Search Through Akron Grants for Nonprofits in Ohio

Mission

The DanPaul Foundation will use its resources to help train teachers and parents in early childhood development, protect children from abuse and neglect, stimulate children's personal social responsibilities, and offer them opportunities for enrichment and growth.

The Foundation will also encourage children to be concerned and informed about the environment and the underprivileged, particularly with regard to clean air and water, and adequate housing and nutrition for all.

Beliefs

The DanPaul Foundation believes that children should have ample opportunities for enrichment in their lives, and thus strives to provide many different ways to enrich and expand children's minds through direct programs and monetary support to organizations doing similar work.

We have provided or currently provide grants related to the following program areas:

• Workshops, Conferences, + Seminars: We strive to offer educational workshops, conferences, and seminars for parents and teachers on topics related to early childhood development.
• Student Scholarships: We aim to help students attending post-secondary education institutions by providing need-based and academic scholarships.
• Scientific Endeavors: We desire to advance scientific endeavors which seek to improve the quality of life for everyone in the world.
• Clean Air + Water: We hope to pass on knowledge and practical life skills to youth regarding their personal responsibility to the environment, teaching them about issues surrounding clean air and water.
• Child Advocacy: We believe in protecting children from abuse and neglect and particularly love to support programs that provide education and assistance to children as well as organizations advocating or caring for vulnerable children.
• Homelessness: We want to encourage young people to take a personal interest in seeing that adequate housing and proper nutrition, especially for the underprivileged and homeless, are available.
• Poverty + Neglect: We seek to help those in poverty as well as educate youth about their responsibility to consider the underprivileged and take care of those most in need of life's basic essentials like adequate housing and proper nutrition.
• Refugee Enrichment: We wish to help refugee youth by supporting programs that provide them enrichment and help them transition to life in a new country.

The DanPaul Foundation provides grants to 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organizations as defined by the IRS. The Foundation is interested in providing funding to programs that directly serve the health, education, development, and welfare of the world's youth.

Grants range from a few hundred dollars up to $15,000 per calendar year.

Mission

The mission of the Hearst Foundations is to identify and fund outstanding nonprofits to ensure that people of all backgrounds in the United States can build healthy, productive and satisfying lives. Through its grantmaking, the Hearst Foundations support well-established nonprofit organizations that address significant issues within their major areas of focus—culture, education, health and social service—and that primarily serve large demographic and/or geographic constituencies. In each area of funding, the Foundations seek to identify those organizations achieving truly differentiated results relative to other organizations making similar efforts for similar populations. The Foundations also look for evidence of sustainability beyond their support.

Whether providing a scholarship to a deserving student, supporting a rural health clinic or bringing artists into schools so children can see firsthand the beauty of the arts, the Foundations’ focus is consistent: to help those in need, those underserved and those underrepresented in society. Since the Foundations were formed in the 1940s, the scale and capabilities of the grant making have changed, but the mission has not.

Culture Grant

The Hearst Foundations fund cultural institutions that offer meaningful programs in the arts and sciences, prioritizing those that enable engagement by young people and create a lasting and measurable impact. The Foundations also fund select programs nurturing and developing artistic talent. Supported organizations include arts schools, ballets, museums, operas, performing arts centers, symphonies and theaters.

Funding Priorities in Culture

In the recent past, 25% of total funding has been allocated to Culture. Organizations with budgets over $10 million have received 60% of the funding in Culture.

The Hearst Foundations are only able to fund approximately 25% of all grant requests, of which about 80% is directed to prior grantees and about 20% is targeted toward new grantees.

Types of Support

Program, capital and, on a limited basis, general and endowment support

The Labcorp Charitable Foundation

We believe every person deserves equitable care and education.

In 2020 Labcorp established a private charitable 501(c)(3) foundation to advance our desire to bring quality healthcare access to all by supporting education and our local communities. 

Common grant opportunities include:

• Supporting food pantries and meal programs
• Providing healthcare and patient services for underserved populations
• Encouraging STEM programming
• Advocating for healthy lifestyles through ongoing medical research and screening

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Grants

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation only accepts unsolicited proposals for specific areas within the education, family economic stability and childhood health sectors in select countries where we work, namely the United States, India and South Africa.

As a guideline, the foundation does not fund more than 25% of a project’s budget or more than 10% of an organization’s total annual operating expenses.

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has always recognized the power of providing grants to partner organizations that we knew were already working hard to improve the lives of urban children living in poverty. By aligning with organizations that are already making a difference, we continue to make an immediate impact on the lives of thousands of children.

