This year’s funding marks the largest single-year total in the nonprofit’s 23-year history, including $1 million awarded to Cincinnati Children’s for the first time.
The grants went to 25 organizations that provide direct services such as summer reading programs, literacy tools for underserved students and essential resources for families in crisis.
The 13 grants came from a number of foundations, trusts and private donors. They’ll support a range of services for people dealing with blindness or visual impairment.
The Clermont County facility aims to improve access to medical care for families living in Ohio counties along the state Route 32 corridor and parts of Northern Kentucky. Plans are for the two-story, 110,000 square-foot complex to open in summer 2025.
If you ask Marty Humes what’s kept her going through more than four decades of volunteer work, you’ll likely get a simple answer: “It’s the people. When people come together, it’s a very powerful thing, what they can accomplish and do. That’s been the driving force.”
The African American Leadership Development Program is a 10-month program designed to support Black leaders in their own careers while also working to enhance professional opportunities for others.
UC Health received a $750,000 grant to support expanded offerings at its Timothy Freeman, MD, Center for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The grant came from the Hatton Foundation.