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Annual Report of Grants

January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2011

The Stranahan Foundation Board of Trustees considers grant opportunities that fall within five priority areas of interest:

• Human Services;

• Ecological Well-Being;

• Arts & Culture;

• Education;

• Mental & Physical Health

We encourage you to visit the “Grantmaking Priorities” section of our website (at ) for a more detailed description of each of these areas of interest.

During 2011, over $4.3 million in Foundation grants supported a wide variety of important programs in communities all across the country. Following is a brief description of each of these grant-funded programs.

Human Services

Adopt America Network

$35,000 (2 grants)

Toledo, OH

Adopt America is dedicated to finding permanent adoptive homes for children in foster care from across the United States who have special needs (i.e. those with a history of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse; victims of extreme neglect, those who are mentally or medically fragile, sibling groups of two or more, older youth, and/or minority and bi-racial youth) through a broad range of services for both families and the children.

The Adoption Center offers two primary services: counseling and other related services for adopted children and/or their families living in northwest Ohio; and pre-adoption training, home studies, and post-adoption supervision for private or international adoptions for families located throughout Ohio.

Advocates for Basic Legal Equality

$100,750 (2 grants)

Toledo, OH

The Homeownership Preservation Project staff and pro bono attorneys help stabilize and preserve homeownership through direct legal assistance for those at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure, homeowner education on the foreclosure process and homeowner’s rights, and systemic litigation to ensure that federal guidelines are being followed by lenders.

The Microenterprise Legal Assistance Project (MLAP) utilizes pro bono attorneys to offer direct legal services and legal education programs for low-income individuals who wish to begin or have recently begun their own business in the Toledo central city area.

Beach House

$27,000

Toledo, OH

Beach House is a 7-bedroom emergency homeless shelter that provides families, single women or women with children, men with children and married couples from the greater Toledo area, northwest Ohio, and southeast Michigan with a warm, clean, safe environment for up to 60 days and assists them in identifying and finding resources to address the problems that impacted their self-sufficiency.

Community Foundation of Collier County

$20,000

Naples, FL

The five organizations in the Emergency Services Collaboration provide Immokalee residents with short-term assistance for food, emergency shelter, rent, and utilities.

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Morris and Sussex Counties, Inc.

$25,000

Morristown, NJ

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Morris and Sussex Counties (CASA) recruits and trains volunteers to advocate for children in the foster care system who are victims of violence, neglect, or abandonment.

Dallas Mission for Life, Inc.

$25,000

Dallas, TX

Dallas LIFE, the largest emergency shelter in Dallas, provides shelter, meals, clothing, social support, and life and employment training programs for an average of 320 adults and 30 children each day.

Food Project, Inc.

$25,000

Lincoln, MA

The Food Project’s Local Youth Programs engage youth who develop critical life and job skills while working to build a more just and sustainable food system. The participants develop knowledge and skills in the areas of leadership, job skills, diversity, social service and change, healthy eating, sustainable agriculture, and communication.

Golf for Kids New Mexico

$35,000

Santa Fe, NM

The First Tee of Santa Fe Life Skills Program offers golf and life skills lessons for youth ages 7-18. Through The First Tee Life Skills experience, children and teenagers learn how the skills essential for golf such as self-management, interpersonal communication, goal setting, and effective conflict resolution can help them be successful in their daily lives.

Good Grief, Inc.

$25,000

Morristown, NJ

Good Grief provides education, advocacy, and year-round peer support groups for grieving children, teens and adults all designed to normalize grief and create resilient communities where children coping with loss grow up emotionally healthy and able to lead meaningful and productive lives.

Grace Place for Children and Families, Inc.

$30,400

Naples, FL

Bright Beginnings, a program for parents of children between the ages of birth and 5, is designed to teach techniques and build the confidence of parents so they can provide quality social and emotional learning experiences for their children.

Growing Hope, Inc.

$25,000

Ypsilanti, MI

Growing Hope's Downtown Ypsilanti Farmers' Market provides a venue for farmers, urban market gardens, and other entrepreneurs to make fresh and healthy foods and handmade items available to Ypsilanti and area residents, including low income individuals and families, while contributing to the economic development of the community and the viability of the local food system.

Guardian Angels of SW Florida, Inc.

