Community grants

First Financial Bank and the First Financial Foundation have announced $155,000 in grants for 23 Greater Cincinnati organizations that are helping First Financial to enhance and develop the communities in which it does business. First Financial’s 2021 Annual Grant Campaign is benefitting more than 60 organizations throughout its fourstate

footprint of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois.

The 2021 Annual Grant Campaign places a particular focus on low-income communities, with funding priorities in neighborhood development, workforce development and education, and culture and the arts.

In Greater Cincinnati, First Financial is providing grants for workforce development and education to the Brighton Center; Learning Grove; Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati; Cornerstone Renter Equity; Easterseals TriState; Junior Achievement of OKI Partners; Per Scholas; Santa Maria Community Services; St. Aloysius Orphanage; the Bail Project; Inspiration Studios in Hamilton; and Hope House Rescue Mission in Middletown.

In the area of neighborhood development, First Financial announced grants to Cincinnati Community Toolbank, Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati; Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative; Independent Living Options, Inc.; Legal Aid of Greater Cincinnati; Over-the-Rhine Community Housing; People Working Cooperatively; Working in Neighborhoods; Whole Again International; and the Center for Community Revitalization. In support of culture and arts initiatives, First Financial is providing a grant to Price Hill Will.