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GCEF awards 2011 grants
November 22, 2011
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $29,161 to 10 greater Akron nonprofit organizations. Akron Community Foundation’s board ratified this latest round of grants at its quarterly meeting Nov. 18.
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2010 Annual Report
June 01, 2011
In 2010, through the rigorous investment guidance of Akron Community Foundation and an extraordinary level of contributions, pledges and support, the Gay Community Endowment Fund ended the year with a fund balance of over $667,000. Download our annual Report to the Community to learn more.
Related Files: [ 2010 Annual Report ]
Gay Community Endowment Fund focuses grant-making on media, arts programs
November 19, 2010
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $26,435 to 11 greater Akron nonprofit organizations. Akron Community Foundation’s board ratified this latest round of grants at its quarterly meeting this morning.
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2009 Annual Report
February 07, 2010
In 2009, through the rigorous investment guidance of Akron Community Foundation, the Gay Community Endowment Fund returned 18.4 percent. In addition, your contributions, pledges and support of the annual Sugar Plum Tour added over $34,000 of new investment toward the future of the GCEF and its mission. At year’s end, the fund balance of more than $584,000 was a significant improvement from the prior year’s, catapulting us out of the depthsof the economic recession.
Related Files: [ 2009 Annual Report.pdf ]
Gay Community Endowment Fund reaches $100,000 grant-making milestone.
November 24, 2009
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation is celebrating $100,000 in grants awarded to the greater Akron area. Latest grants support advocates for HIV patients, abused GLBT youth.
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Gay Community Endowment Fund Awards Record Grant Total
November 14, 2008
Fund’s largest grant ever to support the Akron Pride Center
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $32,994 to nine greater Akron nonprofit organizations, including the largest grant in the fund’s history: $10,000 for the Akron Pride Center “Building Pride” capital campaign. The Akron Community Foundation board ratified the grants Friday, Nov. 14 at its quarterly meeting.
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Seventh annual Sugar Plum holiday home tour set for Dec. 7
October 11, 2008
Akron, OH - Historic and contemporary homes to be lavishly decorated for the holidays. Six of the area’s finest historic and contemporary homes will open their doors Sun., Dec. 7 for the seventh annual Sugar Plum Tour. Tour-goers will enjoy residences from historic West Akron to Fairlawn Heights.
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Accepting Grant Proposals, Welcoming Questions from Nonprofits
July 15, 2008
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation is currently accepting grant applications for both existing and new programs that will positively impact local gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities and greater Akron as a whole.
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Annual Report 2007
February 14, 2008
AKRON, Ohio - 2007 was a year of continued growth of the Gay Community Endowment Fund. Through the generosity of our donors, record-breaking income from the 2007 Sugar Plum Tour, and prudent investment strategies by Akron Community Foundation, the corpus of the fund grew from $618,523 at the end of calendar year 2006 to $678,538 at the end of 2007. And along the way, the fund distributed $24,000 to six Akron-area agencies for programs and services benefiting the GLBT community.
Related Files: [ 2007 Annual Report ]
GCEF Grants Support Local Safety and Awareness Issues.
November 20, 2007
AKRON, Ohio (Nov. 20, 2007) – The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $24,000 to six Greater Akron nonprofit organizations. The Akron Community Foundation board of trustees ratified the grants Friday, Nov. 16 at its quarterly meeting.
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Sixth annual Sugar Plum holiday home tour set for Dec. 2
October 12, 2007
AKRON, OH - Six of the area’s finest historic and contemporary homes will open their doors Sun., Dec. 2 for the sixth annual Sugar Plum Tour. Tour-goers will enjoy residences from historic West Hill to Fairlawn Heights, including a Jacobethan Revival-style home on the National Register of Historic Places and a Tudor Revival home said to be designed by Roy Firestone.
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Gay Community Endowment Fund Seeks Grant Proposals, Welcomes Questions From Nonprofits
July 15, 2007
AKRON, Ohio – The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation is currently accepting grant applications for both existing and new programs that will positively impact local gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities and Greater Akron as a whole.
For more information contact:
Tina Boyes
Vice President, Communications
Phone: 330-376-8522
E-mail:tboyes@akroncommunityfdn.org
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Annual Report 2006
February 26, 2007
In 2006 it all came together for GCEF. We began distributing ReachingOUT, the electronic newsletter of GCEF, we received a Challenge Grant from the Gill Foundation, we distributed grants to organizations that will benefit our LGBT community specifically and the greater Akron community as a whole and we published our first Annual Report.
Please click the following link to read our 2006 Annual Report.
Related Files: [ 2006 Annual Report ]
2007 GCEF ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER
January 15, 2007
Please join us for the 2007 GCEF Annual Meeting and Dinner on Sunday, February 11th at Bricco (1 West Exchange Street, Akron). Our speaker is novelist Thrity Umrigar. The New York Times has called her "Bracingly honest...a perceptive and often piercing writer.
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OUR LATEST GRANTS PROMOTE LOCAL ARTS, HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION
December 06, 2006
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $5,980 to four Greater Akron nonprofit organizations. The Akron Community Foundation board of trustees ratified the grants Fri., Dec. 1 at its quarterly meeting.
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2006 SUGAR PLUM TOUR A SUCCESS!
December 03, 2006
On Dec. 3, the Sugar Plum Tour of Gracious homes welcomed more than 400 tour-goers into five Akron-area homes, lavishly decorated for the holidays. Special guests included Matt Fox, host of Room by Room on HGTV.
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SUGAR PLUM GENERAL ADMISSION STILL AVAILABLE. PATRON TICKETS SELL OUT IN THIRTEEN MINUTES!
November 07, 2006
Five gracious local homes will open their doors on Sun., Dec. 3 to share the magic of the season. From the historic West Hill neighborhood to the Delaware/Ridgecrest estates, the Sugar Plum Tour of Gracious Homes will welcome visitors into some of the area’s finest historic and contemporary homes, lavishly decorated for the holidays.
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GCEF ACCEPTS GRANT APPLICATIONS FOR 2006 GIVING CYCLE
July 13, 2006
The Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation is currently accepting grant proposals from Akron-area nonprofit organizations. Funding is available for both existing and new programs that will positively impact local gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities and Greater Akron as a whole.
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SUGAR PLUM TOUR TO GREET THE SEASON
July 11, 2006
The Fifth annual Sugar Plum Tour of Gracious Holiday homes to benefit the Gay Community Endowment Fund has been announced for Sunday, December 3, 2006. Scattered in neighborhoods thoughout the Akron area, the tour will welcome visitors into some of the area's finest homes.
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