Foundation priorities:

We fund social enterprises that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, health, and family economic stability (including livelihoods and financial inclusion). These social enterprises may be structured as for-profit or nonprofit entities.

Partnerships

We collaborate with a range of organizations focused on creating opportunities for children and families living in urban poverty, with a deep emphasis on measuring impact. Our funding advances projects already making an impact in education, health, and family economic stability. Through these enduring and long-standing partnerships, we create lasting change together.

PNC Foundation

Strengthening and enriching the lives of our neighbors in communities where we live and work.

Vision & Mission

For decades, we have provided resources to seed ideas, foster development initiatives and encourage leadership in nonprofit organizations where imagination and determination are at work enhancing people's lives everyday.

The PNC Foundation's priority is to form partnerships with community-based nonprofit organizations in order to enhance educational opportunities, with an emphasis on early childhood education, and to promote the growth of communities through economic development initiatives.

Foundation Grant

The PNC Foundation supports a variety of nonprofit organizations with a special emphasis on those that work to achieve sustainability and touch a diverse population, in particular, those that support early childhood education and/or economic development.

Education

The PNC Foundation supports educational programs for children and youth, particularly early childhood education initiatives that meet the criteria established through PNC Grow Up Great. Specifically, PNC Grow Up Great grants must:

• Support early education initiatives that benefit children from birth to age five; and
• Serve a majority of children (>50%) from low- to moderate-income families; and
• Adhere to all other standard PNC Foundation guidelines, as outlined on the PNC Foundation website, applicant eligibility quiz, as well as the Foundation policies and procedures; and
• Include one or a combination of the following:
  • direct services/programs for children in their classroom or community;
  • professional development/workforce development for early childhood educators;
  • family and/or community engagement in children’s early learning
• Additional considerations:
  • The grant focus should include math, science, reading, vocabulary development, the arts, financial education, or social/emotional development.
  • The grant recipient, or collaborative partner, should have early childhood education as an area of focus. If the organization’s focus is beyond birth to age five, the specific grant must be earmarked for birth to age five.
  • Incorporate opportunities for PNC volunteers in classroom or non-classroom-based activities.

Economic Development

Economic development organizations, including those which enhance the quality of life through neighborhood revitalization, cultural enrichment and human services are given support. Priority is given to community development initiatives that strategically promote the growth of low-and moderate-income communities and/or provide services to these communities.

• Affordable Housing
  • The PNC Foundation understands the critical need for affordable housing for low-and moderate-income individuals.
  • We are committed to providing support to nonprofit organizations that:
    • give counseling and services to help these individuals maintain their housing stock;
    • offer transitional housing units and programs; and/or
    • offer credit counseling assistance to individuals, helping them to prepare for homeownership.
• Community Development
  • Because small businesses are often critical components of community growth and help foster business development, the PNC Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations that
    • offer technical assistance to, or loan programs for, small businesses located in low-and moderate-income areas or
    • support small businesses that employ low-and moderate-income individuals.
• Community Services
  • Support is given to social services organizations that benefit the health, education, quality of life or provide essential services for low-and moderate-income individuals and families.
  • The PNC Foundation supports job training programs and organizations that provide essential services for their families.
• Arts & Culture
  • Support is given for cultural enrichment programs benefitting the community.
• Revitalization & Stabilization of Low-and Moderate-Income Areas
  • The PNC Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that serve low-and moderate-income neighborhoods by improving living and working conditions.
  • Support is given to organizations that help stabilize communities, eliminate blight and attract and retain businesses and residents to the community.

Philanthropy is our commitment to communities in which we operate and broader society. We focus our resources on a limited number of key projects that can deliver valuable benefits from our contributions and those of our partners. We give priority to innovative, high-quality projects that meet the following criteria:

• promote sustainable development
• offer an opportunity for Roche to use its expertise and logistics capabilities
• involve Roche actively at an early stage with local authorities and established partners
• engage Roche employees in cultural (focus on contemporary arts), educational and social activities
• managed by an accredited charity

Our four focus areas

Humanitarian and Social

We direct the majority of our philanthropic donations to humanitarian and social development projects.

Science and education

We are dedicated to programmes that promote scientific interest and provide educational opportunities for young people around the world.

Community and Environment

We are committed to building stronger communities and responding to natural disasters sustainably.

Arts and Culture

We support groundbreaking contemporary art, cultural projects and activities that explore the parallels between innovation in art and in science. 

