Fort Wayne awards $380K to support local nonprofits

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Fort Wayne Mayor Sharon Tucker this week announced $380,000 in grants awarded to nearly two dozen local nonprofits.

The funding is being awarded to help low- and moderate-income residents with shelter, basic needs, employment skills and youth development, according to the city.

The funding comes from Fort Wayne’s federal Community Development Block Grant and Emergency Solutions Grant allocations.

“It takes all of us working together, the private, nonprofit and government sectors, to create a thriving community that offers everyone opportunities to succeed,” Tucker said in a news release. “The funding we’re announcing today helps local nonprofit agencies provide critical services to our most vulnerable residents.”

The recipients of the grant funding are:

• Blue Jacket, Inc. – Transitional Employee Support – Provides job training and employee wages at the agency’s social enterprise businesses.
• Brightpoint – Coordinated Entry – Supports the mandated social service system that helps area agencies coordinate services for people in need of housing.
• Brightpoint – Covering Kids & Families – Helps families enroll in public health insurance like Medicaid and the Health Insurance Marketplace.
• Brightpoint – Rapid Re-Housing – Helps families maintain or obtain stable housing.
• Catholic Charities – Journey Home – Provides one-on-one case management services for individuals as they transition from emergency shelter to longer-term housing.
• Center for Nonviolence – Project SAFE – Provides low- to moderate-income survivors of domestic violence with education resources, and support.
• Early Childhood Alliance – Child care Support – Supports child care for low- to moderate-income children in the Beacon Learning Program.
• Euell A. Wilson Center – Work Ready Youth – Supports low-income teens in obtaining and maintaining employment, including job placement, workshops, personalized career and life coaching.
• Forgotten Stones – Housing Support – Helps residents who struggle with homelessness manage their finances, pay their bills on time, and maintain their housing.
• Fort Wayne Housing Authority Housing Opportunities Program – Rapid Re-Housing – Helps families maintain or obtain stable housing.
• Fort Wayne Urban League – Youth Empowerment Services – Offers students a safe and welcoming space, one-on-one tutoring and peer support.
• Just Neighbors – Shelter Operations – Supports essential services at Just Neighbors Shelter, the only local emergency shelter that serves families experiencing homelessness.
• The League – Benefit Enrollment Center – Assists people with disabilities in applying for benefits such as SNAP (food stamps)
• Mustard Seed Furniture Bank – Beds4Kids – Provides low-income children a new twin mattress, bed frame, pillow, sheet set and blanket.
• St. Joseph Missions – Life Skills Coach – Helps residents build practical life skills needed to move toward independent living.
• St. Joseph Missions – Shelter Operations – Supports the only local emergency shelter that specifically serves unaccompanied women experiencing homelessness.
• TeenWorks – Employment Training – Provides paid internships, life skills training, and career/college exploration to under-served teens.
• The Literacy Alliance – Project Graduate – Supports free High School Equivalency (HSE) classroom instruction to adults working to obtain their high school diploma.
• Vincent Village – Car Care – Provides Vincent Village residents transportation to work, medical appointments and school. 
• Wellspring – Youth Programming – Supports the free after-school program and summer day camp for low-income youth.
• YWCA Northeast Indiana – Emergency Financial Assistance – Assists individuals and families living in the shelter by providing payments to third-party vendors to cover short-term, emergency expenses such as rent and utilities.
• YWCA Northeast Indiana – Shelter Operations – Funding to support the domestic violence and addiction recovery shelters.