It’s National Census Day – Help Your Community by Responding to the Census Today!

Today is National Census Day. During these unprecedented times it is easy to lose sight of life before COVID-19, and it is hard to imagine life once this pandemic ends. Yet we must remember there are many ways to help our community stay healthy and vibrant as we move forward together. The census is completed every 10 years and collects...

Announcing the winners of the 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Each spring, we celebrate a new class of writers joining the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards canon. This year, in the midst of a global pandemic, the announcement has moved online while the works being honored take on a new kind of importance. "The new books explore human diversity in riveting style, putting the lie to racism and ableism,...

How I Spent My Summer: Seerat Bahniwal

Improving education for children is one of my passions as a student at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. It's also a focus of STEM, an educational program bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to the urban school systems of Ohio. As a part of my internship with the...

How I Spent My Summer: Anne Brewka

To be a Cleveland Foundation intern involves balancing work responsibilities at a host organization with participation in the Summer Internship Program’s weekly seminars and events. To be a shared intern between three nonprofit organizations in addition to this balance has proven to be more of a juggling than a balancing act. The...

Be part of Say Yes Cleveland’s positive impact on local students

One year in, Say Yes Cleveland is already making a difference in the lives of local students. Say Yes is a program designed to remove the barriers that hold students back from successfully pursuing postsecondary education – either college or career training programs – by offering tuition gap closing scholarships and wraparound support...

Working Together to Address the Nursing Shortage in Ohio

We’ve all heard the sobering statistics about the shortage of nurses: 40 percent of Ohio’s practicing nurses expect to leave the field in the next 10 years – a shortfall of nearly 32,000 registered nurses by 2020. At the same time, an educational bottleneck has resulted from an insufficient and diminishing pool of faculty to teach...

Summer of Purpose: Diamond Green-Phillips

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 Diamond Green-Phillips, who is working with Joseph’s Home, where she is assisting with grant writing, social media and...

Cleveland: A blooming city

So what’s with the clouds this summer? Have you noticed? Maybe it’s just me, but I have to say the artist in me has been amazed and thrilled by the magnificence of the cloud formations along the eastern horizon here in Cleveland all summer. These are classic summer clouds, and the beauty of this season’s pattern of rain and sun has...