The Cleveland Foundation is the world’s first community foundation — and one of the largest nationally — with nearly $3 billion in assets and annual grants of more than $120 million made in partnership with our donors since 2020. In addition to our grantmaking, the Cleveland Foundation is a national leader in impact investing, with...
By Sinegugu Gasa, Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow for Community Narrative and Engagement
Why do we celebrate Black History Month?
Did you know that each year, Black History Month focuses on a particular theme to accompany the month-long reflections and celebrations of our nation’s history? This year’s theme is...
Digital Excellence Initiative
Building a strong, equitable, and resilient digital community in Greater Cleveland
We launched our Digital Excellence Initiative in 2017 to ensure all residents can successfully participate in the digital world and economy, and to elevate Greater Cleveland’s infrastructure, talent and research...
Lights. Camera. Action! Join us on March 23 for the Cleveland premiere of the film MANChild, written by Cleveland MLK high school student, Earlaina Kemp and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (yes, the writer/director of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story). Last year, nearly 1,000 Cleveland-area students submitted scripts to the...
More than a century ago, the community came together to establish the Cleveland Foundation. Since then, generations of Greater Clevelanders have played a role in helping the foundation to grow and evolve; they have laid the groundwork for the next chapter in our history.
Today, we are thrilled to announce our intentions to join...
Cleveland Foundation announces $2.5 million in October grants release date: 10.30.2015CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors has approved $2.5 million in grants for the month of October.A focus of the foundation’s October funding supports programs promoting youth development and the overall well-being of young...
Is theater dangerous – can it cause riots, upset the applecart of perception, change the world? Or is it merely a fancy of the intelligentsia that art can actually counter prejudice, illuminate the dark corners of injustice, actually advance society?
Who gets to decide what an artist can or cannot say or portray?
Where is the line...
We’re thrilled to announce $9.9 million in September grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! This takes the foundation’s third-quarter grantmaking total to $21.1 million, bringing the yearly investment in Greater Cleveland to $62.9 million.Many of our grants this month concentrated on education...
“Artists are often out in front of the words,” said Anna Deavere Smith in her keynote address cum performance at the Creative Voices Summit at Cleveland State University this week. “How do we deal with this in school, where it’s all about the words, the sentences, the specifics?” she challenged the room full of educators. How...
The Cleveland Arts Prize Board of Trustees announces the 58th Annual Award Winners
Honorees recognized in the following categories:
Release Date: 08.02.18
EMERGING ARTIST AWARD (2)
Darius Steward
Visual Arts
Darius Steward knows that visual communication can serve as an agent for change with the power to break racial...