Press Coverage

Nearly two dozen blighted homes in Youngstown received a clean-up on Friday and all of the work was done my volunteers.

Hundreds of volunteers spent Friday working hard for the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley’s Day of Caring.

The United Way of Youngstown and Mahoning Valley’s 2014 financial-campaign chairmen, Ed and Chris Muransky, introduced as “people you can always count on,” are counting on the people of the Valley to raise $2.6 million this fall for UW-sponsored programs.

Congressman Tim Ryan is announcing today a $124,429 grant to the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation from The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). The CDFI fund provides support to expand financial products and services that will be available to the Youngstown area and will help our area achieve long term neighborhood sustainability.

In an effort to help small businesses here grow, the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. is taking applications for equipment loans for anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000 until Oct. 15.