WEAN FOUNDATION | Grant recipients

Since 2008, the Wean Foundation’s Neighborhood SUCCESS grant program has awarded just over $1.5 million to more than 450 projects in the Mahoning Valley. Recipients of the 2017 Neighborhood SUCCESS grants, ranging from $500 to $5,000 and totaling $98,988, are:

4 Square Block Watch; New Beginning Neighborhood Beautification; ABC Diamond Girls; Diamond Gems; Try STEM; Boulevard Park Block Watch; Beautiful Boulevards of Rush and Euclid; Central City CBO; Central City Unity Garden; Citizens Uniting Citizens, Inc.; Family Ties; Community Volunteer Council; Healthy Dining; Friends of the Mahoning River.

6th Annual Mahoning RiverFest; Garfield Community Garden; GCG Community Improvement and Outreach; Historic Perkins Homestead Neighborhood Association; Perkins Rose Garden Revitalization Project; Holy Crafters Beginning Quilting-Nursing Home Crafts-Teaching Knitting and Crocheting; Hunger Helpers; Youth Mission for Nutrition; Idora Neighborhood Assoc., Inc.; Glenwood Neighbors Initiative; Just Because; Children’s Health Fair and Fun Day; The Loop Group.

Meet Me on the Circle; Love Your Neighborhood Block Watch; Brier Hill Green Space Gateway Project: Phase 2; The Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past; Martin Luther Lutheran Church; Hope for Newport Community Garden; Metro Assembly of God; Adopt A Lot; Neighborhood Ministries Rockford; Health and Fitness; Quilts from the Heart; The Robins Project; Summer Box Office Series; Roosevelt Community Garden; Let it Grow Learning Garden Project; St. Angela Merici; Lower Eastside/Lincoln Park Revitalization; The Sewing Bank; Talent Build; Stop One Place; Help is Available; Assistance From All Sources in One Stop; T.N.R. of Warren, Inc.; Neighborhoods; A Place of Solutions for Residents and Cats; Trumbull Art Gallery; TAG Down Under Workspace; Trumbull County Historical Society; Traveling Trunks Program: In-School Curriculum Supplement; Urban Farm Cooperative; Beginning Farmer Co-op Experience (Cooled and Pre-Cooled Crops); YSUScape; Art Opportunity Site Catalog Implementation.

Source: Raymond J. Wean Foundation