Last week we celebrated the inaugural Cleveland Book Week (CBW), a series of special events to celebrate Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners past and present, and showcase people and organizations working to promote literature and literacy in Greater Cleveland...
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You may be familiar with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards – the ceremony honoring this year’s winning authors will take place later this week – but the book prize isn’t the only award with the Anisfield-Wolf legacy. Visionary Cleveland philanthropist...
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Last month, we announced a grant supporting Cleveland Foundation Uptown Saturday Nights, a collaboration between University Circle, Inc., Case Western Reserve University and Roots of American Music (ROAM) to host a free live music series activating the Uptown...
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This week we announced the inaugural Cleveland Book Week (CBW), a series of special events scheduled from September 10 – 16 that celebrate Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners past and present, and showcase Greater Cleveland’s diverse literary and literacy...
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Our board of directors approved $2.2 million in grants for the month of August. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, our August grants will help fund a variety of programs and initiatives across Greater Cleveland. Check out these highlights:Accessibility...
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Guest blog post by Encore Cleveland Consultant Wendy Albin Sattin, AICPTwo heads – one dark-haired, the other grey – are bent over a map of Africa. One belongs to a ten-year-old boy in the afterschool program at the Fatima Family Center in Hough, the other...
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Thanks to the generosity of our donors, our board of directors approved $5.3 million in grants for the month of July. These grant dollars support a variety of arts, education and job opportunities for residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. Here are a...
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“Connecting you with opportunities to serve” – this purpose truly stands at the core of all of the work undertaken at Greater Cleveland Volunteers. Over the course of my 11-week internship, I have been very fortunate to learn from a dedicated staff that...
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Growing up in the capital of Nigeria, surrounded by people of different ethnic groups and religions, was like living in a world in which everyone is your family — that’s according to a woman I had the opportunity to interview this summer. She said life...
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For several years now, I’ve been on the hunt for a mission. I am a feminist, and deeply passionate about the advancement of equity and human rights. But as I’ve become more educated about the complexity of everyday oppressions faced by marginal communities...
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