Many of GCF's community investments and partnerships have resulted in reports and research that add to the body of knowledge about our community, its needs, and its future.
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A coalition of eight philanthropic organizations in Greater Cincinnati underwrote a qualitative research study to better understand emerging generations of the some of the region’s wealthiest families, who, over time, have demonstrated strong records of generous philanthropic support. These insights will also help these organizations frame future solicitation efforts to other families with means, but who have not been as actively engaged in community support.
Better Together Cincinnati has just completed Cincinnati in Black & White 2007, A Report to the Community. It provides a baseline “report card” on racial disparities in three key areas: education, economics and criminal justice. The report shows that despite seven years of multiple sustained efforts to reduce disparities, the circumstances have not changed for African Americans in our community.
In January 2007, the Cincinnati USA Cultural Partnership released a report that outlines the long-term capital and endowment needs of our region’s cultural organizations, along with the start of a plan to grow and diversify funding sources for our unique and valuable cultural sector.
This report documents and recognizes Cincinnati’s efforts during the last five years to address race relations and racial disparities, particularly the work of Cincinnati Community Action Now (CAN) and Better Together Cincinnati (BTC), a group of 15 foundation and corporate leaders.
With an endowment of more than $29 million, The Anthem Foundation of Ohio has awarded more than $6.4 million in grants to address some of the most pressing, yet neglected, health issues faced by Ohio’s indigent population. As we celebrate the first five years of grantmaking, we wanted to share our progress to date and tell the community about just a few of the thousands of people whose lives we have touched.
In Fall 2004, Modeling Citizen-Led, Asset-Based Comprehensive Community Development was published. This final report reflects on CIP's core ideas, implementation, accomplishments in the neighborhoods and accomplishments of the entire initiative.
During 2002, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation conducted a "community listening" process to identify priority issues in our six grantmaking areas. A brochure describing the resulting recommendations and new initiatives can be viewed here.
At a public briefing on November 28, 2001, CIP presented a report on the progress of the three neighborhoods at the midway point of the five-year program. Outside evaluators reported that CIP was truly helping the communities becaime more active and engaged, while providing important knowledge about helping other communities throughout our region.
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation sponsored a study of our region’s social capital. The local survey was part of a historic partnership of 40 communities, the Saguaro Seminar, and Professor Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone: Collapse and Revival of the American Community (Simon and Schuster, 2000) and principal investigator of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, a project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Known as the "Gallis Report," the Greater Cincinnati Metro Region Resourcebook was published in 1999 by the Metropolitan Growth Alliance (MGA), of which GCF was a major funder and convenor.
