CLEVELAND – June 15th the Board of Trustees of the Saint Luke’s Foundation approved grants to 20 organizations totaling $2,770,227 over two years. These investments advance the Foundation’s mission to achieve health equity by addressing social determinants of health including educational attainment, financial stability, healthy eating and active living, safe and affordable housing, social connections, and the strengthening of the neighborhoods surrounding the former Saint Luke’s hospital.
Second Quarter Grants Awarded to Close the Health Equity Gap:
Educational Attainment
- YWCA of Greater Cleveland (1 year, $35,000.00) for General Operating Support
Healthy Eating, Active Living
- Fairhill Partners (1 year, $55,000.00) for General Operating Support
- Food Access Raises Everyone (FARE) – via Suite 1300 Services dba Neighborhood Connections (1 year, $50,000.00) for Program/Project Support
- Greater Cleveland Food Bank (1 year, $250,000.00) for Program/Project Support
Housing Safety and Stability
- Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity (2 years, $200,000.00) for Buckeye-Woodhill Transformation Program/Project Support
- The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland (18 months, $225,000.00) for General Operating Support
Increase Household Financial Stability
- Edwin’s Leadership & Restaurant Institute (1 year, $75,000.00) for General Operating Support
Improve Environment Surrounding Saint Luke’s – To Be A Neighborhood of Choice
- Burten, Bell, Carr Development Inc. (1 year, $475,000.00) for Greater Buckeye Community Development
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio (1 year, $135,000.00) for General Operating Support
- Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, Inc. (1 year, $250,000.00) for General Operating Support
- The Cleveland Foundation (1 year, $132,727.00) for Program/Project Support for Cleveland Purpose Built Communities in Buckeye-Woodhill
Advocacy and Policy – Health Equity
- Cleveland Votes via Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association (1 year, $100,000.00) for General Operating Support
- Greater Cleveland Congregations (2 years, $100,000) for General Operating Support
- Ohio Transformation Fund via The Center for Community Solutions (2 years, $120,000.00) for General Operating Support
- Policy Matters Ohio (1 year, $110,000.00) for General Operating Support
Social Connections
- A Vision of Change (1 year, $65,000.00) for Program/Project Support for Community Health Hubs: A resident driven approach to reducing health disparities
- Centers for Families and Children (1 year, $92,500) for Program/Project Support for Improving Outcomes in Buckeye-Woodland: Wraparound Support for Harvey Rice School Families
- ioby (1 year, $50,000.00) for General Operating Support
- The Cleveland Foundation (1 year, $50,000.00) for Program/Project Support for Greater Cleveland COVID 19 Rapid Response Fund-Vaccine Task Force
- United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc. (UBF) (1 year, $200,000.00) for Capacity Building & Program Support for Center for Thriving Organizations (CTO)
About Saint Luke’s Foundation
Now in its 24th year of grant making, Saint Luke’s Foundation is dedicated to achieving health equity by addressing social determinants of health for people in neighborhoods surrounding Saint Luke’s and throughout Cuyahoga County. Saint Luke’s believes that people thrive as a result of living free of racism and poverty and experiencing equitable economic opportunities and conditions that enable them to lead healthier lives. Since it was established with the charitable assets of the Saint Luke’s Medical Center in 1997, the Foundation has awarded over $165 million in grants. Information on the work of Saint Luke’s Foundation is available on the Foundation’s website: www.saintlukesfoundation.org.