The Cleveland Foundation

A coalition of Northeast Ohio philanthropic, corporate and civic partners have joined together to launch the second phase of the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund for continued support to nonprofit organizations dealing directly with the ongoing effects of the pandemic in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. 

 

updated OCT. 18, 2021, 11 a.m. EST

About the Rapid Response Fund

The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund was initially established on March 18, 2020, to complement the work of public health officials and expand local capacity to address all aspects of the coronavirus outbreak as efficiently as possible. In the Fund’s first phase, partners granted more than $8.6 million to nearly 160 nonprofit groups and organizations in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. On Sept. 1, 2020, a coalition of partners announced the creation of Phase II of the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund, extending the focus of Phase I.

Nearly $19 million has been awarded since the start of the Fund in March 2020, with more than $10.9 million (including a $4 million grant from Cuyahoga County’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act fund to combat homelessness in Greater Cleveland) in support committed in Phase II by:

Support for Phase I of the Rapid Response Fund was made possible by more than 2,300 individual contributions and major gifts from:

The Funders Collaborative on COVID Recovery

On Oct. 18, 2021, the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announced its final round of grants and launched the Funders Collaborative on COVID Recovery (FCCR) to spearhead its Phase III efforts.

Building on the work of Phases I and II, Fund partners will shift their focus from rapid response grantmaking to long-term COVID recovery in Phase III. FCCR is a partnership spanning nearly 50 foundations, nonprofits and governments focused on a multi-year approach to helping the region recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and come back stronger. Visit www.ClevelandFoundation.org/COVIDRecovery to learn more. 

Read more about the impact of the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund here.

 

One Year of Rapid Response

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit home, with the first cases of the novel coronavirus reported in Ohio. Within days, a small team of grantmaking professionals got together to form the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund. Read more learnings and reflections from the Fund’s first year in our community report. 

One Year: More than $11.5 million awarded

 

Phase I Grantee Partners: More than $8.6 million awarded

Phase I & II Grantee Partners

Phase II, Cycle 18, Awarded on Oct. 18, 2021

• The Beautiful Cycle ($5,000): To support education materials, sanitary hygiene supplies, pads, and equipment distribution for female children disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
• Bikur Cholim ($35,690): To support several hundred people in the Greater Cleveland Jewish community by providing culturally competent patient advocacy to help with emerging needs and service navigation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. ($60,000): To utilize WOVU 95.9 FM to raise awareness of long-haul COVID survivors and their families in the African American community, help connect individuals experiencing long-haul COVID issues and families who have experienced death from COVID with counseling and/or group support, and increase awareness of the suffering caused by long-haul COVID to help overcome vaccine hesitancy

• Collaboration Station ($48,600): To support staff, menu development, and food preparation to provide food security to 275 clients with medically tailored dietary needs that are emerging throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

• Forbes House ($10,000): To support the purchase of bed sheets, blankets, towels, washcloths, and cleaning supplies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among survivors of abuse living in their shelters
• Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO) (up to $25,000): To conduct best practices research on vaccination efforts, trust-building and engagement as well as strategies to reduce disparities in vaccination rates
• Juvenile Justice Center ($2,000): To provide incentives for youth detained at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center to receive the COVID-19 vaccine so both youth and staff have greater protection against the coronavirus
• Neighborhood Connections ($80,000): To support the continuation of Neighbor Up Action Grants related to COVID-19 as well as the storage and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) and hygiene supplies

• Sincere Hands LLC ($12,000): To provide basic needs and food items to 2,400 Greater Cleveland residents for the next year
• Starting Point ($5,000): To support professional deep cleaning for employees’ safe return to work

Phase II, Cycle 17, Awarded on Aug. 11, 2021

• McKinley Community Outreach Center ($20,000): To support infrastructural, operational, and programmatic expenses, including upgrading food pantry equipment and facilities, to meet the ongoing increase in demand for basic needs and food distribution in Lake County.
• Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry ($50,000): To support the increased demand for case management services and behavioral health needs.
• Haven Home, LLC ($10,000): To support the outreach and distribution of non-perishable food, clothing, diapers, hygiene kits, car seats and portable cribs to women with children and pregnant women in Slavic Village, Hyacinth, and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods.
• Living Independently For Transition Inc. (L.I.F.T., Inc.) ($10,000): To provide PPE supplies, consumable household items, food, water, toiletries, care packages, clothing, and more to youth between ages 12-28, who have aged out of foster care, experience mental illnesses, behavioral concerns, homelessness; or who are members of the LGBTQ community, or expecting mothers.
• Better Health Partnership ($106,000): For the purchase of 1,000 VISA gift cards for distribution to Cuyahoga County’s Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) to offer as an incentive for patients to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The grant will create a uniform and universal incentive program for all individuals that get their vaccines at a FQHC.

Phase II, Cycle 16, Awarded on July 14, 2021

• Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland ($32,500): To provide emergency food supplies and hot meals to community members. 
• Ease of Spirit Ministries of HOPE ($11,000): To fund the provision of food and PPE to low-income families, the homebound, and attendees of the organization’s grief counseling classes. 
• Medworks ($38,000): To fund the successful implementation of 14 vaccine clinics at various churches from March-May 2021 in partnership with the Cleveland Department of Public Health and Greater Cleveland Congregations. A total of 1,600 people were fully vaccinated. 
• JAYSTARR HOMES 2 INC ($35,000): To provide affordable housing solutions for young adults exiting the foster care system. 

• Vaccination Access and Mobilization ($332,000): To coordinate getting residents registered and vaccinated, utilizing the following organizations as hubs in their respective communities: Bellaire Puritas Development Corporation, Burten, Bell, Carr Development Inc., Global Cleveland, May Dugan Center, Neighborhood Connections, Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope (NOAH), University Circle Inc. and University Settlement Inc. 

The Homeless Services Taskforce, an ad hoc subgroup of the Rapid Response Fund, is also working to make investments in the homeless services system leading to long-term, systemic impact on clients and how services are provided. Investment priorities include those increasing the capacity of the system to provide safe, healthy non-congregate shelter and those supporting rapid movement of clients out of emergency shelter and into stable housing. The Taskforce continues reaching out to system providers to discuss these priorities and invite proposals meeting these goals. The following six Taskforce awards close out the $4 million grant from Cuyahoga County’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act fund earmarked for investments in the homeless services system: 

• Campus District Inc. ($650,816): To support the installation, fees, and maintenance of a network of high-quality permanent public restrooms throughout Downtown and Ohio City for use by individuals experiencing homelessness, as well as the general public 
• Emerald Development and Economic Network, Inc. (EDEN) ($200,000): To assist with capital costs associated with the creation of affordable housing to serve previously homeless families 

• Joseph’s Home ($121,460): To assist with capital costs and IT updates to the Joseph’s Home and Mary’s Home buildings, and capital costs for the creation and on-going operations of isolation rooms at Mary’s Home. 
• Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry ($690,000): Funding for ongoing efforts to support service provision to and housing of individuals experiencing homelessness in Cuyahoga County. 
• Ohio City Incorporated ($350,000): To purchase the Front Steps building located on West 25th Street to be used by the YWCA of Greater Cleveland to house homeless women. 
• YWCA Greater Cleveland ($127,208): To support staffing and operations of the Front Steps building located on West 25th Street to house homeless women due to de-concentration efforts at the Norma Herr Women’s Shelter as a result of COVID-19. 

Phase II, Cycle 15, Awarded on June 2, 2021

• Cleveland Rape Crisis Center ($32,500): To expand child and family therapy which has increased in demand due to the heightened incidence of sexual violence during COVID-related lockdowns
• Project Noelle ($5,000): To provide clothing care kits, diapers, and supplies for families in Greater Cleveland
• Fives Loaves Two Fish ($10,000): To provide food and hygiene supplies to individuals experiencing homelessness in the Downtown and St. Clair Superior neighborhoods

Phase II, Cycle 14, Awarded on May 18, 2021

• Neighborhood Connections ($65,000): To support the organization in its role as a Vaccine Access Hub, working with community-based partners to increase vaccine access and uptake
• Second Mt. Olive Baptist Church ($13,500): To fund COVID-related staffing positions and technology updates, and to provide PPE and meals to community members

