Gay Community Endowment Fund to host annual celebration June 3
THIS IS A PAST EVENT
Tickets are now available for the Gay Community Endowment Fund's 2022 annual celebration, "exhALE: Advancing Lived Equality." The event will take place Friday, June 3, at 6 p.m. at The Trailhead at Cascade Lofts. Tickets start at $50 and can be purchased online at www.akroncf.org/exhALE.
This signature event celebrates the Gay Community Endowment Fund's impact in the community and recognizes its most recent grant and scholarship recipients. Proceeds support academic scholarships for LGBTQ+ students and allies in Greater Akron.
This year's event will feature a 50/50 raffle, as well as live music from Northeast Ohio's own 303 Band. In addition, the fund will present the 2022 Paul Daum Award to an individual who has demonstrated a significant commitment to LGBTQ+ causes and the Greater Akron community at large.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available and range from $500 to $1,500. Sponsors receive complimentary tickets and recognition in promotional materials, among other benefits. For more information, contact Deb Hoffman at 330-436-5614 or dhoffman@akroncf.org.
About the Gay Community Endowment Fund
Founded in 2001, the Gay Community Endowment Fund is a permanent philanthropic endowment of Akron Community Foundation. The fund advances a lived equality for all LGBTQ+ people in Greater Akron by investing in strategic and responsive grantmaking that empowers the LGBTQ+ community and its allies. Since its inception, the fund has grown to $2.2 million while reinvesting more than $690,000 into the community. Contributions of any amount are welcome and support future grantmaking. Checks should be sent to Akron Community Foundation, 345 W. Cedar St., Akron, OH 44307, with Gay Community Endowment Fund in the memo line. Donations may also be designated for the GCEF Scholarship Fund. For more information, or to contribute, call 330-376-8522 or visit www.gaycommunityfund.org.
About Akron Community Foundation
Celebrating 66 years of building community philanthropy, Akron Community Foundation embraces and enhances the work of charitable people who make a permanent commitment to the good of the community. In 1955, a $1 million bequest from the estate of Edwin Shaw established the community foundation. It is a philanthropic endowment of nearly $300 million with a growing family of more than 780 funds established by charitable people and organizations from all walks of life. The community foundation and its funds welcome gifts of all kinds, including cash, bequests, stock, real estate, life insurance and retirement assets, just to name a few. To date, the community foundation's funds have awarded nearly $206 million in grants to qualified nonprofit organizations. For more information about Akron Community Foundation or to learn more about creating your own charitable fund, call 330-376-8522 or visit www.akroncf.org.