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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


Access Goes to Church…
to Cook up a Mitzvah (Good Deed)!

This past Sunday, January 15th, 30 plus Jewish young professional volunteers took over the kitchen at Nast Trinity Church in Over-the-Rhine and turned a typical church basement into a restaurant for the day.  It was all part of Access’ ACTout social action initiative, in partnership with the Jewish Federation, in which volunteers prepared, cooked and served breakfast to some of Cincinnati’s less fortunate, most of whom live below the poverty level or who are homeless.  Participants flipped pancakes, scrambled eggs and helped welcome and wait on guests in need of a hot meal and warm heart. 

This marks the fourth year in a row that ACTout has gone to Nast Trinity to host a breakfast event of this kind.  We have developed a very special relationship with the church and with some of the Over-the-Rhine residents who attend every year.  This year, in addition to serving a hot breakfast with all the trimmings, we supplied tablecloths, vases with fresh flowers, and table service with menus and wait staff.  After all, few if any of our guests ever get the chance to go out to a restaurant, one of life’s simple pleasures that most of us take for granted.  We think these extra touches gave our guests a greater sense of dignity while allowing more opportunities for interaction with our volunteers, helping to elevate the experience for everyone involved!

Click on the link below to see the news story from Channel 9:

Jewish young professionals make and serve a warm breakfast to those less fortunate


Philip Paul in Concert at SCPA

The Mayerson Foundation’s Artistic Excellence Program at the School for Creative & Performing Arts (SCPA) teaches students how to play a French horn, how to tell in what time signature a piece of music is written, and how to dance en pointe or demi pointe.  But within each lesson is an education about perseverance, resilience, and courage.  Philip Paul is the legendary session drummer from historic King Records.  Many of us met Philip and his wife, Juanita, in 2002 when he recorded, “Hideaway”, with guitarist Peter Frampton for the “Hidden Treasures” compilation CD.  Philip performed on over 350 records (that’s what we used to call CD’s) in a wide variety of blues, R&B, early rock & roll and jazz genres.  Few drummers could “fill the pocket” like Philip Paul.  His longevity in the business (he turns 87 this year) is a testament to the dignity and ethics for which he’s known almost as well as his unwavering beat. 

Philip will lead a 3-day workshop for the jazz students at SCPA culminating in a side-by-side concert with students on Friday, March 9.  In April, Philip will perform at the induction ceremonies for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame where there’s talk he’ll be inducted himself one day.

Philip Paul will be signing the poster below at a post-concert reception on March 9





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