wayne Memorial Health Foundation