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Endowment Fund Awards Record Grant Total !
Largest grant ever supports campaign to open the Akron Pride Center
The Gay Community Endowment Fund awarded grants totaling $32,994 to nine greater Akron nonprofit organizations, including the largest grant in the fund’s history: $10,000 for the Akron Pride Center “Building Pride” capital campaign. The Akron Community Foundation board ratified the grants Friday, Nov. 14 at its quarterly meeting.
Christopher Hixson, Gay Community Endowment Fund advisory board president, hailed the Pride Center grant as one that will bring “transformational change for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.”
“We hope that our commitment…will encourage others in our community to contribute to the project so the new Akron Pride Center can open in Firestone Park in early 2009,” Hixson said. “Once complete, Akron will finally have an accessible, visible and vibrant LGBT community center that will offer a diverse array of programming, advocacy and support for our region’s citizens, encouraging a richer and more connected community.”
Since awarding its first grants in 2005, the fund has reinvested a total of $71,974 in local nonprofit initiatives promoting tolerance and well-being in the greater Akron area. The following grants were awarded this year:
| 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 the “Marsden Hartley:American Modern" exhibition, a retrospective of the American 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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| Equity 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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| Diversity Alliance of Stark County (2006) | Amount: $ 300 |
| To support LGBT diversity awareness training for area domestic violence responders through a continuing education seminar for law officers, justice officials, attorneys, counselors, therapists and other service providers.
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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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| Violet's Cupboard | 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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| 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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| Child Guidance and Family Solutions, Inc. (2005) | Amount: $ 2,000 |
| For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender diversity awareness materials library and to address the mental health treatment needs of children and adults |
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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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