Wean Awards $950K to 3 Community Organizatioms
WARREN, Ohio -- The Raymond John Wean Foundation has awarded $950,000 in new grants to three of their "strategic partners" in the Mahoning Valley.
The organizations -- the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. and Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership -- will receive continued support in 2014 to engage residents and cultivate leaders, build the capacity of community organizations and encourage collaborative efforts and impact.
"The support of The Raymond John Wean Foundation has been critical to the emergence of sustainable, resident-driven change in the Mahoning Valley,” said Heather McMahon, executive director of the Mahoning Collaborative, in a prepared statement. “As a ‘strategic partner’ in training and developing grassroots leaders, ensuring that their voices are heard in our democratic process, and moving structural change locally and across the state, we simply could not work at the capacity we do without the committed support of the foundation."
“With the Foundation’s prior support, these three ‘Strategic Partners’ have recorded meaningful achievements from leveraging financial support to coordinating services and collaborating with community partners keeping resident engagement central to their work,” added Jennifer Roller, Foundation acting president, in a prepared statement. “As shared values of the Foundation, we are proud to encourage and support these initiatives.”
TheMahoning Valley Organizing Collaborativewas awarded $400,000 over the next year in support of its commitment to identify and develop grassroots leaders, cultivate healthy neighborhoods and build the capacity necessary to create sustainable change in its community.
Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., a multifaceted neighborhood development organization, was awarded $350,000.
Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership, which aims to empower residents and promote sustainable community development through projects and programs that increase the quality of life in Warren’s neighborhoods, was awarded $200,000 over the next year.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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