Berkeley Heights resident Patrick Henry and teens from the Overlook Foundation Junior Board gathered on June 5th, 2017 to award the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Overlook Medical Center with a grant for $40,000. Patrick personally raised over $8,000 through an outreach to both corporate and individual sponsors helping the group significantly exceed their goal to help the NICU.
Patrick Henry the Delbarton representative said “My time on the board has been great and we learned so much about how a nonprofit board operates. The desire to engage in my own community to help with health care comes directly from the time I spent in Tanzania as apart of the Delbarton BEADS program.
BEADS (Benedictines of East Africa and Delbarton School) is a service project that allows Delbarton students to travel to East Africa to provide important services for Benedictine communities there. In short, they work to improve aspects of the schools, orphanages, and medical centers in the area.”
“The Delbarton BEADS program was life changing and has helped me reflect and appreciate my blessings of a great family, attending Delbarton and our great country. Working with the young children and families in Tanzania and seeing their struggle to have access to basic health care sparked my desire to engage more in my own community. The Overlook Foundation Junior Board has enabled me to learn and help our community and in particular the infants and children.”
Patrick, raised almost $9,000 last year for the Delbarton BEADS program using the same funding website as the Overlook Foundation Junior Board.
“Serving on the board was an excellent experience and getting to know the other members from different schools was enlightening, as everyone brought a different perspective. I am excited about the future of the Junior Board and I hope to find a deeper link between Delbarton’s community activities, including Delbarton’s work in Tanzania”The board includes juniors from Chatham HS, Delbarton School, Governor Livingston HS, Kent Place, Millburn HS, Montclair Kimberley Academy, New Providence High School, Newark Academy, Oak Knoll School, Oratory Prep, Pingry, Scotch Plains-Fanwood HS, and Summit HS.
(above) Patrick Henry, far right, was one of 12 students from local high schools that served on the Overlook Foundation Junior Board.
