Jack Ulman

Jack Ulman Jack Ulman knew from an early age that you don’t need to be a John D. Rockefeller or a Bill Gates to make a sizable impact. The retired Bedford High School teacher, who has been spreading his generosity across multiple beloved Cleveland institutions, remembers visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child with his mother...

#OurCGStories: Jason Weiner

#OurCGStories blog series highlights Cleveland Foundation staff who participated in our Common Ground day of community conversation on June 30.  In today's blog, we hear from Jason Weiner, Donor Relations Officer. On Common Ground day, Jason hosted "Plastic Surgery: Cutting Plastic Out of Your Life" at Distill Table in Lakewood. Here’s...

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...

Dreams of Istanbul children

Monday, April 13, 2009 A delicate third-grade girl wanted to know if we knew anything about NASA. She wanted to become an astronaut. Her classmate, a vocal young man wearing the blue and white sweater of the school uniform, asked if we knew anything about archeology. He once found part of an ostrich egg and decided he would become an...

Summer of Purpose: Mohamed Manaa

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 Mohamed Manaa, who spent his summer at Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless where he developed a...

Summer of Purpose: Kerrigan Ponsart

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 Kerrigan Ponsart, who spent her summer at May Dugan Center, where she worked with their food distribution...

Bob and Sally Gries

Reflecting on an impactful journey ‘centering’ philanthropy Bob and Sally Gries have collaborated to help enhance the quality of life in our region through decades of service and philanthropy   (This article originally appeared in the foundation's Summer 2023 issue of its Gift of Giving publication.) Bob and Sally Gries were...