The Medina County Community Fund recently issued 14 grants totaling $27,000 to nonprofit organizations whose mission is improving the lives of Medina County residents.
Grants went to:
• Alternative Paths Inc., for educational materials to help prevent suicide and encourage intervention, $2,000.
• Bobby Tripodi Foundation (Cornerstone of Hope), for grief services, $2,000.
• Brunswick Educational Fund, for the Brunswick schools video program, in which student “backpack journalists” create print, Web and video stories about community initiatives, $3,500.
• Cornerstone Wellness Center Inc., for Recipes for LIFE, a program to engage at-risk youths in social skills, life-skills practice and drug prevention, $1,500.
• Easter Seal Society of Northeast Ohio, to provide testing, therapy and educational materials for a speech and language program, $1,000.
• Feeding Medina County, for a collaboration with Medina County Juvenile Court that teaches troubled teens to plant and grow produce for distribution to needy residents, $1,000.
• Kidney Foundation of Medina County, for renal patient services, $1,500.
• Medina County Arts Council, to support free concerts by Medina County performers, $1,000.
• Medina Creative Housing, for a therapeutic horse-riding program for children with disabilities, $2,500.
• Newbridge Place, for an employment and volunteer program for mentally ill adults in Medina County, $3,000.
• Oasis of Hope Pregnancy & Parenting Support Center, to purchase a phone system, computers and software to assist clients, $4,000.
• Ohio Regional Music Arts Cultural Outreach, for the third annual Jazz Under the Stars concert series, $1,500.
• St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church, to make energy efficiency improvements to transitional housing, $1,500.
• Young Life Greater Akron, for a development program for young adults with disabilities, $1,000.
The Medina County Community Fund is an affiliate fund of the Akron Community Foundation.
Since its inception in 1993, the fund has awarded 163 grants totaling $405,558 to organizations with programs benefiting Medina County residents.
For more information, or to contribute to the Medina County Community Fund, visit www.mccfund.org.