Community West Foundation Grants $783,000 To Local Nonprofits

Press release from Community West Foundation:

March 12, 2021

The Community West Foundation Board of Directors approved $783,000 in first quarter grants to nonprofit agencies that provide basic needs services to the community in Cleveland, Western Cuyahoga and Lorain Counties. The recipient organizations include:

⮚ Beck Center for the Arts
⮚ Blessing House
⮚ Edwin’s Leadership Institute ⮚ Far West Center
⮚ Front Steps
⮚ Greater Cleveland Food Bank ⮚ Humility of Mary Housing
⮚ Journey Center for Safety and Healing ⮚ Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry ⮚ Neighborhood Alliance
⮚ North Ridgeville Community Care ⮚ Providence House
⮚ The Lantern Center for Recovery ⮚ The Refugee Response
⮚ The Salvation Army
⮚ Trials for Hope
⮚ Urban Community School
⮚ Youth Bee Works
⮚ YWCA Greater Cleveland - Norma Herr Center

Several members of the Board of Directors Grants Committee, along with Community West staff, personally delivered grant checks to these agencies. “We’ve really missed the in-person connection with our partners. This gave us an opportunity to see one another outside of Zoom for the first time in over a year,” commented Marty Uhle, President and CEO of Community West Foundation. In 2020, Community West Foundation provided 70 grants to nonprofit agencies, the most in the foundation’s history, totaling $2.4 million.

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