• Shaw JCC of Akron 
  Founded in 1929, the Jewish Community Center of Akron is a cornerstone of the Jewish community. The JCC strengthens Jewish identity and family life through services to its members, as well as to the total community. It offers recreational, cultural, informal educational and social activities from preschool age through older adults. Health and physical education departments serve all age groups.
    

• Akron Community Foundation's The Millennium Fund for Children
  The Akron Community Foundation, with support from the Akron Beacon Journal, has established a Millennium Fund for Children, a permanently endowed fund that will grow through investment and continued contributions in future years. The fund will produce income in perpetuity to meet the needs of our children--nutrition and health needs, education and literacy needs, and so much more. It will pay for programs and projects for non-profit organizations that work to better the lives of children. 
    

• Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron 
  From its entrance on Akron's historic Perkins Square Park to its state-of-the-art surgical suites, every square inch of Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron is designed to provide babies, children and adolescents the best medical care available--in a unique, family-centered environment that guarantees them the best possible chance for recovery. Children's has evolved from its beginnings in 1890 as a two-room day nursery into one of the country's largest pediatric hospitals. Today it houses 104 single medical-surgical pediatric rooms; a 59-bed neonatal intensive care unit; a12-bed pediatric intensive care unit; a 14-bed pediatric psychiatric unit and a 12-bed burn center for adults and children.
    

• Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank 
  The Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank is a nonprofit organization committed to alleviating local hunger by distributing food to 345 charitable groups serving 70,000 people in need. Food is distributed to pantries, hot meal sites, and programs serving shelters, older adults, children and disaster relief services in Summit, Stark, Portage, Wayne, Medina, Carroll, Tuscarawas, and Holmes counties. 

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