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Summit County Council confirms advisory boards for new Community Empowerment Fund
Summary
Council confirmed appointments to advisory boards for the Summit County Community Empowerment Fund, a field-of-interest account seeded with opioid-litigation funds at the Akron Community Foundation; the council also authorized a supporting organization that will manage a larger corpus for long-term grantmaking.
The Summit County Council on Monday confirmed multiple advisory-board appointments tied to a newly named Summit County Community Empowerment Fund and approved the structure for a supporting organization that will manage a longer-term corpus for grantmaking.
Donna Skotis of the county executive’s office told the council the field-of-interest fund was established with a $5,000,000 gift from opioid litigation and is housed at the Akron Community Foundation. "That field of interest fund has now been named. It is the Summit County Community Empowerment Fund," Skotis said, and the council was…
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