Phase II, Cycle 13, Awarded on May 4, 2021

• Colors+ ($15,000): To fund counseling for families of middle school-age LGBTQ+ children in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties who can no longer afford services due to COVID-related unemployment
• East Cleveland Public Library ($22,000): To allow for the continuation of building modifications for COVID-19 CDC compliance and provision of PPE for the 25,000+ individuals who utilize the library
• Empowering & Strengthening Ohio’s People (ESOP) ($100,000): To support the continuation of services including housing stability, direct aid, rental and financial assistance support for vulnerable populations in Cuyahoga County
• Enduring the Course ($15,000): To address COVID-related behavioral health needs in BIPOC communities in Cuyahoga County; specifically supporting parents of children with mental health diagnosis not covered by Medicaid
• First Tee of Cleveland ($4,000): To support PPE & COVID-safety equipment for continued programming with students from Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties
• Greater Cleveland Congregations ($250,750): To support vaccine pop-up events to provide vaccines to 7,000 at-risk individuals in areas without access on Cleveland’s east side
• Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland ($25,000): To provide home-delivered meals to older adults in the Central neighborhood
• University Circle Incorporated ($6,548): To support PPE & COVID-19 safety materials and equipment for summer youth programs with youth from University Circle and surrounding neighborhoods

Phase II, Cycle 12, Awarded on April 20, 2021

• Asian Services in Action (ASIA) ($50,000): To hire multilingual Community Health Workers to provide COVID-19 outreach within the Cuyahoga County Asian community and serve as patient navigators at mass vaccination events
• The Center for Community Solutions ($15,000): To identify resources and opportunities to support our region's short-term response and long-term recovery from COVID-19 in the areas of public health, workforce, food security, housing, and issues affecting children through the American Rescue Plan
• Cleveland Metropolitan School District ($40,000): To provide basic needs including emergency food, sleeping and hygiene supplies, clothing items and cell phones to homeless students in grades PreK-12
• I’m In Transition Ministries ($20,000): To support the hiring of a COVID Care Specialist to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 by providing information about COVID safety and helping to connect clients in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties to the vaccine
• Neighborhood Connections (on behalf of the Greater Cleveland Distribution Collective) ($99,878): To support grassroots PPE coordinators to supply sanitation and hygiene supplies and PPE when available for 6 months on the east side of Cuyahoga County
• Neighborhood Connections ($97,750): To allow for additional staffing and PPE procurement (including KN95 masks) for distribution to protect against more contagious COVID-19 variants
• Providence House, Inc. ($25,000): To increase paid staff to support children in residential living facilities in Cuyahoga County and to assist with their remote learning
• Recovery Resources ($37,500): To support grocery assistance and partial funding of COVID-19 screening positions across the organization’s Cuyahoga County locations to ensure that clients can meet safely in person
• Simply Virtual, Inc. ($20,000): To hire trainers to set up tablets and enhance their accessibility and usability for seniors living in the Westerly Apartments in Lakewood
• United Church Homes, Inc. ($30,000): To fund the procurement of digital devices and three years’ worth of internet connectivity for older adult residents at the South Haven Woods housing community

Phase II, Cycle 11, Awarded on April 6, 2021

• Cleveland Clergy Coalition ($53,550): To support a transportation program established and operated by a network of faith-based entities to bring residents to the Wolstein Center for their vaccinations
• Comité Mexicano de Cleveland ($50,000): To provide culturally sensitive COVID-19/vaccination information, transportation vouchers, health education outreach and cultural programs for Hispanic families in Cuyahoga, Geauga and Lake counties
• Cudell Improvement Inc. ($50,000): To fund a critical new position that will help connect neighborhood residents to resources in order to prevent eviction
• Journey Center for Safety and Healing ($45,000): To provide youth and adults access to trauma therapy services, the demand for which has increased since the start of the pandemic
• Living Truth Center for Better Living Inc. ($20,950): To provide PPE, basic needs, and food supplies to the most economically vulnerable in East Cleveland
• Love INC of Cuyahoga County ($20,000): To provide basic needs, personal care items, and direct stipends to support housing and utility assistance
• Mass Vaccination Site Mobilization ($520,000): To coordinate getting residents registered and vaccinated at the COVID-19 mass vaccination site at the Wolstein Center, utilizing the following organizations as hubs in their respective communities: Bellaire Puritas Development Corporation, Burten, Bell, Carr Development Inc., Downtown Cleveland Alliance, Global Cleveland, May Dugan Center, Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope, University Circle Inc. and University Settlement Inc.
• Mommy and Me Too Inc. ($8,895): To provide basic needs support and wraparound services for moms and pregnant women in recovery
• Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center ($35,000): To increase facilities and capacity of the legal clinic to support and prevent homelessness among members of the Latinx community and those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS

The Homeless Services Taskforce, an ad hoc subgroup of the Rapid Response Fund, is also working to make investments in the homeless services system leading to long-term, systemic impact on clients and how services are provided. Investment priorities include those increasing the capacity of the system to provide safe, healthy non-congregate shelter and those supporting rapid movement of clients out of emergency shelter and into stable housing. The Taskforce continues reaching out to system providers to discuss these priorities and invite proposals meeting these goals. Thus far, the Taskforce has made three investments totaling more than $1.86 million:

• Emerald Development and Economic Network, Inc. (EDEN) ($287,000): To assist the movement of individuals into permanent housing, including the purchase of basic items such as cookware, towels and bedding
• Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (on behalf of the Continuum of Care) ($1,214,200): To continue the coordination of hotel rooms to help reduce the likelihood of a COVID-19 outbreak in an emergency shelter, with the expectation that this initiative will continue at least through the end of 2021
• YWCA Greater Cleveland ($359,316): To support a secondary women’s shelter to help maintain social distancing, and to support young adults who are homeless – many of whom are aging out of the foster care system – and their transition into stable housing

Phase II, Cycle 10, Awarded on March 23, 2021

• Cleveland Clergy Alliance ($50,000): To supply meals, utilities assistance, technological devices, and PPE to low-income seniors in Cuyahoga County, while also providing navigators to help seniors register for, and gain access to, vaccines
• DDC Clinic - Center for Special Needs Children ($25,000): To provide PPE, COVID-19 testing and contact tracing and basic needs and healthcare outreach for the most medically fragile Amish families in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties
• MidTown Cleveland ($27,200): To distribute meals purchased from local Asian- and Black-owned businesses to immigrants, seniors, and non-native English speakers in AsiaTown
• Senior Citizen Resources, Inc. ($32,280): To provide 4,800 meals to isolated low-income seniors primarily located in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood
• United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc. ($50,000): To support the Khnemu Foundation’s Faith And Community Together Serving (FACTS) CLE initiative, including distribution of PPE and accurate COVID-19/vaccination information to underserved populations in Cuyahoga County via community distribution events

Phase II, Cycle 9, Awarded on March 9, 2021

• ACE Mentor Program ($20,000): To provide PPE and basic needs support for program alumni from 10 schools across Greater Cleveland to help keep them on their collegiate pathway
• Islamic Center of Cleveland ($40,000): To help the mosque continue to serve members of an underfunded community with basic needs assistance resulting from COVID-19
• Kidney Foundation of Ohio, Inc. ($8,000): To provide PPE kits and vaccine outreach to clients in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties
• Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless ($2,500): To provide bus passes for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Cleveland in order to increase vaccine access and to assist in following up on clinic visits, housing appointments and other essential needs
• Partnership Schools ($5,000): To provide PPE for continued in-school learning for nearly 500 elementary school students at Archbishop Lyke and St. Thomas Aquinas in Cleveland
• Strengthening Our Students (SOS) ($5,000): To provide PPE for students on Cleveland’s near east side who are participating in the organization’s educational and life skills programs

Phase II, Cycle 8, Awarded on Feb. 23, 2021

• Motivated and Empowered, Inc. ($25,000): To provide basic needs, food, care kits, PPE and vaccine education outreach to at-risk youth in Cuyahoga County
• Neighborhood Connections ($175,000): To provide grants ranging from $500-$5,000 to small nonprofit organizations, faith-based congregations, and grassroots and neighborhood civic groups throughout Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties for a broad range of essential human needs such as healthy food, safe shelter, and to reduce social isolation. Since receiving its first round of funding on April 10, Neighborhood Connections has awarded $846,000 to 276 groups and organizations.
• Ravenwood Health ($20,000): To provide clients in Geauga County with basic needs, including temporary housing, security deposits, rent payments, winter necessities, toiletries and transit vouchers
• United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cleveland, Inc. ($18,000): To purchase PPE and to allow for technology upgrades for virtual programming for children and adults with disabilities in Cuyahoga County

