Cleveland Book Week Continues!

It’s Cleveland Book Week (CBW), which means there’s a great lineup of literary and literacy-focused events happening now through Saturday! CBW events celebrate Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners past and present, and many programs are free to attend. You can find the full line-up of #CBW2017 events here. If you haven’t already made...

An Invitation to Opportunity in Greater University Circle

by Walter Wright [email username="wWright" link-text="Email"] Project Director of the Greater University Circle Community Wealth Building Initiative Some years ago, I was meeting with a national expert on community building and a group of community activists from Central, one of Cleveland’s poorest neighborhoods. The activists were...

Using Twitter to advance your mission

What is Twitter? …and how does it relate to the nonprofit/philanthropic community? This week I’m posting some basics about Twitter, what it is and how I am using it. Next week I’ll post information about how I see Twitter benefiting the nonprofit/philanthropic community. Twitter is a microblogging site that allows you to follow...

#CLEMakers: Highlights from our 2018 Annual Meeting

On May 1, more than 1,000 people joined us at the Palace Theatre at Playhouse Square to celebrate the Cleveland Foundation’s 104 years of community impact. The theme of the 2018 Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting presented by KeyBank was “A Sense of Place,” with a program focused on the links between the places and people that make...

Summer of Purpose: Iris Kleinman

The lights dimmed. The curtain drew back. A spotlight appeared. Two legs, two feet, and then…a flurry of furious tapping, twirling and jumping! I had never seen anything so precise and fantastic come from a person’s feet before. This was only the opening of Dorrance Dance’s performance at Cleveland Public Theatre, and my first...

Stories of Impact: Creative Writing and Community Building with Lake Erie Ink

Get involved with Lake Erie Ink: Refer a student to Lake Erie Ink here! Volunteer: Regular volunteer opportunities are available to help with after-school programs, inschool peer editing, college essay workshops and to assist behind the scenes with anthology publications. Join their board for young professionals, Fresh Ink. Contact...

How Poetry Heals the Healer

Last week I attended a lecture and poetry reading by Dr. Rafael Campo, sponsored jointly by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine and the Clinic’s Center for Ethics, Humanities and Spiritual Care. Since it was a poetry reading, you might suspect the “Dr.” indicates Dr. Campo’s...

Making it Count: Highlights from the Common Ground 2020 “Count Me In” Grants

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. In response to the unique environment in which we are currently living, Common...

Homer C. Wadsworth Award

Creativity, Ingenuity, Risk-Taking, and Good Humor Homer Wadsworth - Executive Director 1974–1983 Homer Wadsworth was executive director of the Cleveland Foundation from 1974 to 1983. He was known as an innovative, visionary, and energetic leader, overseeing the foundation's work not only as a community grantmaker, but also as...