Community Fund Grant: Health & Human Services

The Akron Community Foundation's Health & Human Services Grant focuses on enhancing the quality of life in Summit County. It supports approved 501(c)(3) organizations addressing essential needs such as food, shelter, and medical care. Grants prioritize systemic impact, organizational strength, and inclusiveness, aiming for sustainable solutions that benefit the community. The foundation seeks to empower nonprofits and ensure ethical stewardship of donor investments, ultimately contributing to self-sufficiency and wellness for the county's most vulnerable residents.

It is the unique responsibility of a community foundation to fund a range of quality-of-life programs throughout a geographic location. Thus, Akron Community Foundation’s grants are as diverse as Summit County itself.
What We FundWhile their programming differs, all Akron Community Foundation grantees have things in common:
Organizational strength: We support efficient and effective nonprofit organizations with the capacity to significantly improve the community. We value organizations that demonstrate sustainability, honesty and transparency while remaining true to their missionSystemic impact: We support collaborative efforts that help individuals, families and neighborhoods thrive by addressing immediate needs while creating holistic improvement within Summit County. We prefer to fund organizations that address the underlying cause of a problem and make a lasting improvement.Accountability: We serve as stewards of our donors’ community investments. As a result, we hold ourselves and our grantees to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, service and fiduciary responsibility.Strengthened capacity of the nonprofit sector: We support efforts that build governance, management, financial and organizational capacities of nonprofit agencies and the sector as a whole. We also strive to create partnerships that reduce duplicative and ineffective programs.Inclusiveness: We honor the diverse strengths, needs, voices and backgrounds within our community, and wesupport organizations whose missions promote equity and inclusiveness

Eligibility

Approved 501(c)(3) organization serving Summit county.

Ineligibility

We do not make grants for:EndowmentsScholarshipsDirect financial support to individualsReligious organizations for religious purposesPrivate non-operating foundationsIn accordance with our grant-making priorities, we generally do not fund:Newly established nonprofit organizations that duplicate existing servicesCurriculum for schoolsDisease-specific programsEconomic development initiatives already being addressed by the Fund for Our Economic FuturePrograms at parochial schools that benefit only their studentsMulti-year grants