The Columbus Foundation is pleased to announce participants in its 2016 Summer Fellowship Program. Now in its seventh year, the program provides college students and recent college graduates the opportunity to work with central Ohio nonprofit organizations for a 10-week period.

The Columbus Foundation, the seventh largest community foundation in the United States, announced an historic all-time high in grants awarded in 2015―$176.6 million, a 23 percent increase over 2014, at its 2016 annual Celebration of Philanthropy at the Foundation.

The deadline for Chillicothe and Ross County organizations to submit grant applications to the Robert E. and Genevieve B. Schaefer Fund of Community Foundations, Inc. is Friday, October 28, 2016.

COLUMBUS, OH (February 1, 2017)—The Columbus Foundation and Besa have joined forces to launch Columbus Kindness Month in February, rallying the community to generate acts of kindness while uplifting the city people are proud to call home.

Columbus, OH (May 19, 2017)—The Founding Board of the Isabelle Ridgway Foundation today announced the creation of a new endowment to honor the legacy of Isabelle Ridgway by improving the quality of life and the systems that impact aging African Americans in central Ohio.

Columbus, OH (May 31, 2017)—The John W. and Edna McManus Shepard Fund/Guernsey County Foundation has extended the grant application deadline for its 2017 program to Friday, June 16, 2017 at noon.

Family and friends established this fund in memory of F. David Smucker, a former president of the boosters for the Grove City High School Marching Band, to support Grove City High School students for the post-secondary study of music.

The scholarship was created to honor the late Kenneth B. Creasy, who died unexpectedly in June of 1992. Mr. Creasy was a former social studies teacher and speech and debate coach at Olentangy and Hayes high schools in Delaware County, Ohio.

A scholarship for higher education was created to honor and recognize Betty Morse Minutilli, Marion Harding High School (1936-1939). The fund is made in recognition of her compassionate contributions in volunteer work supporting numerous causes, as a Registered Dietician, wife and mother, having demonstrated her caring, giving nature in abundance to her friends, family, and community.

The Leslie Ann Yovan Scholarship was created by her family to honor the memory of their daughter and sister. Leslie was valedictorian of her graduating class in 1985. She completed all state requirements and graduated in just three years with a 4.0 grade point average. Upon leaving Grandview, she attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and then went on to earn her law degree at Georgetown School of Law. She became an associate attorney at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur law firm. Music, art, nature, and reading were Ms. Yovan's favorite activities, when she was not working.