We have strong partnerships with nonprofit organizations across the country that are working to advance economic mobility and social progress in low- and moderate-income communities. Our focus areas include basic needs like food and housing, workforce development and education, and community development. In addition to our philanthropic investments, we also encourage our employees to make a difference by offering robust employee giving and volunteering programs, including the opportunity to direct funds to organizations they support through volunteer efforts, and a matching gifts program that doubles their individual giving to causes they care about. Last year, we invested $350 million in the communities we serve, and employees contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours and directed $65 million through individual giving and matching gifts to support nonprofits.Through our regional U.S. sponsorships, we support the economic, social and cultural life of the places we live and work. We provide an extensive program of arts and sports sponsorships to help maintain vibrant, healthy communities.Sponsorships supporting communitiesBank of America welcomes your sponsorship proposal for opportunities that make our communities a better place to live and work. We are particularly interested in providing support to address needs vital to the health of our communities through a focus on:

• preserving neighborhoods;
• educating the workforce for 21st century jobs;
• addressing critical needs such as hunger and emergency shelter;
• arts and culture;
• the environment; and
• diversity and inclusion programs.

Grants are made at the Foundation’s discretion based on our current funding strategies focused on housing, jobs and hunger. 

Our Mission

The Tony Robbins Foundation is a nonprofit organization created to empower individuals and organizations to make a significant difference in the quality of life of people often forgotten.

We’re dedicated to creating positive changes in the lives of youth, seniors, the hungry, homeless and the imprisoned population, all who need a boost envisioning a happier and deeply satisfying way of life. Our passionate staff, generous donors and caring group of international volunteers provide the vision, inspiration, and resources needed to empower these important members of our society.

Grants

Dedicated to meeting challenges within the global community, creating solutions and taking action, The Tony Robbins Foundation provides monetary donations to various organizations around the world. Funding requests are evaluated on an ongoing basis. We look for organizations that align with our mission to empower individuals and organizations to make a significant difference in the quality of life of those often forgotten.

Wells Fargo and the Wells Fargo Foundation collaborate with a wide range of nonprofit organizations that align with our strategic funding priorities. We prioritize our funding to activities and programs that have a broad reach and support the needs of underserved communities. We aspire to have a positive impact on the communities we serve by using our financial and volunteer resources and business expertise in collaboration with community organizations to help solve complex societal problems.

• Financial health
• Housing affordability
• Small business growth
• Sustainability

We may also support other local needs in eligible communities such as disaster relief, arts and culture, civic engagement, education, human and social services, and workforce development. However, opportunities are limited as our intent is to direct the majority of our giving within our major focus areas.

What We Fund

• Early Childhood through Higher Education
• Economic, Workforce, & Community Development
• Arts & Culture
• Basic Needs

Our Approach

GAR Foundation is committed to connections that allow people and organizations to work together across sectors and subject areas to leverage their strengths. We understand that the strategic areas where we work are all deeply connected. The best community solutions often arise from connected people and organizations working together across sectors and subject areas to leverage their strengths. We know that people are at their best when they are connected to others. We believe that we can foster and support connections that will make Akron smarter, stronger, and more vibrant.

We pledge to use all of the tools in our toolbox – grantmaking, convening, listening, research, advocacy, information-sharing, and communications – to connect Akron.

Investing in the Future of Summit County Students

Akron Community Foundation partners with local schools, education leaders, nonprofit innovators, parents and community members to identify the best opportunities for investing in our children's future.

Focusing on programs that align with Summit Education Initiative's Cradle to Career continuum, our board awards grants to programs that concentrate on key transition points in a student's education, including kindergarten readiness, third grade reading, eighth grade math, and college and career readiness.

In addition, we focus a portion of our funding specifically on early learning programs that prepare children from birth to age 5 to succeed. First Things First, a community coalition that formed in 2009 as a result of our early learning priority, has set the tone for that funding, encouraging a holistic approach to learning through collaboration.

Education Grants

Children's success in school and in life hinges profoundly on their capacity to learn. That's why Akron Community Foundation approaches learning from a holistic perspective. Preference for our education grants is given to programs that align with the Cradle to Career continuum, which focuses on key transition points throughout a student's entire education. In addition, we focus a portion of our funding specifically on early learning programs that prepare children from birth to age 5 to succeed.

Cradle to Career Focus

Summit Education Initiative’s Cradle to Career continuum has proved through research and data-validated efforts that educational success can be improved by focusing on key transition points throughout an educational career. 

Akron Community Foundation, along with other local funders, has made a commitment to focus its education grant funding on programs that align with the Cradle to Career continuum. This includes funding programs that focus on the key transition points, such as kindergarten readiness, third grade reading, eighth grade math, ninth grade success, and college and career readiness and persistence.

