Fifth Round: 17 Nonprofits Receive Grants
by: Corporate Communications
CANTON, Ohio (Nov. 4, 2009) – The Aultman Foundation has announced 17 area nonprofit organizations will receive the organization’s fifth round of grant funding to help further The Aultman Foundation’s mission with their own services in Stark, Wayne, Holmes, Carroll and Tuscarawas counties.
The following organizations – whose services focus on health, education and human services for the underserved, especially the poor, elderly and children – are receiving grants for the specified amount:
- Association for Better Community Development (ABCD), $6,000 for transportation services for dialysis patients
- Christian Children’s Home of Ohio, $5,000 for counseling services for children
- Dragonfly Academy, $13,400 for speech and language pathology program for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Golden Key Center for Exceptional Children, $8,000 for child care services for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Guardian Support Services, Inc., $7,000 for volunteer guardian program
- Health Professionals of Holmes County, $3,000 for Impact Kids Fitness Club
- Horizons of Tuscarawas and Carroll County, $1,100 for exercise equipment for individuals in Adult Day Service Center
- Minerva Community Meals, $3,000 for replacement of warming ovens
- NAMI of Stark County, $4,500 for education and support programs for individuals and families with mental illness
- Personal & Family Counseling Services of Tuscarawas Valley, $4,500 for Older Adult Outreach services
- Phoenix Rising Behavioral Healthcare and Recovery, $15,000 for evidence-based teen and parent outreach services
- Pregnancy Support Center, Stark County, $8,000 for sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic, education and intervention program
- Quest Recovery Services, $6,000 for evidence-based substance abuse education and prevention programs
- Stark County Hunger Task Force, $10,500 for Community Campus Pantry
- Stark County Out of Poverty Partnership, $6,000 for Family Economic Success program
- Tuscarawas County Clinic for the Working Uninsured, $12,000 for free clinic program
- Voyager Program, $12,000 for Teen Violence Education program
The Aultman Foundation will distribute additional rounds of grants in May and October 2010. To learn more about the organization, contribute a charitable gift or apply for a grant, go to www.aultmanfoundation.org or call 330-363-2366.
About The Aultman Foundation
Aultman Health Foundation announced The Aultman Foundation in May 2007 to improve the health of the community using a two-fold process: targeted grant funding to area non-profit organizations and the acceptance of charitable gifts to the foundation and hospital. Since inception, the foundation has distributed $625,000 in grants.
About Aultman Health Foundation
Aultman Health Foundation is a not-for-profit health-care organization serving Stark and surrounding counties. The vertically integrated institution includes Aultman Hospital, the locally managed health-insurance provider AultCare, The Aultman Foundation and the Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences. With 682 beds, 530 active physicians and a staff of more than 5,000 employees, Aultman is Stark County's largest hospital. For more information, visit www.aultman.org.
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