$40,000

Bradenton, FL

This all volunteer organization raises funds to ensure that children in need of foster care are placed in loving, caring homes until they are reunited with their biological parents, relatives, or adopted. Guardian Angels is currently raising funds to build two six-bedroom houses that will allow large sibling groups of foster children to live together rather than be separated and placed in different foster homes.

International Boxing Club

$40,000

Toledo, OH

International Boxing Club provides a structured environment and positive adult mentors who help youth at-risk for academic failure, gang involvement, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, suicide, and/or other self-destructive activities, develop social and life skills, academic motivation and skills, and vocational exploration and training through its Learning Center and the Vocational Training Center.

Meals on Wheels of the Palm Beaches, Inc.

$50,000

West Palm Beach, FL

This new organization uses volunteers to deliver hot meals five days a week to homebound residents of Palm Beach County.

Mobile Meals of Toledo, Inc.

$25,000

Toledo, OH

The Weekender Program helps to ensure that students who qualify for free or reduced lunches from four Toledo elementary schools have enough food over the weekend so they are not hungry when they return to school on Monday morning. Each student receives a bag of food containing such items as canned entrees, soup, individual boxes of cereal, fruit cups, snack bars, and milk and fruit juice boxes on Friday afternoon to take home.

Montana Community Development Corporation

$45,000

Missoula, MT

The Accounting and Business Assistance Program offers individualized assistance to help low-income, women, and Native American business owners, who live in Montana’s most impoverished areas, develop the accounting and financial management skills they need to successfully manage their businesses.

NCBI Missoula

$15,000

Missoula, MT

The Empowering Youth, Transforming Communities programs are designed to reduce the prejudice and violence in Missoula and other Montana schools that negatively impact students’ mental health, self-esteem, and academic performance through student support groups, student workshops, and teacher training.

Red Feather Development Group

$25,000

Bozeman, MT

Red Feather partners with Native American communities to address the severe housing crisis within their nations by building homes, teaching home construction, facilitating home ownership, encouraging volunteerism, and enabling cooperation and understanding among cultures.

Senior Independence

$16,214

Toledo, OH

A recreational therapist was hired for the Adult Day Center to help staff engage Center clients in activities such as cooking, arts and crafts, and music appreciation that address their interests and physical and cognitive abilities and limitations.

Sound Experience

$25,000

Port Townsend, WA

Sound Experience is a Puget Sound-based organization that delivers environmental education programs aboard the 133' historic wooden schooner Adventuress. Targeting youth living in Jefferson, Kitsap, Clallam, and northern Pierce Counties on the Olympic Peninsula, three-hour and overnight programs are designed to help these youth develop a greater understanding of the complexity of the Puget Sound marine ecological systems and a stronger commitment to the stewardship of these waters. 

Thrive

$25,000

Bozeman, MT

This comprehensive parent resource center provides parents with the training, information, and resources needed to support healthy child growth and development, and to help these families thrive. Among other programs, Thrive staff help parents develop the skills needed to serve as their child’s first teacher; provide parents with the information needed to support their children as they enter kindergarten; and make home visits during which parents receive parenting education, life skills training, and assistance accessing community resources.

Toledo Botanical Garden

$35,000

Toledo, OH

A Training Center/Workshop was constructed in north Toledo to serve as the headquarters for Toledo GROWS which provides support for 125 community gardens and 1,500 home gardens. The Center will also serve as the location for community service and training programs in collaboration with Owens Community College Urban Agriculture program, the Lucas County Juvenile Justice CITE program, Woodward High School, Sherman Elementary School, the Boys and Girls Club, and United North CD.

Wood County Children’s Services Association dba Children’s Resource Center

$25,000

Bowling Green, OH

The Early Childhood Mental Health Project supports the healthy social and emotional development of children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years who receive care in Wood County early child care and learning programs through on-site consultation in the childcare facilities, home visits and parenting education, and early childhood staff in-service training.

|Ecological Well-Being |

Black Swamp Conservancy

$17,000

Perrysburg, OH

This organization encourages and assists with the conservation and protection of farmland and natural areas in sixteen northwest Ohio counties for the benefit of current and future generations.

Conservancy of Southwest Florida

$25,000

Naples, FL

Learning Adventures offers environmental education programs for Pre-K through 8th grade students in Collier County, Florida. The programs are designed to bring nature into the classroom and include the use of live animals such as birds of prey, baby alligators, snakes, and marine invertebrates; animal artifacts; and interactive presentations featuring rare photographs, videos, and sounds.

