Wednesday, April 19, 2000
Legal Aid Society gets $350,000 grant approval
BY Marie McCain
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati has been approved for a $350,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation.
Officials of the 92-year-old agency said they hoped to move into their new headquarters June 5.
In March, Legal Aid announced it would be moving its five-county operation from Ninth and Elm streets into a newly purchased building at 215 E. Ninth St., downtown.
Bought in November for $3.1 million, the Donald P. Klekamp Law Center Building, as it will be called, will be the most comprehensive and collaborative initia tive in Greater Cincinnati's legal community, officials said.
The endeavor is part of an $11 million fund-raising initiative. About $2.8 million will pay for the building. The rest will establish an endowment for Legal Aid to fund the group's expenses.
So far, Legal Aid has raised more than $2 million, said executive director Mary Asbury.
The Kresge Foundation's grant is conditional and will be awarded after Legal Aid has raised an additional $920,400 in new gifts and grants by Feb. 1, 2001, she said.
Based in Troy, Mich., the Kresge Foundation's grants are made to institutions of higher education, health and long-term care, arts and humanities, human serv ices, science and environment, and public affairs. Grants are made toward projects involving construction, renovation of facilities and the purchase of major capital equipment or real estate.
Since its establishment by Sebastian S. Kresge in 1924, the foundation has awarded more than $1.3 billion in more than 7,000 grants.
Legal Aid had been at its headquarters for 20 years. That building has been sold to Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy for $575,000.
Besides maintaining the Volunteer Lawyers Project, Legal Aid will expand its program with the University of Cincinnati College of Law so it can involve more law students in its work.
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