SitemapThe Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley and its supporting organizations awarded $506,615 in grants to local nonprofits in the final grant cycle of 2022.
The Community Foundation’s general grant program awarded $179,615 to 20 organizations. The Western Reserve Health Foundation awarded eight grants totaling $65,000 to projects aimed at improving health in Mahoning County, and the Trumbull Memorial Health Foundation awarded five grants for $57,000 to health-focused projects in Trumbull County. The William Swanston Charitable Fund, which focuses on community projects supporting children in the Valley, awarded five grants for $80,000, and the Hospice Trust of Trumbull County awarded two grants totaling $125,000.
“The Community Foundation and its affiliated funds and foundations were able to award more than $2.3 million in grants for all of 2022, a small increase from last year,” said Shari Harrell, president of the foundation. “This money supported projects at 108 organizations. These nonprofits, schools, churches and government agencies cover a wide range of sizes, missions and populations served, but all are aimed at making life better for people in the Valley.”
Here are the fourth-quarter grants that were awarded:
Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley
- Bethel Church of God in Christ: $2,000 for the bi-weekly Bethel Feeding Program that includes food giveaways and cooking classes.
- Boston Avenue Neighbor Association: $9,000 for maintenance of expansion of the Happy Place Sanctuary at the corner of Firnley and Almyra avenues on Youngstown’s South Side.
- Compass Family and Community Services: $15,000 for the Senior Guardianship Program to protect local seniors from elder abuse. The program currently serves about 170 people.
- Down Syndrome Association of the Valley: $5,000 for health and wellness initiatives.
- God’s Warehouse: $2,000 for food pantry support.
- Heart Reach Neighborhood Ministries: $23,500 for the Super Kids afterschool program.
- Junior Achievement of Eastern Ohio: $5,000 for education programs.
- Lit Youngstown: $8,000 for annual operating support. Programs include the First Wednesday Reader Series, the Writer’s Circle group workshop, Third Saturday Fantasy Book Club and a yearlong intensive poetry workshop.
- MyPath Mahoning Valley: $10,000 for the Gap Year Initiative to support students who don’t enroll in college immediately after graduating high school.
- Northeast Homeowners and Concerned Citizens Association: $5,000 for a year-round youth development and adult job readiness program.
- RePlay for Kids: $7,615 for the Mahoning Valley adapted toy lending library and STEM workshops.
- Sleep in Heavenly Peace: $5,000 to build and deliver beds for children in the Mahoning Valley.
- SWAG Sisters 330: $10,000 for free workshops for Mahoning Valley women of all ages, focusing on self-encouragement, self-empowerment and self-engagement.
- The Youngstown Playhouse: $10,000 for operating support for the 2022-23 season.
- Thrive 10:10: $5,000 for operating support.
- Youngstown Area Jewish Federation: $5,000 for operating support.
- Youngstown Business Incubator: $25,000 to support the XJet 1400 Carmel 3D ceramic printer, an integral part of the Israel-YBI collaborative that brings additive manufacturing companies to the Valley.
- Youngstown Lifeguard Academy: $5,000 for operating support.
- Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.: $12,500 to purchase a dump truck for neighborhood cleanup projects.