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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.

Beth F. Davis, Chair

Director, Acquisitions Marketing Operations

Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center

Elizabeth D. DeFalcon, M.D.

Staff Physician

William & Mary Student Health Center

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, Treasurer

Chief Financial Officer

Williamsburg Landing, Inc.

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, Vice 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.

Pastor

New Zion Baptist Church, Williamsburg

Alfred L. Woods

Former Chairman

Aegion Corporation

Ex-Officio

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

Get in Touch.

4801 Courthouse Street Suite 200 Williamsburg, VA 23188-2678

757.345.0912

info@williamsburghealthfoundation.org