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Safe & Stable Families

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How can my giving contribute to the physical and financial security of low-income families and neighborhoods? 

An abiding sense of insecurity, both physical and financial, is perhaps the most devastating feature of poverty. Increasing the physical and financial security of low-income communities, often on a family-by-family basis, is critical to a community’s long-term viability.

Safer families can be the result of community policing efforts, domestic violence programs and increased engagement in community affairs and decision-making. On the financial side, programs that help families establish mainstream banking relationships, avoid predatory lenders and save for the future lead to greater self-sufficiency and self-esteem.

Taken together, this increased security offers the breathing room needed for low-income families to play more active and positive roles in their neighborhoods and communities.

To learn how your giving can support efforts to enhance the physical and financial security of low-income families, read on.

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Needmor Fund: A Long-Term Commitment to Local Community Leadership

Needmor Fund: A Long-Term Commitment to Local Community Leadership

When they started their family foundation, Duane and Virginia Secor Stranahan drew upon their parents' legacy of community stewardship. In the late 19th century, the Secors were pivotal to Toledo, Ohio's economic, intellectual, and cultural formation. In 1910, Frank Stranahan and his brother Robert founded The Champion Spark Plug Company, which was to become a leader in corporate accountability and philanthropy.  Leadership and strategies change; yet the Needmor Fund remains faithful to one goal: to empower those individuals whose basic rights to justice and opportunity are systematically ignored or denied. Read More…

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Facts & Figures

  • As most elderly people are covered by Medicare, nearly all the uninsured are under age 65
  • One-fifth of public school children are in rural schools. 
  • We dedicate over 16 percent of our economy—$2 trillion a year—to health care. On a per-person basis, our health care costs are 50 percent higher than the second most costly nation.
  • The percentage of volunteers serving in an education or youth-services organization nearly doubled from 15.1% in 1989 to 27% in 2006
  • Between December 1998 and 2004, State Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment grew from 897,000 to 4 million with little evidence that the program displaced employer-sponsored private insurance


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