Summer of Purpose: Rachel Szeles

For many individuals in Greater Cleveland, one of life’s most pressing questions is, “How am I going to get there?” For the older adult population and those with disabilities, that question becomes more difficult to answer.Enter Senior Transportation Connection (STC). They are a nonprofit transportation organization that serves a...

Announcing the 2023-24 Public Service Fellowship host organizations

The Cleveland Foundation is looking forward to welcoming its largest Public Service Fellowship cohort to date with placements at the City of Cleveland, Cleveland Metroparks, Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Cuyahoga County, and four Greater Cleveland nonprofit organizations focusing on workforce development, land...

Launching our Digital Excellence Initiative

We're thrilled to announce our new Digital Excellence Initiative to build a strong, equitable and resilient digital community across Greater Cleveland.The Digital Excellence Initiative aims to position Greater Cleveland as a leader in digital innovation and access by investing in efforts that align with five focus areas:  Creating a...

Cleveland Foundation announces $5.9 million in June grants

Cleveland Foundation announces $5.9 million in June grants Board approval brings second-quarter total to $24 million for Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga nonprofits  Release Date: 7.10.2019 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today announced $5.9 million in grants for the month of June. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga...

And Now, a Brief Analog Moment

Przemyslaw Jasielski, or Przemo, pronounced something like pshemo came to Creative Fusion from Poland, bearing the most remarkable dreadlocks, an engineer’s sensibility and an artist’s sensitivity.  A graduate of the Poznen Academy of Fine Arts, Przemo creates installations, objects, drawings and photographs combining art with...

Ingenuity 4.0

On Saturday the sun was glorious and the clouds were Disney fantasy gorgeous; giant scoops of vanilla bean ice cream in the sky.  On the ground, the crowd was thinner than I remember from past festivals – but that may just be perception.  A lot was going on inside theaters and the Idea Center and in several creatively re-purposed...

Carrie Carpenter

Appointed 2015 by The Center for Community Solutions Carrie Carpenter is Senior Vice President, Regional Manager of Corporate Affairs for Huntington National Bank, where she directs community engagement strategies for the Cleveland region. She has more than 25 years of experience engaging leaders in community initiatives, building public...

The White House Comes to Cleveland

Members of the brand-new White House Office of Urban Affairs (there hasn’t been such an Office before!) came to Cleveland to learn from us and others in Ohio about what has worked and what is not working with the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds. (Think ‘stimulus.’) More than 50...

How I Spent My Summer: Adam Yasinow

As someone who has been a member of two different summer internship programs, I have learned that there is only one factor that determines the "worthwhileness" of an internship—your relationship with your supervisor. Lucky interns are placed with a stellar supervisor while the unlucky report to supervisors who doom the entire...