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Causes: Arts & Culture, Historical Organizations

Mission: ISHPC MISSION IS TO GAIN COLLECTIVE MAJORITY CONTROL, REMOVE BLIGHT, MAINTAIN AND RESTORE THE UNIFORM FACADE HISTORICAL INTEGRITY IN KEEPING WITH THE YOUNGSTOWN SHEET AND TUBE COMPANY HOMES NATIONAL HISTORICAL REGISTRY DESIGNATION AND PAVE THE WAY FOR THE CREATION OF A VIABLE HISTORICAL DISTRICT BRINGING GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT, TOURISM, AND ATTRACTING SMALL BUSINESSES TO CAMPBELL AND MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO.

Results: Prior to what is listed below, since 2007, countless emergency repairs were made in the Endangered National Historical Site Including, but not limited to, boarding up of buildings to discourage vagrants and vandalism, cleaning out of city sewer drains and parks and making streets passable. . . . 1.Iron Soup Historical Preservation Company 501 (c) 3 Non Profit Formed and Board of Directors installed2.WEP program participant through Mahoning County Job and Family services3.Hands On Volunteer Network of the Valley Partnership Formed to recruit volunteers4.GOOD360 Partnership formed with Home Depot resulting in excess of 5K in remodeling donations per mo. 5.ISHPC enrolled in Justgive. org to facilitate and track donations6.ISHPC forms partnership with Techsoup. org to gain much needed software and technical products7.Community Homes Owner Coalition (CHOC) formed8.Received and successfully implemented YNDC Peoples Garden Grant, 20139.ISHPC involves Company Homes community’s children in planting 800 morning glories10.ISHPC President is winner of Hands On Network of the Valleys’ Volunteer of the Year Award, Dec. 201211.Future Company Homes Museum site selected12.ISHPC attends Power of the Arts Conference13.Invited to speak at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labors’ Sheet and Tube worker reunion14.ISHPC invited on the Morning Show with Jim Loboy15.ISHPC selected site for participation in Natalya Pinchuks’ “Dreaming Youngstown” Session16.ISHPC hosted YSU, Dr. Donna DeBlasio’s Dr. Leary and Applied History Students for annual tour17.AmeriCorps selected ISHPC as a work site, summer of 201318.Remodeling of Main Office area Completed19.4 Historical Units brought out of Blight and into Tenancy. 20.New roof is near completion on the Former Company Home Garages on Jackson St. 21.Home Depot Fencing installed in front of Rental Units on Delmar Ave. 22.Home Depot donated doors, windows, flooring, kitchen and bathroom cabinets and lighting installed in units23.MURAL by native Artist, Katelyn Gould completed at the end wall of the Delmar Row. 24.Construction Started on the lower level of the “Life in the Company Homes” Museum25.32 Andrews donated to ISHPC*ISHPC operating costs covered by blight to tenancy program success

Target demographics: Completely restore the Historical integrity and create a viable Historical District that creates jobs and brings economic prosperity to our region via tourism and stimulating small business.

Direct beneficiaries per year: bring three historical units out of blight and into tenancy

Geographic areas served: a blighted Endangered National Historic Site

Programs: Blight to Tenancy - To bring abandoned blighted units out of disrepair and into tenancy thus keeping with the original purpose of our historical site. Uniform Facade - To return the outside facing of the units to their original uniform designation which was a major factor in them being entered into the Historical Register. Life in the Company Homes Mural - Artist Katelyn Gould will paint a 30' tall mural on the end of one of the rows this year that will feature the life and times of Company Homes residents from the complex opening in 1918 to current day.

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