Grant applications will be available here July 1. Submission deadline is 9/17/12.
In 2011, the Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $29,161 to 10 greater Akron nonprofit organizations.
Grants were awarded to projects that increase awareness about same-sex domestic violence, provide outreach for LGBT youth and senior citizens, create change in our community, and more. See complete details below.
| Akron Area Pride Collective 2011 | Amount: $ 1,700 |
| For the LGBT youth support group hosted at CANAPI. |
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| Akron Film+Pixel Festival 2011 | Amount: $ 1,218 |
| For the premier of "Hit So Hard," a documentary about Hole drummer Patty Schemel and her marriage to Christina Soletti. |
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| Battered Women's Shelter 2011 | Amount: $ 1,500 |
| For a community outreach program that educates people about same-sex domestic violence. |
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| Friends of 91.3 2011 | Amount: $ 3,500 |
| To broadcast anti-bullying messages on KIDJAM!, an online children's radio station. |
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| Fusion Magazine 2011 | Amount: $ 1,300 |
| For Kent State University's award-winning, student-produced publication, which strives to unify people of different backgrounds and orientations. |
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| Jewish Family Service of Akron 2011 | Amount: $ 5,000 |
| For outreach, counseling and support groups for LGBT senior citizens. |
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| LGBT Union at Univ. of Akron 2011 | Amount: $ 5,608 |
| To send University of Akron, Kent State, Stark State and Mount Union students to the 2012 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference. |
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| Mobile Meals 2011 | Amount: $ 1,250 |
| To promote Mobile Meals' free food and supplement services to LGBT individuals in greater Akron. |
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| DOVE Program at Summa 2011 | Amount: $ 5,085 |
| To educate forensic nurses about same-sex domestic violence and assault through Summa's DOVE program. |
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| Verb Ballets 2011 | Amount: $ 3000 |
| For the creation and performance of a new work that depicts tango from a same-sex perspective. |
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| Akron Art Museum 2010 | Amount: $ 3,000 |
| For a painting by James Gobel, a gay artist, that illustrates the pitfalls of stereotypes. |
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| Asian Services in Action Inc 2010 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| For an HIV/AIDS prevention program among local Asian Americans. |
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| CASA Board Volunteer Association Inc. 2010 | Amount: $ 1,790 |
| For a training seminar for court advocates working with LGBT youth. |
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| Community Health Center 2010 | Amount: $ 965 |
| To train staff in identifying and treating addiction and mental health issues in the LGBT population. |
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| First Grace United Church of Christ 2010 | Amount: $ 2,500 |
| For Project CommUnity, which records the personal narratives of LGBT individuals and then translates them into live theater performances. |
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| Friends of 91.3 The Summit Radio 2010 | Amount: $ 3,500 |
| For KIDJAM!, an online children’s radio station that broadcasts music and anti-bullying messages to local youth. |
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| Fusion Magazine 2010 | Amount: $ 3,000 |
| For Kent State University’s award-winning, student-produced publication, which strives to unify people of different backgrounds and orientations. |
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| Mobile Meals,Inc 2010 | Amount: $ 1,250 |
| To promote Mobile Meals’ free food and supplement services to LGBT individuals in greater Akron. |
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| Violet's Cupboard Inc 2010 | Amount: $ 1,250 |
| For safer sex packets for people with HIV. |
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| Weathervane Community Playhouse Inc. 2010 | Amount: $ 3,500 |
| For the production of “Breaking the Code,” a play about Alan Turing, an English mathematician who helped secure a victory in World War II by breaking the German cipher but was later prosecuted for his homosexuality. |
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| Western Reserve Public Media 2010 | Amount: $ 3,680 |
| To broadcast “In The Life,” a monthly television series documenting the LGBT experience. The series airs on PBS 45/49. |
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| Battered Women’s Shelter 2009 | Amount: $ 4,400 |
| For Reach OUT 2010, which seeks to improve services to GLBT victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. |
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| CASA Board Volunteer Association Inc. 2009 | Amount: $ 4,300 |
For the “Speak Up Speak Out” youth advocacy unit, which trains advocates for abused and neglected GLBT youth in the juvenile court system.
