Total:  $1,182,036

Akron Area Arts Alliance, $10,000
For the Artist Entrepreneur Institute in Summit County

Akron Community Foundation, $5,000
For consulting costs in support of Growth & Opportunity: Akron

Akron Development Corporation, $150,000
To build our space at the Akron Global Business Accelerator for the new Bit Factory accelerator program for high-potential IT startups and for initial marketing

Akron SCORE, $30,000
For administrative and marketing expenses in 2014

Akron Urban League, $20,000
To support the Partnership for the Minority Business Accelerator (PMBA) cohort VI

Bad Girl Ventures, $25,000
For Cleveland operations and marketing in Summit County

Bad Girl Ventures, $1,036
For expenses associated with the Deshpande Symposium

BioEnterprise Corporation, $275,000
For business development and internship programs, and support to develop and pilot financial sustainability initiatives

Canton Regional SCORE, $5,000
For support of workshops for small businesses

Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology, $5,000
For the Ingenuity Spark Plug Festival

Economic and Community Development Institute, up to $200,000
To provide support to initiate microlending in Summit County

Friends of New Orleans, $10,000
For the Forward Cities national collaborative

Fund for Our Economic Future of Northeast Ohio, $150,000
For Phase two of the Gazelle Initiative

Hudson Library and Historical Society, $56,000
For entrepreneurship program enhancement and expansion, an annual pitch night, and video conferencing equipment (2 years)

Hudson Library and Historical Society, $10,000
For a city-wide celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hudson

Ideastream, $10,000
For prize money for the SEA Change idea competition

Ideastream, $50,000
To sponsor Nightly Business Report in FY 2015 and to support the Campaign for Community

Kent State University, $5,000
For the Small Business Development Center’s Entrepreneur Experience program

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

Venture for America, $150,000
To support five Venture for America Fellows in Northeast Ohio for two years

Western Reserve Public Media, $10,000
For the START UP television program