Superior Health Foundation supports U.P. Children’s Museum, United Dairy Industry of Michigan and OSF

The Superior Health Foundation Board of Directors approved three mini-grants at its May meeting. The SHF provided $2,450 in funding to the U.P. Children’s Museum in Marquette to sponsor enhancement with the Big Head, which is one element of a whole body exhibit. The $2,450 will upgrade the head to include workable eyes, well defined teeth and muscle structure while adding a host of educational components through written signs and sounds. It also awarded $1,000 in funding to the United Dairy Industry of Michigan/Jilbert Dairy to purchase healthy snacks for the upcoming “Fuel U.P. In the Dome” event in the Superior Dome in Marquette. The event, open to fourth, fifth and six graders across the U.P., will provide young people in attendance the fuel to make good healthy choices when it comes to snacks because healthy kids make healthy choices.  It also approved the awarding of $1,500 to OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group in Escanaba to help purchase an ADA-approved pulley system with wheelchair accessibility for a new rehab center to be built at the hospital. Shown in the check presentation, from left, are Laura Jarvi, Superior Health Foundation; Bruce Seely, PhD., SHF Board of Directors; Jim LaJoie, SHF; Sheri Davie, SHF Board of Directors; Nheena Ittner, director of the U.P. Children’s Museum; Shelby Bischoff, SHF Board of Directors; and Ross Underwood of Jilbert Dairy. To submit a mini-grant application for health-centered projects to the SHF, please visit the home page of www.superiorhealthfoundation.org.