Healthy Hub
HEALTHY LIVING HUB
Read up on a variety of health topics, learn more about affecting positive change, share tips and ideas and stay on top of the latest community events.
Help Yourself: A Self-Care Reminder
| Healthy Living, Mental Health | coping, covid-19, mental health, self-care
We’ve been living under the weight of a pandemic for a full year. Like a blanket over our world, everyone has felt its heaviness. Some of us are struggling to…
Nurturing Resilience and Coping with Anxiety
| Healthy Living | coping, mental health
Lately, we don’t often hear that empowering phrase, “You’ve got this.” The pandemic has replaced it with “Stay safe!” and “Be well,” and, now, “Double mask.” We are all trying…
Top Hikes for the March Thaw
| Fitness, Healthy Living
All our favorite trails have been covered by snow for the past few weeks, but as the snow melts, take advantage of the warmer temperatures and find new places to…
Spring is Just Around the Corner! Start Building Fitness Now.
| Healthy Living
The days are starting to get longer and the temperatures slowly creeping upwards, so it’s a great time to focus on fitness. Physical activity can help boost your immune system,…
Face Mask Contest Sparks Unexpected Benefit
| Healthy Living
Science has long-proven the health benefits of wearing a mask. Surprisingly, masked kids have experienced an additional perk: a superpower in the form of control. Much of the anxiety we…
Workout of the Day: Shoveling Snow
| Fitness, Healthy Living, Heart Health
Shoveling snow can be a workout—literally. A 155 pound person burns over 450 calories in an hour of shoveling. It’s a full-body cardiovascular exercise, so take your time, warm up, and…
Mission
healthy living
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Our role in the Pottstown community is multi-faceted.
Aside from grantmaking, we also serve the Pottstown area by:
- Acting as a convener of non-profit, governmental, educational, and municipal entities to encourage conversations that will ultimately serve as a catalyst to create positive and health-related systemic change in Pottstown.
- Focusing on programs and services that build long-term solutions to meet the current and future health needs in the Pottstown service area.
- Coordinating and funding non-profit resources and sponsoring professional development programs for our grantees as well as to the nonprofits in the region.
- Leading the Healthy Schools collaborative group.
- Providing health and wellness information and resources on the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation and Mission Healthy Living websites.
- Collaborating with representatives at the regional and state level, and local municipalities to improve the parks and trail systems in our area.
- Committing to the use and maintenance of the resources of our long-term endowment effectively and efficiently.
Fun & Fitness
Our List of Parks and Destinations
Want to get outside? Here is a list of great locations where you can get out and move, right here in the Pottstown area.
