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Neil and Honi Cohen have given millions to causes in their community in Ohio, but now they're going a step further.
The Cohens are creating the HIGHER Fund, which will focus on "individual behavior growth in honesty, integrity, empathy, quality service, health care, education, and respect," the Hamilton Journal-News reports.
"Our desire is to create an endowment that has a visionary basis providing resources for programs that will transform the path of people's lives," Neil Cohen says.
"We want to encourage the idea that asking for help and seeking a better way is honorable, not a friend's character to achieve positive behavioral change and personal growth," says Jill Cohen, Neil's wife.
The Cohens' giving goes back many years, to their Jewish roots.
"My grandparents and then my parents had a box on their counter where they would regularly put change or pocket money," Jill Cohen tells the Journal-News.
"They used the money from the box to help people in need."
The Cohens' new fund will issue grants once a year, and Jill Cohen says the family hopes to inspire others to give.
"We want to encourage the idea that asking for help and seeking a better way is honorable, not a friend'
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