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Palm Health Foundation is Palm Beach County’s leading community foundation for health. With the support of donors, they build strong community partnerships, advocate for our most vulnerable neighbors and inspire innovative solutions to lead change for better health now and for generations to come. They believe everyone should be afforded a fair and just opportunity for a longer and healthier life. Palm Health Foundation has invested more than $83 million in Palm Beach County health since 2001. Palm Healthcare Foundation was created in July, 2001 as the successor to Good Samaritan Medical Center Foundation and St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation. The foundation changed its name to Palm Health Foundation in July, 2018. Staying true to our heritage, grantees of Palm Health Foundation represent the diversity of needs and ideas in Palm Beach County. Train the Brain is one of Palm Health Foundation’s annual community health campaigns and empowers residents to take charge of their brain health. The goal of the campaign is to help Palm Beach County residents understand that taking care of the brain is just as important as taking care of the body. Participants are invited to make changes in their thinking, integrate self-care into their daily routines and show compassion to individuals with acute and persistent mental health conditions. Palm Health Foundation is an annual sponsor of the Brain Institute's Brainy Days series of community lectures and educational events and has co-sponsored a number of our outreach activities. The Brain Institute thanks Palm Health Foundation for their many charitable activities in Palm Beach County, including their support of the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium’s Journey through the Human Brain Exhibit, co-sponsored by Quantum Foundation and the Stiles-Nicholson Foundation. Visit website

The Cox Science Center, formerly the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, operates as a "best-in-class," community based science center providing visitors with engaging and interactive science education experiences. Since originally opening its doors, the Cox Science Center has hosted over five million visitors and are on track to serve 215,000 in 2017, with 65,000 public and private school children from Palm Beach, Martin, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties. With the help of the DAU Brain Institute, the Cox Science Center opened in March of 2019 Journey Through the Human Brain, an ~2500 sq. ft. permanent exhibit on brain science, technology and health. Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute leaders, Drs. Blakely and Baganz, were formal members of the exhibit advisory board and continues to work closely with museum leadership on exhibit activities. Visit website

The Brain Institute’s collaboration with the Cox Science Center led to the new permanent exhibit, Journey Through the Human Brain. The exhibit immerses visitors with an in-depth look at the structure and function of the human brain and how it communicates with our senses to create our thoughts and emotions.

The exhibit, while “kid friendly”, exposes more mature visitors to more advanced concepts including disorders of the human brain, adverse childhood experiences that can impact the healthy brain, and keys to a healthy brain life. The exhibit highlights the ground-breaking scientific research being pursued in Palm Beach County at the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, the Max Planck Florida Institute for neuroscience, and Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute.

The Per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation, recently pledged $160,000 to the MobileMinds program to offset costs associated with operations, equipment and educational resources necessary for program implementation in Title I schools, where children from low-income families make up nearly half of the enrollment, and afterschool centers in Palm Beach and Martin counties.

The program also received $13,050 from the merit grant program with Impact the Palm Beaches, a philanthropic organization dedicated to enhancing educational programs and projects in Palm Beach County schools.