City of Akron

To bring entertainment to Akron area residents through Lock 3 Live and to support the Lock 3 Summer Arts Experience for high school students who display an aptitude in the arts

Civil Society Institute

To plan a community-based component to a multi-state early childhood network and develop of a statewide partnership for Quality Pre-Kindergarten in Pennsylvania

CommonPlace

To build a web platform for local community engagement in Akron that uses trained community organizers and creates a local online sharing network for neighbors and civic leaders to connect

Community PlanIT

To implement Community PlanIT, an online tool that enables engagement in local community planning efforts, in four Knight communities: Detroit, Akron, San Jose and Philadelphia

Digital Public Library of America

To include Knight-community libraries in the creation of a national digital library network

Fifth Annual Akron Hip-Hop Showcase

To support the production of the Fifth Annual Akron Hip-Hop Showcase, a beloved community event, offering authentic, hands-on arts enrichment and youth development programming

FilmSlam : Cleveland International Film Festival

For FilmSlam, the annual student film festival that is presented to underserved high school students as part of the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF)

First Night

To build on the popular First Night event by implementing a series of events designed to highlight and promote the arts and culture entities emerging and/or thriving in the Downtown Akron area

Fund For Our Economic Future

To advance the success of a region-wide collaborative aimed at changing the fundamentals of Northeast Ohio's economic agenda through support of the organization's intensive Phase Two plans

Fund For Our Economic Future

To advance the success of a collaborative aimed at changing Northeast Ohio's economic agenda by enhancing a key executive's compensation package

Fund For Our Economic Future

To build on existing citizen engagement efforts to provide new ways for citizens to learn about local issues; form opinions and offer solutions for making local governance more effective across the region

Fund for Our Economic Future

To sustain and strengthen a regional collaboration of philanthropic funders whose investment dollars will help to transform Northeast Ohio into a high growth economy by increasing job and income growth and decreasing poverty