About Us
WHF Staff: Bill Pribble, Kelly Metcalf-Meese, Shelby Boltz, Deb Fisher, Deanna Van Hersh, Alessandra Kozek, Adriene Bivens, Valerie Marshall, Karen Burden
About Us
The Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF) is a private charitable foundation dedicated to improving the health and well-being of those who live in Greater Williamsburg.
The Foundation focuses on advancing organizations, systems, and public policy crucial to community health and well-being. WHF invests in programs and activities that target behavioral and social risk factors that influence individuals’ health throughout their lives. The Foundation is also dedicated to strengthening the healthcare safety-net for uninsured and underinsured individuals.
WHF awards grants to nonprofit organizations as well as local and state government agencies that serve residents living in our service area of the City of Williamsburg, James City County, and York County.
Our History
Our story began in 1996 when the Williamsburg Community Hospital (WCH) and Sentara Healthcare formed a partnership agreement that included a provision for a new, locally organized, and managed foundation to benefit community health. In its inaugural year, WHF started with an endowment of $55 million and anticipated providing $1 million annually to support health initiatives in the community.
In 2002, the WCH and Sentara Healthcare merged making WHF a private health foundation with assets amounting to approximately $100 million, one of Virginia’s largest legacy health foundations. As of December 2023, WHF’s assets had grown to approximately $146 million.
Since our inception, WHF has awarded over $110 million in grants for initiatives that enhance the community’s health and well-being.
Strategic Plan: 2021-2025
Vision
Individuals making healthy choices in a community with health opportunities for all.
Mission
Collaborate, innovate, and invest to impact systems that improve the health and well-being of individuals living in Greater Williamsburg.
Goals
- Advance organizations, systems, and public policy crucial to community health and well-being.
- Target behavioral and social risk factors that influence the health of individuals throughout the lifespan.
- Strengthen the healthcare safety-net for uninsured and underinsured individuals.
Values
- Accountable: Steward community values and assets transparently.
- Ethical: Work with honesty and integrity.
- Respectful: Ensure all voices are heard and recognize those who do the work.
- Engaged: Connect and commit to the community.
- Catalytic: Instigate change to achieve real, measurable impact.
Funding Areas
Advance
Advance organizations, systems, and public policy crucial to community health and well-being.
- Public Policy Advocacy
Actively supporting a particular policy or group of policies at the local or state level. Advocacy can include a variety of activities, including support for regulatory changes, education, and forming relationships with decision-makers.
- Community Capacity Building
Developing and strengthening the skills, abilities, processes, and resources that communities and organizations working together need to adapt and thrive in a changing world.
- Organizational Capacity Building
Strengthening internal structures, systems and processes, management, leadership, governance, and overall staff capacity to enhance organizational, team, and individual performance.
Target
Target behavioral and social risk factors that influence the health of individuals throughout the life span.
- Healthy Eating Active Living
Empowering individuals to make healthy choices through increased access to healthy food and opportunities for physical activity.
- Two-Generation Family Services
Building family well-being by intentionally and simultaneously working with children and the adults in their lives.
- Healthy Aging
Sustaining an individual’s physical, functional, and cognitive abilities to increase well-being in older age. Activities may include good nutrition, physical activity, assessments, managing health conditions, and reducing social isolation.
Strengthen
Strengthen the healthcare safety-net for uninsured and underinsured individuals.
- Behavioral Health Services
Acknowledging the connection between the health of the body and the mind. Behavioral Health Services address the importance of emotional, psychological, and overall well-being.
- Integrated Care
Ensuring patients are provided with coordinated, comprehensive high-quality care. The Integrated Care service delivery model fully integrates primary, oral, behavioral care, medication, and social supports.
Board of Trustees 2024
M. Anderson Bradshaw
Attorney
M. Anderson Bradshaw, P.C.
Andrea M. Donnor
Director, Platform Marketing Operations
Capital One Financial, Inc.
Cheri Green
Senior Vice President, Private Wealth Advisor
Old Point National Bank
Nathan R. Green
Commonwealth's Attorney
Williamsburg/James City County
Rhiannon M. Hartman
Attorney
Carrell Blanton Ferris & Associates
Kelli Mansel-Arbuckle
Retired Human Resources Director
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Douglas J. Myers
Senior Vice President
Morgan Stanley
Juanita M. Parks, Vice Chair
Chief Financial Officer
Covenant Woods
Lawrence B. Pulley
Emeritus Dean
William & Mary Raymond A. Mason School of Business
Steven R. Staples
Retired School Superintendent/Executive Professor
William & Mary School of Education
Felicia A. Stovall, Chair
Senior Vice President, Senior Wealth Advisor & Trust Officer, Head of Administration
Chesapeake Wealth Management
Glenda H. Turner
Senior Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
Adria Vanhoozier
President
Riverside Doctors’ Hospital Williamsburg
Robert A. Whitehead, Sr., Treasurer
Pastor
New Zion Baptist Church, Williamsburg
Alfred L. Woods
Former Chairman
Aegion Corporation
Ex-Officio
Elizabeth F. Davis, Immediate Past Chair
Director, Patient Care Services
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center
Deanna Van Hersh, Secretary
President and Chief Executive Officer
Williamsburg Health Foundation
Staff
Deanna Van Hersh
President and Chief Executive Officer
Adriene Bivens
Executive Assistant and Office Manager
Shelby Boltz
Grants Administrator
Karen Burden
Vice President of Finance
Deborah Fisher
Communications Specialist
Alessandra Kozek
Accountant
Valerie Marshall
Analytics and Technology Manager
Kelly Metcalf-Meese
Program Officer
Bill Pribble
Vice President of Programs
Report to the Community
Financials
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