Greater Cincinnati Foundation Announces Move to New Home

CINCINNATI (April 15, 2019) – Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is on the move — literally. As Greater Cincinnati’s leading community foundation, GCF recognizes its role as a community convener, and has found it increasingly challenging to carry out that mission in its current location at 200 W. Fourth St.

As a result, GCF sold that building and will move Aug. 1 into a dynamic new venue in the Sawyer Point Building at 720 E. Pete Rose Way. The Women’s Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation and The HealthPath Foundation of Ohio will also move with GCF into the new space. 

By consciously harnessing the power of place in a creatively designed space, GCF’s new location will provide energizing opportunities:

• The design and location are purposefully geared to fostering convenient, impactful, regional collaboration among donors, nonprofits and GCF staff. While still located in Greater Cincinnati’s urban core, GCF will be just a bridge away from key Northern Kentucky partners.
• The new community hub will offer an inspiring, flexible meeting location with multimedia and technology features as well as convenient parking.
• GCF partners — donors, nonprofits and community stakeholders — will have new ways to connect, nurture relationships and cultivate community knowledge and insights.
• The bold, expansive layout that efficiently integrates GCF staff on one floor — rather than on the current, “siloed” four floors — will facilitate heightened, innovative collaborations with all partners in our community.

“As GCF has grown more integrated, focused and impactful, it has become clear that owning a building is not central to our mission,” said Ellen M. Katz, GCF President/CEO. “What is paramount to us is providing accessibility, flexibility and efficiency of service to all our stakeholders, which our new location will enable in exciting ways. We also believe that bringing people together in this thoughtfully connective space will inspire and accelerate our commitment to racial equity and economic opportunity for everyone in our region.”

GCF’s equity focus is also reflected in its choices of key partners to design and create the new space — all are minority or female-owned businesses. They include: DNK Architects, Inc.; Kolar Design; TriVersity Construction; and RCF Group.

“In this digital era of remote, often impersonal communication, it’s imperative to offer a place for people to connect face-to-face and interact in ways that promote awareness, understanding and insights,” said Christopher L. Fister, Chair of GCF’s Governing Board. “Our new facility will provide this crucial gathering place, where our entire Community as a community can take on the complicated yet immensely gratifying work of solving problems and identifying opportunities together.”

GCF’s welcoming front door, adjacent to the riverfront at the heart of its tri-state, eight-county community of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, will open onto a gathering space that is comfortable and inviting to everyone. The new location will be the embodiment of GCF’s mission of connecting people to realize Greater Cincinnati’s strongest, most equitable shared future.

About Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As the region’s leading community foundation, Greater Cincinnati Foundation connects people with purpose in an eight-county region in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. GCF is leading the charge toward a more vibrant Greater Cincinnati for everyone — now, and for generations to come.