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The Raymond John Wean Foundation has announced $670,000 in donations to two community organizations in the Mahoning Valley. The Raymond John Wean Foundation has announced $670,000 in donations to two community organizations in the Mahoning Valley. The donations went to nonprofits Inspiring Minds and the Organización Cívica y Cultural Hispana Americana Inc (OCCHA). According to a release from …

By Elizabeth Coss The Mahoning Valley Mobile Market travels across Mahoning County to provide healthy foods to the community — including Youngstown State University’s. The market is a 28-foot-long grocery store on wheels, spearheaded by the Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods. Jeffery Stanford, lead organizer for ACTION, said the Mobile Market was created …

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio – A new program being launched by Valley Partners will provide $10,000 grants to qualifying new small businesses to pay for accounting and legal assistance. Valley Partners has set aside $300,000 per year for the next two years to fund the program, Teresa Miller, executive director, said.  The $600,000 will come out …

“Come Sail Away With Us” is the theme for Saturday’s Waterfire Sharon, the final one of 2023 in downtown Sharon, Pa. The food court and artists market starts at 2 p.m. The children area opens at 3 p.m. and will feature demonstrations by the Sharon School District’s Tiger Tech Robotics Team and a Touch a Truck …

Leaders of charitable foundations in the Mahoning Valley see a bright future for philanthropy in the area as they not only contribute money to worthwhile causes and organizations, but also work to bring groups and people together to grow and improve the area. “The Wean Foundation serves as a connector to leverage resources, create partnerships …

The Raymond John Wean Foundation awarded YNDC a $600,000 grant for 2023. The grant award provides support for general operating, neighborhood organizing, and a Community Engagement Fellow. The Raymond John Wean Foundation is a private foundation that has a vision of empowered residents, creating a healthy, vibrant, equitable, and economically stable Mahoning Valley. 

WARREN, Ohio – Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership is introducing Christian Bennett-Mosely as the inaugural member to the Strategic Partners Fellowship supported by the Raymond John Wean Foundation. TNP, Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. and the Wean Foundation have partnered in the launch of the first fellowship cohort with a broad and long-term goal to promote leadership development and …

The Center for Nonprofit Leadership in YSU’s Williamson College of Business Administration has been awarded $196,000 from the Raymond John Wean Foundation to implement the Nonprofit Leadership Summer Fellowship Program for 2023 and 2025. “We are excited by the opportunity to once again partner with the Wean Foundation to help organizations build capacity while providing …

The American Association of University Women of/ Youngstown hosted a meeting with Jennifer Roller from the Wean Foundation. Her topic was “The Work Life Imbalance” which happens by measuring our successes through a lens of race equity and inclusion, along with what it means personally to seek a balance that seems not to consider race, …