Our modern age has witnessed a serious disintegration of our social structures and an associated deterioration in human behavior. We hope to build more ethical and humane communities by encouraging civic engagement and addressing basic human needs for health and safety.

(View: Better Housing)
Program
A multi-year grant was awarded to the Better Housing League for the Community Lead Education and Reduction Corps (CLEARCorps)
Project. CLEARCorps is a leadership development program that combats childhood lead poisoning by teaching about lead hazards and assisting with lead abatement in homes.

(View: Brighton Center)
Operating
Brighton Center is a "one-stop" continuum of services designed to help low-income individuals and families in Northern Kentucky move from dependency to self-sufficiency and beyond. An operating grant from the Foundation helped to fund a financial aid officer who assists individuals applying for federal funding to continue their education through Brighton Center's employment training program.

(View: Caracole)
Program
A multi-year grant from the Foundation helped enable Caracole to provide centrally-networked subscription computing services (application service provider) for nonprofit organizations. Along with individualized technical consultation services and database management services, area nonprofits will be better able to use technology to serve their mission goals.

(View: Children's Defense)
Operating
The Foundation’s commitment to the well-being of children led to a grant to help establish the local chapter of the Children’s Defense Fund. The Children’s Defense Fund identifies critical issues facing children and develops advocacy programs and strategies to address these issues.

(View: Crayons to Computers)
Operating
Crayons to Computers is a national model for transferring, at no cost, a community’s surplus supplies and merchandise into the hands of school teachers and their students in need. The Foundation has provided operating support for this free store for teachers that distributes more than three million dollars a year of essential learning products from pencils to PC’s.

(View: Freestore/Foodbank)
Capital
The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Food Distribution Center was established to enable the expansion of food distribution to 560 member agencies serving more than 200,000 people per year in a 19 county area. More than 12 million pounds of food and products are distributed annually to 550 nonprofits organizations in 20 counties in southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana.

(View: Cincinnati Habitat)
Operating
This organization is well known for attracting volunteers and donations for its work in building houses for low income families. A grant from the Foundation helped to capitalize a sustainable land bank reserve enabling Habitat for Humanity to purchase land more efficiently in advance of housing construction. As the land becomes developed, the grant dollars get recycled back into the land bank reserve in a perpetual cycle.

Capital
Hope Outreach Services has provided more than a decade of emergency aid to families in crisis. The Foundation provided support for the renovation of a shelter for unwed teenage mothers and funded a teenage pregnancy program that provides in-home assistance, health care and hygiene training, parenting classes and school tutoring.

(View: IMAGO)
Program
IMAGO is a community organizing non-profit that has taken a lead role in promoting sustainable community development in Cincinnati’s Price Hill neighborhood. Foundation funding was used to assess IMAGO’s fund development, redesign its public relations materials, and purchase needed technology.

(View: Jewish Cincinnati)
(View: Jewish Boca)
Operating
The Foundation allocates significant funds annually to the Jewish Federations to support their work in these two communities as well as abroad. The Foundation is a member of the King David Club and the President’s Club of the Bonds for Israel.

(View: Legal Aid Society)
Capital
The Foundation awarded a capital support grant for the renovation of the Community Law Center, which serves as headquarters for Legal Aid and the Volunteer Lawyers Project. The renovation makes it possible to expand programs that focus on children and on employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and families making the transition to economic self-sufficiency.

Capital
A lead grant from the Foundation to the Greater Cincinnati Oral Health Council created a community dental clinic serving indigent and homeless men, women and children in the city’s most beleaguered neighborhood.

(View: Underground Railroad)
Capital
The Foundation awarded a capital grant for the construction of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the largest museum in the country dedicated to the secret movement of slaves north to freedom during the Civil War. The Center is a centerpiece of Cincinnati’s revitalized riverfront, and a nationally prominent institution that applies the lessons of history to contemporary issues.

(View: Parents for Public Schools)
Operating
A multi-year grant to Parents for Public Schools was awarded in support of the central role that parental involvement plays in effective schools. The Foundation grant helps to fund this organization’s first professional staff hired to coordinate parent advocacy at the district level, provide leadership training to parent volunteers, and develop a clearinghouse and referral service.

(View: Public Allies)
Program
The Foundation awarded start-up funding for a local chapter of this national program that offers leadership training for young adults through a ten-month professional apprenticeship in community organizations. Continuing support has enabled the Allies to develop a network of diverse young leaders who will continue working to strengthen our community for years to come.

(View: Shared Harvest)
Capital
Soup kitchens in 30 Ohio counties depend on Shared Harvest Foodbank’s refrigerated storage for essential perishable food. A grant for the purchase of new cold storage helped Shared Harvest to safely warehouse and distribute the kind of food that is the scarcest part of a healthy diet for many low income families.

(View: Smart Money)
Operating
SmartMoney works to alleviate the root causes of urban poverty through economic literacy training, asset formation and financial services.

(View: United Way)
Operating
The Foundation is an annual contributor to the United Way Campaign and is a member of the DeTocqueville Society.

(View: Welcome House of Northern Kentucky)
Capital
A grant from the Foundation helped to complete the renovation of a community learning center that provides child care, computer labs, administrative offices and counseling for this organization that has transformed a formerly blighted corner of an urban neighborhood into a model of coordinated services for the recently homeless and for those at risk of becoming homeless.

(View: Women's Crisis Center)
Capital
Women’s Crisis Center runs the only domestic violence shelter in Northern Kentucky where counseling is provided to 6,000 victims of abuse annually, and where emergency shelter is provided to 550 families annually. The Foundation provided support to help insure a safe haven, the Crossroads Shelter, for women and children escaping domestic violence.

Program
The Xavier Summer Service Internship Program provides civic engagement training for college and high school youth through full-time service over the summer in a broad range of community organizations. The Foundation provided support for the participation of diverse high schools in this challenging program that pairs the high school students with college-age mentors in community service sites.

(View: YWCA of Greater Cincinnati)
Capital
A grant from the Foundation helped to renovate and expand the Alice Paul House, now known as the Battered Women’s Shelter, which provides emergency shelter, counseling, social services and advocacy for battered women and their children, the only such shelter of its kind in Hamilton County.

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