Awards for 2007
$10,000 to YMCA of Greater Cincinnati
Purpose: YMCA's City Voice program is to educate area high school students in the operations of city government through experiential learning.
$10,000 matching grant to Environmental Community Organization (ECO)
Purpose: To enhance the community's Right-to-Know so that they can identify polluters routinely operating in violation of environmental law.
$9,000 matching grant to the Women's Fund (TWF) of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Purpose: To increase the participation of women in local, regional, and state government.
$12,500 matching grant to the Cincinnati Bar Foundation
(First year of a $25,000 two-year grant)
Purpose: To break the cycle of gunshot violence by helping gunshot victims to achieve the life of productive citizens, and to relieve the community of the effects of crime, including economic drain on limited resources.
$10,000 matching grant to Elementz (formerly CONTROL)
Purpose: To engage, inform, and mobilize constituencies within Cincinnati that are typically not highly involved in local government through canvassing and media efforts to increase voter participation in low-income African-American communities.
$1,500 to Woman's City Club
Purpose: To bring Diane Rehm to Cincinnati to speak at the 2007 speaker forum to be held on May 15, 2007.
$9,152 to Northern Kentucky Area Development District
Purpose: To provide for a public administration intern who will work to support Northern Kentucky's local governments and non-profits in the area of public administration and development services during a period of growing budget constraints.
$900 to Public Service Recognition- Cincinnati
Purpose: To host an annual event honoring government employees for outstanding service in the public sector.
$4,200 to Hamilton County Department of Budget and Strategic Initiatives
Purpose: To provide for an opportunity for a college student to gain firsthand experience working within a county budget office.
$10,000 to ACORN
Purpose: To support organizing work that builds power among low-income people through leadership development focused on increasing civic participation in local and state government.
$20,000 to Ohio Justice and Policy Center
Purpose: To support a legal education program that will institute, sustain, improve, and enlarge the capacity of the Hamilton County Public Defender to recruit and retain staff attorneys dedicated to the highest quality of client representation; strongly promote citizen participation and education for government reform; and enhance student awareness of and interest in serving as career employees in this crucial government service.
$19,150 to City of Cincinnati Interns
Purpose: To provide five graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to learn about city government while contributing to it through summer internships in various departments.
$25,000 to Xavier University
Purpose: To bring nationally prominent thought leaders in fields related to local or regional government to Miami University to speak with students, faculty, media, and the public, in order to provide an opportunity to learn about innovative approaches to local government, and to stimulate interest in career opportunities in municipal and government service.
$20,000 to the University of Cincinnati College of Law
Purpose: To support the efforts of the Ohio Innocence Project in identifying wrongly imprisoned inmates and obtaining their release through litigation, as well as working to minimize wrongful convictions by reforming the criminal justice system.
$7,500 to University of Cincinnati College of Law, Rosenthal Institute for Justice
Purpose: To support two guest speakers to discuss contemporary issues related to local government.
$20,000 to Community Development Corporation Association of Cincinnati
(First year of a potential $60,000 three-year grant)
Purpose: To create a website containing information and evaluations for regional training programs related to civic groups with interest in technical and capacity-building training sessions.
$6,500 to Invest in Neighborhoods
Purpose: To support the 2008 annual Neighborhood Summit to foster dialogue between community councils, business leaders, political leaders, City departments, and citizens.
$3,000 to Greater Cincinnati Chapter American Society for Public Administration (GCC-ASPA)
Purpose: To support a public administration internship for the Society, filled by a local graduate or undergraduate student.
$10,000 matching grant to Vision 2015
(Pending matching funds being secured)
Purpose: To establish funding, research, and analysis for the goal of convening local government entities and sharing services through closer alignment, collaboration, or merger.
$10,000 to Citizens for Civic Renewal (CCR)
Purpose: To drive a civic engagement campaign that will help implement the findings from a Joint/Shared Services Assessment that is being completed by the Government Cooperation and Efficiency Project (GCEP), by: holding five community meetings, creating brochures and a quarterly newsletter, and developing a citizen-driven blog.
$5,000 matching grant to Urban Appalachian Council
(Pending matching funds being secured)
Purpose: To define the Urban Appalachian dimension of education and health issues; identify best practices and possible models for testing and replication; present findings to the community and to interested bodies in other urban areas; and to work with a coalition of allies to seek state and/or national funding to implement successful models.
$10,000 matching grant to First Suburbs Consortium of Southwest Ohio
(Pending matching funds being secured)
Purpose: To provide a DrillDown analysis of data identifying market potential, buying power, and market risks of underserved neighborhoods.