Phase II, Cycle 7: Awarded on Feb. 9, 2021

• Epilepsy Association ($45,000): To provide tablets to keep vulnerable clients in Cuyahoga County in touch with case managers and other healthcare professionals in order to improve client health outcomes by increasing access to care
• Feed the Soul ($20,000): To purchase a new refrigerator and to collaborate with additional organizations to identify transportation for food delivery to up to 500 additional individuals with difficulties accessing services in Cleveland’s near east side neighborhoods
• Help Foundation, Inc. ($30,000): To continue to staff the organization’s residential facilities 24 hours a day, while offering virtual adult day support services for individuals with developmental disabilities in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties
• Koinonia Homes, Inc. ($15,000): To install touchless bathroom faucets in Cuyahoga County residences housing multiple clients to help stop the spread of COVID-19 among individuals with developmental disabilities and staff members
• Medina Creative Housing Inc. ($20,000): To purchase PPE for staff and clients and to provide additional distance learning and life skills training opportunities to individuals with developmental disabilities in Cuyahoga County
• New Agrarian Center ($10,000): To allow the continued operation of 15 City Fresh markets, 10 of which are located in Cuyahoga County census tracts deemed food deserts
• 1,000 Ties ($9,500): To provide 2,000 hygiene kits to Cleveland Metropolitan School District students
• Two Foundation ($30,000): To continue to provide job training and placement for individuals with developmental disabilities in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties
• West Side Catholic Center ($18,000): To purchase new HVAC systems and air purification systems so that the organization on Cleveland’s near west side can continue to provide programming and meal delivery services by keeping staff and clients safe

Phase II, Cycle 6: Awarded on Jan. 26, 2021

• Birthing Beautiful Communities ($50,000): To support the behavioral, mental, social, and physical needs of birthing families by working with Our Wellness Network (OWN) to provide basic needs and mental health services for pregnant and postpartum women in under-served communities
• EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute ($50,000): To work in partnership with nearly 15 different Cuyahoga County organizations in order to provide up to 20,000 hot meals to seniors and homebound individuals via the EDWINS Extends a Hand program
• Franciscan Communities - Mount Alverna Home ($25,000): To provide PPE, disinfecting supplies and diagnostic testing devices (thermometers and AccuShields) to ensure the safety of residents and decrease the spread of COVID-19
• Hitchcock Center for Women, Inc. ($32,000): To provide priority housing for women in treatment and their children, while increasing available technology for telehealth, employment opportunities and virtual sober supports
• McCall Consulting & Associates ($20,800): To provide basic needs (clothing, hygiene and household products, PPE and school supplies) in underserved communities through a “Basic Needs Drive” and distribution to approximately 140 clients in Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods
• Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition ($20,000): To purchase healthy, fresh and shelf-stable foods in order to provide groceries for families in Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods isolated due to disability, economic hardship, domestic violence and pandemic restrictions
• Stella Maris, Inc. ($40,000): To purchase testing kits and cleaning services, in order to allow the organization to continue on-site service delivery for in-patient and detox programs

Phase II, Cycle 5: Awarded on Jan. 12, 2021

• All Faiths Pantry ($12,000): To continue to safely prepare and deliver food and basic care items to low-income seniors and individuals with mobility challenges in Cuyahoga County
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio ($50,000): To purchase food, cleaning supplies and PPE to allow for the continuation of extended hours for youth at the King Kennedy Club location on Cleveland’s east side
• Cleveland Chesed Center ($26,000): To continue to provide food, including kosher options, to homebound individuals and families in Greater Cleveland, as well as school-age children who are currently unable to take part in school lunch programs
• Cleveland Transformation Alliance ($30,000): To support school quality navigators who are providing families with the essential knowledge, tools and support they need to help their children find the best fit school, with an additional focus on students transitioning from pre-K to kindergarten and from eighth grade to high school
• Esperanza Inc. ($20,000): To support two full-time programing coordinators who will oversee two learning pods that primarily serve Hispanic students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood
• Famicos Foundation ($35,150): To continue to deliver food and hygiene products to low-income senior residents in the Hough, Glenville and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods 
• HFLA of Northeast Ohio ($20,000): To continue to provide interest-free emergency loans to address the financial challenges Northeast Ohio residents are facing due to COVID-19
• Joseph’s Home ($17,845): To hire additional staff and to purchase medical and disinfecting supplies for the medical respite shelter, with the goal of relocating medically at-risk clients in Cuyahoga County to permanent housing
• Thea Bowman Center ($40,000): To support additional part-time staff who will help connect seniors and families in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood to PPE, information about COVID-19 testing, vaccine information and a variety of support services
• The Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland ($50,000): To continue to handle increased demand for the Emergency Food Program at five food pantries, and to maintain Learning Zone programs at three locations across Greater Cleveland
• United Way Services of Geauga County ($21,778): To hire part-time staff to help reduce the backlog and waiting times of 2-1-1 calls for help, serving primarily seniors and addressing basic needs in Geauga County
• Vineyard Christian Fellowship ($27,500): To continue to partner with the Greater Cleveland Food Bank and the National Guard in order to meet the increased demand for the food pantry from residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties

Phase II, Cycle 4: Awarded on Dec. 22, 2020

• The City Club of Cleveland ($25,000): To support the City Club’s food distribution partnership with Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries, an effort that is producing 10,000 meals every week for Greater Cleveland’s homeless population
• Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center ($25,000): To provide basic needs such as food, clothing, utility and housing assistance, as well as loaner laptops and personalized technical support for deaf clients, those with speech disorders, and their families in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties
• Harvard Community Services Center ($35,000): To continue to serve homebound adults and families across the Lee-Harvard, Miles and Seville neighborhoods through the mobile delivery of care packages containing food and basic hygiene items
• HOLA Ohio ($25,000): To facilitate access to medical care and unemployment assistance for the Latino and immigrant populations in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties, while also providing PPE and funds for help with basic needs including housing, bills, groceries and medicines
• LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland ($21,779): To continue to provide food assistance, transportation, social-emotional support via tele/virtual community group meetings and programming, virtual wellness options, street outreach, and legal referrals and advocacy for the LGBTQ population in Greater Cleveland
• Pregnant with Possibilities Resource Center ($49,000): To provide support and transportation assistance to help expectant and new mothers in Cuyahoga County access Making Opportunities Matter (M.O.M.) counseling and diaper distributions
• Senior Transportation Connection (STC) ($15,000): To continue essential transportation operations that prioritize medical, dialysis and food access trips, while also purchasing enhanced PPE for older adults in Cuyahoga County with mobility needs and limited social supports
• Slavic Village Development ($20,000): To provide funds for emergency housing repairs, emergency rental/mortgage assistance, food insecurities and transportation needs, PPE and health-related cleaning supplies funds to those facing housing instability or homelessness in the Broadway/Slavic Village neighborhoods
• Ursuline Piazza ($5,000): To provide food assistance for HIV-positive residents in Cuyahoga County to help avoid food insecurity during the holiday season

Phase II, Cycle 3: Awarded on Dec. 8, 2020

• Better Health Partnership ($35,000): To support staffing needs for the region's Federally Qualified Health Centers Collaboration, enabling them to develop and implement COVID-19 testing strategies to bolster testing in locations where risk of infection is high
• Community Service Alliance ($40,050): To continue to provide safe and supportive housing, job assistance, and life skills training at four locations on Cleveland’s near west side for men transitioning to independence and self-sufficiency from poverty, homelessness and addiction
• Greater Cleveland Congregations ($50,000): To continue to work in conjunction with UnitedHealthcare to bring COVID-19 testing sites for four weeks to the Slavic Village, Lee-Harvard and Glenville neighborhoods, while also developing a process to follow up with people who test positive for COVID-19 at these testing sites to ensure they can isolate safely without transmitting the virus to others
• LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County ($48,654): To continue to provide food assistance and expanded virtual options for community group social-emotional support meetings and wellness programming in Lake County
• Lake County Free Clinic ($15,000): To expand case management services and provide COVID-19 safety kits, while continuing to provide essential medical care to uninsured and under-insured individuals in eastern Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties
• Lakewood Community Services Center ($50,000): For additional staffing needed to continue its zero-contact food delivery and distribution system for individuals and families in Lakewood, Rocky River and Westlake who are facing food insecurity
• Little Africa Food Cooperative ($60,000): To continue to deliver the needed equipment, supplies, information and food to seniors, mentally and physically disabled residents and homeless populations on Cleveland’s near east side
• Neighborhood Connections ($120,000): To continue to provide grants ranging from $500-$5,000 to small nonprofit organizations, faith-based congregations, and grassroots and neighborhood civic groups throughout Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties for a broad range of essential human needs during COVID-19, such as healthy food, safe shelter, and to reduce social isolation. Since receiving its first round of funding on April 10, Neighborhood Connections has awarded nearly $680,000 to more than 200 groups and organizations.
• Relink.org ($35,000): To conduct outreach events in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties in order to connect individuals struggling with opioid addiction to resources and services
• St. Paul’s Community Outreach ($20,000): To continue to provide rent and utility assistance, while also distributing PPE and household cleaning items for at-risk and low-income residents in the Ohio City and Detroit Shoreway neighborhoods on Cleveland’s near west side
• Spanish American Committee ($18,500): To give food, utility and rental assistance stipends to low-income and elderly Latino populations in Greater Cleveland, while also providing clients with emotional and mental health resources and crisis financial planning assistance
• West Park United Church of Christ ($36,000): To continue to support the organization’s food pantry and delivery programs for vulnerable populations in Cleveland’s West Park, Kamm’s Corners and Puritas-Longmead neighborhoods
• Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio (UHCAN) ($15,480): To work with community members to identify the needs and challenges related to testing, treatment and vaccination, and to advocate for better care for low income populations in Cuyahoga County
• YWCA Greater Cleveland ($82,000): To continue to provide basic needs, food security, and on-site and remote case management at Permanent Supportive Housing for formerly homeless and low-income women at two locations in Cleveland

