Summer of Purpose: Hannah Taylor

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they reflect on 11 weeks spent working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog, we hear from Hannah Taylor, who spent her summer at Cleveland Sight Center, where she coordinated, facilitated and evaluated...

Owning the cold

If I hear one more person complain about the weather in Cleveland, I’m going to scream. We just had the most glorious spring/summer/fall season in my memory.  So now it's (almost) winter.  And we don’t have four feet of snow already like states in the north and west. Ohio is not on fire or being drowned in mudslides like...

Summer of Purpose: Investment Need Not “Gentrify” Our Neighborhoods

By Nicholas DownerSt. Clair Superior Development Corporation Here’s a game anyone can play: Start talking about any Cleveland neighborhood and see if it takes more than five minutes before someone says the word "gentrification." Based on my experience, I’m betting it won’t. As an urban studies major at Cleveland State University...

FourSquare: Stepping Up Your Game By Exploring Cleveland

My penchant for technology – especially new ways to connect and to share information – received a boost this fall. For those willing to try it out, it just might change the way you interact with Cleveland. FourSquare is a location-based social networking program. It’s also a game. Users "check-in" at venues using their mobile...

#FellowFriday: Marsalis Hammons

The Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship offers emerging young leaders the skills and networks needed to create the community they envision and jumpstart a career in public service. In this #FellowFriday blog, 2019-20 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow Marsalis Hammons talks about his fellowship experience working...

December Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day of Family Fun

December Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day of Family Fun Foundation’s final centennial gift to provide free, healthy activities at 38 sites throughout Northeast Ohio Release Date: 12.3.2014     Updated: 12.15.2014 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation’s December – and final – centennial gift to the community involves...

Meet me in the square

It’s official: our city has a new heart. After 8 years of planning, 15 months of construction and $50 million in funding, Cleveland Public Square was officially opened and re-dedicated on June 30. Behind these numbers were a group of individuals and organizations committed to delivering a world-class public space to residents and...

#SummerOfPurpose: Audra Mahon

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 Audra Mahon, who is spending her summer working at Eliza Bryant Village, where she is supporting the work of the...