911 W. 8th St.
Cincinnati, OH 45203
Special Covid-19 Relief Grant
This grant is one of more than 20 grants that the Dater Foundation made in 2019-20 to previous grant recipient organizations working on the frontlines to provide life saving and life sustaining services to persons most deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
BLOC Ministries is a faith-based local non-profit that provides positive presence in urban Cincinnati, working one-to-one to break cycles of poverty and hopelessness. Working west side Cincinnati’s at-risk students and adults, BLOC has built positive networks for personal growth over the last 2 decades. Its focus is on mentoring relationships, skills-building opportunities, and safe neighborhood spaces at its 15 BLOC centers recognized as respites away from the risks of urban streets. This grant allowed BLOC to reduce food insecurity and serve additional Price Hill neighbors during the COVID lockdown, as requests doubled from 5,000 to about 10,000 monthly. During this unprecedented time, this grant provided: hot meals for students, families, and the elderly, extra groceries from its food pantry, meals served safely outside its day shelter for homeless women and victims of trafficking, and helped keep its women’s recovery homes and at-risk teen residential programs open and residents fed and safe.
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