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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: April 3, 2008
For more information, contact Virginia Elliott, Vice President for Programs, 620-662-8586

Health Fund receives award from Council on Foundations

Hutchinson, KS—A communications campaign created for an innovative pilot project of the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund has been selected for national recognition by the Council on Foundations.

The winning Hallelujah Health campaign features four thought-provoking messages on healthy eating and physical activity within the context of Christian life. Materials carrying these themes included newspaper ads, posters, bulletin inserts, and radio spots, as well as other promotional communications. The materials were provided to the 27 Kansas United Methodist churches that piloted the Healthy Congregations in Action health promotion initiative in 2006 and 2007.

The Council on Foundations, an association of more than 2,100 grantmaking foundations and corporations, chose the Hallelujah Health campaign for an award in the Council's annual Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program for communications excellence.

The award will be presented to Kim Moore, Health Fund President, at Philanthropy's Vision: A Leadership Summit in National Harbor, Maryland, on May 5. Moore will be joined at the conference by Health Fund Trustees Junetta Everett and Garney Hill, and by Vice President for Programs Virginia Elliott.

This is the second Council on Foundations' communications award for the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund. An oral health campaign for the Fund's Healthy Teeth for Kansans initiative received the award in 2000. Both campaigns were developed by Catalyst Creative Services, Hutchinson.

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