Grants Awarded

Total:  $809,950

89.7 WKSU, $8,500
For sponsorship of Exploradio

Akron Area Arts Alliance, $10,000
For the Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute 2016

Akron SCORE, $30,000
For general operating support

Bad Girl Ventures, $40,000
For operating support

BioEnterprise Corporation, $200,000
To support bioscience business development activities and internship programming

Canton Regional SCORE, $10,000
For program support

Crafty Mart, $4,000
For artist entrepreneur events in 2016

Economic Growth Foundation, $50,000
To serve minority business enterprises and minority entrepreneurs through the creation of a Northeast Ohio minority business enterprise support organization collaboration

Friends of New Orleans, $25,000
To support year two of the Forward Cities learning collaborative

Ideastream, $40,000
To sponsor Nightly Business Report

Ideastream, $20,000
For SEA Change social enterprise grants

Launch League, $2,500
For program support for startup founders

Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network (MAGNET), $5,000
For the ProtoTech product pitch competition

Team NEO Foundation, $175,000
To support cluster acceleration including the ACE Academy

TechPint, $5,000
For the 2015 TechPint Startup Summit

The Oberlin Project, $10,000
For SEED Ventures

The Presidents' Council Foundation, $25,500
To support operations of the Emerging Entrepreneurs Program

Women’s Network of Northeast Ohio, $9,450
For the EMPOWER! Women’s Entrepreneurship Mastery Program

Youngstown Edison Incubator Corporation, $100,000
To expand operations to a fifth building and provide support for a business concept competition

Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation, $40,000
To support and expand training, credit counseling and microloan programs for entrepreneurs