Church of the Advent’s Open Door, food pantry and protective payee program for the mentally ill: $5,000

All Saints, Portsmouth, St. Lucy Sober House: a safe house with supportive services to help women persevere in recovery from addition:  $1,000

Ascension and Holy Trinity, Valley Interfaith Food and Clothing: emergency assistance for 13 hard-hit industrial communities on the northwest side of Cincinnati. $4,000

Christ Church, Dayton won two grants:

   CityHeart: emergency assistance, referral, and Benefit Bank services in the heart of

   downtown Dayton, $5,000.

   Dayton Community Garden, to provide tools and supplies for the new volunteer initiative

   to grow fresh produce for the Dayton Episcopal Pantry at St. Andrew’s, $1,400

Christ Church, Springfield won three grants:        

   Interfaith Hospitality Network to shelter homeless families, $5000

   Jobs and More for job coaching, $2,000

   Peace Camp to equip children and teens with the skills to resolve conflict non-violently, 

   $2,000.

Christ Church Xenia, Interfaith Hospitality Network to aid homeless families in Greene County, $5,000.

Epiphany, Nelsonville: Free Community Dinners, a partnership of parishioners and students from nearby Hocking College, $2,000.

Good Samaritan, Amelia:  Reading Camp, a new diocesan collaboration of Episcopalians to help reluctant readers develop confidence and joy in reading, The first Reading Camp will be held at Procter Farm, with camps to be organized by several Episcopal congregations in other areas in subsequent years. $1,000

Good Shepherd, Athens, Wednesday Free Lunch: weekly free meal serving the poor, mentally ill, and lonely international students at Ohio University, $1,500.

Indian Hill Church, InterParish Ministry Mentoring and Planning Program: matching  mentors with each member of a household striving to overcome poverty, $1,000.

Church of the Redeemer won two grants:

   Interfaith Hospitality Network, Cincinnati:  collaborating with 11 other Episcopal churches and many other faiths to shelter homeless families, $5,000

   MEAC Emergency Assistance Program providing emergency assistance and Benefit Bank services to low-income residents on Cincinnati’s eastern edge: 

   $5,000

St. Andrew’s, Cincinnati Food Pantry serving Evanston, $2,000.

St. Andrew’s, Dayton Episcopal Pantry:  a partnership of Dayton Deanery churches to serve people in need in Daytonview, $3,000.

St. Andrew’s Washington Court House SOCKS (Spirit of Christmas for Kids), a county-wide partnership enabling families in need to choose suitable Christmas gifts for their children, $1,000.

St. James, Cincinnati, Ohio Benefit Bank: funding through a state grant to ECSF provides computer equipment for St. James’ new initiative to connect neighbors in need to tax credits and public benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid. (value:  $1,700)

St. James, Clintonville, CRC Community Breakfast: to provide an urgently needed commercial-grade stove and cooking equipment for a Sunday morning free meal, $2,000

St. James, Piqua Food Pantry:  the major source of free food for Piqua, $2,500.

St. James, Zanesville Friendship Dinner: monthly sit-down dinner and fellowship serving many lonely and impoverished people, $1,500.

St. John’s Cambridge Dry Bottoms provides free diapers to an increasing number of families in need. $1,500.

St. John’s Community Ministry, Columbus: comprehensive ministry in Franklinton, ranging from meals, worship and advocacy for the homeless to GED and parenting classes, $12,500. 

St. Luke’s Marietta, Caring Connection:  emergency aid for rent, utility and prescriptions, plus Benefit Bank counseling and helping people without insurance to apply for drug manufacturers’ free or discount prescription programs:  $3,000.

St. Mark’s, Dayton, Community-School Partnership is a ever-growing circle of caring adults tutoring children in an inner-city school.  The grant provides books for children to keep as their own, $1,000.

St. Mary’s Hillsboro won two grants for front-line ministries in this county near Wilmington, which has thousands of jobs. 

   Samaritan Outreach provides comprehensive emergency assistance, $5,000.   Soup’s On a monthly free dinner at the church, $2,000. 

St. Paul’s Logan Community Meal, engaging many community volunteers, $1,750.

St. Paul’s Martin’s Ferry Food Pantry, the town’s major source of free food.  $5,000.

St. Peter’s Delaware Second Fridays: free community meal at Andrews House, with referral to Benefit Bank and free legal and medical clinic. $2,000

St. Peter’s Gallipolis, Loaves and Fishes monthly free meal, $1,000

St. Philip’s, Cincinnati, CAIN (Churches Active in Northside) emergency assistance and Benefit Bank site, $4,000.

St. Philip’s Columbus Food Pantry serving the Near East Side of Columbus, $2,000

St. Stephen’s, Columbus, Neighborhood Services, Inc emergency assistance and advocacy for impoverished residents near Ohio State.  $6,000

St. Timothy, Anderson Township, InterParish Ministry Emergency Assistance: choice pantry and Benefit Bank site serving eastern Hamilton and western Clermont counties.  $4,000.

Trinity, Bellaire, Inmate and Hospitality Ministry: meals and fellowship for inmates of Belmont Correctional who come to the church monthly to do work projects, as well as for community residents. $1,000.

Trinity, Columbus:  In the Garden and Services to the Homeless and Ex-Offenders:  A Sunday prayer service and meal now serving up to 100 homeless people weekly, plus vouchers to help people obtain state ID’s essential to applying for jobs, housing, and public benefits, $4,000.

Trinity, London, Ministry for Community: organizes stakeholders to tackle causes of poverty in Madison County and develops non-profits like hunger programs and a free medical clinic to meet critical needs: $2,500.

Trinity, McArthur, Community Feeding Ministry: hospitable monthly meal, $1,500.

Trinity, Troy has two grants. 

   The Dr. Torrence Medical Fund helps people emerge from crippling medical debt through financial aid and advocacy, $2,000.

   Partners in Hope provides comprehensive emergency assistance and mentoring equipping people in poverty to solve myriad problems, increasingly in partnership with other community stakeholders.  $4,000.