How I Spent My Summer: Thomas Corrigan

One of the founding principles of the Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its Cleveland replication NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology is that environment shapes behavior. When we dismiss people as victims they internalize it. Poverty and despair become self-fulfilling prophecies when we allow individuals to succumb to...

Announcing the host sites for the 2024-25 Public Service Fellowship!

Seventeen fellows will be placed across 11 organizations including the City of Cleveland, the Cleveland Foundation as part of the marketing and communications team, Cuyahoga County, Greater Cleveland Partnership, and seven community development corporations serving neighborhoods across the city.   The City of Cleveland will host a...

The Rev. Dr. Robin Hedgeman

Appointed 2019 by the Bank Trustees Committee Rev. Dr. Hedgeman has served as the Senior Pastor at Bethany Christian Church since 1997. In this capacity, Dr. Hedgeman has focused her congregation on a community-centered approach, including the development of a summer enrichment program for youth that provides participants with reading...

The Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship Program – Class of 2009

Please join us in extending a hearty congratulations to some of Cleveland's best and brightest. The Class of 2009 is the 10th batch of interns to come through the Cleveland Foundation's summer internship program. Alison Baranowski, a graduate student of Case Western Reserve University, will be placed at the Greater Cleveland Film...

Water Worries and Other Disappointments

What worries me is that Cleveland has been so deeply and painfully branded as a rust belt city and our collective consciousness has been bound to such an image of failure for so long that we will not free ourselves from it in my lifetime.    I had always hoped to retire into downtown Cleveland.  Surely, I thought, when a struggling...

Sally Gries elected Chairperson of the Cleveland Foundation Board of Directors

Sally Gries elected Chairperson of the Cleveland Foundation Board of Directors Kathleen Ferry and Rev. Dr. Robin E. Hedgeman appointed as new board members Release Date: 4.8.2019 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the election of a new chairperson and the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors. A...

Cleveland Foundation announces $13.1 million in grants

Cleveland Foundation announces $13.1 million in grants Education, economic development, new career and technical education strategy, among highlights of third-quarter grantmaking rELEASE DATE: 9.29.2014 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors announced  $13.1 million in grants for the third quarter of 2014. More than...

Creative Fusion

Since 2008, the Cleveland Foundation has brought more than 90 accomplished or rapidly rising artists from around the world to Cleveland as part of the Creative Fusion international arts residency program. Beginning in 2016, the program strengthened collaboration between local Cleveland artists and the visiting artists by focusing each...

2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners include stories that navigate racial politics’ influence on Asian-American identity, Indigenous people’s shaping of American history, and race at the intersection of art and history

Cleveland, OH (March 26, 2024) – The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by the Cleveland Foundation, today announced the winners of the 89th annual awards. The 2024 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity are: Maxine Hong Kingston, Lifetime Achievement Ned...