Get to know Old Brooklyn with Jeff Verespej

Jeff Verespej, former executive director of the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation, gives us a tour of neighborhood treasures in this guest blog.   If you were born in Old Brooklyn like I was, or visiting for the first time, the highlight reel is well known. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is the No. 1 tourism destination...

#BlackFuturesFundCLE: Finding the Value in Education

By Cameron Aloway, Cleveland Foundation Marketing & Communications Intern   The Cleveland Foundation is proud to announce the second round of grantmaking for the Cleveland Black Futures Fund. In the second round of funding, monetary grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 will be available, in addition to a limited number of...

How Can Nonprofits Avoid or Address Financial Emergencies?

A great look at what nonprofits can do to help solve their money woes: 10 resources from the Foundation Center: 1. It is critical that your organization develop and closely monitor a sound fundraising plan that includes detailed outlines for securing a diverse array of support and revenue. Learn how at our free class, webinar...

Darryl Bradley

216.615.7150 | Email dBradley [Enable Javascript to send an email] In his role as Facilities Maintenance Technician, Darryl works closely with the Building Operations and Guest Services team. His primary duties include work-order management and reporting, oversight of facilities maintenance, monitoring staff requests, and overall...

The disease of nostalgia

On Feb. 24 at the Idea Center, Mohsin Hamid, a Pakistani writer and 2008 winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, came back to Cleveland to speak on "Literature, Pakistan and 'The West.'" The lecture was part of the annual series co-sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation and the Baker-Nord Center for Humanities at Case Western Reserve...

Renting audiences

It was not until I read the latest issue of the Wolf-Brown consulting firm’s newsletter that I encountered the concept of “renting an audience.” But according to Matt Lehrman, executive director of Alliance for Audience of Phoenix, this is what so many arts organizations are trying to do when they use advertising to attract new...

Philanthropy and civil society

Originally posted to this blog: 3/4/08 While preparing a talk to faculty and students of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University recently, I ran across a 2004 issue of the journal The READER. The journal is published by Grantmakers in the Arts, a national association of professional arts...

Creative Fusion Update: Kuen-lin Tsai

For three months, beginning in September, six international artists created, collaborated and engaged with the Greater Cleveland community through our Creative Fusion international-artist-in-residence program. Hailing from Chile, Iran, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, the artists in the Creative Fusion 2015 fall class were in residency at...