Share Your Stories

We love hearing about the awesome work you do throughout Ohio. If your organization is mentioned in the news, please share it with us. We love photos too! If you send it to Lisa Much , we can put it on our blog and in this newsletter. 

Asset Funders Network Financial Coaching Census 2016

To address these questions and support the growth of the financial coaching field, the Center for Financial Security (CFS) and Asset Funders Network (AFN), developed the second annual Financial Coaching Census to better understand the financial coaching field, from its size to its scope, identifying both challenges and opportunities. View or download the report.

Belt Publishing Accepting Stories for The Columbus Anthology

We're looking for submissions that speak to the development of Columbus, Ohio. Once called "Cowtown," Columbus has grown extensively over the last twenty years. We want to hear from the people who are from Columbus, who've seen it change, who've been part of the change, and from people who moved here because of and/or in spite of the change. If you're an artist, essayist, poet, musician, mother, father, son, or daughter, and you've got a story to tell about life in Columbus, we want to hear it. Submissions are due by August 31.

Mitigating Liability in Affordable Accessible/Adaptive Housing

Leasing & Marketing Training

Creating Sustainable Funding for Your Nonprofit

Huntington's 16th Annual Seeds for Growth

Vanguard Australia Accepting Applications for Young Professional Attendees

Finance Fund Core Programs Application Opens July 1

Finance Fund is pleased to announce that it will OPEN its Core Programs application period on July 1, 2017. Core Programs are: Predevelopment Grants - Maximum award $30,000 and Economic Development Grants - Maximum award $100,000. Application period opens July 1.

Big Lots Grants - Hunger & Housing

Grants are accepted until July 1 for organizations affecting Hunger & Housing, including providing nutritious food or meals; providing emergency  food assistance; or educating families or individuals about the importance of healthy eating and preventing families or individuals from losing their housing; providing affordable, stable housing; and providing emergency shelter for families and individuals.

BJA FY 17 Second Chance Act Reentry and Mentoring Program

The Second Chance Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-199) provides a comprehensive response to the increasing number of incarcerated adults and juveniles who are released from prison, jail, and juvenile residential facilities and returning to communities. There are currently over 2.2 million individuals serving time in our federal and state prisons, and millions of people cycling through tribal and local jails every year . Ninety-five percent of all people incarcerated today will eventually be released and will return to communities. The coordination of reentry of members of Native American tribes is even more complex given that they can return from federal, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), state, local, and tribal facilities. The Second Chance Act helps to ensure that the transition individuals make from prison, jail, or juvenile residential facilities to the community is successful and promotes public safety. Deadline is July 5.

Thomas C. & Sandra S. Sullivan Foundation - Cuyahoga County Only

The Foundation provides operating and program support to organizations that serve the poor and needy. The goal is to fund programs with a record of success in making a profound improvement in the lives of disadvantaged members of our community. Deadline is July 15.

USDA Rural Housing Preservation Grant

The HPG program is a grant program which provides qualified public agencies, private nonprofit organizations, which may include but not be limited to Faith-Based and Community Organizations, and other eligible entities grant funds to assist very low- and low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas. In addition, the HPG program assists rental property owners and cooperative housing complexes in repairing and rehabilitating their units if they agree to make such units available to low- and very low-income persons. Deadline is July 17.

PeopleForBikes Funding

PeopleForBikes accepts grant applications from non-profit organizations with a focus on bicycling, active transportation, or community development, from city or county agencies or departments, and from state or federal agencies working locally. PeopleForBikes only funds projects in the United States. Requests must support a specific project or program; we do not grant funds for general operating costs. Deadline is July 21.

Rural Technical Assistance Opportunity

The National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in San Antonio, TX who recently received a HUD grant to deliver project-based and organizational technical assistance (TA) and capacity building services, and loans to affordable housing and community development projects, in rural communities in 12 states.

Government, tribal, and non-profit affordable housing providers, and community and economic development entities in rural areas of Ohio are eligible for this TA. More information here.

The House Budget Committee is planning to release a budget resolution this week which calls for increased funding for defense programs while cutting domestic programs in fiscal year (FY) 2018. Reports suggest that the resolution would set domestic spending levels at $511 billion, which is $4 billion below the current allocations. If passed, the measure would also threaten funding for domestic programs beyond 2018, as it may instruct committees to cut up to $200 billion from mandatory domestic programs over the next decade. 

While the House Appropriations Committee moves forward with the $511 billion topline number, the absence of a budget deal in the Senate has led appropriators in that chamber to begin drafting bills to FY 2017 levels - a slightly higher $518 billion. House and Senate spending bills will likely advance out of committee before the August congressional recess, but a busy legislative agenda calls into question whether either chamber will send appropriations bills to the floor before the end of the fiscal year on September 30. In that case, Congress will likely pass at least a short-term Continuing Resolution to fund the government in the beginning of FY 2018. 

The low domestic budget numbers come on the heels of the President's budget request, which called for a reduction of over $6 billion in the HUD budget, and could result in cuts to vital housing and community development programs. 

The National Low-income Housing Coalition recently released Out of Reach 2017. The report's Housing Wage is the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest apartment while spending no more than 30% of his or her income on rent and utilities. This year, Ohio's average two-bedroom Housing Wage is $15.00 per hour.