8th Round: 18 Nonprofits Receive $100,000 in Grants
by: Corporate Communications
CANTON, Ohio (June 21, 2011) – The Aultman Foundation has announced 18 area nonprofit organizations will receive the organization’s eighth round of grant funding totaling $100,000. The grants are structured to help further The Aultman Foundation’s mission by funding local agencies’ projects and 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:
• AGAPE Partnerships: $4,000 for It Takes A Village youth mentoring program
• Blessings in a Backpack: $10,000 for Dueber Elementary Blessings in a Backpack food distribution program
• Boys and Girls Club of Massillon: $8,000 for Triple Play program to implement a structured fitness and nutrition program to 500 at-risk kids
• Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc., Canton: $5,000 for Dyslexia Education Center
• Edgewood Community Project: $6,500 for Developmentally Disabled Baseball Field for use by Challenger Baseball and Special Olympics
• First Tee of Canton: $5,000 for The First Tee Nine Healthy Habits Program
• Girl Scouts of North East Ohio: $5,000 for Lego Teams Robotics Program
• Hammer & Nails, Inc: $3,000 for Stark County residents with physical limitations to live independently
• Hope Whispers Community Organization, Inc: $2,000 for Everything Physical program for inner city children
• Interfaith Child Development Center: $5,000 for Learning to be Healthy program for children to learn healthy habits
• Margaret B. Shipley Child Health Clinic, Inc: $6,500 to safeguard the storage of vaccines and improve the efficiency of Shipley Child Health Clinic's Pediatric Healthcare Program
• Refuge of Hope: $6,000 for a meal program to alleviate hunger
• Senior Independence of Akron/Canton: $7,000 for It's Never 2 Late computer system for the Canton Adult Day Center
• Stark County Safe Kids, Inc: $4,000 for training for certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians
• Turnaround Community Outreach: $4,500 for an identification card program
• We are Troubled on Every Side (WATOES): $7,000 to support wellness outreach for urban families in Canton
• Westark Family Services, Inc: $6,000 for Geriatric Case Management and Senior Outreach
• YWCA of Canton: $5,500 for STARR-Stark Area Rapid Re-Housing to provide beds, cleaning supplies and hygiene supplies to homeless families and individuals upon placement into permanent or transitional housing
The Aultman Foundation will distribute additional rounds of grants in October 2011. Applications will be accepted Aug. 15-Sept. 2. To learn more about the organization, contribute a charitable gift or apply for a grant, go to www.aultmanfoundation.org or call 330-363-4908.
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 $925,000 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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