Loyola Academy of St. Louis Receives $40,000 Grant to Support Its Nutrition Program

Loyola Academy of St. Louis announced it received a grant for $40,000 from Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S. This grant will be used toward supporting the nutrition program for students at Loyola Academy.

Bayer Fund and Loyola Academy of St. Louis share a mutual goal of seeing the communities we serve flourish. Students at Loyola Academy are in attendance from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM each day. This grant from Bayer Fund will support Loyola Academy’s young men by providing a daily healthy and nutritious breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack to ensure that each student is fully fueled and engaged in the classroom throughout the extended school day. As a previous grant recipient, Loyola Academy students have outpaced their same-aged peers on the nationally normed NWEA assessment in mathematics, language usage, and science for the last nine years.

Bayer Fund supports Bayer, one of the country’s largest life sciences companies, mission of Health for All, Hunger for None by working with organizations and non-profits, like Loyola Academy, to support health and wellness and food and nutrition.

“Bayer Fund is proud to support Loyola Academy and their work to make real, sustainable impacts in their community,” said Michael Parrish, President of Bayer Fund. “Programs like Loyola Academy combat the critical issue of food insecurity, and we’re honored to play a role with helping even more people in our community have access to healthy, nutritious food.”

Last year, Bayer Fund supported more than 2,200 charitable and nonprofit organizations to help address essential needs in food and nutrition and health and wellness. To learn more about Loyola Academy of St. Louis, please visit www.loyolaacademy.org.

About Bayer Fund

Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S., is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the communities where Bayer customers and employees live and work by providing funding for food and nutrition, education, and health and wellness projects. For more information, please visit www.fund.bayer.us.