This summer I was lucky enough to visit Montreal for the first time. My favorite part of the experience wasn’t the great cultural institutions, history, architecture, art, or festivals – but the experience of being in a city that has embraced bicycles. The Bixi program and designated bike-ways around the city were a joy to...
Partners announce latest round of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients
Release Date: 5.15.2020
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund coalition announced today its latest round of grants to support the nonprofit community, which continues to face unprecedented challenges during the...
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Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they spend 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog we hear from Christina Abdelshahid, who spent her summer working with the Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI) where she...
Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $346,750 in second cycle of Phase II grantmaking
Fund stands at more than $3.2 million to support frontline nonprofit organizations in Greater Cleveland
Release Date: 11.24.20
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announced today its second cycle of...
Cleveland Foundation receives $1.7 million from Geis Foundation to support youth
RELEASE DATE: 2.11.14
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the first major gift of its centennial year: $1.7 million from the Erwin & Katherine Geis Charitable Foundation. The gift will be used to establish the Erwin & Katherine...
Virginia Festival of the Book Announces New Partnerships with Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and National Book FoundationRelease Date: 12.05.2017Charlottesville, Va.—A program of Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the twenty-fourth annual Virginia Festival of the Book announced two additional headlining programs for the 2018...
We’re thrilled to announce $172,590 in grants from our Lake-Geauga Fund to organizations serving residents of Lake and Geauga counties. This year’s round of grants from the Lake-Geauga Fund brings our total support to Lake and Geauga counties to $2.8 million in 2017!Our history of support in Lake and Geauga counties Established in...
In early October, we issued a call to our nonprofit and public sector partners to apply to host a Cleveland Foundation intern for the summer of 2013. Out of a pool of 90 applications, we selected 17 projects (see list below) that address a variety local challenges and opportunities, from adult literacy and youth...
Nine organizations and groups receive funding in latest round of grantmaking from Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund
Dollars also awarded from Cuyahoga County CARES Act grant for homelessness
Release Date: 4.6.2021
The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announced today its 11th cycle of biweekly grants as part...