Impact Stories

Pictures from Mary Ellen Henderson’s ‘Stress Less Week’
Co-written with Colleen Hoover, School Social Worker at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School 

2024 Healthy Kids Grantee Makes an Impact

In August 2024, the Community Foundation awarded a grant to the Falls Church Education Foundation to support a new club called Henderson Minds Matter at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School. Henderson Minds Matter, is a part of a nationwide student-led movement called Our Minds Matter that is designed to change school culture around mental health.

Healthy Kids Grants are awarded each year to individual public schools in Northern Virginia that implement a program or strategy to encourage better nutrition/ more physical activity, or better mental health among their student body during the school year. In its thirteenth year, the 2023 grants review committee has awarded $28,535 to fourteen school programs.  Healthy Kids Grants are made possible by the Avalon Charitable Fund, the Chin Family Charitable Fund, the Minton Family Charitable Fund, and the JOY Charitable Fund, all of which are component funds at the Community Foundation.

Eighth annual “Healthy Kids Grants” cycle supports 11 schools in Northern Virginia

Seventh annual “Health Kids Grants” Cycle supports nine schools in Northern Virginia

Sixth annual “Health Kids Grants” Cycle supports 17 schools in Northern Virginia

For the 2015-2016 School Year

For the 2014-2015 School Year

For the 2013-2014 School Year

For the 2012-2013 School Year