Posted June 30, 20233:43 pm
By Linda Gandee
WESTLAKE, Ohio -- The Community West Foundation has announced its second quarter grant recipients, which reflect their partnerships with agencies that have the same focus.
Community West Foundation President and CEO Martin Uhle said: “Our focus on basic needs is always enhanced when we talk about housing and homelessness in our community. Cuyahoga and Lorain counties are blessed with amazing agencies that help the unhoused, and Community West Foundation is proud to support them.”
He also noted, “Affordable housing remains a critical need in our community. As a result, this quarter will be the largest amount in grants for us this year.”
Organizations receiving grants this round include:
Cuyahoga County
- Bay Presbyterian Bridge CLE’s Resilience Ministry, bringing needed trauma counseling services to the Clark/Fulton community
- Chair-ity, which provides furniture and home goods to youth aging out of the foster care system
- Community Housing Solutions, which provides home repair assistance to low-income homeowners, especially seniors
- Community Service Alliance, which provides shelter and other services to men experiencing homelessness, re-entering society or facing addiction
- Denison UCC, for programs and services for youth in an area without many resources available
- EDEN, which provides housing solutions for those who are homeless or housing insecure
- Family Promise of Greater Cleveland, which provides shelter, basic needs and supportive services for homeless families
- Front Steps Housing & Services, for permanent supportive housing
- Galilean Theological Center Counselor’s Training, a new program training inmates at the Grafton Correctional Institution to be addiction recovery counselors
- Goods Bank NEO, which provides furniture and home goods to nonprofits so they can provide them to their clients in need
- Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, which helps individuals transition from homelessness to home ownership
- Love Inc., which partners with local churches to help vulnerable families remain stable in their homes
- Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, which provides shelter and housing services, workforce development programs and coalition building
- Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, a street outreach program serving the shelter-resistant; advocacy for the homeless population
- Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center, which provides legal assistance to those seeking asylum from Latin America
- St. Herman’s FOCUS Cleveland, a shelter and services for homeless men
- The City Mission (Laura’s Home), a shelter for women and children who are homeless or in crisis
- The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, which helps secure safe and stable housing for low-income families and supports individuals who are re-entering society
- The Salvation Army Greater Cleveland, for the Zelma George Shelter, a family housing program that also provides additional supportive services
- True Freedom Ministries, which provides a variety of programs for those who are incarcerated, experiencing homeless or facing addiction
- Urban Hope, which provides meals and services on Sundays
- Ursuline Piazza, which provides housing and services for people who have HIV/AIDS
- Youth Bee Works, which provides education and manages colonies at The Refugee Response Ohio City Farm, as well as several other locations
- YWCA Greater Cleveland, for A Place 4 Me -- programing for youth and young adults aging out of the foster care system
- YWCA Greater Cleveland, for the Norma Herr Women’s Shelter, the largest women’s shelter in Cleveland
- Zelie’s Home, which provides housing for pregnant women, new moms and their children who are facing poverty
Lorain County
- Blessing House, which provides housing to children whose families are in crisis
- Good Knights Inc., which makes beds and provides them to children in need, in both Cuyahoga and Lorain counties
- Humility of Mary Housing, which operates a supportive housing program for chronically homeless single parents
- Neighborhood Alliance, whose Haven Center provides shelter and crisis services to men, women and children in need; largest home-delivery meal service for seniors in Lorain County
- The New Community, which provides trauma therapy services for men and women recently released from prison
- United Way of Greater Lorain County, for its UCAN (United Community Assistance Network), a new collaborative model in which nonprofits provide case management to ensure that clients receive needed services.
Source: cleveland.com - Community West Foundation grants $1 million to local nonprofits