AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - The Peter Alfond Foundation has made a $48 million investment to support community health in the Kennebec Valley region.<\/p>\n
A $40 million endowment will allow MaineGeneral Health to support preventive health programs, including the expansion of services for the newly renamed 'Peter Alfond Prevention and Healthy Living Center.'<\/p>\n
The center provides free and low cost classes on healthy cooking, physical activity, and more.<\/p>\n
It will also provide for a team of community health workers who will go to worksites and other locations to provide services.<\/p>\n
MaineGeneral Health administration noted the funding comes at a critical time, allowing them to focus operational dollars on COVID-19 response without neglecting community health initiatives.<\/p>\n
Another eight-million dollar endowment will go to the Alfond Youth and Community Center in Waterville.<\/p>\n
Barbara Crowley, MD, Peter Alfond Foundation Endowment Leader for MaineGeneral Health says it's a gift that will continue long into the future.<\/p>\n
\"We'll take five percent a year, and if we're good stewards of this money, it will go on for generations. So what we start here today will matter for three and four and five generations. So I feel very lucky to have this opportunity. This community is very lucky, and we are very grateful to the children of Peter Alfond.\"<\/p>\n
Ken Walsh, CEO of the Alfond Youth & Community Center says the endowment is going to make a huge difference.\"This gift will continue to cement our relationship with MaineGeneral Health and bring the best practices of wellness to central Maine.\"<\/p>\n
The Peter Alfond Foundation also provided ten million dollars in endowments to the Boys & Girls Club of Puerto Rico and two million dollars to the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
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