Our Mission
To improve health and promote wellness in Culpeper, Madison, and Orange counties.
The Foundation works to achieve its mission by:
- providing health and fitness programming and services
- ensuring the availability of high quality medical care for low-income, uninsured adults, and
- providing mission related grants to local nonprofits
The Foundation holds a unique role in the community as a provider of services, a grantmaker and a partner in the pursuit of building healthier communities.
Free Clinic of Culpeper
The Free Clinic of Culpeper provides confidential medical care and prescription drugs for Culpeper county adults who do not have health insurance or the means to pay for healthcare.
Powell Wellness Center
The Powell Wellness Center (PWC), recognized in 2018 as Certified Medical Fitness Facility of the Year, is one of only three Medical Fitness Association certified facilities in Virginia. A volunteer Medical Advisory Board guides staff in the development and delivery of medically-integrated fitness programs that help children and adults improve their physical and emotional well-being through health education, regular exercise and increased physical activity.
Culpeper Sport & Fitness
Culpeper Sport & Fitness offers indoor racquet sports, high intensity interval training (HIIT), group exercise classes, sports performance training and access to cardio and strength equipment. CSF is the area’s most youth-focused fitness center, offering tennis, Taekwondo, tumbling, boot camp, and team training for kids, and program support to youth-focused community organizations and schools.
News & Events
Culpeper Times: Culpeper Literacy Council helps spread health literacy to seniors
Health literacy education is underway in Culpeper, with volunteer educators trained through a Culpeper Wellness Foundation grant to the Culpeper Literacy Council. The health literacy program, HEAL, graduated its first group of participants at the Senior Center in mid April and a second session will be held soon.
read moreFamily Game Night at Culpeper Sport & Fitness May 4, 2019
Head to Culpeper Sport & Fitness for Family Game Night and play Nerf gun war, cornhole, pickleball and more! This special event is open to the community.
read moreCulpeper Times: Ready, Set, Go!
Foundation president Shari Landry shares tips from a Powell Wellness Center personal trainer on getting fit for race season.
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