FY 2024 Community-Based Organization (CBO) Grant Program Funding Descriptions
1. ABC Hopes, Inc – Extra Innings Program: Received funding in FY 2023; The Extra Innings program will aim to fill the gaps in high unemployment rates faced by intellectually disabled individuals. The Extra Innings implementation phase will include a summer-camp version of the core program, introducing the community to the program concept and beginning the enrollment process for the year-round services.
2. The CARE Project, Inc. – Holistic Wrap-Around Services for Survivors: The Holist WrapAround Services for Survivors program provides support the emotional and financial needs of a breast cancer patient’s journey. The funds will go towards financial and basic needs assistance (gift cards for groceries, medical co-pays, etc.), Survivor Social Club – a non-traditional take on a support group to provide wellness and healing for those going through and recovering from breast cancer treatment, and Death Doula Services – services brought on by certified Death Doula to fill in gaps between medical and personal care for patients as they manage their transition to death.
3. Christian Arts and Theatre (CAT) – CAT Tuition Scholarship Program: The program will provide fifty (50) class tuition scholarships to students in the Corona Norco Unified School District (CNUSD). The scholarship will cover the cost of session tuition and provide students in CNUSD the opportunity to take performing arts classes at no cost to the student.
4. Circle City Chorale – Circle City Children’s Choir: Received funding in FY 2023; The Circle City Chorale will continue to expand and utilize the funds toward their Circle City Children’s Choir to redesign and expand their children’s choir programming which includes elements of music education, proper vocal training, and performance technique.
5. Congregation Beth Shalom of Corona – Kristallnacht Educational Program for CNUSD Students: Received funding in FY 2023; The Kristallnacht program commemorates the Holocaust of the Jewish people during WWII. Funds will go towards costs for advertising the program with CNUSD, the Corona Community, renting the building, transportation, food for the speakers, an honorarium, etc.
6. Corona Art Association – Updating and Improving Gallery and Teaching Space:
Received funding in FY 2023; The funds are intended to continue to update the look and feel of the gallery space where the community can further develop their appreciation, study, and practice of the visual arts inside the Historic Civic Center.
7. Corona Friends Church – Food Distribution Program: Received funding in FY 2023; The food distribution program was a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program is organized and facilitated by volunteers of the church. They have since partnered with CNUSD to promote the food program by providing free items for school-aged children including school supplies, in addition to non-perishable foods provided on the last Saturday of the month.
8. Corona Heritage Foundation – Roof Repairs and Technological Updates: The funds will go towards infrastructure improvements for continued use in the form of roof repairs with four on-site, historical buildings currently have roof leaks, buildings house/sustain small business, the museum and connected rental space, the Art Colony (gallery space). Funds will also go towards technological updates such as software, hardware for automation, and patronage management including three kiosks for digital guestbook, one computer for operations consulting, and museum artifact digitization.
9. Corona High School Madrigal Booster Club – New Video Recording and Distribution System at Corona High School Performing Arts Center: The Corona High School Performing Arts Programs (CHSPAP) shares the use of the Performing Arts Center with many community organizations. A collective priority of the Corona High School Performing Arts Programs would be to replace the video recording and distribution system with the goal of presenting and producing a wide variety of quality cultural arts performances for the community and advancing arts education for students.
10. Corona Historic Preservation Society – Restoration of Corona Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall at Butterfield Park and Repairs to Historic Site Marker #5: Received funding in FY 2023; Replace vandalized and demolished Historic Site Marker number 5 at corner of Eighth and Main streets, restoration of Corona Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall at Butterfield Park.
11. Corona Lions Club – Corona Lions Club Scholarship Program: Grant funds will provide the Corona Lions Club one year of scholarships to continue to provide five (5) scholarships to each of the five public high schools within CNUSD – Corona High School, Centennial High School, Orange Grove High School, Lee Pollard High School, Santiago High School.
12. Corona Main Seventh Day Adventist Church – Corona Main Pantry Renovations:
Grant funds will be utilized to renovate the Corona Main Pantry after several instances of vandalism and break-ins causing damages to the property. The funds will go toward: commercial refrigeration, commercial freezer, round tables, air conditioner, windows, doors, paint, laptop computer, standing banners.
13. Corona-Norco Family YMCA – Diabetes Prevention Program: The goal of the Diabetes Prevention Program is to provide a curriculum that helps adults at highrisk of developing type 2 diabetes adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles by eating healthier, increasing physical activity, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle to reduce their chances of developing the disease.
14. Corona-Norco Settlement House – Childspree Program, Motel Vouchers, and Air Conditioner for Thrift Store: Received funding in FY 2023; the grant funds would support the Childspree Program – held annually in august to provide new shoes and clothing to underserved school-aged children to start the school year; motel vouchers to support women, women with children and families, and individuals in need of shelter after a hospital stay; the windows at the thrift store are sealed and do not open, funds would go towards an air conditioner to cool and heat the building.
15. Corona-Norco United Way – Domestic Violence Transformation and Sustainability Program: Received funding in FY 2023; The primary goal of the project is to support local families and individuals with the process of transforming their lives into a sustainable future that does not include violence, poverty, or homelessness. Grant funds would go towards assessment, intake, counseling, support groups, restraining orders, case management, transportation to DV shelter, hotel vouchers, communication and support, and parenting workshops in English and Spanish.