Phase II, Cycle 2: Awarded on Nov. 24, 2020

• Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry ($15,000): To continue to meet the increased demand for delivery of culturally sensitive meals for seniors and low-income families in eastern Cuyahoga County
• Denison Avenue United Church of Christ ($14,000): To allow for the expansion of shelter service through April, while also continuing food distribution to shut-ins and hot meals for small groups of youth on Cleveland’s near west side
• The Edna House for Women ($15,000): To continue to provide shelter, housing and sobriety services for women recovering from drug and alcohol addiction in Cuyahoga County, including the purchase of tablets to allow for group meeting participation while quarantining
• Greater Cleveland Congregations ($50,000): To work in conjunction with UnitedHealthcare to bring COVID-19 testing sites to the Slavic Village, Lee-Harvard and Glenville neighborhoods for four weeks, while also developing a process to follow up with people who test positive for COVID-19 at these testing sites to ensure they can isolate safely without transmitting the virus to other family members
• Heights Christian Church ($27,000): To continue to support collaboration with other churches and community organizations as part of the Unity in the Community food pantry program, which addresses food insecurity for nearly 200 households in Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods
• May Dugan Center ($45,000): To hire a Spanish-speaking mental health counselor, while continuing to support the organization’s drive-through food distribution service and victim service programs in Cuyahoga County
• Neighborhood Connections ($121,500): To provide grants ranging from $500-$5,000 to small nonprofit organizations, faith-based congregations, and grassroots and neighborhood civic groups throughout Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties for a broad range of essential human needs such as healthy food, safe shelter, and to reduce social isolation. Since receiving its first round of funding on April 10, Neighborhood Connections has awarded $648,627 to 199 groups and organizations.
• St. Aloysius Catholic Church ($10,000): To support the organization’s outreach to senior citizens as well as homebound residents and families dealing with food insecurity in the Collinwood, Glenville and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods
• Salaam Clinic of Cleveland ($13,000): To purchase PPE and infection control equipment and to expand telehealth services so that the clinic can continue providing health care services to the uninsured and underinsured population of Northeast Ohio
• SMART Recovery ($26,250): To continue to provide tools and peer support for individuals and their families dealing with addiction across Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties
• Zion Hill Baptist Church ($10,000): To continue to provide healthy meals and snacks to senior citizens in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood

Phase II, Cycle I: Awarded on Nov. 10, 2020

• Building Hope in the City ($20,000): To support the refugee and immigrant population in Cleveland’s Westpark neighborhood with emergency cash assistance, facilitating unemployment applications and short-term job placement applications for adults, as well as support for remote learning at the organization’s educational enrichment center
• Garfield Human Development Corporation ($15,000): To continue to meet the increased demand for the organization’s food security programs and the distribution of PPE
• Neighborhood Connections ($335,000 – from remaining Phase I funds): To provide grassroots community groups and small community-based organizations with PPE and personal care items to distribute to residents in their communities, and to expand a distribution and supplier network that has been developed to lower costs and increase access to PPE
• Smart Development Inc. ($75,000): To provide food, basic needs items, employment assistance, language translation and housing support for new immigrants, people of color, and refugees in Cuyahoga County
• Union Miles Development Corporation ($25,000): To purchase and distribute home COVID-19 testing kits and PPE for up to 300 low-income and senior residents in the Union-Miles, Harvard and Mt. Pleasant communities
• United Way of Greater Cleveland ($100,000): For academic learning pods to provide remote learning support, meals, and enrichment to nearly 800 Cleveland Metropolitan School District students

Round 11 Grants: Awarded on July 17, 2020

Food & Shelter

• Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) ($75,000): To hire additional resident employees to help clean and sanitize buildings across CMHA’s 60 housing developments, which serve 55,000 low-income residents across Cuyahoga County.
• Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry ($90,000): To provide staffing and technology that will allow the organization to conduct its workforce development and other programming remotely and to build capacity to continue safely serving vulnerable populations in Greater Cleveland during the pandemic. 
• Paschal Baylon Roman Catholic Parish ($20,000): To purchase additional food, masks, hygiene products and other supplies for the unsheltered homeless population of Downtown Cleveland and surrounding areas.
• United Church Homes/South Haven Woods ($10,000): To purchase cleaning supplies and enhanced nutrition for low-income residents, who are older adults or people of all ages with disabilities.
• West Park Baptist Church ($32,000): To provide additional staffing, PPE, and cleaning supplies for increased food distribution in the West Park/Bellaire Puritas community.
• Zion Hill Baptist Church ($30,000): To purchase food and personal care products for families struggling due to COVID-19, and to also provide for staffing and transportation for Mt. Pleasant community distribution.

PPE/COVID Testing

• Olivet Housing & Community Development Corp. ($40,000): To expand its COVID-19 testing services as a community-wide free testing site and to purchase and distribute PPE supplies to those in the Fairfax neighborhood who do not have access to, or cannot afford to purchase, items such as masks, hand sanitizer, gloves and thermometers.
• United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland ($100,000): To partner with The Khnemu Foundation to unify more than 50 faith-based partners through the FACTS CLE (Faith and Community Together Serving CLE) network, which will purchase, store, assemble and distribute more than 25,000 PPE kits for vulnerable residents in the city of Cleveland and inner ring suburbs.

Children & Youth

• Starting Point ($200,000): To create a rapid relief fund that will provide mini-grants to early care and education programs throughout Cuyahoga County to respond to their needs, including PPE, staffing and pandemic-related materials, as these programs reopen and are challenged to navigate COVID-19.
• The Diaper Bank of Greater Cleveland ($33,000): To continue to safely address the growing need for diapers, wipes, infant supplies and supportive services for children and families disproportionally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Northeast Ohio Adoption Services ($20,000): To support programs reducing the heightened and potentially life-threatening risks of foster care youth/young adults.

Connectivity

• East Cleveland Public Library ($50,000): To modify the physical facility and provide PPE in order to be COVID-19 compliant and to purchase additional hot spots and digital equipment to be used by patrons and older adults in senior facilities near the library.

Small Community Grants

• Neighborhood Connections ($200,000): To provide grants ($500-$5,000) to small nonprofit organizations, faith-based congregations, and grassroots and neighborhood civic groups throughout Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties for a broad range of essential human needs such as healthy food and safe shelter. Since receiving its first round of funding on April 10, Neighborhood Connections has awarded 134 grants totaling more than $450,000.  

Round 10 Grants: Awarded on June 26, 2020

Food & Shelter

• Collaboration Station ($36,000): To expand the capacity of its CCHAP Meals on Wheels program, which delivers food to older adults and the physically disabled in Cuyahoga and Lake counties.
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul Diocese of Cleveland ($85,000): To provide funding for rent and utility assistance for low-income individuals across eight counties in Northeast Ohio, as well as to re-design the organization’s Community Corner and Brookside hunger centers so they can operate safely and expand hours of operation while observing social distancing guidelines.

• Cleveland Clergy Alliance ($50,000): To support LatinX families across Greater Cleveland by providing food, basic needs items and emergency financial assistance through a partnership with the Community of Faith Collaborative.
• Trinity Cathedral ($30,000): To allow the cathedral to transition its A Place at the Table hunger program to a pickup meal service so that it can continue to serve Cleveland’s homeless and low-income populations safely during the pandemic, while also continuing the cathedral’s ongoing partnership with Walls of Love® in filling the walls with essential items for those in need.
• True Holiness Temple ($25,000): To support the church’s food bank and distribution of cleaning supplies, toiletries and other basic needs items to families in the Fairfax neighborhood and surrounding areas.

Connectivity

• East Cleveland City School District ($100,000): For technological resources to equip the district’s 1,800 students for successful remote learning.

• Scranton Road Ministries Community Development Corporation ($18,000): To expand the organization’s workforce and educational training programs through an online training platform, and to create a Digital Learning Center to host socially distant student learning groups.

