The O'Neill Foundation recognizes and celebrates the power of the human spirit in every person.

It is our goal to see it flourish throughout the communities in which we live, work and raise our families. Another spirit, one of giving, has long united O'Neill family members as we work together to fulfill our family's central value: serving our communities. Through our active involvement in the Foundation, and guided by personal knowledge of those communities and our experience with nonprofits, we strive to support vital works and to honor the spirit of William and Dorothy through wise stewardship of our grantmaking legacy.  

Foundation News Briefs (for more, visit our News Section)
2010 Cycle 2 Capacity Building Grants      

The Grantmaking Committee of the O'Neill Foundation is happy to announce that 25 Capacity Building Grants totaling $569,870 were awarded this July to organizations in 6 cities--Cleveland & Columbus (OH), New York City, Baltimore, Washington, DC and Alexandria.  A broad spectrum of capacity building projects ranging from strategic planning processes to new power sewing equipment were funded.  Of particular interest to the committee were grants that would be leveraged against other private or federal dollars so that projects could have a lasting impact.  For instance, Neighborhood Family Practice in Cleveland, Ohio was awarded $50,000 for computers and their mounting equipment so that the clinic can move to electronic medical records.  The O'Neill grant will be leveraged with nearly $1million dollars in Federal stimulus dollars.  St. Martin de Porres High School, a Cristo Rey School in Cleveland, will also be leveraging their O'Neill grant with monies from the federal E-Rate program.  This program provides cutting edge classroom technology for students in some of the Nation's most neediest schools.  A grant of $31,451 will serve as a portion of the matching dollars necessary to obtain more than $300,000 in Federal funds.  
Other highlights of the Cycle 2 Grants include:

-$18,500 to Transitional Housing to partner with The Salvation Army in providing Harm Reduction Training to their staff that will prepare them for changes in the field of homeless services as mandated by the Federal Government's HEARTH Act.

-$25,000 to the American Red Cross to engage a consultant to help design an outcome measurement system for local Red Cross programming ranging from fire detector distribution to nursing assistant trainings.

The complete listing of Cycle 1 & 2 Capacity Building Grants are recorded under the 2010 Grants tab.

Thank You from Annapolis
Annapolis, Maryland--O'Neill Foundation Board President, Timothy O'Neill and his wife, Cindy, were recently recognized in the Spring 2010 edition of Sincerely, the magazine of the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation (AAMC). Entitled "The O'Neill Foundation Makes the Gift of Peace of Mind" story features the history of the partnership between AAMC and the O'Neill Foundation.  The Medical Center was a recipient of a 2009 Proactive Grant that supported the Care Like No Other Campaign which helped fund the expansion of the AAMC Emergency Department.

See the full story in Sincerely.

For more information on the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation visit www.aahs.org.

     
Grantee News (for more, visit our Grantee News Section)

America Scores, a grantee of the O'Neill Foundation, recently held their 4th Annual Poetry Slam.  Twenty-eight student athletes from the 14 America Scores communities traveled to New York City to recite their poetry at an event at the New York Stock Exchange.  The students' poetic readings, which covered topics ranging from crushes to the balloon-boy scam, were heard by over 300 audience members.  The event raised more than $180,000 for America Scores programming.  Perhaps an indication of a recovering economy--this amount is more than DOUBLE the amount raised from the 2008 Poetry Slam.  Kid athletes that are also poets--watch out David Beckham!

For more information on the Poetry Slam and America Scores, visit: www.americascores.org.