June grants

June grants

$16,000: Treez Pleez, to educate children and young adults about the value of trees and to conduct a fall and spring planting.

$15,000: Community Legal Aid Services Inc., for the Supporting Mahoning Valley Workers Project, an initiative that will offer newly unemployed people legal advice and representation.

$15,000: Big Brothers & Big Sisters of the Mahoning Valley, to support a strategic planning process that will better position the organization for its future.

$70,000: City of Warren, to support Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership, a program that seeks to improve quality of life in Trumbull County neighborhoods.

$225,000: Planned Parenthood of Northeast Ohio, for an upgrade to the current health center in Youngstown.

$33,000: Warren City Schools Foundation, for employing a part-time staff member to help raise funds for scholarships and instructional programming.

$50,000: Youngstown Early College, for a summer-school program for incoming ninth-graders.

March grants

$32,000: Valley Counseling Services Inc., to help support a development director to be shared by Valley Counseling Services and Family Service Agency.

$30,000: Mental Health and Recovery Board for its Trumbull Lifelines project, which offers alcohol, drug-addiction and mental-health services for Trumbull County.

$30,000: HandsOn Volunteer Network of the Valley, to provide various services and training to area nonprofit organizations.

$50,000: Youngstown Business Incubator, to support a partnership with Youngstown State University’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics College to help develop a center for advanced materials.

$17,500: Goodwill Industries, to expand its retail operations to offer more job training and employment opportunities for clients it serves.

$50,000: Center for Community Solutions, for its groundwork Early Care and Education Campaign.

$20,000: Community Advocates for Young Learners, to support and prepare as many as 10 principals or administrators from Mahoning and Trumbull county schools to participate in a one-year project intended to help them better perform.

$19,000: Family Child Care Accreditation Project, to increase the quality of care of young children in the Mahoning Valley by supporting six family child-care providers in obtaining national accreditation through the National Association of Family Child Care.

$30,000: YMCA of Youngstown, to hire a development director to help the organization raise funds in the community.