Heart of Stark: Charitable funds award nearly $30,000 to organizations serving Massillon

Canton Repository
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Heart of Stark
Heart of Stark

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Two charitable funds at Stark Community Foundation — The Massillon Community Charitable Fund and The Arthur P. Underhill and Martha Q. Underhill Charitable Fund — recently awarded nearly $30,000 in grants to local organizations serving the Massillon area.

Organizations receiving support this year include:

  • Access Health Stark County: $4,000 to fund a portion of the salary of a community health worker to help vulnerable western Stark County residents navigate and access health care resource.

  • Akron Children’s Hospital: $2,500 to help distribute hygiene and summer safety kits to low-income families at pop-up outreach events in Massillon and surrounding communities.

  • Domestic Violence Project Inc.: $4,000 to install new security cameras and replace existing ones in its emergency shelter in Massillon.

  • Girls on the Run East Central Ohio: $2,500 to purchase brand-new running shoes for program participants living in Western Stark County.

  • Massillon Knights Foundation: $4,000 to replace a freezer door used for its Wednesday free hot lunch program.

  • Massillon Museum: $4,000 to replace a 20-year-old kiln with a brand-new kiln for its ceramics studio.

  • Massillon WestStark Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $1,500 to help purchase new computers and equipment.

  • Stark County Hunger Task Force: $4,000 to provide 28,000 pounds of food to 12 pantries throughout Western Stark County.

  • VANTAGE Aging: $3,000 to help repair and maintain the Meals on Wheels frigerated vans that deliver nutritious, fresh meals to the homes of Massillon senior citizens.

Massillon Community Charitable Fund was created in 1982 when a group of civic leaders in Massillon came together to create a charitable legacy that would strengthen their community for years to come. To date, the fund has awarded nearly $270,000 to local organizations. Contributions can be made online at www.starkcf.org/mccf or mailed to Stark Community Foundation, 400 Market Ave. North, Suite 200, Canton, Ohio 44702.

Through their estate, the late Arthur P. and Martha Q. Underhill established a charitable fund at Stark Community Foundation that would benefit Massillon organizations in perpetuity. The Underhills entrusted the Massillon Community Charitable Fund to recommend areas of support from the dollars available from their fund at the Foundation.

Stark Community Foundation is the community’s trusted partner in giving to over 950 individuals, families, businesses and nonprofits that have created charitable funds to support causes they care about. Ranked in the top 10% of community foundations in the United States today, Stark Community Foundation is committed to serving donor needs and strategically addressing local issues. Since it was established in 1963, the foundation and its family of donors have granted more than $250 million to nonprofits. Learn more at www.starkcf.org.

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