Vernon L. Odom Fund

People of every race, ethnicity and background deserve the opportunity to achieve their goals. That was the philosophy of Vernon Odom, one of Akron’s most recognized civil rights leaders.

As president of the Akron Urban League for nearly 30 years, Odom spent much of his career improving the lives of Akron’s minority communities through education, advocacy and mentoring.

Today, his legacy lives on through the Vernon L. Odom Fund of Akron Community Foundation. The fund accepts grant applications for programs that promote diversity and enrich the quality of life within local minority communities.

Since its founding in 1993, the fund has awarded nearly $200,000 in grants to programs that empower everyone from Bhutanese refugees to African American youth.

History

At the time of the last U.S. Census, approximately one-third of all Akron residents were in the city’s minority population. As this figure continues to grow, so do the needs of minority communities.

From a disproportionate rate of poverty to a lack of educational resources, minority groups often have specific needs that cannot be met with generalized funding. In light of this reality, board members at Akron Community Foundation began meeting in the early 1990s to brainstorm ways the foundation could reach out to Summit County’s minority groups.

"It was important that we had diversity in all aspects of the foundation," said Judge James Williams, a board member who spearheaded the project.

A string of discussions about Akron Community Foundation’s role in recognizing challenges faced by minority groups led to talks about starting a new fund. The fund would support nonprofit organizations serving the minority population in Summit County and promote diversity.

"We were seeing a lot of requests that were to be used for minorities, and (starting a fund) just seemed like a more straightforward way," explained then-board chairwoman Ann Amer Brennan.

Thus, in 1993, the foundation established an unnamed minority fund with an initial endowment contribution of $50,000. A committee was immediately established to research the needs of minority groups and raise money for the endowment.

Shortly after that time in 1996, one of Akron’s most recognized civil rights leaders passed away. A classmate of Martin Luther King Jr., Vernon L. Odom spent most of his life serving the city’s minority communities and encouraging racial harmony. As president of the Akron Urban League for nearly 30 years, Odom improved the lives of countless people through education, advocacy and mentoring.

This long history of service and inspiration made Odom an ideal namesake for the foundation’s minority fund, Williams said.

"He devoted his life to the betterment of his community," Williams said. "It was appropriate that the fund be named after him."

The minority fund officially became known as the Vernon L. Odom Fund in 1997 and soon after awarded its first grants. Since that time, the fund has continued to improve the quality of life of local minority groups through annual grants to organizations like the Akron Inner City Soccer Club, Proyecto Raices, and Global Ties Akron. It’s a fitting way to ensure the legacy of Akron’s own civil rights pioneer is celebrated for generations to come.

About the Fund

Strengthening our city by supporting meaningful civic and community initiatives.

Known as a prosperous and progressive community, Green offers an exceptional quality of life for its residents. The city's thriving businesses, close-knit neighborhoods, and strong network of nonprofit organizations make the community a place where everyone can flourish.

The Green Community Fund was established in November 2022 by a group of committed residents who wanted to create an enduring source of support for the community they live in and love. The fund was created to enable generous individuals, families and businesses to enhance the lives of all Green residents far into the future.

• Grants: On an annual basis, up to 5% of the fund’s assets can be reinvested into the community through grants and distributions, providing support for meaningful civic and community initiatives.
• Growth: As the endowment grows through the gifts of generous donors, the Green Community Fund will increase its annual grantmaking to the nonprofits serving the Green community.
• Gifts: Gifts to the Green Community Fund are fully tax deductible, as the fund is an affiliate of Akron Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity. Gifts can be made online at akroncf.org/give/GCF. The fund can also accept more complex gifts, like appreciated stock, retirement assets and personal property.
• Expenses: The Green Community Fund’s advisory board and committees are composed entirely of volunteers. The only operating cost is a small administrative and investment fee of approximately 2%, which allows the fund to take advantage of Akron Community Foundation’s array of services and large investment pool.

In addition to our quarterly Community Fund grants, Akron Community Foundation offers issue-specific grant opportunities.

Parent Coalition Heritage Fund for Adults with Special Needs 

The Parent Coalition Heritage Fund for Adults with Special Needs was established in 2011 to educate residential providers who care for adults with developmental disabilities to help improve their quality of life. Qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations can apply.

What We Do

The community foundation is like the community’s charitable savings account. We pool resources from community members, invest them and then use them to make grants for the betterment of the entire community.

We exist to serve donors, nonprofit organizations and the community as a whole.

Donors to ACCF enjoy tax advantages not available to private foundation donors. They also receive professional services without hiring staff.

Nonprofit organizations receive grants from community foundations to support their programs and projects. Many nonprofits also establish their own endowment funds with the foundation as a means of investing for the future.

