Lake-Geauga Fund – 2007 Grants

• Various scholarships – $210,000 (Six grants)
  These grants provide scholarship support for students from Lake and Geauga counties. Included is a $104,000 grant to Ohio’s eight medical schools for scholarship assistance to third- and fourth-year students who graduated from high school in Lake or Geauga counties or whose parents resided in Lake or Geauga counties when the students graduated from high school.
• Das Deutsch Center for Special Needs Children – $100,000
  The center diagnoses and treats genetic disorders among the Amish, as well as works to educate patients on these diseases and how to prevent them. The grant will go toward Das Deutsch's Solving Medical Mysteries capital campaign, whose goal is to build a new facility for the clinic, which may be serving up to 500 patients annually by 2009.
• Lake County Historical Society – $60,000
  The Society is seeking to move its headquarters to a new building, but many areas of the new facility are inaccessible to those with special needs. State funds are available to help with necessary renovation, though the Society must prepare and submit architectural plans and documentation to quality. Three-quarters ($45,000) of the grant will be used to help the organization secure the required information. The remainder ($15,000) will fund a consultant to conduct a feasibility study around the Historical Society's proposed fundraising campaign.
• Kenston School District – $50,000
  This grant will assist the school district in its K2 (Kilowatts for Kenston) wind energy project on the campus of Kenston High School. The district aims to build a wind turbine to serve as a teaching tool for students and to generate sufficient energy to reduce its electricity costs.
• Lake Communities Development Corporation – $50,000
  Since 1993, the organization has provided new home construction and a down payment program for low-income home buyers, along with home renovation and rehabilitation services for low-income and disabled homeowners.  The grant will help to establish a new division to address specifically the need for affordable housing in Geauga County.
• Lakeland Foundation – $37,500
  The foundation will use the grant to support the Nonprofit and Public Service Center, which helps nonprofit and public service organizations with professional development, consulting, and networking. In the two years since its inception, the center has served about 1,300 individuals from Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula, and Cuyahoga counties, and beyond.
• Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio – $37,500
  Through the grant funding, Young Audiences will help students in the Painesville City, Willoughby-Eastlake, and Ledgemont school districts use the arts to enhance learning in language arts, social studies, and history.
• Porter Center for Science and Mathematics in Painesville – $31,250 
  The center will use the grant for the expansion of an outdoor educational program it will conduct in partnership with Lake Metroparks. Porter Center staff, park experts, and curriculum specialists will work together to design a variety of outdoor learning components that will align with state educational standards in math and science.
• Lake Erie College – $30,000 
  The grant supports the college's Put Your Passion to Work entrepreneurship initiative program, designed to prepare students for entrepreneurial careers, regardless of their field of study.
• Family and Community Services of Portage County – $28,000
  This grant will assist a strategic and community planning effort to support the Chagrin Falls Park Community Center. The center offers programs that provide academic, emotional, and physical support to residents of Chagrin Falls Park.
• Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center in Chagrin Falls – $25,000
  Funds will support construction of an addition to the Center's Gaitway School, a public high school classroom for Geauga County students with emotional disabilities. The addition will allow Fieldstone to expand the number of students it serves through Gaitway.
• Hershey Montessori School in Concord Township – $25,000
  The grant will fund scholarships for students from Lake and Geauga counties.
• Lake County Council on Aging – $20,000
  The grant will be used to conduct a community audit to determine the best use of the Council on Aging's various resources. The Council has provided services to older adults, their families, and their caregivers for 35 years.
• Lake Hospital System (LHS) – $20,000
  LHS' Breast Healthcare, Education and Support Program will benefit from this grant, which will underwrite the cost of extending the program's outreach. Lake County has the highest incidence of breast cancer in Ohio and is among those counties with the highest mortality rates from the disease. LHS is working to lower the rate of avoidable breast cancer mortality in Lake County and surrounding areas through patient education.
• Painesville Adult Basic and Literacy Education Program – $16,183
  In the summer adult literacy program, students will hone basic skills such as writing, reading, math, and use of the English language, as well as receive the opportunity for GED preparation.
• Forbes House – $16,117
  The shelter for battered women and their children will use the grant to purchase hardware and software for updating client records, reporting to funders and the community, and researching domestic violence-related topics.
• The Holden Arboretum – $13,500
  The grant will support its "Holden Express: A Garden Railroad" exhibit. The exhibit will feature 2,000 linear feet of tracks that wind through miniaturized landscapes created entirely from plant material.
• Project Hope for the Homeless – $10,050
  Project Hope provides emergency shelter, care, and guidance to the homeless in Lake County. This grant will assist Project Hope with the salary of a part-time/on-call intake worker.
• Rabbit Run Community Arts Association – $10,000
  This grant is for the partial support of Rabbit Run's strategic planning process.  Strategic planning will help the visual and performing arts organization identify goals, objectives, and benchmarks for evaluation.
• Lake/Geauga Educational Assistance Foundation – $7,500
  The grant will assist them with the implementation of a pilot community outreach and summer service program targeting Hispanic students attending Harvey High School and their families.