Press Coverage


At its December board meeting, The Raymond John Wean Foundation awarded grants of $900,152, making this the foundation’s largest grant-making quarter of the year.

I would like to dedicate this space to some of the people and organizations that have made significant contributions to improve the lives of people in the Mahoning Valley this year.

Megan Evans, a Youngstown State University sociology, linguistics and English triple major, earned top honors for her research presentation on home ownership and impoverished people at a national sociology conference in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

It’s not unusual for Salvatore Melfi to draw some strange looks and a few remarks from his friends and associates when he talks about the pizza parlor he owns along McCartney Road on the east side of Youngstown.

Youngstown State University senior Megan Evans recently teamed with the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation to find out how low-income people are affected by home ownership.