Through Gifts of Kindness, The Columbus Foundation partners with 30 local nonprofit agencies to identify individuals experiencing an unforeseen hardship. One-time grants provide an immediate financial boost to help individuals and families continue on a path to independence and sustainability.
When the Gifts of Kindness Fund was established at The Columbus Foundation in fall 2014, the thought was simple—to encourage kindness by lifting up people with one-time financial gifts that could help them overcome a sudden obstacle.
The grants, typically between $500 to $3,000, go toward expenses associated with the hardship and help stem any ripple effects of it. Often, these expenses are related to housing, transportation, and assistance with utilities. Individuals must already be involved in a service or program of a partner nonprofit to apply for and receive a grant.
Additional nonprofit partners will be added to reach a representative cross-section of people in need throughout central Ohio.
NONPROFIT PARTNERS
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Use a human rights-based framework to provide holistic legal services and advocacy to survivors of sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and exploitation in Ohio, serving adults, juveniles and youth, as well as foreign national survivors.
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Innovate and deliver evidence-based human service programs that empower those we serve to build successful and productive lives.
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Support and counsel people affected by domestic violence in Ohio, especially the South Asian community, connect them with resources, educate, advocate, collaborate and raise awareness.
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Provide support, connectedness, and enable independence for adults ages 50 and over within the Short North neighborhoods, Milo-Grogan, and Weinland Park.
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Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
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Serve the city and its residents, and make a difference in the surrounding community and the world.
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Break the cycle of violence through the advocacy, prevention, intervention, treatment, and research and integrate comprehensive services through community collaboration and evidence-based practices.
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Engage teens and their children in opportunities to acquire self-sufficiency, health and well-being, education, and employment through a coordinated network of the most effective community services.
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Empower people to reach their full potential, to be self-supporting, and to live cooperatively with all others.
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Deliver responsive services, cultivate partnerships, and promote opportunities to foster a healthier community.
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Catalyze collaborations with key strategic partners to improve the quality of life for all residents of the South Side through individual and community services.
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Create homes that provide residents with the support, stability, and community connections they need to live and thrive.
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Help refugees and immigrants reach safety and stability, sustain self-sufficiency, and achieve successful integration into the central Ohio community.
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Support families, promote community involvement, and encourage a lifetime of opportunities for people with Down syndrome.
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To be the focal point of integration for immigrants, refugee families, and low-income individuals in central Ohio in order to improve the quality of their lives, to facilitate their integration through education, training, supportive services, resettlement, self-development opportunities, and to increase the awareness of their culture and heritage in central Ohio.
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Provide collaborative evaluation and treatment services for substance dependent parents who have lost or are at risk of losing custody of their children due to abuse, neglect, or dependency.
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Provide hope, supportive services, and workforce training to adult survivors of human trafficking so they can live a life of freedom gained through self-sufficiency.
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Strengthen the well-being of Franklinton’s children, families and community, and build a thriving equitable neighborhood.
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Transform the lives of individuals with disabilities and other barriers through pathways to independence and the power of work.
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Believes families deserve and have the right to housing, financial, and educational stability.
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Create strong communities by developing quality, affordable homes on a cornerstone of dignity, security, and opportunity.
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Fight poverty by providing hope-inspiring help and real opportunities for self-sufficiency.
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Helping individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
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Lead the community in delivering health and nutrition services to meet the community’s needs by providing services to seniors and individuals living with a medical challenge or disability in central Ohio.
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Break cycles of poverty and drug addiction through supportive housing and individualized mentoring for youth, adults, and ex-offenders.
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Helping individuals and families lead healthy lives free from addiction and mental illness through education, treatment, and support.
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Help veterans develop self-reliance and independence by providing access to the resources they need to successfully manage their lives.
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Help parents and caregivers of children with special needs focus on their own personal health, career, social, and life goals.
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Help families move to opportunity and help make central Ohio more equitable, welcoming, and inclusive.
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Respond to the ill effects of poverty in central Ohio by providing food and material assistance to persons in need; strive to improve the quality of life in our community by compassionately and respectfully serving our neighbors.
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Empower women in transition to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency by providing holistic career counseling and career development services that help women obtain the skills, information, and resources needed to confidently live their own personal definitions of success through meaningful employment.
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Empower our New American neighbors by supporting individuals, strengthening families, and nurturing communities.
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Serve people in need without discrimination, and putting funds to maximum use to provide services, programs, and ministries that produce measurable, life-enhancing results.
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Provide Franklin County children with quality affordable care and early learning; and promote emotional, social and intellectual growth and development in preparation for success in school and in life.
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Strengthening families and empowering our community so that Linden becomes a community of togetherness with endless opportunities.
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Provide youth experiencing homelessness with a safe respite from the streets and connect them with a chance to thrive.
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Serve the whole community through programs expressing Judeo-Christian principles that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body.
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Eliminate racism; empower women; and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.