Clinical & Behavioral Health

• Applewood Centers ($35,000): To acquire computer equipment for telehealth services and online coursework, as well as PPE and cleaning supplies, for vulnerable youth in residential treatment facilities.
• Cleveland Christian Home ($36,000): To purchase food, supplies and computer equipment to care for youth in residential treatment for mental, emotional and behavioral disorders.
• Community Assessment & Treatment Services ($25,000): To continue providing services via telemedicine, as well as cleaning supplies and PPE, for residential and outpatient clients with chemical dependency and behavioral health needs.
• Medworks ($40,000): To implement a telehealth platform in order to connect uninsured and underinsured residents in Cuyahoga County with free health care, health insurance, and other navigation services.
• Mommy and Me Too Inc. ($20,000): To provide transportation, food, laptops and cleaning supplies for low-income pregnant women as well as single mothers and their children in recovery housing.

• TreatmentWorks, Inc. ($20,000): To provide food, utilities and supplies for men in residential treatment for drug and alcohol dependency.
• US Together ($86,000): To provide case management staffing and tele-interpretation technology for immigrants and refugees with limited English proficiency.

• A Vision of Change, Inc. ($40,000): To allow for continued health and wellness home visits, food distribution and the dissemination of community health information in Cleveland’s east side neighborhoods.

Children & Youth

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland ($35,000): To provide direct relief to Cuyahoga County families through the organization’s Family Resiliency Fund, as well as adding a digital component to its mentoring program.

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio ($26,000): To purchase cleaning supplies and PPE to re-open club locations, as well as food and cleaning supplies to provide to youth and their families.
• Cleveland Metropolitan School District ($100,000): To purchase grocery store gift cards for the district’s homeless families.
• Henry Johnson Center ($15,000): To expand tutoring services for high school seniors and to purchase and deliver care packages with cleaning supplies and food items for low-income single parents in Cuyahoga County.

Other Vulnerable Populations

• LGBTQ+ Allies Lake County ($15,000): To provide food assistance and expand virtual options for community group social-emotional support meetings and wellness programming in Lake County.
• Milestones Autism Resources ($75,000): To expand the organization’s autism Helpdesk so that families in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties can continue learn how to access needed services, advocate on behalf of their family member, and use effective de-escalation supports.

• North Coast Community Homes, Inc. ($34,000): To increase safety, cleaning and disinfecting procedures within the organization’s 205 properties across Northeast Ohio and to provide safe-at-home kits for the more than 650 residents with intellectual, developmental, physical and mental health disabilities.

Adaptation & Recovery

• Greater Cleveland Congregations ($100,000): For COVID-19 testing support kits for predominately Black congregations in Greater Cleveland as well as a collective buying program to negotiate better prices on electricity, gas and other essential services for the group’s faith institution members facing financial hardship due to the pandemic.

• Greater Cleveland Volunteers ($7,000): For staffing and technology to help local nonprofit organizations safely re-engage volunteer workers to support their operations during the pandemic.

• Hispanic Business Center ($17,000): To provide rental assistance for its small business tenants, including those in its CentroVilla25 campus, and for technology to conduct its business coaching and consulting remotely.
• Old Brooklyn Community Development ($30,000): For a temporary work program to employ Old Brooklyn residents who have been laid off or are facing economic hardship in the midst of the pandemic, paying them to complete greening and beautification projects in the neighborhood.

Round 9 Grants: Awarded on June 12, 2020

Food & Shelter

• City Club of Cleveland ($22,000): To support the City Club’s food distribution partnership with Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries, an effort that is producing 10,000 meals every week for Greater Cleveland’s homeless population.
• Harvard Square Center ($30,000): To support the socially distant delivery of the center’s services and programming to its Southeast Cleveland clients, including delivery of food and hygiene kits, as well as virtual education and wellness programming. 
• Heights Christian Church ($36,000): To support a collaboration with other churches and community organizations to increase the capacity of the Unity in the Community food pantry program to address food insecurity in the Shaker Heights community.

• Vineyard Christian Fellowship ($15,000): For additional equipment and supplies to store and provide more fresh food for the organization’s drive-up food pantry.
• Islamic Center of Cleveland ($35,000): To continue to provide housing, utilities, food and necessary supplies to those in need in the Northeast Ohio area.

Connectivity

• DigitalC ($100,000): To help provide high-speed internet to 200 low-income Breakthrough Schools families in order to access online coursework and community resources.
• Esperanza Inc. ($25,000): To implement youth, postsecondary, and family engagement support programs for Hispanics in Greater Cleveland via videoconference.

• PCs for People ($100,000): To continue to provide low-cost computers, internet and tech support to low-income families in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and other inner ring suburbs.
• Towards Employment ($85,000): To purchase IT equipment and additional supplies to provide adult literacy services via tele-tutoring and live video sessions to the agency’s more than 1,100 students.

Clinical & Behavioral Health

• Stella Maris, Inc. ($57,000): To provide emergency room and board for clients who cannot be placed in sober living, as well as the purchase of critical safety supplies and additional telehealth equipment in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.
• Women's Recovery Center ($19,000): To support the organization as it continues to serve women and their families in Cuyahoga County by providing comprehensive addiction treatment, prevention, and education programs that are client-centered, family-based and recovery-focused.
• Life Exchange Center ($23,000): To expand peer support services for adults in Cuyahoga County with mental health and/or addiction challenges to include telehealth and at-home kits with personal hygiene items and activities to assist during isolation.

Other Vulnerable Populations

• Achievement Centers for Children ($62,000): To equip both staff and clients with new laptops, webcams, monitors and software to allow for telehealth appointments for children and adults with disabilities in Greater Cleveland.
• American Cancer Society Hope Lodge ($46,000): To assist with the reopening of Hope Lodge, including sanitizing the facility, retrofitting the common areas to enable social distancing and providing PPE to both caregivers and patients who utilize the free facility near Cleveland’s cancer treatment centers.
• Enterprise Community Partners ($23,000): To provide safe, accessible tax services for low-income families in Cleveland due to the extension of the federal and state filing deadline, critical in order for families to receive their COVID-19 economic impact payments.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Cleveland Baptist Association ($100,000): To help houses of worship to safely reopen by providing PPE, CDC educational guidance signage, and deep cleaning services as well as technology resources that allow long-term access to live streaming of services for sick and shut-in members.
• Neighborhood Connections ($100,000): For PPE coordinators whose goal will be to develop and execute a dissemination plan in coordination with masks from MAGNET (43,000 cloth masks) and Matthew 25: Ministries (50,000 surgical masks) – with a focus on low income residents in Cuyahoga County.
• Slavic Village Development ($50,000): To provide PPE to organizational staff, residents and businesses to aid with the safe reopening in the Broadway/Slavic Village neighborhood.

Round 8 Grants: Awarded on May 29, 2020

Food & Shelter

• CHN Housing Partners ($50,000): To provide proactive emergency rental assistance to families in Cuyahoga County with limited resources.
• Emerald Development and Economic Network, Inc. (EDEN) ($70,000): To continue to provide housing and related supports to at-risk individuals and families with disabilities, returning citizens, and those experiencing homelessness or housing instability.

• West Park United Church of Christ ($25,000): To support its newly established food delivery program for vulnerable populations in Cleveland’s West Park, Kamm’s Corners and Puritas neighborhoods.
• Rid-All Green Partnership ($50,000): For its efforts to deliver nutritious food boxes on a weekly basis to veterans throughout the City of Cleveland and residents in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood who are in need.
• Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope ($40,000): To prepare and deliver food boxes on a monthly basis to nearly 1,000 families facing food insecurity in East Cleveland.

Connectivity

• Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland ($14,000): To purchase technology resources that will allow the agency’s staff to deliver remote services to economically disadvantaged individuals and families in Cuyahoga County, including early childhood education programming, behavioral health support and rent assistance.
• Lexington-Bell Community Center ($20,000): To establish a virtual platform to continue providing early learning services and youth programs for families in Cleveland’s Hough, St. Clair and Superior neighborhoods.
• Merrick House ($24,000): To purchase technology resources to allow staff to continue the organization’s MomsFirst, Early Childhood Education and Adult Learning and Workforce Development programming virtually.
• Seeds of Literacy ($20,000): To purchase IT equipment and additional supplies to provide adult literacy services via tele-tutoring and live video sessions to the agency’s more than 1,100 students.

Clinical & Behavioral Health

• Lake County Free Clinic ($34,000): To hire temporary staff and purchase enhanced personal protective and technology equipment to continue to provide essential medical care to uninsured and under-insured individuals in Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula and eastern Cuyahoga counties.

• Northern Ohio Recovery Association ($42,000): To purchase IT equipment so inpatient clients can access mental health and recovery support services virtually, and to expand its food pantry, which it operates in partnership with the Greater Cleveland Food Bank.

