ACF awards record total of civic affairs grants
DOWNTOWN AKRON — The Akron Community Foundation
(ACF) Board of Trustees reported it has approved the
largest round of Community Fund grants in the foundation’s
52-year history: $522,464 to 27 local civic affairs
programs.
The board also approved 161 grants totaling $524,982 from 68 designated funds, bringing total quarterly grants to more than $1 million.
Each quarter, the board’s Community Fund grant-making focuses on a specific area of need in the community. Other quarters include arts and culture, education, and health and human services.
This quarter, Community Fund grants went to support the following programs:
• Akron Community Foundation Keep Akron Beautiful Judith Bear Isroff Memorial Park Project Fund, for park construction, $50,000;
• Akron Global Business Accelerator, for video conferencing technology, $24,428;
• Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority, for on-site educational programming and parenting support, $20,000;
• Akron Rotary Camp for Special Children Inc., for a multi-sensory room, $15,000;
• Akron Zoological Park, for micro-exhibits in the Komodo Kingdom Education Center, $16,000;
• Boy Scouts of America, Great Trail Council, for improvements to the Camp Manatoc dining hall, $50,000;
• Cascade Locks Park Association, for Water Wheel artwork at the Schumacher Cascade Mills historic site, $45,000;
• City of Akron, for the 2008 Neighborhood Partnership Program, $60,000;
• Community Hall Foundation Inc. — Akron Civic Theatre, for 2007-08 in-house programming, $25,000;
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association, for a new Junior Ranger Day Camp, $15,000;
• Downtown Akron Partnership Inc., for First Night Akron, $7,500;
• East Akron Neighborhood Development Corp., to provide home repairs for low-income senior, working-poor and disabled homeowners, $10,000;
• Good Shepherd Athletic Club, to support at-risk teens in North Hill, $5,700;
• The Gus Johnson Community Services Center Inc., for the 2007 Back-to-School Lock-In, $1,000;
• Home Repair Network of Summit County, for a database to streamline efforts of nonprofit organizations, $15,000;
• International Institute of Akron Inc., for financial literacy and entrepreneurship training for immigrants and refugees, $10,000;
• Keep Akron Beautiful, for the 2007-08 Flowerscapes program, $10,000; • Let’s Grow Akron Inc., for community gardening, $7,500;
• Mustard Seed Development Center, to expand financial literacy and housing evaluation services, $25,000;
• Planned Parenthood of Summit, Portage and Medina Counties, to consolidate five affiliates into a regional Akron headquarters, $20,000;
• Rebuilding Together Summit County Inc., for home repairs for low-income elderly and disabled homeowners, $10,000;
• Say Yes to Tennis, for equipment and court time, $10,000;
• Service Corps of Retired Executives Association — Akron Chapter, to support training, workshops and community relations activities, $3,600;
• Sisters of St. Dominic of Akron, Ohio, for the 2008 Summer Farm and Science School at Crown Point Ecology Center, $15,000;
• Summit County Prosecutor’s Office, for the Introduction to Criminal Justice Project, $11,736;
• Summit County Workforce Policy Board, for program expansion, $15,000; and
• WKSU-FM, to upgrade to digital technology, $25,000.
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