TCF Grantee Stories

Sight Center Helps With Independence
The services the Sight Center provides to its clients concentrate on the skills necessary to help people retain everyday independence. The Foundation has awarded grants totaling $120,000 in the last two years to fund programs to help just that.

How An Agency Reaches Out
The Foundation and Advocates for Basic Legal Equality created a Mobile Benefit Bank staffed by AmeriCorps members to provide free legal assessments to low- and moderate-income individuals and families in the community to determine what assistance is available to them – and helps them apply for those services.

How A Young Entrepreneur Funds Charity
As a little kid, Nick Francis had a special passion for Halloween and turned that passion into a business. See what this Toledo Technology Academy graduate and Ohio State University student has done to combine his knowledge of charitable giving and entrepreneurial hunch to support a local charity.

UT’s Eberly Center: Project Succeed
The University of Toledo's Catherine S. Eberly Center for Women developed its program, Project Succeed, to help women in transition achieve economic self-sufficiency and personal development.  Read about the remarkable impact this program has had on the community.

Glass House Writing Project
With all of the problems in the world today, it's easy to feel that a solution to those problems would require an army of people, dedicated to making the world a better place. But surprisingly often, a solution only takes one person – a person with enthusiasm and commitment – to have an impact on a community. The Glass House Writing Project is a demonstration of a way in which one man has been able to begin to affect his own community.

Toledo GROWs
Thanks to a grant from Toledo Community Foundation, the GROWs partnership with the Toledo Botanical Garden has created a leadership opportunity for promising youth in its job-training program.

Performance Opportunity
Jenna Perez never thought spending a summer at the Catholic Club's Summer Camp would open up an entirely new and exciting world for her.  Read her story to learn how the Toledo Ballet has changed her life, and how the Foundation assisted in its efforts. 

Smiles of the Future
Since the Civil War, children have found an activity-filled place to get their little lives off to a good start at Toledo Day Nursery.

Power of Discovery
For a child, a school field trip creates lasting memories. Since 1992, the Foundation has funded bus trips to help create life-long field trip memories.

Reading Opens His World:  Read for Literacy 
Read for Literacy provides adult basic literacy tutoring to Toledo area residents. Meet William Lewis and his tutor, Mary Berry, and learn their story.

Kitty Todd Showcases Nature's Heritage 
The Nature Conservancy is working to restore land in northwest Ohio's Oak Openings Region to make sure the natural species live in the preserve and remove species that invade this treasure.