FY 2025 Community-Based Organization (CBO) Grant Program Funding Descriptions *Descriptions/summaries are from grant applications*
1. ABC Hopes, Inc – Extra Innings Program (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): The Extra Innings program is an enrichment program for intellectually disabled individuals. Activities in this program help develop the participants’ functional skills, domestic skills, vocational and career development, recreation, and community engagement.
2. Bass Education Inc. – All Girls Flag Football League (No previous CBO Applications): This program seeks to establish an all-girls youth flag football league in our community. The proposed league aims to provide a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment for young girls to engage in physical activity, build teamwork skills, and foster confidence through the sport of flag football.
3. Christian Arts and Theatre (CAT) – CAT Tuition Scholarship Program (Received funding in FY 2024): 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 with 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 and FY 2024): 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 and FY 2024): The Kristallnacht program commemorates the Holocaust of the Jewish people during WWII. This program highlights the story of a Holocaust survivor as told by the survivor or a first-line relative.
This program is attended by members of the community and CNUSD high school students. Funds will go towards costs for supplies, communications, insurance, renting the building, transportation, and other items for the program.
6. Corona Main Pantry/Corona Main St Seventh Day Adventist Church – Corona Main Pantry Renovations (Received funding in FY 2024): 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, a commercial freezer, paint, storage shelving, a computer, health banners, tables, a canopy, a custom tablecloth, and other items.
7. Corona Art Association – Updating and Improving Gallery and Teaching Space (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): 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.
The funding will go towards a complete skink project (drywall repairs, paint, tankless wall-mounted water heater, etc.), a professional gallery-style lighting system, new computer hardware and software, and additional organization, storage, and office furniture.
8. Corona Heritage Foundation – Roof Repairs and Technological Updates (Received funding in FY 2024): The funds will go towards infrastructure improvements for continued use in the form of roof repairs on historical buildings with roof leaks. The funding will go towards technological updates such as software, hardware for automation, and patronage management, including three kiosks for a digital guestbook, two laptops for operations consultancy, museum artifact digitation, and infrastructure updates such as LED lights, paint, asbestos removal, mold abatement, and electrical updating.
9. Corona High School Cheerleading Squad – Pep Squad (No previous CBO Applications): The Pep Squad currently cheers for all Corona High School teams (sports, performing arts, theatre, etc.). During Covid-19, a rain and wind storm damaged some of the Pep Squad’s equipment. The funding will go towards providing and replacing old equipment to attract more incoming students to the program.
10. Corona Historic Preservation Society – Historic Site Marker Program (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): This program seeks to replace vandalized and demolished Historic Site Markers and complete the restoration of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall at Butterfield Park.
11. Corona-Norco Family YMCA – Healthy Weight and Your Child Program (Received funding in FY 2024): The goal of the Healthy Weight and Your Child Program is to provide programming that helps youth and their families to engage in child and adult education, healthy eating, and physical activity to elicit positive change and help families learn new skills to live a healthier lifestyle long-term. This program is a 25-session (2 hours per session) over the course of four months.
12. Corona-Norco Settlement House – Repairs to the Corona-Norco Thrift Store (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): This project seeks to repair the Corona-Norco Thrift Store. Funds will be used to repair the roof (remove and replace facia boards, replace missing shingles, repair damaged eaves, etc.), install new flooring, and install two air conditioning units.
13. Crossroads Christian Church – Project Hope (No previous CBO Applications): This program is looking to continue providing reliable weekly groceries and resources for the families of our community. This program also seeks to expand to assist the community with household repairs, housing/rental support, utilities, clothes, healthcare, and other items.
14. Crystal Roses, Incorporated – Cancer Patient Support (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): Crystal Roses serves individuals with life-threatening 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. Additionally, this program offers support groups, financial aid, counseling, and other support programs for those with cancer.
15. For the People Taskforce – Refrigeration/Freezer Unit for Warehouse (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): The grant funds would continue to serve local families, food pantries, and churches. This organization is dedicated to combating food insecurities by ensuring every community member can access nutritious food. In order to achieve these goals, the project requested refrigeration, a walk-in freezer, and industrial shelving.
16. Giving 365 Inc. – Community-Based Food Pantry Program (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): Giving365 is expanding its Community-Based Food Pantry Program to an additional location. The goal is to reduce childhood obesity rates by offering access to nutritious foods, enhancing family resilience by empowering parents with basic needs, and supporting parents in their pursuit of self-sufficiency and family health.
17. Herencia Mariachi Academy – General Music Program (Received funding in FY 2024): 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. This organization is seeking funds to make tuition accessible to students.
18. Inland Vineyard Church – Manna House Food Pantry (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): The Church operates the Manna House Food Pantry on its 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 box truck with a lift or purchasing more fruits and vegetables to distribute to its clientele.
19. Inspire Life Skills Training – Inspiring Hope Program (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): Inspire provides stable and affordable housing, mentoring, mental health counseling, life skills training, case management, and access to health and wellness services to former foster or homeless youth who do not have family support, as they pursue an education and learn self-sufficiency and resiliency. Funds will be used for rental expenses for youth housing.
20. Karol Kares Nancy’s Here Non-Profit Organization – Bulk Personal Hygiene Products to Support Homeless College Students (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): This organization’s mission is to provide essential personal hygiene products to those in need. 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.
21. Peppermint Ridge – Fundraising Efforts (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024):
Peppermint Ridge provides loving homes and empowering support services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Funds will be used for fundraising and staff levels to continue operations of various programs.
22. Southern California Rebels Org. – E1 Marez, Academic & Sports Conditioning Academy (Received funding in FY 2024): This organization provides young women in the City of Corona the opportunity to advance and play softball on a collegiate level. The funding will be used to lower tuition costs for families who cannot afford to pay or pay in full.
23. The Leela Project – Barbers and Backpacks (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): 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. The funding will be used to facilitate this program.
24. The Stephan Center – Spanish Translation Project (Received funding in FY 2023 and FY 2024): The Stephan Center provides education, information, and resources in the areas of trauma, grief, and loss for professionals and the general public. This project will use funds to translate all current educational program materials, information, articles, and resources into Spanish.
25. W.H. Jameson, Jr. American Legion – Renovation, upgrade, and use of the 1929 American Legion Memorial Hall (Received funding in FY 2024): 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 upgrading the HVAC system, plumbing upgrades, upgrading the existing historic artifact display case, and upgrading the security system.