To help meet the GAR Foundation challenge to support SCORE's expansion of marketing and administrative activities to startup, entrepreneurs, and existing businesses in Akron and Summit County
To bring Springboard for the Arts' Community Supported Art program to Knight Foundation's eight communities over the next two years, inspiring local art movements
To increase access to the latest Internet information resources, digital literacy training and skills necessary for the residents of Summit County to become a more informed and engaged community
To increase high school graduation rates and college access for at least 90 African American male students by extending the Student African American Brotherhood's network to high schools in Akron, Macon, and Miami
To further establish Summit Artspace as a central and highly visible headquarters for arts and culture where artists and the public can interact and showcase the value of the arts to economic development and neighborhood revitalization
For a new collaborative program to assist youth "aging out" of foster care, providing them with career guidance, work preparation and financial education
To produce an investigative report on gas- and oil-well drilling, The Raymond John Wean Foundation will help enable a new operating partnership between the NewsOutlet.org and a local National Public Radio affiliate.
To communicate local Knight mission and initiatives, as well as solicit community support and partnership for after school and economic development programs
To honor the memory of the Knight brothers' mother through support of the Clara I. Knight Scholarship Endowment Fund at the Tuesday Musical Association