We’re also engaged as a community leader. We help set the vision for Ashland County while ensuring charitable gifts are used effectively to meet the community’s present needs and to build a brighter future.

June G. Patton Memorial Graduate Scholarship

This scholarship was originally established by the Ashland University Rho Nu at Large chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), the honor society of nursing, and named in 2010 in the memory of Dr. June G. Patton, Associate Professor of Nursing at Ashland University (AU). June received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1967 from The University of Maryland. She earned a Master of Science in Nursing in 1985 and PhD in Curricular and Instructional Studies in 1996, both from The University of Akron. She was inducted into the Delta Omega Chapter of STTI in 1984 and served as Chapter President. June was a faculty counselor for Rho Nu at large and was an STTI Distinguished Lecturer from 2000-2003.

Her long career in nursing education included teaching diploma students at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing; traditional prelicensure and graduate students at The University of Akron; and from 1998 to 2010, RN to BSN completion students at Ashland University. June was a passionate teacher and received several notable awards during her career in nursing education, including the University of Akron College of Nursing Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award in 1993 and 1994; the AU Faculty Mentor Award in 2011; and the Nurse Week Excellence Award in Teaching, Great Lakes and Midwest Regions. While at AU, she helped many working registered nurses to achieve a BSN degree and encouraged many to pursue graduate education in nursing. The Rho Nu at Large chapter is pleased and proud for the opportunity to continue the legacy of June Patton – beloved wife of Reverend Douglas Patton; mother of Christy and David; grandmother of 11; and scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend to many.

About the Foundation

Jesse W. Couch lived a life of zeal, honor, and dedication to the betterment of his community. The Couch family now humbly stewards the foundation he created to carry on his legacy of service for future generations. We believe that impact is best accomplished through partnerships with local organizations that know the people and communities they serve. We invest in and support efforts to protect the environment, further conservation and preservation initiatives, and save historical architecture that preserves community heritage. We also support initiatives that promote wellness and mental health and organizations seeking to provide and further education for all communities.

Annual Grant Focus

Each year, we seek to partner with and support non-profit organizations making an impact in the focus areas listed here.  The focus areas for 2025 are:

• Animal Wellbeing: We are dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations that nurture compassion and respect for all living animals. We must have animal-focused organizations that advocate for animal rights and provide humane treatment across all spectrums.
• Early Childhood Education: We are looking for schools that are providing young children with a creative and balanced approach to education. Things we love in early childhood curriculums:
  • Life Skills
  • Collaboration With Their Peers and Teachers   
  • Having Fun   
  • Montessori Teachings   
  • Project Based Teachings   
  • Diversity   
  • More Time Outside   
  • Less Screen Time
• Teachers: Teachers are essential to providing children with the best possible education. We must invest in their future and are always looking for teams that help them succeed in educating future generations.
• Get Outside: Being outside can improve memory, fight depression, lower blood pressure, and more! We support organizations that facilitate and encourage more outdoor activities that help create healthier communities. 

Background

Akron Community Foundation funds four carefully chosen and equally vital issues through our quarterly competitive grantmaking program. Community Fund grants do more than simply meet residents’ immediate needs; they address the root cause of a problem to create lasting and systemic change for future generations.

Each quarter, our board requests applications to meet the community’s most pressing needs in Arts & Culture, Civic Affairs, Health & Human Services, and Education. Then we study, vet, and award grants to the nonprofits best equipped to tackle these important issues in Summit County. Funding for these key areas comes from board discretionary and field-of-interest funds, as well as donors who give specifically to the Community Fund.

Community Fund Grants

Arts & Culture

A vibrant cultural landscape enriches our community's quality of life. The artistic and cultural offerings Akron Community Foundation supports appeal to diverse audiences throughout Summit County. Examples include performing and visual arts programs, historical societies and museums, and multimedia storytelling.

What We Fund

It is the unique responsibility of a community foundation to fund a range of quality-of-life programs throughout a geographic location.

​Thus, Akron Community Foundation’s grants are as diverse as Summit County itself. While unique in their programming, all Akron Community Foundation grantees have things in common:

Organizational strength

We support efficient and effective nonprofit organizations with the capacity to significantly improve the community. We value organizations that demonstrate sustainability, honesty and transparency, and those that remain true to their mission.

Systemic impact

We support collaborative efforts that help individuals, families and neighborhoods thrive by addressing immediate needs while creating holistic improvement within Summit County. We prefer to fund organizations that address the underlying cause of a problem and make a lasting improvement.

