Center for Nonprofit Resources announces Capacity Building grants
This in via e-mail from:
The Community Partnership
Toledo Community Foundation
United Way of Greater Toledo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Center for Nonprofit Resources awards Capacity Building Grants totaling $209,986 to 33 area nonprofits
TOLEDO, Ohio – June 5, 2009 – During these tough economic times social services are in high demand, yet nonprofit organizations are struggling to do more and serve more with less funding than ever before. The Center for Nonprofit Resources (The Center), a collaboration of The Community Partnership, Toledo Community Foundation and United Way of Greater Toledo, is proud to award capacity building grants totaling $209,986 to 33 area nonprofits. The Center is administering a grant on behalf of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Program, which is funding these awards.
The purpose of the grant is to focus on capacity building initiatives including organizational assessments and strategic planning, board and/or staff development, fund development planning, succession planning, external communications strategies, technology improvements, financial management systems, program evaluation and measurement, and human resource policies and procedures to organizations that serve at-risk youth and/or individuals and families transitioning from welfare to work. The grants awarded ultimately allow these organizations to increase their ability to continue to provide essential social services in their struggling communities.
The second round of grants since The Center’s inception in April 2008 were recently awarded to:
* Adopt America Network – $8,049
* Aids Resource Center Ohio – $15,700
* Aurora Gonzalez Community Center – $700
* Beach House Family Shelter – $700
* Camp Courageous, Inc. – $700
* Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women – $18,875
* Community Shares of Northwest Ohio – $2,400
* Diabetes Youth Services – $700
* For Him Ministries, Inc. – $10,000
* Great Lakes Center for Autism – $700
* Greater Toledo Urban League, Inc. – $700
* Harbor House – $700
* Heartbeat of Toledo – $6,500
* International Boxing Club, Inc. – $18,000
* JLJ Vision Outreach, Inc. – $700
* Joyful Connections – $6,000
* Lutheran Social Services Foundation – $700
* Mom’s House, Inc. – $700
* Oregon Community and Family Coalition – $2,181
* Ottawa County Transitional Housing, Inc. (Sutton Center) – $9,700
* Padua Center – $10,000
* Prevention Partners – $700
* Servant Leadership Center – $700
* Sight Center of Northwest Ohio – $9,700
* Springfield Schools Foundation – $16,493
* Swanton Alliance Church (Epic Center) – $10,000
* Swanton Area Community Coalition – $13,200
* Sylvania Area Community Action Team – $13,300
* Sylvania Area Family Services, Inc. – $700
* Toledo Lucas County CareNet, Inc. – $700
* Wake Up Youth, Inc. – $13,853
* Water for Ishmael – American School for Women & Children – $15,535
* Wood County Gift Exchange – $700
The Community Partnership, Toledo Community Foundation and United Way of Greater Toledo initiated The Center for Nonprofit Resources in April of 2008 to effect capacity building for area nonprofits. The work of The Center includes an information and
resource center as well as quality training and one-on-one technical assistance for nonprofit agencies in our region, as well as grant money to support their individual capacity building efforts.
For further information visit www.C4NPR.org.
