Community

Applications for the first round of 2024 North Shore Health Care Foundation (NSHCF) Community Health Grants, are due by 4 pm, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The North Shore Health Care Foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit now celebrating its 31st year in Cook County, works to address gaps in health care and community health-related needs locally. The Foundation will award approximately $30,000 this year, to community organizations and programs that contribute to equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County through its semi-annual grant program. The deadline for the second and final round of 2024 NSHCF grant funding is Oct. 1.

What can you do about the climate crisis? Come to the Cook County Earth Day Fair on April 20 and listen to Michael Overend, from Citizens Climate Lobby Northland Chapter, give you some pointers. Overend is one of a half-dozen speakers slated to give presentations throughout the day.

10 YEARS AGO APRIL 12, 2013 v By a 4-0 vote, the Cook County North Shore Hospital board voted to accept the 2014-2015 Hospital and Care Center Association labor agreement at its April 7 meeting. Under terms of the agreement employees will get wage increases ranging from .75 percent to 2 percent.

University of MN Extension, Cook County Soil and Water, and Sugarloaf Cove Nature Center are partnering to present a workshop on tree planting and care for beginners. The workshop will take place Tuesday May 14 from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Go Dog North Shore is kicking off spring with a series of volunteer work days to get the park ready for summer and to finish the trail improvement boardwalk project that started in 2023. We are in need of helpers on the following Saturdays: April 27 Spring Clean-Up Day & Boardwalk Construction.

Volunteers are needed for the North Shore Health Care Foundation’s 4TH Annual Taste of the Trail Picnic Adventure on Sunday, June 23, 2024. This event helps support equitable access to health care, healthy living programs and emergency services in Cook County and helps us develop programs where gaps in health services exist in our rural neck of the woods. If you have a few hours to spare and would like to have some fun volunteering for a good cause and enjoy delicious foods from iconic vendors on the Gunflint Trail, contact the North Shore Health Care Foundation at 218-387-5700 or email NSHCF@boreal.org