Purpose: To advance education by providing scholarship support for African-American graduating seniors of Glenville High School.
About the Fund: The Boyd Family Scholarship is being established by the children of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Boyd to continue their parents' legacy of faith, education, and working and giving.
About Clarence...
By Cameron Aloway, Cleveland Foundation Marketing & Communications Intern
Love and acceptance filled the streets of Greater Cleveland as the city commemorated Pride in the CLE in person for the first time since 2019. Every June, the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland organizes a march and hosts a free festival to advance...
By Briana Oldham, Cleveland Foundation Equity Communications and Engagement Fellow
They say experience is life’s greatest teacher. For Karen Murray, an Adult Reference Associate at East Cleveland Public Library (ECPL), the theme of helping and learning is a reoccurring one. Murray has participated in Common Ground since...
Careers and Culture at the Foundation
The Cleveland Foundation strives to attract, develop and retain the most talented individuals as a part of our team. We are highly committed to providing a work environment that supports these efforts through our values-based culture, competitive pay, exceptional benefits, developmental...
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 Megan Fleisher, who spent her summer at Oh Sew Powerful Inc. where she helped to further develop their board and...
Cleveland Foundation announces $26.2 million in Q2 2020 grantmaking
Foundation, donors grant more than $58 million year-to-date
Release Date: 6.30.2020
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today announced $26.2 million in grants approved in the second quarter of 2020. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and...
Too often I hear from those outside the nonprofit sector complaining that arts organizations are always in trouble because they don’t know how to run things like a business. I would challenge any businessperson to stay in business if: Every year you must invent and produce a whole new product line that has not been market-tested (five...
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, 2018-19 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow Courtney Hutchinson talks about her year-long experience working...
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...
Yesterday we announced the winners of the 82nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity. Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Dr. Henry Louis Gates delivered the big news at the 2017 F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture at Case Western Reserve University last...