Accountability

We serve as stewards of our donors’ community investments. We honor the charitable intentions of these donors to help them meet current and future needs of our community. As a result, we hold ourselves and our grantees to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, service and fiduciary responsibility.

Strengthened capacity of the nonprofit sector

We support efforts that build governance, management, financial and organizational capacities of nonprofit agencies and the sector as a whole. We also strive to create partnerships that reduce duplicative and ineffective programs.

Inclusiveness

We honor the diverse strengths, needs, voices and backgrounds within our community, and we support organizations whose missions promote equality and inclusiveness.

At TE Connectivity (TE), our goal is to have a meaningful impact in the communities where we live and work. Organizations may request funding from TE Connectivity. 

TE evaluates proposals based on the following criteria, among other factors:

• Alignment with TE Connectivity purpose and values.
• Alignment with community giving focus areas of
• Education and technology OR
• Health and human services.
• Opportunities for employee engagement.
• Proximity to a TE facility.

In the US, TE Operates the following Ambassadors Programs: 

• Akron, OH
• Andover MN
• Ashaway RI
• Berwyn PA
• Culpeper VA
• Fairview NC
• Fuquay-Varina NC
• Hampton VA
• Harrisburg/Middletown/Tower City/Mechanicsburg PA
• Hemet CA
• Kettering/Mundelein OH
• Landisville PA
• Lickdale PA
• Mansfield OH
• Menlo Park/Redwood City/Fremont CA
• Mount Joy/Manheim PA
• Plymouth/Eden Prarie MN
• Troy MI
• Tualatin OR
• Tullahoma TN
• Waynesboro PA
• Wilsonville OR
• Winston-Salem/Greensboro NC

Outside the US, TE Operates the following Ambassadors Programs:

• Australia
• Bangalore/Pune
• Basel
• Bensheim
• Bioggio
• Blomsterdalen
• Braganca Paulista
• Brno/Kurim
• Bydgoszcz
• Castletroy Limerick/Cork/County Clare
• Chengdu (Sensor)
• Ciudad Juarez
• Collegno Torino
• Costa Rica
• Darmstadt
• Den Bosch
• Dinkelsbuhl
• Dongguan (Data & Devices)
• Dortmund
• East Sussex/Hastings
• Empalme (Auto)
• Empalme (Medical)
• Essex
• Esztergom
• Evora
• Evreux/Dreux
• Galway
• Gevrey-Chambertin
• Great Yarmouth
• Gyeongsan
• Hermosillo (ADM)
• Hermosillo (Automotive)
• Hermosillo (DnD)
• Hermosillo (Industrial)
• Hong Kong
• Ivanko-Frankivsk
• Juarez Chihuahua
• Kakegawa/Shizuoka/Osak
• Kunshan (ADM)
• Kunshan (Energy)
• Lemans
• Markham
• Montcada
• New Zealand
• Niederwinkling
• Oostkamp
• Ottobrunn
• Pointoise/Les Claves Sous-Bois/Fonteney Tresigny
• Qingdao (Appliances)
• Qingdao (Data & Devices)
• San Salvo
• Schaffhausen
• Shanghai (Corporate)
• Shanghai (Data & Devices)
• Shanghai Raychem Cables (Appliances)
• Shenzhen (Appliances)
• Shenzhen (Sensor)
• Shunde (Data & Devices)
• Singapore (Cregana)
• Singapore (TE HQ)
• Speyer
• Steinach
• Suzhou (Automotive)
• Suzhou (Industrial)
• Suzhou (Medical)
• Swindon
• Taiwan
• Tangier
• Tecate
• Thailand (Automotive)
• Thailand (Sensors)
• Tijuana
• Tijuana Baja
• Tlalnepantla (Mexico City)
• Toulouse
• Trutnov (2 sites)
• Turkey
• Waidhofen
• Woert
• Wohlen/Rotkreuz/Au
• Xiamen (Industrial)
• Zhuhai (Data & Devices)

Calling to Serve

Since its inception in 2016, the Robinson Foundation has sought to demonstrate God’s love through sharing the gifts we have received. We understand the often unspoken hardships and struggles that people in and outside of our community face everyday. As such, our contributions are focused on relieving these hardships for the betterment of our world.

As a family-operated foundation, we pray that our small efforts will not only create immediate change in the lives of our neighbors, but will help set those lives on a course for success in the future. We are thankful for each and every day we have on this earth to use what God has granted us to make a difference.