16. Crystal Roses, Inc. – Cancer Patient Support - Comfort Totes and “Man and Youth Packs”: Received funding in FY 2023; Crystal Roses serves individuals with lifethreatening illnesses, typically cancer, by providing Comfort Totes for women and “Man and youth packs.” These totes are filled with practical items to help patients navigate treatments and side effects of their diagnosed disease.
17. Firecrackers Marez dba So Cal Rebels – E1 Prospects Marez Academic and Sports Conditioning Academy: The program recognizes the need to promote sports and education to young women of all economic backgrounds and has a set goal to guarantee that no player is turned away based on financial means. The funds will go towards looking for a facility to lease within the City of Corona to provide strength, conditioning, athletic training, and academic assistance to student athletes.
18. For the People Taskforce – Refrigeration Unit for Warehouse: Received funding in FY 2023; The grant funds would go towards a refrigeration unit for the warehouse.
During the summer months, the organization receives fresh vegetables, meats, and dairy which are needed in the community, however, these items are given away to other food banks because of insufficient storage. The program targets populations in the community such as seniors, veterans groups, low income families, students from Corona-Norco Unified School District, Norco College, and University of California, Riverside.
19. Giving 365 Inc. – Parkridge Community Food Pantry/Community Garden:
Received funding in FY 2023; The main focus of the program is to provide yearround support for on-site school food pantry and build a community garden to teach children and families about sustainability and self-sustenance.
20. Herencia Mariachi Academy – General Music Program: The goal of the academy is to provide a program where students learn to read and play music, learn to sing, have stage presence, and acquire confidence that will assist them in every aspect of their lives. The COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating effect to their program – the grant would help fill the gap in their general music program and allow the program to continue to thrive.
21. Inland Vineyard Church – Manna House Food Pantry: Received funding in FY 2023; The Church operates the Manna House Food Pantry on their campus, providing essentials like dried goods, fresh produce, dairy, and protein to those in need. The Manna House food pantry is open to the public every Saturday. The funds would go towards a new trailer for donation pick-ups, shelving to organize storage facility, fresh produce, and a chest freezer.
22. Inspire Life Skills Training – Inspiring Hope Program: Received funding in FY 2023; Inspire serves former foster and homeless youth who are aged 18-25 who lack family support. Grant funds would be used to support direct programming, mainly housing, mental health counseling, life skills training, leadership development, case management, and access to health and wellness services.
23. Junior League of Riverside – Diaper Bank of the Inland Empire: The primary goal of the Diaper Bank of the Inland Empire is to support parents and guardians so that they do not have to make the difficult decision to leave their child in a soiled diaper for an extended period of time due to economic hardships, resulting in a reduced number of diaper dermatitis cases in Inland Empire children. The funds would go towards sponsorship of a diaper distribution day, providing diapers and wipes for families, monthly cost of diapers and wipes supplies distributed to community partners, and provides one family with a monthly supply of diapers and wipes for a year.
24. Karol Kares Nancy’s Here Charitable Organizations – Bulk Personal Hygiene Products to Support Homeless College Students: Received funding in FY 2023; Personal hygiene is often taken for granted. The funds from this grant will be used to purchase personal hygiene products in bulk to help multiple college students facing homelessness across the universities throughout Riverside County.
25. Peace Lutheran Church – Community Services Coordinator: Funding will help support the re-establishment of their Community Services Coordinator position.
The loss of members and subsequent decline in donations due to COVID-19 force the church to dramatically reduce its staff. The primary goal of this position is to resume regular access and referrals to a variety of human services the church provides to Corona residents in need such as – operating Peace Lutheran Food Pantry, serving onsite as a referral for people in need of other basic services, community services liaison.
26. Peppermint Ridge – Fundraising Efforts: Received funding in FY 2023; The grant funds would give Peppermint Ridge the ability to retain monies lost due to the inability to fundraise and to recuperate the costs spent to create a high functioning COVID ward at the organization’s facility and support fundraising events and initiatives.
27. St. Edward Catholic Church – Emergency Aid Fund (EAF): The EAF was established to help Corona citizens pay their utility bills if needed and to help pay rent during so that individuals needing help would not lose their housing.
28. The Leela Project – Barbers and Backpacks: Received funding in FY 2023; The Barbers and Backpacks Block Party program is an event to provide health and wellness resources for families so that they are equipped with backpacks, school supplies, and haircuts to kick off the new school year for youth in Corona and surrounding underserved communities.
29. The Stephan Center (Corporate Name: The Children’s Preschool, Inc.) – Expansion of educational programs for professions, direct services to youth/adults, web-based resources/referrals: Received funding in FY 2023; The goal is to expand educational programs to support online classes for professionals, additional data collection of all programs for continued analysis and development, continued fiscal responsibility through expanded accounting systems serving youth/families/seniors and direct services to residents who are experiencing trauma/grief.
30. W.H. Jameson, Jr. American Legion – Renovation, upgrade and use of the 1929 American Legion Memorial Hall: The renovation and upgrade of the historic 1929 American Legion Memorial Hall started in 2018 with the repair of the worn roof edges and eaves, and the exterior painting of the building. During COVID, renovations were put to a halt. The funds will go towards opening and expanding the existing interior space of the Legion Hall in order to provide overall services to larger groups of veterans and the general public.