UnitedHealthcare Awards $10,000 to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden for Innovative Project to Improve Health & Wellness in Great...
October 18 2017 - 2:42PM
Business Wire
- New idea for mobile urban gardens,
“GrowBoxes,” designed to increase access to healthy fruits and
vegetables
Today UnitedHealthcare awarded $10,000 to Lewis Ginter Botanical
Garden, a small business that has an innovative idea for enhancing
community health and wellness in greater Richmond.
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UnitedHealthcare’s Marianne Randazzo
(left) presents the $10,000 Community Care Award to Duron Chavis of
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, a Richmond small business with a new
idea to improve community wellness (Photo: Bill Bauer
Photography).
The project, “GrowBox,” is designed to help provide access to
fresh vegetables for people living in “food deserts” without nearby
grocery stores. The project will be implemented in partnership with
Envirable Grow, a local organization that produces specialty garden
equipment.
The prize-winning idea was presented at a pitch competition
Tuesday by Duron Chavis, community engagement coordinator for Lewis
Ginter. The $10,000 award will be used to equip the GrowBox – a
kind of mobile vegetable garden – that can be moved around among
neighborhoods in the area.
Dozens of applications for this year’s Community Care Award were
submitted in August and September, and were narrowed down to five
finalists earlier this month. The finalists were invited to present
their project ideas to a panel of business leaders and health care
experts at Simply Ballroom, the winner of last year’s award. Along
with Lewis Ginter, the finalists included:
- Aviant Health
- BOHO Cycle Studio & BOHO Core
- Sneeds Nursery
- Woofy Wellness Ranch, LLC
“We are grateful for the opportunity to present the second
annual Community Care Award to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden,” said
Christopher Mullins, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of the Mid-Atlantic.
“Their innovative idea to improve access to nutritious foods
empowers greater Richmond to make measurable progress toward
improving community health and wellness.”
UnitedHealthcare partnered with BizWorks Enterprise Center and
UnBoundRVA to promote the 2017 Community Care Award.
“Richmond is a thriving community for entrepreneurs, and we were
excited to partner with UnitedHealthcare to propel the city’s
entrepreneurs like Lewis Ginter to improve health and wellness,”
said Tanner Collins, assistant director of BizWorks.
“With the support of UnitedHealthcare’s Community Care Award,
Lewis Ginter’s idea for mobile urban gardens will help the
community of Richmond immensely,” said Megan Murray, program
advancement manager at UnBoundRVA. “I can’t wait to see Richmond
residents benefiting from this program.”
The panel of judges included:
- Veronica Nugent, owner of Simply
Ballroom dance studio
- Beth Bortz, president and CEO of the
Virginia Center for Innovation
- Doug Gray, executive director, Virginia
Association of Health Plans
- Jay Markiewicz, executive director of
entrepreneurship programs, VCU School of Business
- Marianne Randazzo, vice president, key
accounts, UnitedHealthcare of the Mid-Atlantic
For more information about the UnitedHealthcare Community Care
Award, visit www.uhc.com/communitycare.
About BizWorksBizWorks Enterprise Center is a nonprofit
small business incubator supporting economic development along the
Route 1 Corridor in Chesterfield County. They use a Business
Builder Program to address the uncertainty of entrepreneurship and
offer office and warehouse space as well as virtual and co-working
options. The goal of the center is to work with “members” to create
and execute sustainable business models that are scalable and
repeatable.
About UnBoundRVAUnBoundRVA aims to impact all of Richmond
by empowering talented individuals from low-income communities with
a path to entrepreneurship. They connect these individuals to the
resources, training, and support needed to start their own
business. Through a competitive six-month program, they look to
identify five individuals who are ready to launch their business
with the full support and partnership of UnBoundRVA. Their
transformational partnership continues for an additional 12 months
as they equip each business owner with the resources to create and
build a sustainable business for themselves. To date, they have
supported three classes and launched 12 businesses in the Richmond
area.
About UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to
helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the
health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs,
and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The
company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
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