Forbes House ($10,000): To support the purchase of bed sheets, blankets, towels, washcloths, and cleaning supplies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among survivors of abuse living in their shelters.Collaboration Station ($48,600): To support staff, menu development, and food preparation to provide food security to 275 clients with medically tailored dietary needs that are emerging throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc.($60,000): To utilize WOVU 95.9 FM to raise awareness of long-haul COVID survivors and their families in the African American community, help connect individuals experiencing long-haul COVID issues and families who have experienced death from COVID with counseling and/or group support, and increase awareness of the suffering caused by long-haul COVID to help overcome vaccine hesitancy.Bikur Cholim($35,690): To support several hundred people in the Greater Cleveland Jewish community by providing culturally competent patient advocacy to help with emerging needs and service navigation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Beautiful Cycle($5,000): To support education materials, sanitary hygiene supplies, pads, and equipment distribution for female children disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.One Year: More than $11.5 million awarded Phase I Grantee Partners: More than $8.6 million awarded Phase I & II Grantee Partners Read more learnings and reflections from the Fund’s first year in our community report. Within days, a small team of grantmaking professionals got together to form the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund. In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit home, with the first cases of the novel coronavirus reported in Ohio. Read more about the impact of the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund here. FCCR is a partnership spanning nearly 50 foundations, nonprofits and governments focused on a multi-year approach to helping the region recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and come back stronger. 18, 2021, the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announced its final round of grants and launched the Funders Collaborative on COVID Recovery (FCCR) to spearhead its Phase III efforts.īuilding on the work of Phases I and II, Fund partners will shift their focus from rapid response grantmaking to long-term COVID recovery in Phase III. The Funders Collaborative on COVID Recovery And Sally Harris Wertheim Family Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland.Nearly $19 million has been awarded since the start of the Fund in March 2020, with more than $10.9 million (including a $4 million grant from Cuyahoga County’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act fund to combat homelessness in Greater Cleveland) in support committed in Phase II by: 1, 2020, a coalition of partners announced the creation of Phase II of the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund, extending the focus of Phase I. In the Fund’s first phase, partners granted more than $8.6 million to nearly 160 nonprofit groups and organizations in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund was initially established on March 18, 2020, to complement the work of public health officials and expand local capacity to address all aspects of the coronavirus outbreak as efficiently as possible.

A coalition of Northeast Ohio philanthropic, corporate and civic partners have joined together to launch the second phase of the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund for continued support to nonprofit organizations dealing directly with the ongoing effects of the pandemic in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.

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