GROW Grants $20,000 to Nonprofits

Hathaway Brown’s Middle and Upper School student-run foundation GROW, an acronym for Girls Reaching Others Worldwide, granted $20,000 to 18 local and national nonprofits with a mission to address the needs of children, particularly girls, educational access, hunger, and homelessness. 

Middle School Chapter

In place of the annual grant award reception, members of Middle School GROW hosted a virtual ceremony to award $10,000 to 11 Greater Cleveland-based nonprofits. The 2020 Middle School GROW grant recipients are:  

• Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

• Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank

• Hannah’s Home

• Achievement Centers for Children

• West Side Catholic Center

• Domestic Violence Child Advocacy Center

• Family Promise of Greater Cleveland

• Story Forum

• Fostering Hope

• Seeds of Literacy 

• Cleveland Clinic’s Reach Out and Read

Upper School Chapter

The Upper School chapter distributed a total of $10,000 among four local and three international nonprofits to continue their missions of social and economic empowerment. The Upper School members hosted a virtual grant awards ceremony to congratulate the following organizations: 

• Advantage Cleveland Tennis and Education

• Family Promise of Greater Cleveland

• Foundation for International Development Assistance

• Girls for the World

• Greater Cleveland Food Bank

• WomenSafe, Inc.

• World Connect

About GROW

The student-run foundation accepts grant applications from organizations with a mission that’s aligned to GROW’s. Middle and Upper School students lead the proposal review process which allows girls to practice persuasion, advocacy, and respectful disagreement while they deliberate mission fit, long and short-term impact, and other considerations for community change.

GROW is a Middle and Upper School student-run foundation dedicated to raising money, funding and participating in service projects, and awarding grants to nonprofit organizations and institutions. GROW inspires HB girls to develop an early interest in philanthropy, members meet regularly to review grant proposals, plan fundraisers, and increase awareness about the foundation's mission.