The Inter-Mountain photos by Edgar Kelley Meals on Wheels of Randolph County received a donation from Movement Mortgage Tuesday at the Davis Medical Center Marketplace. Representatives from both organizations attended the presentation, including from left to right, Rhonda Coffman (Meals on Wheels of Randolph County coordinator), Mark Heitman (Movement Mortgage Market Leader), Amy Schumacher (Movement Mortgage Loan Officer) and Lynn Proudfoot (Meals on Wheels of Randolph County Board President).

ELKINS — Meals on Wheels of Randolph County was presented a donation check for $10,000 from Movement Mortgage this week at the Davis Medical Center Marketplace.

Representatives from Movement Mortgage, including area loan officer Amy Schumacher and market leader Mark Heitman, joined Meals on Wheels board members and volunteers  at the presentation.

“Our company, Movement Mortgage, has a foundation, and in the month of December they awarded $1.5 million in Karis Management grants,” Schumacher told The Inter-Mountain. “And Meals on Wheels of Randolph County was very lucky to get one of those.

“Karis Management is one of our appraisal management companies and they’ve had this set up for a long time. They make an application and then the employees vote on it, and fortunately we were allowed to get one this year.”

Movement Mortgage representatives nominate local non-profit organizations nationwide for its annual GraceWorks grant, and Meals on Wheels of Randolph County was nominated by Schumacher.

“Amy nominated Meals on Wheels and I reached out to the rest of the team in West Virginia and told them we needed to vote for Meals on Wheels,” Heitman said. “Amy has a great reputation with the company and does such a great job. Many people love her, so it wasn’t hard to convince others to get behind her nomination.”

Meals on Wheels of Randolph County doesn’t receive federal funding, so it survives on private donations and annual funding from the Tygart Valley United Way and Randolph County Commission. Davis Medical Center has been preparing meals for the organization for the past 50 years.

“We are independent, we are not part of the national Meals on Wheels, so we don’t get federal money that the national program gets,” said Lynn Proudfoot, Board President of Meals on Wheels of Randolph County. “We are independent and we are independently contracted with the hospital, who prepare meals that follow dietary recommendations for our clients. For instance, if someone is a diabetic, they will get a meal that follows diabetic guidelines.” 

Meals on Wheels of Randolph County had 136 individual clients in 2024. Recipients must live five miles or less from Davis Medical Center in order to receive a meal.

“Of our 136 clients we had last year, 80 of them were indigent, which means they couldn’t pay for their meals,” said Rhonda Coffman, coordinator for Meals on Wheels of Randolph County “So grants like this, money like this, donations in general, 100% goes to helping pay for meals for those types of clients. Because we pay for every meal that goes out.”

Coffman said last year’s meals cost $66,000, and the organization’s grants come in at about $33,000.

“This grant from Movement Mortgage is really going to make a big difference,” Coffman said. “Especially if we want to continue serving as we do.”

Proudfoot said running Meals on Wheels would not be possible without the organization’s many volunteers.

“Our volunteers are incredible. They use their own gas that they are not reimbursed for, and they give their time to make sure meals get to our clients,” she said. “We are always looking for more volunteers, though. Some of our volunteers go south for the winter, they are retirees and they do the snowbird thing, so we have people who rotate off.”

For more information on the program or to become a volunteer, call 304-636-4919, or visit the organization’s Facebook page.