Healthy Beginnings Endowment
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Empowering Families. Nurturing the Future.
Every child deserves a healthy start. The Healthy Beginnings Endowment (HBE) Fund at Concord Hospital Trust is dedicated to supporting mothers, children, and young families throughout our community.
Founded in 1996 by Dr. Oglesby Young, this fund ensures that when new parents leave The Family Place at Concord Hospital, they have the resources, education, and community support they need to raise healthy, happy children.
Our Impact
Since its inception, the Healthy Beginnings Endowment has distributed more than $1.1 million to local non-profits. We focus on the critical years from birth to age five, funding programs that:
- Enhance maternal and women’s health;
- Provide parenting education and support groups;
- Promote healthy childhood development;
- Coordinate local health services to ensure no family falls through the cracks.
Recent Community Grants
This year, we awarded $79,879 to three organizations making a difference.
- Archways: Supporting parenting education and family support services.
- Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy Center: Funding to assist families participating in Project Connect, a positive skills-building program that helps establish parent-child connection and healthy development of children ages two to five years.
- Concord School District (The Family Center): Funding play-based learning and parent resources.
- Family Promise of Greater Concord - Partners in Progress Diversion Program: Supporting a shelter that specializes in addressing the needs of families experiencing homelessness.
- Granite VNA - Baby's First Homecoming: Supporting visits for mothers and their infants to help them safely transition from Concord Hospital to home.
- Grapevine Family and Community Resources Center: Supporting family support services for families of Hillsboro-Deering and surrounding towns.
- White Birch Community Center: Providing year-round education for caregivers of children ages 0-5.
About Community Grant Funding
Funds/income available from this endowment will be distributed annually, in consonance with Concord Hospital’s spending policy, to provide programs, services, and support for initiatives to enhance maternal, women’s, and children’s health and the health of families. The endowment is meant to provide a means to enhance the coordination of health programming and services for the families in our community and may support initiatives of Concord Hospital Health System, Granite VNA, Riverbend Community Mental Health, and other community not-for-profit organizations to meet the needs of parents and young children from birth to five years in the Capital, Lakes, and Three Rivers Regions.
