American Heart Association
DALLAS, Monday, May 10, 2021 – To sustainably address food insecurity in Chicago and Atlanta, the American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, today announced 12 local businesses and nonprofits will receive $2.1 million in funding from the Association’s Bernard J. Tyson Impact Fund.
Thanks to a $5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation as part of the Walmart.org Center for Racial Equity, two separate rounds of funding will be made available through the Bernard J. Tyson Impact Fund. The nationwide fund provides financial resources for evidence-based, community-driven entrepreneurial solutions that help remove the social and economic barriers to health equity. All of the first-round fund recipients are minority and/or women-led and are operating within under-invested, food insecure communities.
Fshguard and Goodwick mayor, Cllr Jackie Stokes, describes 2020 as unlike any in living memory In a New Year message, she said: “It has been frightening, confusing and for a lot of people and businesses a struggle to survive. “The one thing that shone out in Fishguard and Goodwick is the community spirit. “Within a couple of days of the first lockdown new volunteer community groups formed. “They supported residents with shopping and other needs and for those struggling, with food support. “The town council immediately responded with an emergency grant scheme to help with their costs. “Existing groups continued to do what they could throughout the year. It’s not been all doom and gloom, the Greening Group continued to keep our green spaces tidy, Theatr Gwaun opened a new cafe and the Round Table managed to get Santa to visit all the boys and girls, not just here, but in the surrounding areas.
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