The John W. and Edna McManus Shepard Fund/Guernsey County Foundation has extended the grant application deadline to Friday, June 19, 2015. The Fund awards grants to benefit cultural and economic programs for Cambridge and Guernsey Counties.

Gifts and bequests to community foundations vary from year to year according to the generosity, interests and, yes, life spans of donors. The Columbus Foundation well knows the ebb and flow. But even its non-record tallies continue to top the $100 million mark. Donors gave $132.9 million to new and existing funds and to supporting foundations in 2014, the fifth consecutive year the foundation has reported at least a nine-figure gift total.

The Columbus Foundation recently named 10 nonprofit organizations that will serve as host sites for its 2016 Summer Fellowship Program. Since 2010, the Foundation’s Summer Fellowship Program has been providing career-related work experience for college and graduate students interested in the nonprofit sector. These fellowships are made possible by the generosity and vision of many Foundation donors.

The Arts Innovation Fund of The Columbus Foundation has awarded a Columbus Performing Arts Prize to David Brown, founder and creative director of Harmony Project, to support a dynamic multi-disciplinary finale at its performance at the Ohio Theatre on December 1, 2015.

Jerrie Mock, the Columbus woman who in 1964 became the first women to successfully fly solo around the world, was inducted today into the Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The induction was part of the First Flight Society’s 112th Wright Brothers Anniversary of Powered Flight. Columbus Foundation President and CEO Douglas F. Kridler was the keynote speaker for the event.

The Columbus Foundation celebrated the outstanding work of our business and nonprofit leaders and innovators who were named the best in the United States for their accomplishments over the past year. The individuals and organizations were honored at the annual National Number Ones event held at the Foundation on February 19.

Twice as many people are seeking psychiatric care each month in Franklin County emergency departments compared to six years ago, swamping the system, and community leaders today introduced a framework for addressing the crisis.

Five central Ohio nonprofit organizations targeting critical community issues–homelessness, poverty, the heroin epidemic, illiteracy, early childhood education, and the spread of HIV and the health and wellness of the LGBTQ community–have been named “5 Nonprofits to Watch” in 2016 by The Columbus Foundation, one of the nation’s largest community foundations.

The John W. and Edna McManus Shepard Fund/Guernsey County Foundation is currently accepting applications for its 2016 program. The application deadline is Friday, May 27, 2016.

The Columbus Youth Foundation (CYF) will recognize 94 Columbus City Schools (CCS) students through the Best All-Around Student Awards, tonight at Huntington Park, before the game between the Columbus Clippers and the Buffalo Bisons. The event recognizes students for their outstanding citizenship and achievements during the 2015-2016 school year. The Whetstone High School Marching Band will perform before the ceremony and will play the national anthem.