Board of Directors
The Neighborhood House is currently governed by a six-member Board of Directors. Primary Board responsibilities include long-term visioning, strategic planning, financial stewardship, policy formulation, leadership and staff support, and partnership and volunteer recruitment.
Current Board members (year joined board) are:
Yvette Simpson
Chair
CEO of Democracy for America, West End Resident, lawyer, college administrator, public servant, and consultant (2018)
Curtis Maples
Vice Chair
M.Eng, Senior Electrical Engineer, Standex-Meder Electronics, Adjunct Faculty, Center for Innovative Technologies, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College (2015)
Kathy Schwab
Secretary
Former CEO of LISC (2021)
Vonnie Tawwab
Treasurer
West End Resident & Business owner, Community Volunteer and active member of the SisterLink Women’s Program. She is a member of the CCTST’s West End Community Research Advisory Board and recently became a Health RHYTHMS Empowerment Drumming facilitator (2018)
Vida Manuel
Member
West End Resident Leader (2022)
Means Cameron
Member
Co-Owner of Black Owned and Black Coffee (2022)
Recent Funders/Financial Awards (’17-18)
- General Mills
- HUD
- LISC of Greater Cincinnati
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati
- Ohio Attorney General
- St. Barnabas Church
Partnering Organizations
Here is a list of other organizations currently partnering to support the Neighborhood House and the broader community:
- Findlay Street Boys and Girls Club
- The Society of St. Vincent De Paul
- Lincoln Recreation Center
- Carl Lindner YMCA
- LISC of Greater Cincinnati
- Community Building Institute (CBI)
- Habitat for Humanity
- Port Authority of Greater Cincinnati
- Mortar Cincinnati
- West End Community Council
- Community Land Cooperative of Cincinnati
- West End churches
- West End Art Gallery
- Home Ownership Center
- OTR Adopt
- Messer Construction
- Brighton Center
- US Bank
- Delivering Good
- Neediest Kids of All
- Family Independence Initiative
- Healthy Harvest Mobile Market
- Others
