The fund is to help those children, and their families, touched by cancer and other debilitating diseases to cope with what life has to give them. Patients and caregivers can lean on each other and together … There's Hope in What We Do. Brenda Rider started this cause...
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Anthony V. Spano Foundation Launches a New Website
Due to the growth of the Anthony V. Spano Foundation, it necessary to launch a new website. One that is more user friendly and contains all the information needed so someone can start a fund. The requests for information of establishing a fund has been tremendous...
4 School Districts are Recipients of the School Supplies Fund Grants totaling $2,000
The Niles City Schools (Trumbull County), LaBrae Local Schools (Trumbull County), Indian Creek School District (Jefferson County, outside Steubenville), and Vinton County Local School District (Vinton County, South of Columbus) are this year’s recipients from the...
Spano Foundation Now accepting Applications for Funding for School Supplies
(Youngstown, OH) – The Anthony V. Spano Foundation School Supplies Fund is now accepting grant applications from schools and teachers to become a recipient of this year’s grant for classroom supplies. The Fund helps primary and secondary school teachers purchase...
A Gift to Help Spark the Imagination of Area Children with School Supplies
The Niles Intermediate School was the first recipient of school supplies donated as a result of the Spano Foundation’s School Supplies Fund this past January. Pictured is Kristin Pishott, a teacher at Niles Intermediate School, along with some students who are...
Foundation will continue the Tradition in the Valley for the Presidents Award
(Youngstown, Ohio) The Spano Foundation is proud to announce that it will continue the tradition of awarding of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) in the Mahoning Valley. The Foundation will be the presenting organization for the future of this award by...
Fund Starts Feeding Families for Thanksgiving-Adopting a FamilyÂ
Many individuals and families in our community are in need, existing day to day without the resources necessary to obtain many of the things most of us take for granted – food, clothing, housing, healthcare, just to name a few. This Thanksgiving Season, the Boo Squad...
From duct-taped shoes to $11M: Man leaves surprise donations
SEATTLE Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into comical, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned. The Washington state social worker died of cancer this year at age 63, leaving most of a […]
Anthony V. Spano Foundation Manages New Fund, Books and Basketball Fund
Anthony V. Spano Foundation Manages New Fund, Books and Basketball Fund Books & Basketball of Ohio, founded in 2018, gives underprivileged youth the opportunity to learn skills that will enrich them for a lifetime. Retired Hubbard schoolteacher, with 30 years of teaching experience, as well as a director of teacher education and professor at […]
Boo Squad Fund Honors Children in the Community
Boo Squad Fund Honors Children in the Community More info about the #BooSquadFund Children between the ages of three and 10-years-old are learning what it takes to be a helpful member of the community by taking part in the ‘Boo Squad.’ The Boo Squad is a Fund under the umbrella of the Anthony V Spano Foundation, […]






