City Music Cleveland
$28,000 for the arts organization’s free chamber orchestra concerts for residents in the Slavic Village and St.Clair-Superior neighborhoods

Berea Children’s Home & Family Services
$67,500 for its Freedom Schools, a program to help communities create supportive and literature-rich environments for children through a focus on literacy, cultural heritage, parental involvement, and social action

Art House
$45,000 for development and 2008-2009 program support

Cleveland Saves
$60,000 for its self-sufficiency campaign, which assists individuals who wish to build wealth, reduce debt, and create lifelong financial security

Nature’s Bin
$40,000 for its social enterprise program serving people with disabilities

Cleveland Foodbank
$100,000 for its fresh produce initiative, which will ensure that Cleveland’s economically disadvantaged will receive nutritional meals on a regular basis

Environmental Health Watch
$198,000 for the expansion of its Healthy Homes program, which helps low- to moderate-income families address significant health issues in their homes

Cleveland Scholarship Programs
$685,000 to increase post-secondary education for low-income, first-generation students facing academic and financial barriers

Cleveland Institute of Art
$500,000 for a capital campaign to modernize and unify its two existing facilities into one state-of-the-art campus at the eastern end of the Euclid-Mayfield Triangle, part of the broader Arts and Cultural Retail District in University Circle

Recovery Resources
$125,000 in support of its green building project

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
$150,000 for public activities associated with the 2009 Hall of Fame inductions

Cleveland Housing Network
$167,000 for its strategic initiatives in neighborhood revitalization

America SCORES
$45,000 for its local after-school literacy and physical education program

Hathaway Brown
$100,000 for its ASPIRE program, a tuition-free, three-year summer enrichment program for girls in the sixth through eighth grades from Cleveland-area public schools

Cleveland Metropolitan School District
$98,170 for its K-12 comprehensive health program, providing age-appropriate health education to nearly 50,000 students

Hispanic Alliance
$200,000 for first-year start-up costs for the alliance, which will position itself as the “go to” entity in the community for Hispanic and Latino concerns

Cleveland Public Art
$110,000 for 2009 projects and programming, including partnerships with Parkworks and Neighborhood Progress Inc.

RSVP of Greater Cleveland
$150,000 to Experience Corps, a program to increase literacy among young children using senior volunteer tutors

Cogswell Hall
$250,000 for its renovation and expansion project, which will provide increased services for clients who would otherwise be homeless

Family Transitional Housing

$75,000 to cover costs related to the merger with the West Side Catholic Center

Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center
$139,500 for its continued development of programs and services for the Hispanic community

Ohio State University Research Foundation
$110,056 for community gardening programs in the city of Cleveland

Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland
$75,000 for its gang prevention program

Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People
$25,000 for its Neighbors Revitalizing Neighborhoods foreclosure prevention project

Center for Families and Children
$50,000 for the implementation of Mental Health Advocacy Coalition’s strategic plan

Neighborhood Family Practice
$85,000 for Increasing Access for Uninsured public policy and advocacy programming

Ohio Environmental Council
$50,000 for its campaign to reduce diesel pollution

Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest
$105,000 toward creation of an Ohio office

Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio
$75,000 for OhioVOTES, a nonpartisan voter education initiative, and $30,000 for its emergency payday lending referendum challenge