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 Culpeper Wellness Foundation operates Culpeper Sport & Fitness, Powell Wellness Center and the Free Clinic of Culpeper.
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 medications for Culpeper county adults who do not have health insurance or the means to pay for healthcare.
Powell Wellness Center
Powell Wellness Center (PWC), recognized in 2018 as Certified Medical Fitness Facility of the Year, is one of only two 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. Powell offers a variety of group exercise classes and aquatic programs, including swim lessons for all ages.
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
Foundation welcomes new members to Board of Directors
Culpeper Wellness Foundation is pleased to announce the following appointments to the Foundation’s Board of Directors: Mary Margaret Cleary, Gillette K. Harris, Donna Staton and Octavia Yates.
PWC director Eric Good elected to Medical Fitness Association board
Eric Good, director of Powell Wellness Center (PWC) since 2012, has been elected to a two-year term on the Medical Fitness Association’s (MFA) Board of Directors. His term will begin in January 2021. Powell Wellness Center is managed by the Culpeper Wellness Foundation.
Our community grant response to COVID-19
Guided by our mission of improving health and promoting wellness, between March and August 2020, we provided just over $181,000 in grants to support efforts to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in our community.