Awards for 2002
501(c)(3) Organizations
$5,000 - to The Civic Garden Center
Purpose: To prepare neighborhood residents to organize cooperatively with local government and community councils in developing community gardens and green space as a catalyst to neighborhood revitalization.
$3,000 - to The Greater Cincinnati Chapter of ASPA
Purpose: This program will help focus on, and recognize, the important role of the public administrator in the Greater Cincinnati Area. They will sponsor the 19th Annual Public Administrator of the Year Awards Banquet on April 19, 2002.
$5,000 - to Center for Peace Education
Purpose: This project will reach a broad cross-section of Greater Cincinnati's population through a series of events to raise awareness of the need and resources available for further education about diversity and conflict management.
$1,000 - to Women's City Club of Greater Cincinnati
Purpose: This project is for the National Speaker Forum 2002 which will feature Halima Addou talking about Islamic extremism, women's rights and a country at war with itself. The Forum will be held April 9, 2002.
$8,000 - to Applied Information Resources
Purpose: This project will provide leadership, education, and materials for citizens to plan and implement projects for government reforms and changes.
$31,500 - to Citizens for Civic Renewal
Purpose: To develop a more comprehensive citizen voice for the Tri-State region
$10,000 - to University of Cincinnati Foundation
Purpose: This program will contribute to the education of the people of Cincinnati and the students and faculty of the University of Cincinnati about the public policy issues facing our community. It will also facilitate public discussion about those issues.
$2,750 - to Federal Executive Board
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to increase interest on the part of community residents, most notably area college students, in government employment
$5,000 - to University of Cincinnati Foundation
Purpose: To endow a Chair in Modern European History at the University of Cincinnati, lifting UC's Department of History to a new level of national eminence in historical research and teaching.
$10,000 - to Global Village Communications
Purpose: This project aims to increase the public's awareness, understanding, and knowledge of how to appropriately respond to domestic violence, as family members, employers, co-workers, neighbors, and civic-minded community members through the use of a domestic violence awareness videotape, City of Shelter - A Community Response to Domestic Violence.
$4,157 - to Northern Kentucky Area Development District
Purpose: This project will provide for an internship to be filled by a graduate student from one of the local colleges or universities to provide administrative support to the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration and, at the same time, further enhance the student's interest in working within the public sector.
$6,000 - to Imago Inc.
Purpose: Price Hill Will involves a comprehensive community planning effort, which engaged over 1000 ordinary citizens in dialogue about the future of their community.
$1,921 - to University of Cincinnati Foundation
Purpose: This project will provide six vans rented from Enterprise Rentals to shuttle students from Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati to and from polling places in Cincinnati
$20,000 - to Study Circles of Greater Cincinnati
Purpose: To engage residents and police in a process to build the necessary relationships in order to talk through key issues that affect the way residents and police relate to each other in the community.
$8,500 - to FOCUS St. Louis
Purpose: To promote good government by equipping four regional civic organizations to share innovative practices and implement a national pilot with the goal of involving more citizens in meaningful public problem solving.
$16,500 - to WVXU Xavier University
Purpose: To provide nearly one-half of the salary costs devoted to a full-time news reporter who specializes in the coverage of local government.
$25,000 - to National Civic League
Purpose: To revise the Model City Charter, to help continue to set the reform agenda for municipal governance.
$10,000 - to YMCA of Greater Cincinnati
Purpose: To further good government by providing hundreds of high school students with a thorough understanding and comprehensive, hands-on education on the inner workings of local city government.
Other Grants (partial list)
$900 - to Public Service Recognition Cincinnati
Purpose: To recognize government employees in the Greater Cincinnati area for outstanding contributions to public service at the event titled "A Day on Fountain Square and the annual awards ceremony to be held on Fountain Square May 8, 2002.
$8,500 - to Hamilton County Business Center, Inc.
Purpose: HCRPC plans to implement an ETM (Electronic Town Meeting) to help bring about progress for the Community COMPASS.