University of Toledo Foundation

$27,000

Toledo, OH

Enhancing Environmental Education and Careers is a collaborative effort involving the University of Toledo, the Toledo Early College High School (TECHS), and several local agencies designed to help TECHS students learn about nature and then develop and implement an Ottawa River urban stream restoration project under the guidance of University of Toledo faculty.

Arts/Culture

Arts Council of Beaufort County

$26,000

Beaufort, SC

The ARTworks Youth Art Programs provide quality and affordable arts education to youth between the ages 6 – 16 residing in northern Beaufort County. The overall goal of these programs is to inspire creative thinking through exposure to and participation in the arts, and to encourage self-discipline, focus, and creative exploration.

Toledo Opera Association

$7,500

Toledo, OH

Opera on Wheels: Outreach and Education is an age-appropriate opera production presented in over sixty elementary schools throughout northwest Ohio and southeastern Michigan each spring by four young professional artists to help students experience the exhilaration and excitement of an operatic performance.

Toledo Repertoire Theater

$10,000

Toledo, OH

The Rep, the oldest community theater group in northwest Ohio, offers productions that appeal to a broad audience including five Main Stage productions, the EdgyRep series, the annual production of A Christmas Carol, and the Young Playgoers Series presented at local elementary schools.

Toledo Symphony Orchestra

$25,000

Toledo, OH

The Youth Orchestra Programs serve a diverse group of youth in 5th – 12th grades from northwest Ohio and southeastern Michigan through the Philharmonic, Symphonic, and Concert Orchestras all of which include private and group instruction and opportunities for public performances. A Cadet Instructional Group introduces instrumental music through private and group instruction.

Education

AMIkids Beaufort County

$50,000

Seabrook, SC

AMIkids Beaufort, a residential facility that serves as an alternative to prison for nonviolent juvenile, male offenders between the ages of 14 and 18 from throughout South Carolina, is beginning a certified vocational welding technology program for selected youth.

Belmont Day School

$50,000

Belmont, MA

The Peers Forum for Excellence in Teaching is a multi-faceted center that provides in-person and virtual training and interaction; educational resources; electronic dissemination of education-related news and articles; and electronic communication to help educators learn about and collaborate on best teaching practices and professional development; and to share questions, concerns, experiences, and knowledge about teaching in the PK-12 setting.

Community Foundation of Collier County

$20,000

Naples, FL

The Early Childhood Education Collaboration works to increase the quality and accessibility of child care for children age 5 and under who live in Immokalee. Among other accomplishments, the collaboration has increased the number of child care sites, developed a central child care intake process for families with young children, and increased the funds available to support child care scholarships for low-income families.

Four Corners Schools of Outdoor Education

$25,000

Monticello, UT

The Bioregional Outdoor Education Project (BOEP) is an environmental education training program designed to increase the capacity of elementary and middle school teachers to integrate place-based, outdoor learning experiences into their classroom math, science, language arts, and/or cultural course content.

Greens Farms Academy

$17,500

Greens Farms, CT

Horizons at Greens Farms Academy offers a tuition-free education program for 144 low-income students in grades K-8 through an intensive, full day, six-week summer program and ten Saturdays during the school year.

Legal Aid of Western Ohio

$25,000

Toledo, OH

The Education Advocacy Initiative attorneys help ensure that students with disabilities and special needs are provided with the services and supports they need within the school setting so they can benefit from available educational opportunities.

Lourdes University

$50,000

Sylvania, OH

The Lourdes University Win Center provides free academic support services for all Lourdes students including access to supplementary instruction, learning assistance, and training programs. The Win Center also provides multi-media access including stationary and lap top computers available for student use.

Mary Immaculate School

$12,500

Toledo, OH

Project Focus is an occupational therapy program for students with Sensory Processing Disorders who attend Mary Immaculate School (grades 1-8). The students engage in carefully selected activities designed to improve their ability to concentrate and perform fine motor tasks that directly impact the development of reading and writing skills.

Ohio Grantmakers Forum

$2,500

Columbus, OH

The Education Initiative addresses the policy and advocacy issues impacting the progress and success of education in Ohio by gathering and disseminating information from and to Ohio foundations and the Ohio administration and legislature.

Phillips Exeter Academy

$23,237

Exeter, NH

Tuition assistance is provided to secondary school teachers to attend the Summer Professional Development Conference.