Other Vulnerable Populations

• Epilepsy Association ($12,000): To help individuals in Cuyahoga County with epilepsy who need assistance with basic needs such as utilities, medication, housing, cleaning supplies, PPE, food and transportation.
• Our Lady of the Wayside, Inc. ($100,000): To continue to assist developmentally disabled clients in Cuyahoga and Lake counties with nursing support and essential supplies, as well as job training and placement services.
• Franciscan Communities, Inc./Mount Alverna Village ($80,000): To provide funding for PPE, sanitation supplies, hand sanitizer and diagnostic testing devices, in addition to the purchase of three open-front shelters that will allow for in-person visits with family members at the Parma location.

• Blossom Hill Inc. ($36,000): To provide support for increased PPE, disinfecting products and procedures and transportation costs for developmentally disabled individuals in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.
• March of Dimes ($40,000): To provide parents with babies in the NICU at Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital with diapers, wipes, hand sanitizer, face masks and resources on safety for newborns.
• First Year Cleveland ($100,000): To provide blood pressure cuffs, doppler fetal monitors and body weight scales to COVID-19-positive pregnant women and those considered to be high risk due to other medical concerns. Funding will also provide iPads in labor and delivery rooms for connecting with significant others as well as post-delivery care packages.

• Progressive Baptist Association ($20,000): To purchase diapers, wipes, Pack & Plays and essential household cleaning products to help ensure a safe environment for African American mothers and families who reside in impoverished communities and have been terminated or furloughed from their jobs.

Small Community Grants

• Neighborhood Connections ($200,000): To provide grants ($500-$5,000) to small nonprofit organizations, faith-based congregations, and grassroots and neighborhood civic groups throughout Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties for a broad range of essential human needs such as healthy food and safe shelter. Since receiving its first round of funding on April 10, Neighborhood Connections has awarded 62 grants totaling $209,000.

Round 7 Grants: Awarded on May 15, 2020

Food & Shelter

• Asian Services in Action, Inc. ($20,000): To provide emergency food assistance, basic needs and small business support for immigrant and refugee populations across the organization’s Northeast Ohio service area.

• Bellaire Puritas Development Corporation ($32,000): For the Community Essential Needs Collective, a collaborative effort between Bellaire-Puritas Development Corporation, The Bountiful Basement at Blessed Trinity Church, Neighborhood Family Practice, and St. Paul AME Church Pantry to distribute emergency food resources, public health information and cleaning supplies and emergency assistance to families in the West Park neighborhood.
• Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. ($65,000): To prepare and distribute hot meals and care packages containing PPE, hygiene products and cleaning supplies to homebound residents in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Shaker Square, Buckeye-Woodhill, Central and Kinsman neighborhoods.
• Family Pride of Northeast Ohio ($30,000): To support the immediate needs of individuals and families throughout Geauga and Lake counties who are clients of this behavioral health organization including access to food, technology, and emergency shelter and housing support, as well as resources for families to keep kids physically and emotionally healthy.

• Front Steps Housing and Services ($75,000): For food, supplies and staffing to serve the growing needs of its clients, who are formerly homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders.
• Greater Collinwood Development Corporation ($16,000): To safely scale up its provision of free food packages to residents in need.  
• Harvard Community Services Center ($40,000): To serve homebound adults and families across the Lee-Harvard, Miles and Seville neighborhoods through the mobile delivery of care packages containing food and basic hygiene items.
• Lakewood Community Services Center ($34,000): For staffing needed to continue its zero-contact food delivery and distribution system for individuals and families in Lakewood who are facing food insecurity.
• MidTown Cleveland ($30,000): For bulk meal purchases from AsiaTown restaurants, providing a direct infusion of business to locally owned restaurants while serving the needs of food insecure residents.
• The Phillis Wheatley Association ($65,000): For staffing, food and other basic supplies to continue to provide meals and critical services to older and disabled adults in the core city of Cleveland.  

PPE

• Salaam Clinic of Cleveland ($25,000): To purchase personal protective and infection control equipment and additional technology resources that will allow the clinic to resume operations providing health care services to the uninsured and underinsured population of Northeast Ohio.

• Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association ($85,000): To support the #Masks4Community project, which will distribute 33,000 kits in Cleveland and East Cleveland neighborhoods. The kits will include: a washable mask, safety outdoors coloring sheet, 2020 Census, Election/Voting and COVID-19 safety information. The kits will be distributed to essential community locations, including grocery stores, pharmacies, discount stores and food bank sites.

 Vulnerable Populations

• Forbes House ($80,000): To help Lake County’s only domestic violence shelter increase capacity to support the growing number of low-income and at-risk families dealing with trauma by providing emergency shelter, mental health counseling and access to technology.
• HELP Foundation ($100,000): To continue providing uninterrupted services, including expanded meal delivery, virtual programming, emergency sanitation and PPE supplies, to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities at more than 20 residential locations.

• Kidney Foundation of Ohio ($25,000): To provide medications, transportation support, emergency assistance and patient service programs to those living with kidney disease in Greater Cleveland and throughout Cuyahoga County.
• Long Term Care Ombudsman ($13,000): To upgrade existing technology to allow certified staff and volunteers across a five-county footprint to advocate for excellence in long-term care services while nursing homes and other care facilities are closed to outside visitors.
• Paralyzed Veterans of America, Buckeye Chapter ($18,000): To provide food, medical supplies and other basic needs to honorably discharged veterans with spinal cord injuries or disease, including Multiple Sclerosis and ALS.

• Cleveland Rape Crisis Center ($90,000): To support case management and hotline staff and coordinate new service delivery methods for survivors of rape and sexual abuse.
• Ravenwood Mental Health Center ($15,000): To provide emergency food delivery, toiletries and hygiene products at this community mental health and addiction treatment center serving Geauga County.
• United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cleveland ($50,000): To cover increased staffing expenses due to COVID-19, including 24/7 care at group homes, virtual employment services, tele-education, telehealth and nursing services for individuals with disabilities.

Round 6 Grants: Awarded on May 1, 2020

Food & Shelter

• Cleveland Chesed Center ($25,000): To continue to provide food, including kosher options, via drive-through distribution to financially vulnerable families in Cuyahoga and surrounding counties.

• Denison Avenue United Church of Christ ($25,000): To provide food, shelter, counseling and therapy for unsheltered individuals on Cleveland’s near west side.
• Grace C&MA Church ($25,000): To provide assistance with medication and grocery acquisition and delivery, including cleaning supplies, toiletries and other basic needs for at-risk populations in Middleburg Heights.

• Little Africa Food Collaborative ($47,000): To deliver the needed equipment, supplies, information and most importantly food to seniors, mentally and physically disabled residents and homeless populations on Cleveland’s near east side.

• McKinley Community Outreach Center ($20,000): To provide food and basic needs items for underserved, low-income individuals in western Lake County.
• Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry ($25,000): To meet the increased demand for food deliveries among seniors and low-income families in eastern Cuyahoga County.
• Smart Development Inc. ($50,000): To provide food, basic needs items, language translation and shelter for new immigrants, people of color, and refugees in Cuyahoga County.
• St. Herman’s FOCUS Cleveland ($25,000): To purchase additional supplies to better protect shelter residents and staff, including cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment, and to provide emergency and transitional housing assistance for unsheltered men in Cleveland.
• St. Paul’s Community Outreach ($22,000): To provide funding to assist with utility bills, home repairs, food and employment services for at-risk and low-income residents in the Ohio City and Detroit Shoreway neighborhoods on Cleveland’s near west side.
• Thea Bowman Center ($25,000): To provide food deliveries to at-risk seniors, and to accommodate the increase in general food bank needs for residents in Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.
• Union Miles Development Corporation ($50,000): To assist the Little Africa Food Collaborative with food and crisis preparation kit distribution throughout the Union-Miles, Harvard and Mt. Pleasant communities.

Behavioral Health

• Beech Brook ($47,000): To continue to provide mental and behavioral health services via telehealth solutions to low-income individuals and children in Cleveland.
• New Directions, Inc. ($27,000): To continue providing residential and recovery housing, as well as intensive outpatient and recovery services for individuals and their families seeking substance use recovery and mental health assistance in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.
• Recovery Resources ($94,000): To continue providing services via telehealth including assessments, individual and group therapy, psychiatry, nursing, prevention and employment support, while increasing access to food, for residents in Cuyahoga County seeking assistance with mental illness, alcoholism, drug and other addictions.

