Grow with Google aims to help everyone across America access the best of Google’s training and tools to grow their skills, careers, businesses, and nonprofits. In this spirit, the Google.org Impact Challenge Ohio is awarding $1,000,000 in grant funding to nonprofits creating economic opportunity in our cities and towns. Local nonprofits submitted innovative proposals and a panel of experts and the public helped us decide the five winners.
If you’re a local nonprofit and did not get a chance to submit an application, we invite you to join our Grow with Google Partner Program. By joining, you will have access to free resources that can help your organization teach people the digital skills they need to grow their careers and businesses.
Meet the winners
Our judges have selected the five winners. These five nonprofits are pursuing big ideas to create economic opportunity in Ohio, and each will receive $175,000 in funding to jumpstart their ideas. Selected by the public, the People's Choice winner will receive an additional $125,000 in funding.
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Easterseals serving Greater Cincinnati
Provide individuals in poverty with a unique blend of skills, wrap-around supports, certifications and self-sustaining employment in the construction sector
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Family Independence Initiative
Invest directly in low-income people so they can work individually and collectively to achieve prosperity through the use of our technology platform, UpTogether, where financial and social capital is exchanged
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Co-op Cincy
Create a Statewide Worker Cooperative Network that brings economic stability, equitable workplaces, and worker-owned businesses across Ohio
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OhioGuidestone
Provide economic opportunities for incarcerated youth and their families through a specialized curriculum where participants build skills for employment, find resources and create plans to ensure long-term success
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MAGNET: The Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network
Create new career opportunities, grow Northeast Ohio’s manufacturing workforce, fill critical needs for local companies, and revitalize communities by connecting high school students to long-term, rewarding career pathways in manufacturing
Meet the judges
Meet our panel of judges who helped review the submissions and select the winners.
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Elena Foulis, Ph.D.
State Commissioner, Ohio Commission of the Hispanic/Latino Affairs
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Brian Hall
Senior Vice President, Greater Cleveland Partnership Equity & Inclusion
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Shilpa Kedar
Executive Director, Digital and IoT Innovations, Cleveland State University and Co-Executive Director, IoT Collaborative
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Kimm Lauterbach
President & Chief Executive Officer, REDI Cincinnati
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M. Duane Nellis, Ph.D.
President, Ohio University
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Eric Phillips
Chief Executive Officer, Union County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Director, Union County and Marysville
