Raymond John Wean Foundation

**The Wean Foundation is dedicated to community building that promotes a racially equitable future where one’s race identity has no influence on how one fares in society.** Established in 1949, we leverage a dynamic combination of grantmaking, capacity building, and convening and partnerships in the under-resourced communities of Warren and Youngstown, Ohio. We place race equity and inclusion at the heart of our work to focus attention and resources on the region’s most entrenched challenges. Together with residents, organizations and civic leaders, we seek to create authentic change and address long-held assumptions, redistribute decision-making power, and challenge the systemic lack of equitable access to resources, knowledge and opportunity. **Mission** To advance community building in the under-resourced communities of Warren and Youngstown, in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, through a powerful combination of grantmaking, capacity building, convening and partnerships. **Vision** Empowered residents creating a healthy, vibrant, equitable and economically stable Mahoning Valley.