The Cleveland Foundation upholds a longstanding commitment to racial equity ingrained in our grantmaking and community engagement initiatives and heightened by the recent national reckoning on systemic racism. As an urgent and timely extension of this work...
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Tony Costanzo By Tony Costanzo, AT&T Director of External Affairs for Cleveland This fall, I was proud to join more than 100 of my AT&T colleagues in assembling 625 STEM kits for kids who participate in programs through the Boys & Girls Clubs...
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Applications are currently open for both the 2021 Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship, as well as the 2021-2022 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship! Learn more about both opportunities: Summer Internship Program Now in its 22nd year, the...
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Most years, Common Ground is a single-day initiative where people gather at locations across Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties to share a meal, connect with one another, build community and take action on the issues they care about. This year was different...
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By Briana Oldham, Cleveland Foundation Equity Communications and Engagement Fellow There is no time like the present. If anything, 2020 has taught us nothing is more important than living in the now. Focusing on today while planning for tomorrow can prove...
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Applications are now being accepted for local nonprofit and public sector organizations that wish to host a Cleveland Foundation Summer Intern in 2021 or a Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow in the 2021-22 cohort. Host organizations benefit from...
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By Nelson Beckford, Program Director, Neighborhood Revitalization & Engagement I stopped saying “pivot” when referencing how the local nonprofit sector has adapted to this new reality (e.g. COVID, racial unrest/uprising, the lock-down, social...
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By Briana Oldham, Cleveland Foundation Equity Communications and Engagement Fellow Representation matters. Baltimore philanthropists Eddie and Sylvia Brown understand this keenly and have made it a focus of their work in classrooms, boardrooms and...
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The Community Foundation Opportunity Network (CFON) recently announced the inaugural cohort of community foundations that will take part in the Aligned Action Network, a collaborative effort to dismantle structural and systemic racism and achieve equity in...
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As Americans get ready for Thanksgiving this year, many are facing a very different kind of holiday. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, posing serious safety concerns for in-person gatherings, and millions of people across the country are newly facing...
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