Seasongood Good Government Foundation Awards for 2011

$21,665 to the City of Cincinnati Summer Interns 2011
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.

$7,500 to the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati
Purpose: To empower and educate high school students about their local city government and to give students the opportunity to interact with local officials and leaders through their Youth in City Government Program.

$15,000 to Greater Cincinnati Public Radio, Inc. (WVXU)
Purpose: To provide in-depth exploration and meaningful coverage to local government issues and events by experienced news professionals.

$4,333 to Hamilton County Office of the County Administrator
Purpose: To provide an opportunity for a college student to gain first-hand experience of the day-to-day operations of the County Administrator's Office in a large urban county.

$3,000 to Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (GCC-ASPA)
Purpose: To inspire public administrators to take pride in their profession and to acknowledge the contributions of colleagues through the 2011 Public Administrator of the Year Awards Banquet.

$900 to Public Service Recognition
Purpose: To recognize and honor those outstanding employees who work as public servants in and around Cincinnati.

$8,500 to Uptown Consortium
Purpose: To provide student interns with the opportunity to learn about non-profit community development organizations and their interactions with neighborhood representatives and community leaders, including local government.

$6,782 to Communities United for Action
Purpose: To provide leadership training that empowers low and moderate-income communities.

$15,000 to Applied Information Resources, Inc.
Purpose: To involve public officials and citizens of the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County in thoughtful deliberations regarding long term questions and issues facing local governments.

$5,000 to the League of Women Voters
Purpose: To create and distribute voter informational guides so that voters are well-informed about candidates' positions on the issues.

$7,500 to Rivers Unlimited
Purpose: To allow citizens to play the lead roles in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating water quality data, and collaborating with government agencies to mitigate pollution and plan for the long-term health of the watershed.

$10,000 to Center for the Study of the American Dream at Xavier University
Purpose: To generate research and survey data on Generation Z and their view of their American dream.

$4,333 to Northern Kentucky Area Development District (NKADD)
Purpose: To give a student the opportunity to begin his or her first professional experience within the public administration arena.

$20,000 to the University of Cincinnati College of Law
Purpose: To provide funding for the Ohio Innocence Project that engages law students to work with their professors on pro-bono cases to establish the innocence of prisoners in potential cases of mistaken identity.

$3,000 to Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (GCC-ASPA)
Purpose: To give an undergraduate or graduate student the opportunity to learn about public and governmental administration from a professional organization's perspective.

$6,500 to the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati
Purpose: To develop a group African American men and women to examine critical issues facing African Americans in Cincinnati and to teach leadership skills to for effectively addressing ongoing and emerging community issues

$8,500 to the City of Cincinnati
Purpose: To inspire City of Cincinnati staff to create a dynamic, energized, sustainable, performance-based and effective work environment through recognition of staff innovations in government operations.

$7,000 to Invest in Neighborhoods, Inc.
Purpose: To provide neighborhood volunteers with the tools and information they need to effectively work to make their communities attractive and successful.