Areas of Interest

• Animal Welfare
• Children & Families
• Disaster Relief
• Education
• Medical Assistance
• Nature & Wildlife Conservation
• Poverty Relief
• Religious & Spiritual Endeavors
• Veterans' Issues

Grant Considerations

We take many different aspects of applications into account when making grant issuing decisions, however these are some of the high-level questions we ask ourselves during the process:

• How does the organization serve their key audience goals?
• Is the organization fiscally responsible?
• Will a grant have a tangible, meaningful impact?
• Will we see direct results from this grant?
• Does the organization have other financial contributors?

Capital Grants

Equipping nonprofits to operate, grow and thrive.

Every other year, the community foundation offers capital grants to organizations that need funding to renovate or repair their facilities, or to purchase essential equipment. These grants range from $2,500 to $25,000 and are available to current recipients of the foundation's competitive grant cycles, as well as to organizations with agency endowment funds at Akron Community Foundation. It is strongly recommended that at least 50% of the funds needed for the project are secured before applying for a capital grant.

Since 2018, Akron Community Foundation has invested $880,000 into capital improvements for our community's nonprofit organizations.

Arts Grant Program - Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund

The Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund seeks to support artists and arts organizations in Knight communities by equipping them with the tools they need to expand the use of technology in their work and engage audiences in innovative ways.

About the Fund

Arts and culture are essential for healthy, thriving communities. Increasingly, technology is becoming an essential component of the arts, both for individual artists and organizations. With each advancement in technology, artists leverage new tools to enhance the way their work is created, viewed, shared and experienced. Across artistic genres, facility with technology and digital tools is no longer an optional skill set.

Grants made from this fund are not tied to specific projects. Instead, they are designed to support long-term digital capacity, helping artists and organizations gain the tools, systems and support they need to thrive in an increasingly digital world.

Funding decisions for the Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund will be made based on the applicants’ demonstrated capacity to use technology to increase the impact and reach of their work.

Categories eligible for funding are:

• Purchase and installation of hardware and/or software (e.g., licensing of archiving software, installation of live streaming equipment, purchase of cloud storage)
• Build-out or installation of technology infrastructure (e.g., installation of networking equipment, outdoor projections)
• Staff or contract support (e.g. contract videographer, full-time web developer, digital content manager)
• Website design and development
• Mobile application development
• Digitization, archiving and digital preservation (e.g. digital collection photography, media conservation/preservation, archives records management)

Funding

Individual artists may ask for up to $25,000. Organizations or collectives may ask for up to $100,000.

If you are a for-profit organization or a nonprofit organization with a projected annual operating budget greater than $1,000,000, you may be required to raise a dollar-for-dollar match to your Art + Tech Expansion Fund award.

Akron Community Foundation’s competitive grantmaking combines local resources with community knowledge to help nonprofits improve life in Summit County.

Community Fund Grants

Civic Affairs

We believe our community’s well-being hinges on citizen involvement. We make grants to strengthen our neighborhoods, infrastructure and economy through programs that engage residents, improve our environment, promote recreation, and attract people and businesses to our region.

What We Fund

It is the unique responsibility of a community foundation to fund a range of quality-of-life programs throughout a geographic location.

​Thus, Akron Community Foundation’s grants are as diverse as Summit County itself. While unique in their programming, all Akron Community Foundation grantees have things in common:

Organizational strength

We support efficient and effective nonprofit organizations with the capacity to significantly improve the community. We value organizations that demonstrate sustainability, honesty and transparency, and those that remain true to their mission.

Systemic impact

We support collaborative efforts that help individuals, families and neighborhoods thrive by addressing immediate needs while creating holistic improvement within Summit County. We prefer to fund organizations that address the underlying cause of a problem and make a lasting improvement.

Accountability

We serve as stewards of our donors’ community investments. We honor the charitable intentions of these donors to help them meet current and future needs of our community. As a result, we hold ourselves and our grantees to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, service and fiduciary responsibility.

Strengthened capacity of the nonprofit sector

We support efforts that build governance, management, financial and organizational capacities of nonprofit agencies and the sector as a whole. We also strive to create partnerships that reduce duplicative and ineffective programs.

Inclusiveness

We honor the diverse strengths, needs, voices and backgrounds within our community, and we support organizations whose missions promote equality and inclusiveness.

Community Partnership Award

The Mutual of America Foundation Community Partnership Award recognizes outstanding nonprofit organizations in the United States that have shown exemplary leadership by facilitating partnerships with public, private or social sector leaders who are working together as equal partners, not as donors and recipients, to build a cohesive community that serves as a model for collaborating with others for the greater good.

Each year, the Mutual of America Foundation sponsors a national competition in which hundreds of organizations demonstrate the value of their partnership to the communities they serve, their ability to be replicated by others and their capacity to stimulate new approaches to addressing significant social issues.

