Nord Family Foundation awards $3M

The Nord Family Foundation announced March 7 the list of nonprofit organizations in the fields of arts and culture, civic affairs, education and health and social services that have been awarded grants this cycle.

At the Feb. 25 Board of Trustees meeting, grants approved totaled $3,682,500 to be disbursed in Lorain and Cuyahoga counties; Columbia, S.C.; Denver.; Boston.; Penn Yan, N.Y.; and other areas, according to a news release.

Seventy-one other actions totaling $155,241 also were ratified at the meeting bringing the total grants authorized in this round to $3,837,741, the release said.

The Nord Family Foundation is a successor to the charitable trust originally established in 1952 by Walter G. Nord.

$156M disbursed

The foundation has contributed more than $156 million to nonprofit organizations in northern Ohio and selected geographic areas of family interest, the release said.

The next deadline for consideration of online grant applications is April 3, the release said.

Among the recently approved grants are:

Arts and culture

• Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, $45,000, for continued support of summer music program scholarships for Lorain County students.

• Amherst Historical Society, $40,000, for general operating support.

Civic affairs

• Amherst Downtown and Betterment Association, $40,000, for continued general operating support.

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio, $36,000, for improving security at Boys & Girls Clubs at two Lorain County sites.

• Lorain County Community Development Corporation in Elyria, $75,000, for Lorain County Integrated Economic Development Strategy.

• Lorain County Urban League Inc. in Elyria, $200,000, for Serving Our Streets — Violence Prevention Program over two years.

• Neighborhood Alliance in Lorain, $100,000, for Haven Center expansion and renovations.

• Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, $20,000, for continued support of preservation of historic buildings.

• Ohio Local Information Initiative Inc. in Cleveland, $10,000, for local news planning and engagement in Lorain County.

Education

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio, $60,000, for continued general operating support at five club sites in Lorain County.

• Community Foundation of Lorain County, $20,000, for Imagination Library.

• Effective Leadership Academy in Warrensville Heights, $130,000, for continued social-emotional learning and leadership programming in Lorain County over two years.

• Lorain Lighthouse United Methodist Church/ Lorain United Methodist Ministries, $24,000, for continued support of Camp I.D.E.A.S., over two years.

• National Inventors Hall of Fame Inc. in North Canton, $25,000, for support of the Camp Invention Summer STEM Enrichment Program for underserved Lorain County students.

• Save Our Children of Elyria, $65,000, for general operating support.

• Teach For America Greater Cleveland, $50,000, for Teach For America alumni in Lorain County.

• Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges Inc. in Columbus, $150,000, for continued support of The Nord Family Foundation Scholarship Program and pilot summer internship program.

Health and social services

• Blessing House in

Elyria, $80,000, for continued general operating support.

• Common Ground -The Cindy Nord Center for Renewal in Oberlin, $100,000, for continued general operating support.

• Emerald Development and Economic Network Inc. in Cleveland, $100,000, for continued general operating support in Lorain County.

• Empower Her Network Inc. in New London, Conn., $12,000, for Lorain County survivor support program expansion.

• Lorain County Safe Harbor, $170,000, for general operating support over two years.

• Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry in Cleveland, $30,000, for continued support of the Volunteer Guardianship Program in Lorain County.