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Akron Mayor Shammas Malik and Rep. Emilia Sykes to speak on LGBTQ+ issues in Greater Akron Tickets are now available for the Gay Community Endowment Fund's 2024 annual celebration, "exhALE: Advancing Lived Equality." The event will take place Friday, June 7,...

Nonprofit consultant Barb Greene honored with 2024 Judith A. Read Tribute Award for Service & Advocacy for Women The Women's Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation announced $203,000 in grants – the largest amount awarded in a single year in the...

Scholarship funds available for LGBTQ+ and allied students throughout Greater Akron The GCEF Scholarship Fund of Akron Community Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications from LGBTQ+ and allied students who make a meaningful difference in the...

Akron Community Foundation President and CEO John T. Petures Jr. announces his retirement, planned for the second quarter of 2025, concluding 17 years of dedicated leadership and unwavering commitment to the foundation and the community it serves, and more...

Akron Community Foundation awards $52,000 grant to Downtown Akron Partnership to help create equitable investment and development  Akron Community Foundation's board of directors recently approved a proactive grant that will help bring equitable access...

Grants will support programs empowering children and families in Summit County On Friday, March 1, the Vernon L. Odom Fund of Akron Community Foundation awarded $10,500 in grants to programs dedicated to enriching the quality of life among local communities...

Proceeds support grantmaking to programs that uplift and empower local women and girls The Women's Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation invites community members to honor the important women in their lives through its annual "Who Is Your SHEro?"...

A $20,000 impact grant will support the Bayard Rustin LGBTQ+ Resource Center On Friday, March 1, the Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation announced 18 grants totaling $82,000 to programs that enhance the quality of life of Greater...

Education funding focuses on mentoring, literacy, middle school transformation Akron Community Foundation's board recently announced quarterly grants totaling $4.4 million and approved $760,000 in competitive education grants chosen by the foundation's...

Body image experts and authors Dr. Lindsay Kite and Dr. Lexie Kite to deliver keynote address Tickets to the Women's Endowment Fund's annual celebration, "For Women, Forever," are now on sale at akroncf.org/ForWomenForever. This year's celebration will take...