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April 24, 2014
If you missed our “Understanding Collaboration” workshop last year, check this out!
BVU: The Center for Nonprofit Excellence, along with The Foundation Center, is offering a great no-fee workshop May 14 on how nonprofits can collaborate. There are so many options from which to choose – new ways of collaborating that meet your mission and organizational identity, but can save money and better serve your constituents. Check […]
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January 31, 2014
“Turning Values Into Metrics” workshop videos now available
After our recent workshop conducted by Summit Education Initiative on outcomes measurement and evaluation, we have created short videos from the workshop for reference. You can search through several topics and perhaps find one that will help guide your consideration about outcomes and impact for your organization. We hope you find these vignettes useful.
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January 13, 2014
GAR President Christine Mayer announces new arts landscape assessment
GAR Foundation president Christine Mayer today announced the release of a new comprehensive assessment of arts and culture in Summit County. The study was funded by GAR Foundation as well as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Click on this press release for the highlights. For a web-link to the full report and […]
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December 11, 2013
GAR Foundation Awards more than $2 million to local nonprofits at its November distribution meeting
For a list of G R Foundation’s grants awarded at our November 14, 2013 meeting, please click here.
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February 25, 2013
GAR Foundation awards more than $1.5 million in grants for first quarter 2013
GAR Foundation announces grants awarded at its first quarterly meeting for 2013. More than $1,598,000 was awarded to are nonprofits serving Greater Akron and Northeast Ohio. For more information, see our press release.
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November 15, 2011
Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce releases new study on STEM education
A new research report from Georgetown University highlights the continued need to focus on the teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the early grades through baccalaureate and beyond. Even if one doesn’t end up working in a STEM field, the STEM-based skills of critical thinking and problem solving are crucial to an individual’s […]
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May 24, 2010
Grants Awarded at Our May 2010 Quarterly Meeting
GAR Foundation President Robert Briggs announced that the Foundation’s Distribution Committee approved $1,568,551 in grants at its second quarter meeting of 2010. Grants were awarded to support programs and operations at 40 nonprofit organizations and included outright and challenge grants. In announcing the awards, Mr. Briggs noted GAR’s long-standing commitment to education as evidenced by […]
Kirstin Toth