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The Mayerson Family Foundations:
Innovation and Involvement

The Mayerson Family Foundations are dedicated to creating communities that are just, caring and respectful – communities in which marginalized populations are empowered and all people have opportunities to seek their highest aspirations.

What We Do

We have formed two foundations that work together to help us serve the community:

The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation – Through this grant making foundation we partner with and invest in highly effective and efficient organizations positioned within their field to make a significant impact on the issues they address.

The Mayerson Foundation – Through this operating foundation we aim to generate and implement innovative approaches to important issues in our areas of interest for the purpose of contributing new knowledge and filling important unmet needs.
Featured Partners & Programs

Freestore Foodbank
New Identity and Mobile Pantry - On June 24, 2009 the Mayerson Center of the FreeStore/FoodBank was the site of the launch of a new corporate identity for the FreeStore and a new tool in their arsenal of weapons to fight the ever-increasing blight of hunger in our community.  If you think the FreeStore only distributes surplus food to the poor, you only know half the story.  It’s true that 10 million pounds of food is distributed each year through the FreeStore’s 400 member pantries in 20 counties in the tri-state region.  But food is just the beginning of a conversation – an expression of value and trust that allows the FreeStore to extend a helping hand to those in crisis.  In addition to providing food, the FreeStore refers clients to their own programs such as housing and job assistance or to those in their network of social service providers to make certain that clients are supported in all areas of their lives.

Today, one out of four children under the age of five is food insecure – their families do not know from where their next meal is coming.  Ohio is the third highest state in the country for that unfortunate statistic and Kentucky is fourth.  The current recession has resulted in a 35% increase in those seeking assistance over last year.  In an attempt to respond to the crisis the FreeStore has extended its hours until 7:00 PM in the evenings and has launched a mobile pantry that will deliver a half-of-a-million meals per year to clients who cannot travel to local pantries.  Paid for by Kraft foods with support from Kroger’s, the FreeStore’s pantry is the first of 25 nationwide that will hit the road over the next ten years.  The emotional highpoint of this morning’s dedication ceremony was delivered by Reubben Shaffer, Kroger’s Vice-President.  Reubben told how, as a 12 year-old, he and his family stood in line at the food pantry to receive meals they couldn’t afford.  Today, as an executive of the largest food retailer in the country, he is returning the favor.


VIA Institute on Character
The VIA Institute announces new Personal Character Profile reports on VIA Character Strengths.  The VIA Institute on Character is the publisher of the leading scientific survey of character strengths and virtues, called the VIA Classification.  The VIA Survey (VIA-IS), taken by more than one million people world-wide, is available free, online, a gift of the Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation. The Personal Character Profile report offers detailed descriptions of an individual’s VIA Character Strengths with multiple graphs to aid in analysis.  For more information, visit www.viacharacter.org.



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