Name: Community Foundation awards medical-care grants to Beaver Island groups, 2008
Start: 2008-08
End: 2008-08
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2008-08
Kind: Fundraising
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcarefundraisingcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Charlevoix County Community Foundation awarded $4,000 to the Helping Hands hospice group and $2,500 to the Beaver Island Rural Health Center in 2008. The reported uses included patient-loan equipment, educational materials, mainland-treatment travel support, and BIRHC digital x-ray and telemedicine matching funds.

Evidence limits

This records the announced awards and intended uses, not later expenditure or equipment-acquisition proof.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 2008, "Grants Galore" by Frank Solle.
Reports a $4,000 Charlevoix County Community Foundation grant to Helping Hands hospice for education, loan equipment, and mainland-treatment travel costs, and a $2,500 grant to BIRHC toward digital x-ray and telemedicine matching funds. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 2008, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the grants report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Community Foundation awards medical-care grants to Beaver Island groups, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-medical-grants-helping-hands-birhc-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2008, "Grants Galore" by Frank Solle. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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