United Way awards $11.3M to 81 community partners

United Way of Greater Cincinnati is investing a total of $11.3 million in 81 local nonprofits committed to bringing about systemic changes across the region.

The 2024-2025 funded partners – or “systems change partners” – have worked collaboratively with UWGC and each other over the past two years. They range from small place-based organizations like Brighton Center to large operations, such as Talbert House, spanning UWGC’s nine-county service area.

Partner convening at United Way of Greater Cincinnati in 2023

The work of each organization aligns with UWGC’s key impact areas: educational success, financial empowerment and housing security. As part of that process, UWGC hosts the organizations for community learning events throughout the year where they share tools and discuss challenges, roadblocks and successes.

The full list of awardees is below. Individual grant awards weren’t provided.

“These trusted community partners play a pivotal role in our transformational work,” said Moira Weir, UWGC president and CEO. “The organizations offer critical services, and their insights inform large-scale efforts to help families build foundations that can last for generations.”

2024-2025 funded partners

(NOTE: The list below was revised Aug. 12 per United Way.)

  • 4C for Children
  • Adams Brown Counties Economic Opportunities Inc.
  • BAWAC Inc.
  • Beech Acres Parenting Center
  • Best Point Behavioral Health (formerly The Children’s Home of Cincinnati)
  • Bethany House Services Inc.
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati
  • Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc.
  • Brighton Center Inc.
  • Brighton Properties Inc.
  • Caracole Inc.
  • Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio & Su Casa Hispanic Center
  • Center for Employment Opportunities Inc.
  • Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington
  • Central Clinic Behavioral Health
  • Child Focus Inc.
  • Children’s Law Center
  • Cincinnati Union Bethel (doing business as HER Cincinnati)
  • Cincinnati Works
  • Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
  • Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency
  • Clermont County Community Services Inc.
  • Community Matters Cincinnati Inc.
  • Cornerstone Renter Equity
  • Corporation for Ohio Appalachian Development (COAD)
  • Covington Partners
  • Dearborn County Clearinghouse
  • Easterseals Redwood
  • EC Learn
  • Every Child Succeeds
  • Family Nurturing Center
  • Found House Interfaith Housing Network
  • Found Village
  • Freestore Foodbank
  • GRAD Cincinnati Inc.
  • Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services
  • Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative
  • Health Care Access Now
  • High Achievers Aim High
  • Holly Hill Child & Family Solutions
  • Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME)
  • IKRON Corporation
  • Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area
  • Jewish Federation 
  • Jurisdiction-wide Resident Advisory Board (J-RAB Inc.)
  • Last Mile Food Rescue Inc.
  • Learning Grove & FamiliesFORWARD
  • Legal Aid of the Bluegrass
  • Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati
  • Life Learning Center
  • Lighthouse Youth & Family Services
  • Lincoln Heights Outreach Inc.
  • LISC of Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky
  • Madisonville Education and Assistance Center (MEAC)
  • Madisonville Mission Ministries
  • Mercy Neighborhood Ministries
  • New Horizons Rehabilitation Inc.
  • Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc.
  • One Community, One Family
  • Pro Seniors Inc.
  • RefugeeConnect 
  • Safe Passage Inc.
  • Santa Maria Community Services
  • Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses
  • SJO Kids Inc dba NewPath Child & Family Solutions
  • Southeastern Indiana Economic Opportunity Corporation (SIEOC)
  • Strategies to End Homelessness
  • Talbert House
  • The Bail Project Inc.
  • The DAD Initiative Inc
  • The Healing Center
  • The Ion Center for Violence Prevention (formerly Women’s Crisis Center)
  • Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio (ULGSO)
  • Welcome House Inc.
  • Women Helping Women
  • Workforce Innovation Center
  • Working In Neighborhoods (WIN)
  • YMCA of Greater Cincinnati
  • Youth Encouragement Services Inc.
  • YWCA Greater Cincinnati

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