Wean gives $128K to neighborhood groups

Staff report

WARREN

The Raymond John Wean Foundation has awarded Neighborhood SUCCESS grants totaling more than $128,000 to Warren and Youngstown organizations.

Nearly all projects funded through this program involve neighborhood residents working to solve their own problems and to improve their communities, said Jennifer Roller, the foundation’s program officer. Grants range from $1,000 to $5,000 and include neighborhood beautification initiatives, safety efforts, workshops and leadership programs for students.

Recipients are:

A Bridge from Coal to Diamond Girls, $3,350; Altrusa Club of Youngstown, $5,000; Boulevard Park Block Watch, $4,480; Boy Scout Troop 15, $3,200; Downtown Youngstown Stakeholders Association, $2,200; Ebony Ladies Golf and Youth Foundation, $3,500; Fifth Avenue Community Church’s program, “Freedom from Addiction,” $3,750; Friends of Fido, $1,000.

Friends of the Greenhouse Consortium’s Packard Park Greenhouse Garden, $3,607; Garden District Neighborhood, $4,458; Give the Children A Chance Inc., $5,000; Hands of Hope: A Free Clinic, $5,000; Men of Destiny/Boys of Promise, $1,000; Northside Farmers’ Market’s “Healthy Food, Healthy Communities” project, $3,000; Pathway Sober House’s project, REMIND, $2,375.

Precious Ones Family Resource Center, $2,140; Pride Youngstown’s Fourth Annual Gay Pride Festival, $1,500; Project Linus’ Quilts from the Heart, $2,278; Rocky Ridge Neighborhood Association’s Rocky Ridge Gateways Project, $4,868; Southwest Neighborhood Association, $2,669; St. Anthony Church, $5,000; St. Dominic Church, $3,500; St. John’s Episcopal Church Red Door Pantry, $1,200; Stop One Place Help Is Available, $5,000.

Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past, $5,000; Youngstown Playhouse, $2,824; Trumbull Art Gallery’s Summerfest for Children 2012, $1,500; Upton Association, $3,994; Victory Estates Resident Council, $5,000; Warren-based TNR, $5,000; Warren Interfaith Community Action Committee, $2,733; Warren City School’s “Living Without Someone Special Collaborative,” $5,000; Warren City School’s “Today’s Technology, Tomorrow’s Leaders,” $2,870; West Side Community Center, $3,235.

Youngstown City Schools’ Volney Rogers Memorial Garden, $2,066; Youngstown Afterschool Alliance Advisory Board, $5,000; Youngstown Blight Club, $4,987.