Polly Fox Academy

$50,000

Toledo, OH

Polly Fox Academy is a charter school that provides a comprehensive academic curriculum, social and health services, parent education, and career guidance for 7th – 12th grade pregnant and parenting teens from throughout Lucas County.

Port Townsend Marine Science Society dba as Port Townsend Marine Science Center

$26,000

Port Townsend, WA

HOPE: Human/Orca Partners in Education Project is a three-day residential program for 5th and 6th grade students living on Washington’s Olympia and Kitsap Peninsulas. During the three days, participating students and their teachers learn about orcas and the Puget Sound marine ecosystem through hands-on activities, discussion, and reflection.

Port Townsend Public Library Foundation

$25,000

Port Townsend, WA

The Charles Pink House is used by the Port Townsend Public Library staff for community education and meetings. The renovated building will increase the space available for such activities as story time for toddlers and preschoolers, summer reading and home school programs for school-age children, writing groups for teens, job searches and job clubs for adults, and reading clubs, movies, and meeting space for all ages.

Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest Ohio

$25,000

Toledo, OH

Raising Readers Toledo activities are being offered in selected Toledo neighborhoods for children ages 2 to 8 to help them get ready and learn to read. Activities include week-long Super Why! Reading Camps for children the summer before they enter kindergarten, Martha Speaks Reading Buddies with fourth graders reading to kindergarten students, and access to literacy games at a neighborhood library.

Read for Literacy

$68,000 (2 grants)

Toledo, OH

This organization offers basic adult literacy tutoring using specially trained volunteers who help illiterate and functionally illiterate persons learn to read and/or to improve their reading skills.

Creating Young Readers is a program designed to increase the reading readiness of preschool-age children from low-income families by exposing them to intensive reading and reading-related experiences provided by adult volunteers who have been trained to implement a technique known as Shared Reading.

Realize Bradenton

$25,700

Bradenton, FL

Project Art Connects engages high school and college-age students in the research and documentation of the City of Bradenton’s and Manatee County’s history through photos and artwork both as an opportunity for civic engagement and as a learning and skill development activity for the teens and young adults.

Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults

$25,000

Palm Beach, FL

This preschool program provides an educational experience and support services for young children with disabilities referred from local school districts and their typical peers. The program goal is to help the children develop the social, speech, motor, and other skills needed to be successful in kindergarten.

Rutgers University Foundation

$50,000

Piscataway, NJ

A Bullying Prevention Institute is being developed by staff from the Rutgers Center for Applied Psychology to help New Jersey schools create individualized plans to assess and address bullying. The Bullying Prevention Institute (BPI) plans to serve 10 school districts each year.

School for the Arts – NM

$50,000

Santa Fe, NM

Grant funds were awarded to enhance the Media Arts components of the Visual Arts Program at the New Mexico School for the Arts, the only statewide, public, residential high school for the arts in New Mexico.

Toledo Day Nursery

$25,000

Toledo, OH

This accredited Step Up to Quality preschool program provides affordable child care for Toledo’s working and student parents. The curriculum is designed to enhance the children’s educational, social, emotional, and physical development.

Toledo School for the Arts

$15,000

Toledo, OH

This charter school provides 6th – 12th grade students with creative opportunities to achieve personal and academic success through an arts-based education.

Veggie U

$65,000

Milan, OH

Earth to Table, offered to schools throughout the United States, is a five-week, standards-based curriculum that includes fun, hands-on, educational activities for 4th grade students as they learn about soil, seeds, planting, and growing vegetables in their classroom. Students also learn about nutrition and sample a variety of fresh and prepared vegetables.

Mental and Physical Health

Alzheimer’s Association – California Southland Chapter

$25,000

Los Angeles, CA

This research project is studying a class of drugs known as SARMs (selective androgen receptor modulators) to determine whether they can be used to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in aging men.

Bridgercare

$30,000

Bozeman, MT

The Teen Outreach and Pregnancy Prevention Project works to decrease pregnancy among young women by educating both boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 18 on the availability of affordable reproductive healthcare, resources, and pregnancy prevention.

Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio

$25,000

Toledo, OH

Lucas County Initiative to Improve Birth Outcomes Project utilizes Community Health Coordinators who identify low income, at-risk women in targeted zip codes and help the women access prenatal care and address basic needs such as lack of transportation, adequate housing, or food, and/or substance abuse all with the goal of the women delivering healthy, full-term babies.

