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No Ohio idea makes Case Foundation’s Top 20 in civic engagement competition


The Case Foundation is sponsoring the Make It Your Own Awards:

This grants program challenges people from all walks of life to discuss what matters most to them, decide what kind of community they want, and take action together. After receiving nearly 5,000 great ideas submitted by applicants from all across the country, we’ve identified 20 finalists. Now we need YOU to help us determine who moves on to the Final Four and gets $25,000 for their cause. So, vote now! And just by participating, you could get $2,500 for YOUR favorite charity.

You can see the 20 in the running here. It looks like there are five from Ohio in that made it out of the 5000 submissions and into the top 100:

Youth United Way, Toledo

Preble Promise, Eaton

Engaging Hate in Dayton

Our River, Our Heart, Columbus

Mosaic Center, Cleveland

Kudos to those five.

More information about the program is here, including the following description:

The Make It Your Own AwardsTM are a direct response to research showing that many people feel disconnected from public leaders and institutions and don’t believe they have the power to make a lasting difference in their community. These findings were the spark for a paper we released last fall, Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement, which suggests that if people are actually going to get engaged and stay engaged in their communities, one thing has to happen first — they must be given more chances to connect with one another (including those they might disagree with) and figure out how they can work together for the common good.

The competition began last fall and the final four will be announced mid-May. A group of reviewers selected the 20 from which the public now will choose four.

I’ve already signed up for the newsletter so hopefully I can learn about the next round, if there is one.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:47 am April 2nd, 2008 in Announcements, Cleveland+, Culture, Education, Ohio, Philanthropy, Social Issues, Voting 

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One Response to “No Ohio idea makes Case Foundation’s Top 20 in civic engagement competition”

  1. 1 Michael Wood-Lewis on April 2nd, 2008 7:59 pm

    Glad to read your coverage of this contest here. To all your readers… please vote for Front Porch Forum! Thanks, Michael

    P.S. If it helps… my mother’s family is from Toledo and my brother is raising his in Cincinnati. ;-)

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