St. Joseph's Villa has received a $19,000 grant from the Richmond Rotary Club. The grant will allow construction of a Snoezelen sensory room.
Snoezelen rooms provide a variety of sensory stimulation devices a child with autism can use and control.
The room is designed to foster a child's exploration of the external environment in a safe and secure way.
"We are thrilled that the Richmond Rotary Club has made this gift to St. Joseph's Villa," Ken Macurik, director of Developmental Disabilities Services, said in an announcement of the grant. "These environments give children with autism more opportunities to engage with and explore their environments. And once they start thinking about their external environments, it is more likely that they will have better interactions with staff and with family members."
The Snoezelen room will be built in the Sarah Dooley Center for Autism on the St. Joseph's Villa campus at 8000 Brook Road in Henrico County.
Convenience store network gives food bank $10,000
In partnership with the BP Fueling Communities program, Mid-Atlantic Convenience Stores (MACS), one of the largest convenience-store networks and fuel distributors in the Richmond area, has donated $10,000 to FeedMore's Central Virginia Food Bank.
The grant will help the food bank distribute 50,000 meals to the one-in-seven central Virginians who live in food-insecure households. Fueling Communities, a philanthropic program BP created to help local BP business owners care for their communities, worked with MACS to make the local grant possible.
In addition to the grant, MACS has an ongoing commitment to address hunger in the mid-Atlantic region, where the company operates.
Throughout the past holiday season, associates at MACS' Business Support Center collected more than 1,000 pounds of food for the Central Virginia Food Bank.
Art auction benefits pharmacy scholarships
A benefit art auction has raised nearly $11,000 for VCU School of Pharmacy student scholarships.
A selection of watercolors by School of Pharmacy Dean Victor Yanchick, which had been exhibited last fall at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, was auctioned at the library Feb. 3.
Lisa Schaffner, public relations and marketing director for UNOS, served as auctioneer.
In the past several years, sales of Yanchick's paintings have raised nearly $30,000 for School of Pharmacy scholarships.
He also has donated watercolors for fundraising efforts by the Virginia Pharmacists Association, Family Lifeline/CHIP of Richmond, ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Comfort Zone Camp.
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