The Raymond John Wean Foundation, founded in 1949, enhances community well-being and vitality

The Raymond John Wean Foundation, founded in 1949, enhances community well-being and vitality through strategic and responsive grants that help people living in economically disadvantaged communities and neighborhoods. The foundation has issued 24 grants totaling over $1 million:

ACLD Learning Center will receive $20,000 for its Urban Outreach Program. Its psychological and educational evaluation services will be expanded for school-age children in Youngstown and Warren.

The Alliance Community Outreach Program in Warren will receive $34,200 to support a strategic planning process and help its tutoring efforts for low-income children in Warren.

Associated Neighborhood Centers gets $62,800 to increase its fund-raising capabilities. It provides provide activities at McGuffey Centre in Youngstown.

The Boys and Girls Club of Youngstown will receive $41,900 to hire a fund-raising person.

The Mahoning CASA/GAL program at the Mahoning County Juvenile Court will receive a $7,500 for an expanded recruitment program of volunteers.

The Center for Community Solutions will get $135,000 for its groundWork strategy, which aims to make sure that every child in Ohio has access to high-quality early care and education.

Child Care Connection will receive $57,795 for Quality Enhancement Project. This five-year project improved the quality of day care centers in the Mahoning Valley.

The Children’s Museum of the Mahoning Valley, Youngstown, will receive $45,000 to increase internal administrative capacity.

The Community Volunteer Council will get $10,000 to help supply low-income Warren school children with school supplies, winter coats, hats and gloves.

The D & E Counseling Center, Youngstown, will get $40,000 to expand its Early Childhood Services with a focus on preparing preschool children for kindergarten by working with parents and teachers.

The Greater Mill Creek Inc. will receive $15,000 for its Health Awareness and Nutrition Education Program, which provides wellness and physical fitness activities for youth and adults.

The Greater Youngstown Point will get $18,000 to help operate a daytime drop in center for homeless people.

Jubilee Gardens will get $35,000 to help it provide opportunities for community gardening in distressed neighborhoods of Youngstown.

Kent State University Trumbull Campus will receive $60,119 over two years to seed a program of business internships. There will be an effort to recruit low-income and minority students to receive the scholarships.

OhioVOTES will get $100,000 to increase voter registration and turnout statewide.

Planned Parenthood of Northeast Ohio will get $50,000 to expand services for Mahoning and Trumbull.

Someplace Safe, Trumbull County’s only domestic violence agency providing shelter and crisis intervention, will get $42,357.

United Way of Mahoning County and United Way of Trumbull County will come together to prepare a campaign to sign up low-income children for government health insurance. A statewide group called Voices for Ohio’s Children will receive $65,000 to coordinate this effort.

The Warren Community and Clergy Coalition, a new group of Warren residents and church leaders who are coming together to address neighborhood concerns, will get $40,000 .

Warren GROWS is a group of stakeholders in downtown Warren who have come together to improve Courthouse Square and the surrounding area will get $75,000 to hire a director and to initiate activities.

Youngstown City Schools will receive $70,000 for two separate efforts: $50,000 for a math and science mini-grants program for teachers to buy supplemental materials; $20,000 to study the possibility of creating a program called the Youngstown Promise.

The Youngstown Urban Minority Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Outreach Program will receive $30,000 to continue its efforts to provide anti-substance abuse programs for Youngstown youth.

The YWCA of Warren will receive $7,500 to match its own funding to do a strategic plan.

York Avenue Church of God, Warren, will receive $30,000 to support its new housing program for parents who have lost custody of their children due to substance abuse problems.