Community Support Key For Food Bank
$58K in CCHF grants have boosted food supply “ This strategic combination of practical, compassionate and empowering intention continues to make significant impacts ”
— Sylvia Cancela • CCHF chair work was then transferred to a new organization, the Canton Community Health Fund Inc. CCHF began offering grants a year later, in 1998. In the quarter-century since, CCHF has bequeathed $58,000 in grant funding to the Canton Food Bank. This long-term relationship has benefited countless Canton residents who rely on the food bank to be a stopgap when difficult financial circumstances result in food insecurity.
Specifically, in the 25 years that CCHF has provided grants to numerous agencies and nonprofits and organizations, the food bank has received grants in 15 of those years — from 2005-2009, in 2011, and from 2015-2023. “Canton Community Health Fund has invested in … the Canton Food Bank not only because of their capacity and commitment to outreach throughout our diverse community, but also their creative thinking on solutions to difficult issues,” says CCHF chair Sylvia Cancela. “This strategic combination of practical, compassionate and empowering intention continues to make significant impacts not just today, but importantly for the future as well.” A Canton resident, Cancela notes that CCHF’s longtime investment of nearly $60,000 in grants includes $20,000 in funding that the food
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LIKE SCAFFOLDING for a construction team, support for the Canton Food Bank is a joint effort undertaken by a multitude of community partners — and a key player is the Canton Community Health Fund aka CCHF. Established in 1997, CCHF is a community-centered nonprofit with a laser-focused mission of contributing to the health, safety and well-being of the Canton community. The CCHF slogan reflects this essential and elegant goal: By, for and about Canton’s community. CCHF is the descendant of the Canton Visiting Nurse Association and the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), founded in 1918. So this year is officially the CCHF’s 105th anniversary — coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Canton Food Bank. The VNA became the Canton Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA) in 1941. In ’97, CVNA merged with McLean Community and Home Care Services, a division of the McLean Fund, and CVNA’s community