Round 5 Grants: Awarded on April 24, 2020

• Family Promise of Greater Cleveland ($30,000): To continue to provide supplies, food, beds and other resources for unsheltered families and recently housed families in Cuyahoga County.
• West Side Catholic Center ($16,000): To continue to offer takeout meals, shower facilities, emergency shelter, as well as remote case management and one-on-one social work for low-income and unsheltered clients in Cuyahoga County.
• The Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland ($50,000): To purchase additional food and sanitation products that will be needed in order to meet the increase to weekly service deliveries (from twice monthly) to those in need in Cuyahoga County.

• Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization ($56,000): To compensate small businesses for no-cost meals provided to children and low-income individuals on Cleveland’s near west side.

• Famicos Foundation ($80,000): To purchase and deliver food, toiletries and cleaning supplies to seniors and disabled residents in Cleveland’s Hough, Glenville and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods.
• Joseph’s Home ($20,500): To purchase medical and disinfecting supplies for the medical respite shelter, help transition to mobile capabilities for staff and to expedite the relocation of medically at-risk clients in Cuyahoga County to permanent housing.
• Malachi House ($90,000): To continue to serve low-income, terminally ill patients free of charge in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood.
• Providence House ($55,808): To maintain phone-based family support services and provide delivery of basic needs items for at-risk, vulnerable and low-income families in Cuyahoga County.
• True Freedom Enterprises ($20,000): To continue to provide transportation services to places of employment for formerly incarcerated citizens in Cleveland.
• West Side Community House ($30,000): To continue providing meals and support services for seniors and disabled adults on Cleveland’s near west side, through weekly meals to-go and home delivered meals to housebound seniors.

• WomenSafe, Inc. ($50,000): To maintain the emergency domestic violence shelter, while providing tele-counseling services, case management and basic needs items for adult and child survivors of domestic violence throughout Northeast Ohio.

Round 4 Grants: Awarded on April 17, 2020

Food & Shelter

• Community Service Alliance ($15,000): To continue to provide safe and supportive housing, job assistance, and life skills training at four locations on Cleveland’s near west side for men transitioning to independence and self-sufficiency from poverty, homelessness and addiction.

Comprehensive Basic Needs

• • Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland ($91,240): To provide mental health services through new telemedicine and telemeeting models, while increasing food distribution and rent assistance to at-risk populations in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.

Disabilities

• • Linking Employment, Abilities & Potential (LEAP) ($50,000): To facilitate individual telephonic and video peer support, and online programs such as recreation, youth transition and community education training for persons with disabilities in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.
  • Koinonia Homes, Inc. ($50,000): To hire and train up to 100 additional direct support professionals to provide assistance with personal hygiene, bathing, dressing, preparing and consuming meals for clients with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities across Northeast Ohio and to support its current direct support professionals.

Youth/Education

• • Boys Hope Girls Hope of Northeastern Ohio ($20,000): To support the organization’s weekly grocery box delivery service, including “HopeWork” kits providing hands-on enrichment and literacy programming to fill the educational gaps for youth and families in Cuyahoga County.

• Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) ($50,000): To support the 3,000 unsheltered students with hygiene kits and grocery store gift cards to help secure weekend meals and essential household items.

Other Vulnerable Populations

• • Birthing Beautiful Communities ($59,000): To provide housing assistance, food delivery, and birth kits for expectant mothers, as well as essential items such as strollers, diapers, wipes, and car seats, and telehealth services for low-income women in Cuyahoga County.
  • Jordan Community Resource Center ($20,000): To help women who are victims of human trafficking and substance use residing in its recovery houses stay safe from contracting the virus and stay connected to their children, support services and therapy via online options.
  • LGBTQ Community Center of Greater Cleveland ($45,023): To help provide food assistance, transportation, social-emotional support via tele/virtual community group meetings and programming, virtual wellness options, street outreach, and legal referrals and advocacy for the LGBTQ population in Greater Cleveland.
  • Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center ($29,700): To create a mobile food pantry for the organization’s HIV/AIDS clients in Cuyahoga County, and to continue to monitor, assess, and assist them with their medical, housing, and legal needs.

• Ohio City Inc. ($40,000): To disinfect and sterilize 13 emergency bathroom and handwashing stations that were set up to serve unsheltered individuals in downtown Cleveland and on the near west side, while also providing shower availability for individuals.
• Senior Citizen Resources, Inc. ($22,750): To provide meals, transportation and personal hygiene supplies for high-risk homebound seniors in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood.

Round 3 Grants: Awarded on April 10, 2020

Food & Shelter

• Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging ($100,000): To provide meals, telephone reassurance and wellness checks, and telehealth behavioral health services for older adults and caregivers in Cuyahoga County.

• YWCA Greater Cleveland ($101,500): To provide basic needs, food security, and on-site and remote case management at Permanent Supportive Housing for formerly homeless and low-income women at two locations as well as Cleveland’s largest emergency homeless shelter for adult women.

Personal Protective Equipment

• Case Western Reserve University + Yellowcake Shop ($50,000): To facilitate the production of 10,000 protective facemasks, which will be distributed to Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry for non-contact circulation within the Cuyahoga County Continuum of Care’s homeless service provider network.

Comprehensive Basic Needs

• East End Neighborhood House ($70,000): To continue to provide meal deliveries to seniors and childcare services as a Temporary Pandemic Center in the Buckeye neighborhood on Cleveland’s east side.

Youth/Education

• • Community of Hope ($15,000): To provide funds for housing, transportation and basic needs for youth who have aged out of foster care in Cuyahoga County and are at a high risk for homelessness.

Other Vulnerable Populations

• SMART Recovery ($70,000): To help facilitate nearly 400 online addiction support meetings free of charge, while maintaining confidentiality and anonymity for at-risk populations across Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.
• Centers for Dialysis Care ($20,000): To provide personal protective equipment for staff and patients, and to help pay for transportation for patients across Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties in order to travel to the clinic for treatment.

Small Community Grants

• Neighborhood Connections ($200,000): To provide grants ($500-$5,000) to small nonprofit organizations, faith-based congregations, and grassroots and neighborhood civic groups throughout Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties for a broad range of essential human needs such as healthy food and safe shelter.

Round 2 Grants: Awarded on April 3, 2020

Food & Shelter

• Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry ($285,000): To immediately reduce the number of people housed in local homeless shelters where the risks of the spread of COVID-19 are especially high by providing them with temporary hotel lodging that allows for safer social distancing.
• Project Hope for the Homeless ($22,000): To expand staffing and hours at the only Lake County emergency homeless shelter, which has shifted its practices to house adults and families in a setting that complies with CDC social distancing guidelines.

• Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland ($75,000): To adjust its practices to compensate for volunteer shortages and follow social distancing guidelines while responding to a significant increase in need for food, baby formula and hygiene products at its 72 hunger centers as well as food rescue donor and recipient sites across Cuyahoga County.

Comprehensive Basic Needs

• May Dugan Center ($50,000): To continue making vital services and programs available for vulnerable residents – including its food distribution, trauma recovery center, MomsFirst program and behavioral health services.

• University Settlement ($50,000): To provide Slavic Village residents with limited economic means a variety of critical services and resources, including relief boxes with food, hygiene and activity items, mailings with important health and community resource information, personal finance education and more.

Behavioral Health

• Murtis Taylor Human Services System ($70,000): To fully implement telephone and telehealth service models for its lines of service – Behavioral Health, Family Center and Special Needs Childcare – for Greater Cleveland residents with low/fixed incomes.

Youth

• David’s Challenge Young Achievers Ohio ($50,000): To re-start its operations – including the hiring of temporary staff and the purchase of needed technology equipment, food and other items – so it can provide social-emotional learning support to East Cleveland youth. 

• YWCA Greater Cleveland ($26,000): To continue providing emergency financial support (food cards, temporary housing, bus tickets, etc.) through the “A Place 4 Me” initiative for homeless youth in Cleveland.

Immigrants, Refugees & New Americans

• Global Cleveland ($35,000): To continue to translate state and local information in order to raise awareness of critical resources (health, employment, food, housing, etc.) in nearly 20 different languages for Greater Cleveland’s international community.

• HOLA Ohio ($50,000): To better facilitate access to medical care and unemployment assistance for the Latino and immigrant populations in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties, while also providing funds for help with basic needs including housing, bills, groceries, medicines and immigration fees.
• Refugee Services Collaborative ($50,000): To institute a two-pronged effort aimed at reducing health and economic distress in Northeast Ohio’s refugee population by providing an emergency cash assistance program for necessities and instituting an emergency employment initiative to place applicants in temporary employment.

• The Spanish American Committee ($50,000): To give food, utility and rental assistance stipends to low-income and elderly Latino populations in Greater Cleveland, while also providing clients with emotional and mental health resources and crisis financial planning assistance.