Jumping Mouse Children’s Center

$25,000

Port Townsend, WA

Jumping Mouse Children’s Center provides counseling and advocacy for children ages 2 to 12 who are the victims of abuse or neglect. The Center also provides parent education and counseling to strengthen parenting skills.

Linn County Child Victim Assessment Center dba ABC House

$25,000

Albany, OR

The ABC House provides forensic medical exams including a full social and medical history and complete assessment of the child's health and physical condition conducted by a physician with training in child abuse issues. The ABC House medical director also provides case consultations (for law enforcement and other officials) concerning children in drug environments, medical issues concerning abuse and photo consultations related to physical abuse.

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

$25,000

Boston, MA

This research project is designed to determine whether the retinal abnormalities found in patients with early Alzheimer's Diseases are also present in patients diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (a pre-Alzheimer's condition) with the hope it will ultimately lead to earlier diagnosis of the disease.

Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey, Inc.

$35,000

Morristown, NJ

The Center for Family Life Education added an educator so they could provide more youth with the information and decision making tools they need to make responsible choices in their relationships.

Planned Parenthood of Northwest Ohio, Inc.

$30,000

Toledo, OH

The Teen Clinic, for youth ages 19 and under, offers a full range of reproductive health care services as well as education on sexuality, abstinence, and birth control methods aimed at preventing sexually transmitted infections, reducing teen pregnancy, and promoting responsible, healthy choices.

Toledo-Lucas County CareNet

$20,000

Toledo, OH

CareNet provides coordinated healthcare for low-income Lucas County residents who are not eligible for public or private healthcare coverage which results in more efficient use of existing resources, coordinated care for the clients, a decrease in duplication of services, and an improved quality of life for uninsured Lucas County residents. Services include primary physician care, hospital and emergency room services, reduced cost prescription drugs, referral to volunteer medical specialists, and reduced cost dental care.

Other Philanthropic

Council on Foundations

$9,040

Arlington, VA

This national membership organization provides education, information, and other resources for private and public foundations engaged in grant making.

Foundation Center – Cleveland

$2,500

Cleveland, OH

This national organization provides information and resources designed to assist nonprofit organizations in the grant seeking process. The Center provides databases, print resource materials and training sessions at libraries across the country, including the Toledo/Lucas County Public Library.

Ohio Grantmakers Forum

$6,507

Columbus, OH

This state membership organization provides education, information, and other resources for private and public foundations engaged in grant making.

Toledo Community Foundation

$1,565,000 (3 grants)

Toledo, OH

• $15,000 operating grant in support of the Toledo Community Foundation

• $1,500,000 to the Stranahan Supporting Organization. The Supporting Organization Board of Trustees is responsible for awarding grants to charitable organizations in the northwest Ohio area.

• $50,000 to the Strategic Alliance Partnership

United Way of Greater Toledo

$200,000 (2 grants)

Toledo, OH

Funds were provided for the annual community fundraising campaign which supports local social service agencies in a three-county service area in northwest Ohio and as a capital campaign challenge grant.

Early Childhood Education Special Initiative – Invitation Only

AppleTree Institute for Edcuation Innovation, Inc.

$395,000

Washington, DC

AppleTree operates high-quality, publicly funded (charter), full-day preschools. AppleTree’s model includes identifying/hiring qualified teachers; high adult-child ratios; ongoing teacher professional development; and regular monitoring of children’s performance.

First Steps Kent

$100,000

Grand Rapids, MI

First Steps’ Early Learning Communities (ELC) program works to strengthen the skills of in-home early child care providers (family, friend, neighbors), thereby enhancing children’s literacy and language development. ELC has multiple components including play & learn groups, home visits, community field trips, parent and provider monthly training sessions, and Kindercamp which prepares parents and children for the expectations of kindergarten and beyond.

Ounce of Prevention Fund

$100,000

Chicago, IL

Ounce’s Professional Development Initiative (PDI) provides intensive, individualized training and technical assistance to improve the quality of care, education, and family support for children in community-based early childhood centers.

Grants Made in Honor of Retiring Board Members

Community Foundation of Collier County

$6,000

Naples, FL

David Lawrence Foundation Mental Health

$50,000

Naples, FL

Florida Gulf Coast University

$7,000

Fort Myers, FL

NCH – Healthcare

$5,000

Naples, FL

Ounce of Prevention Fund

$25,000

Chicago, IL

Toledo Hospital

$6,000

Toledo, OH

Toledo Museum of Art

$6,000

Toledo, OH

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