Washington, D.C., October 26, 2004 – The American Public Health Association has recently received a $150,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for developing and implementing a plan for sustaining the association and strengthening its financial future.
This one-year grant will support the association’s financial development efforts in two critical areas. First, it will enable APHA to develop a plan to address the association’s needs and discern the potential for developing future, ongoing sources of support. Second, the grant will help create the appropriate infrastructure, strategies and activities to initiate and support ongoing development efforts. The grant will provide funds to secure additional staff support in order to begin the implementation process.
“APHA is very pleased and honored to receive this grant,” said Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, executive director of the American Public Health Association. “The Kellogg Foundation recognizes the valuable role this association plays in promoting and protecting public health. The foundation’s investment will allow APHA to begin building a stronger infrastructure and a more secure future for the association.”
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 to "help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations." Its programming activities center around the common vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth, accepts responsibility for self, family, community and societal well-being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions and healthy communities.
To achieve the greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas. These include: health; food systems and rural development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism. Within these areas, attention is given to exploring learning opportunities in leadership; information and communication technology; capitalizing on diversity; and social and economic community development. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.