Vaccination initiative receives $250,000 grant after solutions story

After it was featured in a solutions story produced by the Northeast Ohio Solutions Journalism Collaborative (https://www.ideastream.org/news/clevelands-black-churches-host-vaccine-clinics-to-protect-their-flock), an organization hosting COVID-19 vaccination clinics in historically Black churches in Cleveland received a $250,000 grant from a local funder (https://www.clevelandfoundation.org/news_items/may-4-covid-phase2-update/). The head of the initiative attributed the timing of the funding to the story, saying it raised the initiative’s profile. The
story was republished by several local media organizations in the collaborative.