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| Child Guidance & Family Solutions Inc. 2009 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| For a community education project that aims to increase awareness of the consequences of intolerance in the GLBT population. |
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| Community AIDS Network 2009 | Amount: $ 5,000 |
To help facilitate the merger of Akron Pride Center with CAN.
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| Fusion Magazine 2009 | Amount: $ 1,500 |
| To support the magazine, which strives to unify people of different backgrounds and orientations. |
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| University of Akron, Women’s Studies Department 2009 | Amount: $ 3,000 |
| For the LGBTQ: Inclusion, Advocacy and Empowerment project, a year-long series of programs at the University of Akron. |
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| Violet’s Cupboard Inc. 2009 | Amount: $ 5,568 |
| To provide peer advocates for people who have recently been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. |
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| Weathervane Community Playhouse Inc. 2009 | Amount: $ 3,500 |
| For the production of “The Sum of Us,” a play about the relationship between a widower and his gay son. |
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| Akron Area Pride Collective 2008 | Amount: $ 10,000 |
| For the Building Pride Capital Campaign for the new Akron Pride Center in Firestone Park |
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| Akron Pride Area Collective 2008 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| For publication of the festival program for the 2008 Out in Akron Festival. |
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| Akron Art Museum 2008 | Amount: $ 5,000 |
| For “Isaac Julien: True North" an exhibition of work by the British gay artist. |
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| Akron PFLAG 2008 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| For the Bruce G. Kriete Speaker Series. |
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| Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 2008 | Amount: $ 2,534 |
| To purchase GLBT library materials for the Adolescent Health Center. |
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| Community AIDS Network 2008 | Amount: $ 6,460 |
| For an ad campaign to promote HIV testing among at-risk youth. |
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| Equality Ohio Education Fund 2008 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| To support the Akron-area Safe Places, Safe Spaces Program for direct care providers. |
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| First Grace United Church of Christ | Amount: $ 1,500 |
| For the StandOUT: Open Door After School Program for GLBT youth and teens. |
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| Fusion Magazine 2008 | Amount: $ 1,500 |
| To help publish the magazine, which strives to unify people of different backgrounds and orientations. |
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| Akron AIDS Collaborative 2007 | Amount: $ 7,500 |
| For the Ujima Safe House Project. |
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| Akron Area Pride Center 2007 | Amount: $ 2,500 |
| To publish and increase distribution of its monthly newsletter. |
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| Fusion Magazine 2007 | Amount: $ 2000 |
| To produce and expand circulation of the magazine, which strives to unify people of different backgrounds and orientations. |
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| Rape Crisis Center 2007 | Amount: $ 8,500 |
| For the Reach OUT Initiative pilot program to support GLBT communities. |
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| University of Akron Foundation 2007 | Amount: $ 2,500 |
| To fund the seminar “Understanding and Strengthening GLBT Couples Relationships: What are the Struggles and What Can Help". |
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| Uof Akron, Archives of American Psychology 2007 | Amount: $ 1000 |
| For the conference “Psychological Perspectives on GLBT Persons". |
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| Fusion Magazine 2006 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| For operating support and expanded circulation of Kent State University’s award-winning student published magazine. Fusion provides insightful journalism about GLBT issues.
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| Portage Path Community Mental Health Center 2006 | Amount: $ 1,680 |
| To fully fund “GLBT Pride For Life”, a new eight-week support and education program focusing on mental and physical health related issues of the GLBT community.
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| Battered Women's Shelter 2005 | Amount: $ 4,000 |
| In collaboration with Greenleaf Family Services, for the Summit Anti-Violence Initiative Program, a domestic violence program specific to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population. |
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| Violet's Cupboard 2006 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| In collaboration with Community AIDS Network, to expand HIV counseling and testing services to partners of HIV positive individuals as well as testing to the general community.
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| University of Akron Foundation 2005 | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| For "Queer Women Make History, Too". A series of presentations, including a concert by Holly Near, focusing on issues impacting the LGBT community |
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| Weathervane Community Playhouse 2005 | Amount: $ 1,000 |
| For the production of "Angels in America: Perestroika," a play portraying the human devastation caused by AIDS |
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