BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE. THAT'S OUR MISSION.

The Gay Community Endowment Fund is a permanent philanthropic fund of Akron Community Foundation. The Fund provides grants to organizations and agencies in the greater Akron area that initiate and/or conduct programs or services that support or positively impact GLBT people and serve as a catalyst for full participation of GLBT people in our society. The Fund promotes philanthropy within the GLBT and allied communities and since 2001 has built a fund balance of almost seven hundred thousand dollars through gifts, fundraising, and bequests. The earned income from this balance is distributed through annual grantmaking.

The interest areas of the fund include organizations, programs and services benefitting GLBT youth, the arts, health issues, operational needs and programming with a connection to the mission of the fund. The fund prefers to support organizations in which a small grant can make a big difference.

GCEF Advisory Board Members: Christopher Hixson, president, Claudia Bjerre, John Grafton, David Horowitz, Eric Jones, Jim King, Diane Kovachik, Rick Krochka, Judy McClelland, Kris Mikolaczyk, Jim Pickard, Virginia Robinson, Steven Schmidt, Peter Schofield and Mary Helen Wright.

For more information on grant applications and review, or to make a contribution to the fund, please visit our web page at the Akron Community Foundation site.