Home Savings Charitable Foundation Provides $25,000 Grant Award to YNDC

Friday, August 5, 2016

On Thursday, August 4, the Home Savings Charitable Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to YNDC for its REVITALIZE Youngstown program.

REVITALIZE Youngstown is a comprehensive neighborhood stabilization program to improve housing and property conditions, community infrastructure conditions, and safety in Youngstown’s neighborhoods in accordance with Neighborhood Action Plans, guided by the Neighborhood Action Teams. The strategies are intended to spearhead broader and more substantial neighborhood revitalization efforts over time, and have proven to do so in several of Youngstown’s neighborhoods. The strategies include boarding and cleaning up vacant properties, cleaning up and improving public spaces, installing neighborhood welcome signage, planting trees and making other landscaping improvements, and installing community murals along neighborhood corridors. Many thanks to the Home Savings Charitable Foundation and the Home Savings and Loan Company for this grant and their tremendous ongoing support of YNDC! REVITALIZE!