The Brandywine Health Foundation Mission

The Brandywine Health Foundation seeks to improve the health and wellness of the residents of central and western Chester County by linking worthy causes in our community with charitable individuals like you.

Visit the Strawberry Festival to have fun while benefiting programs and services in your own community!

2008 Strawberry Festival Beneficiaries

Principal Beneficiary:
Brandywine Health Foundation

Secondary Beneficiaries:
Coatesville Rotary Club
Thorndale Volunteer Fire Company
Brandywine YMCA
Coatesville Public Library

Contact the Foundation:

50 South First Avenue
Coatesville, PA 19320

Phone: 610-380-9080
Fax: 610-380-9081

Email: info@brandywinefoundation.org
Web Site: www.brandywinefoundation.org

Strawberry Festival Contact:

Jill Whitcomb, Special Events Coordinator
Brandywine Health Foundation
50 South 1st Avenue
Coatesville, PA 19320

Phone: 610-380-9080 ext. 103 or 610-293-8106
Fax: 610-293-9886

e-mail: jwhitcomb@brandywinefoundation.org

2008 Strawberry Festival Volunteer Steering Committee Co-Chairs

• Judy Good, YMCA of the Brandywine Valley
• Chris Saello, YMCA of the Brandywine Valley

Committee Members

• David Aberts, Thorndale Fire Company
• Bud Adams, Coatesville Rotary Club
• Joseph Arvay, Caln Township
• Joey Lynn Barlow, YMCA of the Brandywine Valley
• Chief John Bennett, Caln Township Police
• Mitch Bernstein, Brandywine YMCA
• Sue Catanese, Acceletronics
• Stephanie Cornell, Brandywine YMCA
• Marianna Cutler, Brandywine Hospital
• Mel Dittrich-Martin, Cenero LLC
• Bob Edge, Edge Wallboard Machinery Co.
• Marsha Erickson, Coatesville Public Library
• Albert Fuller, ArcelorMittal
• Lena Hershey, Brandywine Hospital
  
• Carlyle Holling, Rouse/Chamberlin Homes
• Becky Hudson, Fox Rothschild, LLP
• Patti Jackson, Brandywine Hospital
• Jodi J. Jones, Market It
• Greg Krajewski, Paragon Business Gifts, Inc.
• Marianne Martelli, Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry
• Lee Pringle, Brandywine Hospital
• Marlene Recchiuti, Brandywine Hospital
• Randy Scott, Brandywine Hospital
• Karol Smith-Williamson, Lincoln University
• Illaria Steele, Quik-Stop Pharmacy
• Catherine Terpack, Coatesville Public Library
• Stephanie Waite
• Jo Ann Willenbrock, A. Duie Pyle

The seeds of success have been planted and the 36th Anniversary of the Strawberry Festival promises to be the best ever!

What began in 1973 as a one-day event on the grounds of the Coatesville City Hall, has grown into a four-day extravaganza on the ground of Brandywine Hospital attracting over 25,000 guests. Originally organized by the nurses at the Coatesville Hospital to raise funds for a nursing scholarship, the festival grew to be one of Brandywine Hospital’s most successful fund raising events.

Although Brandywine Hospital still hosts the Festival and generously donates over $20,000 in in-kind services, since the Hospital’s sale to a for-profit owner, the Strawberry Festival now benefits a variety of health and human service organizations in the community through the Brandywine Health Foundation, as well as the Coatesville Rotary, the Thorndale Volunteer Fire Company, the Brandywine YMCA, and the Coatesville Public Library.

Exciting plans are in the works for 2007! Kids of all ages will enjoy the rides and on-going entertainment on the main stage. Young festival visitors will flock to Strawberryland, which will feature a petting zoo, moon bounce, rock wall, trackless train and much more. Everyone will enjoy the vast array of festival food including our famous strawberry shortcake, a festival tradition.

And, your time at the festival would not be complete without strolling thought the aisles of our craft fair featuring a wide variety of local and national craft vendors. Finally, to help make this anniversary celebration even more special, Coatesville Savings Bank is sponsoring an even bigger and better fireworks extravaganza on Friday, June 1st.

Proceeds for the 2007 Rouse/Chamberlin Homes Strawberry Festival benefit the Brandywine Health Foundation. Since its founding in 2001, the Brandywine Health Foundation has provided over $3.6 million in grants to non-profits improving the health of the residents of central and western Chester County. Its largest grant of $1 million was to open a Federally Qualified Health Center in the City of Coatesville - ChesPenn Health Services. ChesPenn and Community Dental will be housed in the Foundation’s planned Brandywine Health & Housing Center, set to begin construction in December, 2006.