Above, left: Chaya Scott, director of the Coatesville Youth Initiative, receives a $3,000 check from members of the Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Club including (from left) Lloyd Asparagus Jr., Earl Johnson, Harry Lewis Jr. and Cleo Alston, as Frances Sheehan, president and CEO of BHF, looks on. Lewis is also chairman of the foundation’s board of directors and Alston is a member of the board.

Volunteers: Our Community’s Helping Hands

The Brandywine Health Foundation’s impact depends on the significant contributions of both time and money from our many volunteers and donors. Consider these generous contributors—just three examples of the hundreds of people who continue to support the foundation:

The Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Club

The 300 African-American men and teens who annually gather to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his birthday in January 2012 pitched in $3,000 to support the Coatesville Youth Initiative.

“We wanted to make an impact and we like what the foundation is doing for the youth of Coatesville,” explains Earl S. Johnson, a club leader and chief of voluntary service at the Coatesville VA Medical Center, which each summer sponsors four student workers as part of the CYI’s summer ServiceCorps. “It’s a good idea because it places these students in meaningful jobs and gives them an opportunity to learn a skill, responsibility and professionalism, strengthen their resumes and learn how the job world works.”

Mary Holleran

Born and raised in Coatesville, Mary Holleran co-chaired the foundation’s Garden Party fundraiser for the past 10 years—during which time the affair raised more than $500,000 for the community.

“I co-chaired the party because I know the foundation can make a real difference in people’s lives,” she says. “It helps people who don’t have the resources to get the medical care they need, and that’s so important. How do you function, go to school and work if you are not healthy?”
Mary’s work isn’t done though; she continues to serve on the foundation’s board of directors as chair of the nominating committee.

Anne and Michael Moran

Anne and Michael Moran graciously hosted the 2012 Garden Party at their Applestone Farm. “We’re delighted to be able to help in any way that we can,” says Anne. “We believe in what the foundation does in the community to help so many people.

“And we love what they’ve done with the Brandywine Trek. We’ve been blessed to live on our farm out in the country and our children have been blessed to grow up in these surroundings, and it’s great that other kids from Coatesville are now getting the opportunity to experience some of the things outdoors that our family has been lucky enough to enjoy.”

If you would like to support the foundation, whether it be by volunteering your time or providing financial support, please contact Dana Heiman, vice president for development & communications, at 610.380.9080, x102 or dheiman@brandywinefoundation.org.

Mary Holleran & Garden Party committee member Nina L.S. Burnaford, Esq. at the 2012 Garden Party

“I co-chaired the party because I know the foundation can make a real difference in people’s lives. It helps people who don’t have the resources to get the medical care they need, and that’s so important. How do you function, go to school and work if you are not healthy?”

Mary Holleran,
Board member and co-chair of the Garden Party committee
 

Anne & Michael Moran,
Hosts of the 2012 Garden Party