Six organizations are selected by an independent committee to receive the Community Partnership Award.

• The Thomas J. Moran Award is given to the national award-winning program and includes $100,000 and a documentary video about the program.
• The Frances R. Hesselbein Award is given to a partnership that is addressing social challenges in more than one community, or which demonstrates the potential to be replicated in other communities. This recipient receives $75,000.
• Four other organizations are named Honorable Mention recipients for their programs, and each receives $50,000.

Since its inception in 1996, the Community Partnership Award has recognized 262 partnerships from cities and towns across America. Like so many of our clients working in the nonprofit community, Mutual of America is dedicated to having a direct, positive impact on society.

Gupta Family Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. Our mission is to support organizations that provide focused intervention in the lives of people who have been disadvantaged in some way to help them become self-reliant. We take a very broad view of “disadvantage” to include anything that holds a person back from realizing their potential, such as poverty, physical or mental disability, social alienation, etc. The foundation also supports relief agencies that serve people affected by emergencies such as natural disasters.

The foundation evaluates and awards annual and multi-year grants ranging from $5,000 to over $250,000 (USD). Our focus is on funding smaller organizations all around the world that are led by individuals with a deep personal commitment to their missions. 

Our selection criteria include:

• Mission alignment
• The organization is run by the founder or, if not, by a successor who embodies the original inspiration, passion and commitment of the founder.
• At least 90% of grant monies reaches the intended beneficiaries.
• The organization is non-sectarian, i.e.,
  • It does not, directly or indirectly, support or condone the proselytization of any religion,
  • It is not supported by or affiliated to a religious organization.

Our Vision

We are our community's champion and generator of enduring philanthropy.

Our Mission

To identify, activate and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community.

We accomplish this by:

Building a permanent source of charitable funding.

Cultivating strategic relationships with diverse charitable individuals, professional advisors and community organizations.

Inspiring new donors by capturing and sharing compelling examples of the positive impact of philanthropy in our community.

Educating and connecting donors to nonprofit organizations whose needs match the donor's interests.

Millennium Fund for Children

A partnership of Akron Community Foundation and the Akron Beacon Journal, the Millennium Fund for Children supports arts, civic, education, and health and human services programs for children throughout Summit, Medina, Portage, Stark and Wayne counties. It makes grants where even a small amount can make a big difference. 

Our Mission

The Hansen Family Foundation provides opportunities to domestic, international, secular, and non-secular organizations that support the American way of life, which is defined by the principles of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” 

Causes

Children

The Hansen Family Foundation supports causes dedicated to helping children both home as well as abroad. Learn More

Education

The Hansen Family Foundation believes that a decent education should be made available to everyone, young or old, the world over. Learn More

Animals

The Hansen Family Foundation believes in helping those who cannot speak on their own behalf. Learn More

Environmental

The Hansen Family Foundation is dedicated to preserving the world we all share. Learn More

Humanitarian

The Hansen Family Foundation views the plight of our fellow man as an opportunity to actively engage and effect change. Learn More

Arts & Culture

The Hansen Family Foundation supports all forms of artistic and cultural endeavors. Learn More

It is the unique responsibility of a community foundation to fund a range of quality-of-life programs throughout a geographic location. Thus, Akron Community Foundation’s grants are as diverse as Summit County itself.

What We FundWhile their programming differs, all Akron Community Foundation grantees have things in common:

• Organizational strength: We support efficient and effective nonprofit organizations with the capacity to significantly improve the community. We value organizations that demonstrate sustainability, honesty and transparency while remaining true to their mission
• Systemic impact: We support collaborative efforts that help individuals, families and neighborhoods thrive by addressing immediate needs while creating holistic improvement within Summit County. We prefer to fund organizations that address the underlying cause of a problem and make a lasting improvement.
• Accountability: We serve as stewards of our donors’ community investments. We honor the charitable intentions of these donors to help them meet current and future needs of our community. As a result, we hold ourselves and our grantees to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, service and fiduciary responsibility.
• Strengthened capacity of the nonprofit sector: We support efforts that build governance, management, financial and organizational capacities of nonprofit agencies and the sector as a whole. We also strive to create partnerships that reduce duplicative and ineffective programs.
• Inclusiveness: We honor the diverse strengths, needs, voices and backgrounds within our community, and wesupport organizations whose missions promote equity and inclusiveness

Akron Community Foundation: Health & Human Services Grant

In caring for the neediest among us, we improve life for us all. We invest in a spectrum of services for Summit County's most vulnerable residents, from basic needs like food, shelter and medical treatment to programs designed to increase self-sufficiency and wellness.