Beacon Charitable Pharmacy: A Guiding Light for Those in Need

Carol Risaliti, the executive director of Beacon Charitable Pharmacy, attended our recent Board meeting to give an update on pharmacy operations. Beacon started out in 2002 as the Prescription Assistance Network of Stark County. It was collaboratively funded by the Sisters of Charity Foundation and ...

JRC: Educating Children, Engaging Seniors, and Strengthening Community

JRC graciously hosted the Foundation’s most recent Board meeting at its beautiful new Myrna A. Pastore Campus, made possible by an outpouring of support from community members and local funders, including the Sisters of Charity Foundation.On the renovated site of the old Meyers Lake Ballroom in Cant...

Hammer & Nails: Neighbors Helping Neighbors

It all started as a temporary ministry of the North Industry Christian Church. The goal was to help repair local homes during week-long work sessions held in 1995 and 1998.The Hammer and Nails nonprofit organization emerged from those efforts, based on the strong belief that faith calls Chris...

Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank's Stark County Campus Opens

It’s a resource that’s been in development for years, and the finished project will be well worth the wait. Thanks to an outpouring of public support from local funders and donors, the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank is bringing food and resource support right here to Stark County. The Foodba...

SPARK, all grown up!

The Sisters of Charity Foundation started operating the SPARK kindergarten readiness program in 2003: that means the program is 18 years old. Those first SPARK children are no longer children at all: they’re turning 21 and 22 this year. We had no idea, when planning began in 2001, that we w...