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The Mayerson Family Foundations:
Innovation and Involvement

The Mayerson Family Foundations are dedicated to creating communities that are just, caring and respectful – communities in which marginalized populations are empowered and all people have opportunities to seek their highest aspirations.

What We Do

We have formed two foundations that work together to help us serve the community:

The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation – Through this grant making foundation we partner with and invest in highly effective and efficient organizations positioned within their field to make a significant impact on the issues they address.

The Mayerson Foundation – Through this operating foundation we aim to generate and implement innovative approaches to important issues in our areas of interest for the purpose of contributing new knowledge and filling important unmet needs.
Featured Partners & Programs

Mayerson Service-Learning Program
The Mayerson Service-Learning Program awarded a grant to Clark Montessori High School whose steel drum band has been working alongside the members of the marching band from the Ohio State School for the Blind.  Together, the students have been performing joint concerts and teaching younger musicians how to play the steel drums.  The students from Clark helped to raise the funds needed to send the 32 musicians from the Ohio State School for Blind to Pasadena, California where they were the first all-blind group to march in the New Year’s Day Parade.  Each musician who was blind was assisted by a red-coated volunteer.

Follow these links  of the Band’s amazing journey to the Rose Bowl:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4585261n%3fsource=search_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo7KPUbdRs8

Access
Access Makes a Difference on Christmas Day with ChrisMitzvah at Nast Trinity Church
On Christmas day more than 40 Jewish young adults met at Nast Trinity Church in Over the Rhine as part of Access’ ACTout social action initiative, to serve a hot lunch and spend time with nearly 200 people who otherwise would not have had a holiday meal, or any meal at all for that matter.  After experiencing difficulty in being able to identify an established soup kitchen with which to partner on Christmas day, we decided to take matters into our own hands and contact a local church that ministers to a largely homeless population.  They were thrilled to get our call and opened their doors so we could provide and serve a meal to their constituents.  Volunteers served meals, conversed with participants and passed out holiday gifts and winter gear like gloves and hats to help those in need.  The event proved to be extremely meaningful to all involved.  Access participants already have plans to make this an annual Christmas day event!

The event attracted the attention of Channel 9 News and was featured on their 11 o’clock news Christmas night:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Cincinnati-Jewish-Group-Helps-Others-On-Christmas/AiK1PXMHv0G3WbtoyodN-Q.cspx


VIA Institute on Character
The VIA Institute announces its 2010 World Tour of its educational seminars and workshops for psychologists, coaches and other helping professionals.  The Institute will offer VIA Intensives which are “deep dives” into the science of the VIA Classification and Survey and new one-day workshops for coaches which introduce them to the Classification and Instrument. The Institute will educate professionals in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong and, once again, in Australia. This year, the Institute will help people better understand their VIA Survey scores with a family of new reports designed for soldiers, and the business community. For more information, visit www.viacharacter.org.

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