Ohio Philanthropy News - May 10, 2024

The Community Foundation of Shelby County recently awarded more than $143K to local organizations during its Spring Community Grants cycle.
 
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra is collaborating on a musical residency with award-winning artist Jon Batiste, supported by a Columbus Performing Arts Prize awarded by the Columbus Foundation.
 
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress puts residents at the heart of its newest grant funding, which comes from a funding pool that includes the Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation and others.
 
The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation is one of the local special event sponsors of CNU 32.
 
Fairfield County Foundation’s Youth Advisory Committee awards $15K in grants to nonprofits.
 
The Defiance Area Foundation Project 2030 seeks to raise $500K by 2030, aiming to raise “enough money to build something we can only dream of today” for the Defiance community.
 
The Kaleidoscope Speaker Series on poverty and housing inequality in Richland County is made possible by the Richland County Foundation, Mansfield/Richland County Public Library, Renaissance Performing Arts Association and the Richland Source.
 
Local efforts to restore Wheeling cemeteries are underway with the help of volunteers and a “fair chunk of change” raised by the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley.
 
Two Stryker seniors were awarded scholarships from the Bryan Area Foundation.

“Big Nut” Jon Peter, an Ohio State University superfan, presented the Ottawa County Community Foundation with a scholarship check for $27.5K.
 
The Don Wood Foundation created the “Ignite Your Future” program to grow and strengthen advanced manufacturing and entrepreneurship in northeast Indiana and beyond.
 
Leadership Coshocton County is currently accepting applications; it is a program of the Coshocton Foundation and receives funding from the Willard S. and Helen F. Breon Fund; McWane Ductile Community Fund; Schooler Family Foundation; and individual contributions.
 
The Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will focus on Frederick Douglass, made possible through a matching grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
 
Hope Lane-Gavin, director of nutrition policy and programs for the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, said victims of EBT card skimming typically have no choice but to turn to food banks to feed their families, and pantries are already struggling to keep up with demand.
 
The Park District, the City of Zanesville, the J.W. and M.H. Straker Charitable Foundation and others made the Zanesville StoryWalk possible.
 
Eastgate Annual Meeting will focus on regional initiatives, and the panel will include Lynnette Forde, president of The Youngstown Foundation.
 
Thanks to Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation funding, a world-class trumpeter will partner with four Towards Employment alumni and staff to create a storytelling and jazz fusion piece.
 
Four eastern Cuyahoga County suburbs are joining a crisis response pilot that sends licensed mental health professionals alongside first responders, with additional funding through a U.S. Department of Justice grant, the George Gund Foundation, Cuyahoga County and the five communities.
 
Support from the Lozick Family Foundation, FirstEnergy Foundation, Lincoln Electric Foundation and Sherwin Williams Foundation supported a mobile unit to bring ultrasounds to expecting mothers.
 
In 2023, $2.18M was distributed to 77 nonprofit organizations through AES Ohio and the AES Ohio Foundation.
 
Owens Early Learning Center received a $10K grant from the Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation.
 
CEO Larry Culp launches GE Aerospace Foundation with $24M in pledged gifts.
  
More than 3,000 donors have given $1.4M to the Indian Lake Tornado Relief Fund over the last six weeks, officials from the United Way of Logan County reported Friday, May 3.
 
Current college students interested in applying for Salem Community Foundation scholarships can download the application on the foundation’s website.

Other Member News 

Ashland County Community Foundation growth spurs hiring and realignment.
 
The Cleveland Foundation has announced the upcoming fifth round of grantmaking from the Cleveland Black Futures Fund to support Black leaders and Black-serving organizations.