Other Vulnerable Populations

• Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center ($75,000): To support a transition of services to telepractice over a 12-week period and support therapists, a care coordinator, and a deaf operations manager in designing and implementing new materials for remote speech therapy, audiology and deaf services.
• Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center ($100,000): To help with the anticipated surge in domestic violence and child abuse in Cuyahoga County by providing funding for safe housing, technology costs, additional capacity for food, transportation and client assistance for basic needs.

• Fairhill Partners ($55,000): To provide ongoing service for vulnerable older adults through emergency homeless sheltering, remote-access support for older relatives raising children, and continuing USDA food box and Senior Market fresh produce distribution.
• National Church Residences Foundation ($37,000): To help provide for critical care needs of residents (food, paper products, and cleaning supplies) as well as supply building staff with the equipment needed to keep residents safe and healthy at its six affordable housing sites for older adults throughout Cuyahoga County.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Disabled Populations ($100,000): To support a consortium of nonprofit service agencies to purchase PPE for their collective 2,600 staff serving more than 1,600 clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities and other related challenges.

Round 1 Grants: Awarded on March 27, 2020

• Greater Cleveland Food Bank ($300,000): To support the dramatically increasing needs of individuals impacted by food insecurity including children, families, seniors and individuals with health challenges. This funding will help to subsidize emergency food resources as well as programming and supplies that will be needed in the coming weeks and months. The Greater Cleveland Food Bank is the largest hunger relief organization in Northeast Ohio, having served more than 350,000 people in Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Ashland and Richland counties in 2019.
• MedWish International ($70,000): To collect and provide access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other in-demand medical supplies for local health care institutions. MedWish will identify the most needed items and pull those from its inventory to make them available as quickly as possible upon request. This includes ventilators, PPE and respiratory supplies. This grant will also help MedWish coordinate local donation drop-off locations throughout the community to collect excess items individuals may have in their homes that are in high demand by local health care facilities (such as gloves, masks and hand sanitizer).
• Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) ($70,000): To provide emergency lodging that will allow unsheltered individuals to remain quarantined before the pandemic reaches its peak. By placing these individuals in emergency lodging, they will have the opportunity to avoid risks associated with sleeping outside and can practice more effective social distancing. Further, NEOCH will be able to centralize outreach and coordinate efforts more effectively since it will be easier to get food and supplies to the people it serves.
• Senior Transportation Connection (STC) ($60,000): To continue to provide essential medical and food access services to older adults in the community. In many cases, STC serves as a last-resort service for older adults with mobility needs and limited social supports. More than half of those served by STC are 75 years and older, while nearly 60% are low income – two demographic groups identified as particularly vulnerable populations during this crisis.

Frequently Asked Questions

 

What are the Phase II funding priorities of the Rapid Response Fund?

Since March 2020, the Fund has worked to respond to the emergent needs of the Greater Cleveland community. In doing so, the partners made a commitment to continued listening and learning in order to allocate funding where it is most needed. The Fund has updated its priorities every few months to limiting the spread of COVID-19 and helping to meet the basic needs of residents. The Fund’s grantmaking priorities will now primarily focus on basic needs, responding to housing challenges and PPE distribution to reduce the spread of the virus. 

Who is eligible to apply for funding?

The Fund is no longer accepting applications for Phase II. For more information about future plans for the Fund or to donate, continue to check ClevelandFoundation.org/Response.

I am an individual who has been affected by COVID-19. Can this fund help me?

We understand many people have been affected by COVID-19, and more will continue to be affected. The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund deploys resources to nonprofit organizations that directly support residents who are at the highest risk for emerging health, economic and social impacts of the pandemic. The Rapid Response Fund will not provide grants to individuals. If you are looking for resources now, please consider calling the United Way of Greater Cleveland’s 2-1-1 Help Center. Visit www.211OH.org or dial 2-1-1 for support and more information.

Who can contribute? 

The partners encourage individual donors, companies, additional funders and other organizations to contribute to the Rapid Response Fund. Online gifts via credit card will have the most immediate impact. Donations of any amount are welcomed, and all contributions are eligible for a charitable deduction. If you are a Cleveland Foundation fund holder and would like to recommend a grant from your fund, please log in to the donor portal or contact your Philanthropic Advisor for instructions.

I want to donate. Can I restrict my funding to a specific grantee?

To ensure the Rapid Response Fund moves resources as efficiently as possible and responds to needs of communities most impacted, we are not considering donations restricted to specific agencies or causes at this time.

Will the Fund replace general operating expenses through its grants?

The primary focus of this funding is to prevent COVID-19 and limit the transmission of disease in our community. The Fund cannot replace lost revenue or general operating expenses at this time. This includes most staffing requests, replacing revenue from canceled or modified events, and infrastructure changes that don’t actively address preventing the spread of COVID-19.

How long will the Rapid Response Fund exist?

The application period is now closed. Updates on the future of the Fund will be provided online at ClevelandFoundation.org/Response. 

Is this the only community response fund?

The Rapid Response Fund was not created to be the only vehicle for getting needed resources into the community, but to deploy coordinated resources strategically and effectively. Pooling dollars allows for a unique opportunity for leverage that a single donation cannot alone provide.

This is a critical time for so many, including the nonprofit organizations that may have benefited from community giving in the past, as well as those that have had to cancel their annual fundraising events or depend heavily on public gatherings. Please continue to give to organizations you regularly support and those that need your help at this crucial time. Now is the time to double down for our community.   

Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to be in contact with any foundation with which they already have a relationship. Many of the foundations that have given to the Rapid Response Fund are also conducting their regular grantmaking processes.

My nonprofit organization is looking for volunteers. What resources are available?

Greater Cleveland Volunteers is a terrific local resource for recruiting volunteers and can also help local nonprofit organizations safely re-engage volunteer workers to support their operations during the pandemic.​ For more information, visit: greaterclevelandvolunteers.org.

Our organization already received funding from a Rapid Response Fund partner.  Are we still eligible to apply to the Rapid Response Fund?

Yes. If you have received a non-pandemic related grant from a funder, you are still eligible to receive a grant from the Rapid Response Fund.

Are there programs working specifically to address the needs of the homeless population? 

In January 2021, the Rapid Response Fund updated its priorities to include housing-related needs and needs of the homeless population that decrease the spread of COVID-19. Please submit your application to address the needs of the homeless population, and your application will be reviewed.

What are the Rapid Response Fund Grantee Listening Sessions? 

RRF Grantee Listening Sessions were created as an avenue for nonprofit grantees of Phases I and II of the Rapid Response Fund to share the evolving needs of their clients and their experience adapting their organizations to withstand the effects of the pandemic. Feedback provided at the sessions is shared with funders to help ensure that grantmaking continues to be responsive to community needs. Sessions were held monthly from December 2020 through June 2021.

How can I learn more?

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Latest News

 

Oct. 18, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announces Phase III effort on the heels of final round of grantmaking for Phase II

aug. 11, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $196,000 in latest round of grants

july 14, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund eclipses $16 million in grantmaking 

June 2, 2021

Three organizations and groups receive latest round of grantmaking from Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

may 18, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announces latest round of grants

may 4, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announces latest round of grants

april 20, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards more than $800,000 in latest round of grants

april 6, 2021

Nine organizations and groups receive funding in latest round of grantmaking from Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

march 23, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $184,480 in latest round of grants

march 9, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announces latest round of Phase II grants 

feb. 23, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $238,000 in eighth cycle of Phase II grantmaking

feb. 9, 2021

Ten organizations receive funding in latest round of grantmaking from Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

jan. 26, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announces latest round of Phase II grants

jan. 12, 2021

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards more than $350,000 in fifth cycle of Phase II grantmaking

DEC. 22, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announces latest round of grants

DEC. 8, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards more than $625,000 in third cycle of Phase II grantmaking

Nov. 24, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $346,750 in second cycle of Phase II grantmaking

Nov. 10, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards nearly $600,000 in initial round of Phase II grantmaking

Oct. 13, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund partners open application process for Phase II

Sept. 1, 2020

Coalition announces second phase of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

July 17, 2020

Partners announce final round of phase 1 Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients

June 26, 2020

Partners announce latest round of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients

June 12, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund partners announce latest round of grantmaking

May 29, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund partners announce latest round of grantmaking

May 15, 2020

Partners announce latest round of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients

May 1, 2020

Partners announce latest round of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients

April 24, 2020

Partners announce fifth week of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients

April 17, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund partners announce latest round of grantmaking

April 10, 2020

Musical artists help raise dollars for the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

April 10, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund partners announce recipients of third week of grantmaking

April 3, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund partners award $1.18 million in second week of grantmaking

March 27, 2020

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $500,000 in initial round of grantmaking

March 23, 2020

Community rallies to raise more than $5.37 million to date for Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

March 18, 2020

Philanthropic partners announce creation of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund