The purpose of this memo is to provide a high-level overview of the theory that underlies the Healthier Together and BeWellPBC mini grant activity. This memo won’t dive into the variety of flavors permeating local implementation, the specifics of successful mini grants or the colorful, inspiring people and personalities behind the ideas. The processes have local character, unique ways of celebrating, measuring, awarding, determining, scoring, publicizing their mini grants. This is vibrant territory well worth exploring in future memos.
Author: Palm Health Foundation
Lake Worth Beach Wall of Unity
The Healthier Lake Worth Beach community helped orchestrate the revitalization of the city’s Unity Wall, a structure that once segregated the white and black sides of town. The revitalization project is bringing together artists from all over South Florida to paint murals along the wall symbolizing unity, peace and other uplifting messages. This wall is bringing community together during a particularly divisive time in our country’s history and is meant to inspire the community to remember its past but push forward toward a brighter, more unified future.
Learn more in the Palm Beach Post article, Lake Worth Beach’s Wall of Unity sets aside discord as refurbishing project begins, published on January 16, 2021.
Charity In The Time of COVID
An article in the Boca Raton Observer shared how Palm Health Foundation and partners (as well as other nonprofit organizations) have helped residents through the pandemic.
Third Times a Charm
Chasing rabbits, daily workout, late nights and early mornings playing childhood football is where it all began. Growing up in a very small town called South Bay, Florida, can be very challenging. Known for its one way in and one way out entry into the city, South Bay taught me how to face adversity head on. I had the “will.” I had to find a “way.”
Measuring and Monitoring ALL That Matters
Performance, measurement and accountability are high priorities on any organisations agenda. The unintended consequences of using targets and KPI’s as measures in complex systems are becoming well recognised.
Mrs. Bowleg’s Story
Mrs. Veronica Bowleg lost her beloved son, Ervin, during the COVID-19 pandemic. While he did not die of coronavirus, she wants to let her community know to take care of themselves so they don’t suffer the loss of loved one as she has.
“Rapid Response Team” is Rekindling Spirit of Neighbors Helping Neighbors During Pandemic
Through the Rapid Response Team, Dr. Fontaine Timmer, director of the Palm Beach Atlantic Volunteer Nursing Corps, had a second chance to give a hand up to a formerly homeless mother she had first encountered in 2018.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fund is Answering Prayers of Those with COVID-19
Janette “Garcia” of Lake Worth Beach never believed COVID-19 could happen to her. She never believed she would be so sick she couldn’t work and provide for her family. And she never believed she would have to consider living on the street.
Palm Health Foundation Leads Collaboration to Provide Relief to Boynton Beach Family in Crisis During COVID-19 Pandemic
As Palm Health Foundation and its partners continue to collect the personal stories of Palm Beach County residents during COVID-19, more community members in crisis are receiving the help they need through the new Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fund.
Black Leaders: Charlene Farrington
Delray Beach native Charlene Farrington is on a mission to share the history of Palm Beach County’s Black communities with residents young and old. As the executive director of the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach, she oversees programming that seeks not only to present this information in an effective manner, but to preserve it for future generations and use it as a teaching tool to promote understanding, equity, and unity.