Our Community Impact

Purchase passenger vans to transport teen moms and their children to Dohn Community High School in Cincinnati, eliminating a primary obstacle for enabling this vulnerable population to stay in school and graduate. With a high school education, teen moms improve their odds of breaking the cycle of generational poverty.

Purchase and repair used cars to sell to boost inventory and accelerate much-needed car availability for women from the Ion Center for Violence Prevention and the Brighton Center, both in Northern Kentucky. The clinic eliminates transportation as an obstacle to the women’s recovery and financial stability.

Purchase commercial kitchen equipment for a new kitchen, allowing staff to cook 150 hot meals each day for women in the residential treatment program and their children.

Upgrade the center’s kitchen by purchasing commercial kitchen equipment and supplies to support clients with food insecurities. Nutritious meals will provide students with energy to complete classwork, keep appointments and ultimately gain long-term employment.

Provide onsite summer programming to serve about 160 middle school students in partnership with North College Hill Schools to help close the achievement gap, provide ongoing mentorship, and increase future enrollments in college.

Relocate and renovate the Trauma Recovery Center to provide crisis intervention to trauma victims in a dedicated facility – providing a private, safe, and family-like environment along with increased care services, including emergency shelter for trauma victims.

Build a fleet of additional leased vehicles to CityLink, which trains graduates starting new jobs, to solve the transportation dilemma of how to get a job without a car, and how to get a car without a job.

Expand capacity to turn empty houses into homes by purchasing new and gently used trucks to deliver more furnishings to families’ homes, thereby increasing dignity, supporting productive lives, and enhancing mental and physical development of children.

Help fund the purchase and design of a mobile video truck, enabling ABC/Fourthwall to offer their award-winning filmmaking program to students throughout the Cincinnati area.

NEST Community Learning Center’s Roots and Wings expansion project will take its effective and award-winning programs into Clermont County Clermont Northeast School District. Programs include Early Learner Program, after-school programs and a summer Lunch, Learn & Play program.

Formerly Outdoor Adventure Clubs of Greater Cincinnati

Expand a school-based model of involving youth living in extreme poverty or in foster care in outdoor adventures.

Purchase five pieces of vital equipment to expand current capacity and substantially increase the process of rescuing perishable food and transforming it into healthy meals for faster distribution to the food insecure.

Renovate a space for instruction, handmade product sales, and fresh produce in a food desert, while empowering marginalized, at-risk women refugees and immigrants.

Equip living facility of single mothers pursuing secondary education with technology and IT support. Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission (NKCAC) works to transform the lives of at-risk families by helping them develop knowledge and opportunities to achieve self-reliance.

Build an Agricultural Learning Center in a food desert in Madisonville to expand learning opportunities for youth in foster care. Lighthouse Youth & Family Services, Inc., was formed in 1969 and serves 5,000 children and families per year, providing a continuum of services to help them overcome obstacles that hinder self-sufficiency.

Rescue wild mustangs for equine therapy programming with veterans suffering from PTSD. Through equine-assisted therapies and activities, Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding & Horsemanship serves children and adults with disabilities and unique challenges, helping them to achieve a greater quality of life.

Expand breakfast and dinner service for the homeless and build a kitchenette for residents of in-house respite care. The center believes every member of the Over-the-Rhine community has the right to enjoy the benefits of good health, prosperity and well-being and has the capacity to contribute positively to the neighborhood.

Create an athletic facility for extracurricular programs and community recreation space. Activities Beyond the Classroom (ABC) was founded in 2004 to increase and enhance extracurricular opportunities in Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS). By 2015, ABC managed and assisted with more than 250 programs and activities throughout CPS.

Purchase machinery for a newly renovated workshop to facilitate the design and manufacture of assistive devices for those living with special needs, enabling the creation of more than 100 unique devices per year. May We Help’s highly skilled volunteers create customized assistive devices to enable individuals to achieve independence and to pursue their passions.

Build The Washing Well, a community laundromat in the Community Matters complex in Lower Price Hill, to provide residents with access to laundry facilities, which are not currently available in the area.

Easterseals Tristate

Purchase heavy equipment to deconstruct buildings – saving materials from landfills and providing jobs. Also launch a new lot stabilization and maintenance service. Building Value is a social enterprise of Easterseals. It provides job training and transitional employment in retail and construction for individuals with disabilities and barriers to employment.

Construct the nation’s first hospital-based pet visitation center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, allowing young patients a place to visit with their pets during long hospitalizations.

Renovate the original barn and build indoor and outdoor riding arenas to create and build a therapeutic riding program for people on the autism spectrum. Safe Haven Farm’s mission is to provide a variety of meaningful living, working, learning and leisure activities in a safe and accepting farm environment.

Expand services to outlying counties by purchasing and outfitting a mobile unit. The mission of Dress for Success Cincinnati is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and developmental tools to help them thrive in work and in life.

Increase hours of operation for the Anthony House Project, which serves homeless youths ages 18 to 24. The house provides meals, shelter, toilet and shower facilities, electronic equipment for communication and nursing care to address health issues.

Launch the Power Pack Program in Cincinnati, OH, and Covington, KY, to combat chronic hunger for those children at greatest risk. This Freestore Foodbank program is designed to provide a week’s worth of food to qualifying families who are struggling to make ends meet.

Pilot The Next Step NetWORK, a proven employment model for youth aging out of foster care. Cincinnati Works’ mission is to partner with willing and capable people living in poverty to assist them in advancing to economic self-sufficiency through employment.

Formerly Cincinnati Health Network

Purchase a mobile medical unit to expand services for people experiencing homelessness. The organization’s mission is to improve access to care and enhance the overall health status of the people of the Greater Cincinnati area, primarily the medically underserved and high-risk population.

Expand the renter equity program at 12 units in Community Views, a site development of safe, affordable housing for low-income people scattered through Over-the-Rhine Community Housing. The program helps participants build financial assets and develop management skills needed to be self-sufficient and engaged in the community.

Formerly Redwood School and Rehabilitation Center

Create and expand an accessible food service area for adult clients of Redwood School and Rehabilitation Center. The daytime facility assists people with disabilities in functioning to their highest potential in family and community settings by providing educational, therapeutic, and vocational programs and life experiences.