Programs We’ve Recently Funded
Big Brothers Big Sisters received a Foundation grant for the Mentor Kettering program, which helps young people from Kettering shape a path to successful adulthood by improving social behavior, emotional wellbeing and academic skills through a mentoring relationship with an adult volunteer.
Brigid’s Path improves the health of newborn babies and mothers impacted by addiction. A recent Foundation grant provided baby monitors and required accessories to track infants’ heart rate and oxygen saturation during sleep.
Clothes That Work provides appropriate work attire, education and empowerment to individuals to prepare them for employment success. A recent grant from the Foundation supports free workforce preparedness workshops to teach Kettering high school and middle school students about soft skills and workplace etiquette.
Crayons to Classrooms invites volunteers to work for shopping credits that allow teachers from Kettering schools to shop at a “free” store for supplies to assist their students in need. The Foundation supports the Volunteer to Shop program, ensuring that every Kettering student has the tools for success every day.
Goodwill Easter Seals is using a Foundation grant for its Early Childhood Mental Health Component. The program screens children, ages 0-5, in Kettering childcare centers for developmental delays and early childhood mental health concerns, and provides resource connections.
Homefull works to end homelessness by providing housing services, education and advocacy. The Foundation’s recent grant supports the Mobile Grocery, which makes available groceries and healthy foods in areas of high food insecurity, especially among low-income and senior households.
Hannah’s Treasure Chest is a basic-needs organization that received a Foundation grant to support the Care Package program. Working with a network of 75 school districts and nonprofits, the organization provides Kettering families in need with new and gently used items such as diapers, clothing, shoes, cribs and more.
Kettering Backpack has been awarded Foundation grants to support the fight against childhood hunger. The program provides at-risk students a bag of food every Friday during the school year to sustain their nutritional needs when school breakfasts and lunches are not available.
Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton received a Foundation grant for the Healing Pathways project, an effort that allows children to experience grief in a safe, stable environment. Counselors and social workers tailor programs to each child’s needs, helping them find a way forward after loss.
Society for the Improvement of Conditions of Stray Animals (SICSA), well known in the community for promoting the welfare and adoption of companion animals, received a Foundation grant to hold a free microchipping event. Microchip scanning is an inexpensive and effective way to reunite lost pets with their owners.
YWCA Dayton is using a Foundation grant to create awareness about the Crisis and Domestic Violence Hotline and its new text and chat features, developed for use by individuals fleeing domestic violence when verbal communication is not safe.