Community West Foundation gives $1.37 million to 34 Ohio nonprofits for health care, disability services and addiction recovery
The Westlake foundation's third-quarter grants, announced Sept. 15, go to groups in Cleveland, western Cuyahoga County and Lorain County, four of them first-time grantees. Its next round, for community service organizations, is by invitation and closes Oct. 15.
Westlake. Community West Foundation, a grantmaker in Westlake, Ohio, said on Sept. 15 that it has awarded $1.37 million in third-quarter grants to nonprofits in Cleveland, western Cuyahoga County and Lorain County. The money goes to health care access, services for people with disabilities, and addiction treatment and recovery, the areas the foundation funds in the third quarter of each year.
Of the total, $1,110,000 was approved by the foundation's board and $256,000 came through its Community Impact Fund, which pools gifts of every size and passes all of the money to the nonprofits the foundation funds each quarter. The announcement names 34 organizations but gives no amount for any of them. In June the foundation gave more than $1.5 million, for housing and reentry, which it called its largest quarterly total.
Four first-time grantees
Four organizations received the foundation's money for the first time: Birthing Beautiful Communities, which supports pregnant women through to full-term, healthy births; Family Planning Services of Lorain County, which provides reproductive health care and runs a mobile unit for people without transportation; OhioGuidestone's Lorain Health Center, which offers physical and mental health care regardless of a patient's ability to pay; and Partnership for Good Health, whose grant pays for navigators who share the language and culture of the people they help.
Three more are listed under Lorain County: the Lorain County Free Clinic, for uninsured and underinsured people; Lorain County Safe Harbor, for its Genesis House domestic violence services; and The Road to Hope, which houses people in addiction recovery. The other 27, in Cuyahoga County, include residential recovery homes, sports and arts programs for people with disabilities, crisis services for survivors of sexual and domestic violence, and mental health groups.
“As we listened to nonprofit partners and assessed community needs, we recognized opportunities to strengthen access to care and support, particularly in Lorain County.”
Applications by invitation
The next round is for community service organizations and programs the other quarters do not cover; applications opened Sept. 14 and close Oct. 15, and the grants committee reviews them on Nov. 19.
Citing what it calls significant shifts in the funding and policy landscape, the foundation now takes applications by invitation only. Existing grantees may apply in the quarter that fits their work, and other organizations that operate in western Cuyahoga County or Lorain County may introduce themselves by email, with no promise of an invitation. Applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations, and the foundation does not fund capital needs, endowments, school programs or individuals.
The foundation began as a hospital foundation and has been independent since 1997, when the two hospitals it served joined a larger health system. It took its present name in 2006.
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