Area nonprofits can apply for a Women Fund Grant
MANSFIELD - The Women’s Fund of the Richland County Foundation is accepting grant applications from nonprofit organizations for programs that support women and girls.
If you have questions about the process or guidelines, please contact Foundation Community Investment Officer Siera Marthmay at smarth@rcfoundation.org or call 419-525-3020 to assure a program complies with the focus and guidelines.
Programs must occur between December 1, 2021, and August 31, 2022. The deadline to submit an online application is Sunday,
September 5.
Applications are available at richlandcountyfoundation.org.
About the Women’s Fund of the Richland County Foundation
The Women’s Fund of the Richland County Foundation was formed in 1996 to promote philanthropy among women and to provide funding for programs to empower women and girls. The Women’s Fund has awarded 304 grants that total $442,390.
CONTACT: Maura Teynor, chief advancement officer, Phone: 419-525-3020 mteynor@ rcfoundation.org
removing in township right-ofway areas and such township property.
“We’ll mark it and get an estimate,” Trustee Wright said. “That way when the storms come through here like they have before, we don’t have to worry about” a tree falling “across a road, taking out a car, a car hitting it, taking out a powerline.”
Trustee Eshelman said the estimate “would at least give us a ballpark figure of what it’s going to cost.”
Trustees also addressed road issues, agreeing to spend an additional $687 with
Black Cat Asphalt Sealing of Fredericktown, Ohio for work on Laser Road that was not part of the original project. A portion of Laser Road from State Route 96 to Holtz Road was mistakenly done, an estimated 0.1-mile area, Trustees’ Chairman Greg Vogt reported.
The $687 represents material and fuel costs as requested from the company, Vogt said in reading information on the matter.
The cost of the work, including labor, was $1,986.20, Vogt said, adding that the contractor had not been told to do that section of roadway.
As trustees discussed the matter, area resident David Yetzer asked, “Did it better the road?”
“It did,” Vogt responded. “There’s areas it wasn’t super bad. They filled a few cracks.”
Trustees ended up voting 3-0 for the $687 involving material and fuel costs.
An invoice is to be sent to the township.
Later in public comment, Mr. Yetzer suggested a resolution involving the proposed Black Fork River ditch petition, an issue he also raised at the July 6 meeting.
“I was going to ask you to pass a resolution saying the township wasn’t in favor of it, but then I realized you didn’t have enough information to do that,” Yetzer said at the July 20 meeting when he referenced the prior meeting.
“I would like to have you consider passing a resolution to ask them to come forth with the information before the meeting they’ve scheduled early next month as to where this is at,” Yetzer also said July 20.
Trustees took no action on a resolution, but trustees Vogt and Eshelman expressed an interest in more information on the topic.
The ditch involved is the Black Fork River itself, Shelby officials have said in explaining the ditch petition.
The area involved in the ditch petition extends from Mickey Road all the way to about State Route 13, an 18-mile stretch of the Black Fork, the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District has reported.
Potential project costs are being determined as landowners await specifics on questions involving assessment concerns and possible amounts, more specifics on the work and the impact on properties, for example.
The first hearing on the ditch petition is planned for 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 5 at the Richland County Longview Center, 1495 W. Longview Ave. in Mansfield.
Check the Shelby Daily Globe for updates.