OCDCA Community Recovery Fund

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging our society, especially our ability to protect the most vulnerable among us. This is a crisis that is highlighting the numerous inequities entrenched in our country.

Community development organizations are in a unique position to respond to the needs of their constituencies. A long-term recovery from the pandemic requires holistic, locally-grounded solutions to improve the health and well-being of low-income people and places.

Community Recovery Fund

The fund has been created to help OCDCA’s community-based nonprofit members that are responding to their communities’ needs during the spread of COVID-19.

Focus

The needs of the community are varied and will last well into the future, so the work of community development is needed more than ever. All of the following focus areas are eligible to receive funding through this fund.

Small business and commercial corridor assistance
Affordable housing
Community engagement during social distancing
Food access
Supporting racial justice and equity
Other community development needs not mentioned, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

apply to the recovery fund

Any voting OCDCA member is eligible to apply for assistance through this fund. In order to spread dollars to the maximum number of members, requests can be up to $5,000. There may be additional rounds of funding to be distributed through the Recovery Fund.

The first round was due July 1, 2020 by 12 PM EST.

Thank you to all those who applied! To view the full list of Recovery Fund recipients, click here.

Thank you to the supporters of the Fund! OCDCA contributed $50,000 from its reserve funds. We then matched and grew this pool through donations from individuals and partners, including Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, Fifth Third Bank, Ohio Housing Finance Agency, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, JP Morgan Chase, and individual donors. Every dollar in the recovery fund was distributed to OCDCA members.