Neighborhoods

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

The Schwebel Family Foundation has awarded a $1,000 grant to YNDC.

Many thanks to the Schwebel Family Foundation for their continued support of YNDC!

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

On Tuesday, December 27, the John F. Hynes and John D. Finnegan Foundation awarded a $12,500 grant to YNDC for the renovation of 2915 Glenwood Avenue.

The funds have been used to renovate the vacant retail plaza into a modern retail facility including the Glenwood Fresh Market, QuickMed Urgent Care, Inspiring Minds Youngstown, Savannah Joe's Restaurant, and Protestant Family Services. This is the second award of a two year commitment. This project is part of ongoing efforts to improve the greater Glenwood Avenue corridor. Many thanks to the John F. Hynes and John D. Finnegan Foundation for the support!

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

The Raymond John Wean Foundation awarded YNDC a $600,000 grant for 2023.

The grant award provides support for general operating, neighborhood organizing, and a Community Engagement Fellow. The Raymond John Wean Foundation is a private foundation that has a vision of empowered residents, creating a healthy, vibrant, equitable, and economically stable Mahoning Valley. The mission of the Foundation is to advance community building in the under-resourced communities of Warren and Youngstown, in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, through a powerful combination of grantmaking, capacity building, convening, and partnerships. YNDC is sincerely grateful for the ongoing support and strategic partnership with The Raymond John Wean Foundation.

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

YNDC completed the greening of 22 vacant lots along the Greater Glenwood Avenue corridor.

The lots previously had asphalt, debris, and other blighting material. YNDC cleaned, graded, seeded, and installed split railing fencing on all of the lots. Trees will be planted in 2023. 

Youngstown City Council members Anita Davis and Lauren McNally hosted a holiday ham box giveaway Tuesday afternoon.

Cars were lined up along Glenwood Avenue as volunteers passed out hams, pies, and even hot chocolate mix to families ahead of Christmas weekend.

Davis and McNally put the food drive together, finding others willing to help make it happen.

“When we had this idea, that’s all it was was just an idea, and where do we start? Within two weeks, we were able to put all of this together,” McNally said.

Before it was all over, 140 families were served.

To read the full story from WKBN, click here. 

The Raymond John Wean Foundation Board of Directors recently held its final meeting of 2022.

Dedicated to community building that promotes a racially equitable future through a combination of grantmaking, capacity building and partnerships in the under-resourced communities of Warren and Youngstown — and with a vision of creating an equitable Mahoning Valley — the Wean Foundation awarded grants totaling approximately $1.1 million to the following organizations:

• Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership (TNP) — Works to empower residents and promote sustainable community development in the City of Warren.

• Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC) — A neighborhood-focused community development corporation with a focus on improving the quality of life in Youngstown by building and encouraging investment in neighborhoods of choice for all.

To read the full story from The Vindicator, click here. 

Support local EmPower yoga teacher trainees at PurYoga as they embark on teaching community classes!

All proceeds will benefit the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC). 

To read the full story from Stay Happening, click here. 

Wednesday, January 4, 2022.

The W. and H. Bender Memorial Fund awarded a $1,500 grant to YNDC for the renovation of the Foster Theater.

YNDC is developing plans to renovate the building as housing and commercial space. Many thanks to  the W. and H. Bender Memorial Fund for the support!

Wednesday, January 11, 2023. 

QUICKmed Urgent Care has opened a new location on Glenwood Avenue in YNDC's Glenwood Plaza located at 2915 Glenwood Avenue.

This is the first urgent care facility to open in the City of Youngstown. QUICKmed is a locally owned and operated urgent care in northeast Ohio. QUICKmed operates multiple standalone urgent care clinics and YOUcare clinics located on school campuses. More information can be found on their website.

Lena Esmail cut the ribbon to what she said she believes is the “most impactful” QuickMed location Wednesday afternoon.

The celebration marked the opening of the 10th QuickMed Urgent Care facility.

Esmail, CEO of QuickMed and a nurse practitioner, said of all of the locations she has opened over the past four years, this one at 2915 Glenwood Ave. is extra significant.

After visiting with school districts and realizing need-based care could be sustainable if done correctly, Esmail decided to open an additional urgent care within the city limits amid the “health care desert.”

“For the community, we talk about our Valley and building in Youngstown,” she said. “We look at areas of health care and equity. When we look at Youngstown in general, we have the third highest population of children that are in poverty. What we know is poverty has a correlation with bad health.” 

One major goal for Esmail has been to tackle the issue of access – one main barrier for children in poverty.

“One thing we knew we could do to curve equity and care is to bring care to those who need it,” she said. “That’s why we decided to start here in the south side of Youngstown – knowing the demographic, the population and the need-based care.”

To read the full story from The Business Journal, click here.