Research + Innovation

Enlisting high-tech to help end homelessness in Cincinnati

A collaboration between 84.51 and Strategies to End Homelessness will hopefully reduce — and possibly end — homelessness by studying data about the people they serve. 

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Meet Dani McClain, the library’s 2020 Writer-in-Residence

The award-winning journalist and author hopes to reconnect with her hometown during her tenure. 

The Licking River drains 3,600 square miles of Kentucky.
The World Resources Institute wants to finance projects that will protect Northern Kentucky’s water

The World Resource's Institute wants to support projects to protect the region's watersheds and is making grant money available to worthy ideas. 

The Fair Housing Assessment cites about 40,000 area residents living in unsafe, unaffordable spaces

As the trend towards urban living continues, many Cincinnatians are priced out of their neighborhoods.

Improving access to NKU, and its Steely Library, shown here, is a campus priority.
NKU launches a $500,000 innovation challenge open to students, faculty, and staff

The school has launched the 2020 NKU Innovation Challenge, meant to unleash creative plans to improve the success of its students.

The audience voted on the pitches and a popular vote winner was selected.
One night, one pitch, $100,000 in grants

Fourteen nonprofit organizations pitched their work and their results in a competition for a pool of funds created by some of the region's leading foundations and philanthropies. 

Mia Birdsong, community advocate and family activist will speak on Wed., Nov. 6.
Making space for change: As People’s Liberty ends, two new entities come to Cincinnati

A four-day Civic Symposium will celebrate the city's philanthropic climate and encourage citizen engagement.

Restoring health to healthcare

A free, national, online event organized by local doctors will focus on service-led, purpose driven organizations that push control and accountability to the lowest practical level, thus increasing employee and patient wellbeing.

Last year, volunteer Dawn Rhodes made the winning pitch for the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky.
Finalists chosen in pitch competition for funders’ grants

The NKY Funders' Grants competition brings philanthropists together in common causes.

A passion for nutrition: Cody Blatt and his breakthrough product, ilixer

Throughout his childhood, he struggled with his weight. Now this native Cincinnatian is creating nutritious powdered meal replacements made of real food for people on the go. 

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