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Nonprofit Spotlight: Let's Grow Akron
Nonprofit Spotlight: Let's Grow Akron
Let's Grow Akron is a true grassroots organization in every context. For 35 years, the nonprofit has helped improve neighborhoods and alleviate hunger by working alongside residents to create healthy food systems using community gardening and education. Not...
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Freedom House: Helping local women facing addiction
Freedom House: Helping local women facing addiction
Freedom House for Women has served the Summit County community for 16 years, offering substance use treatment and supportive services to help decrease the barriers of addiction and homelessness. Founded by Eva Hartwell in 2004, Freedom House for Women fights...
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A Recipe for Crisis
A Recipe for Crisis
Ending of emergency benefits, inflation place squeeze on healthy food access On a sunny April afternoon, dozens of cars line up in single file at Summit Lake Community Center in South Akron. Volunteers adorned in orange fill the trunks of the vehicles with...
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Grassroots Growth
Grassroots Growth
By Olivia Eastly, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Small nonprofits find new opportunities for growth amid the pandemic Over the past few years, everyone has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but younger, more grassroots organizations were...
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Transforming Akron Middle Schools Through a Nonprofit Lens
Transforming Akron Middle Schools Through a Nonprofit Lens
By Chris Miller, Communications & Community Investment Officer This September, Akron Public Schools (APS) will welcome educators and administrators from all over the country to learn more about an innovative model it launched here in 2017: the College...
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Creating a Welcoming New Home
Creating a Welcoming New Home
Local nonprofits help resettled residents through partnerships, philanthropy When the United States pulled out of a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan this summer, it triggered a humanitarian crisis that displaced more than 550,000 Afghans, nearly 1,000 of...
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A Sustainable Response
A Sustainable Response
How the nonprofit landscape has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic As the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Akron, followed quickly by a state-issued shutdown, Portage Path Behavioral Health had to completely modify its operations overnight to ensure its...
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