About the program: The Women's Civic Club of Cleveland Heights has been providing scholarships to Cleveland Heights High School graduates for many years. In 2006, the group established an endowed scholarship fund at the Cleveland Foundation and asked that the foundation assume the responsibility for administering the scholarship...
Purpose: To support and encourage the formal education of African-American male speech pathologists.
About the Fund: The scholarship honors the lifetime contributions of Lamont S. Johnson and was conceived after Lamont’s sudden passing in 2008 and formally established in 2012. The fund was seeded by contributions from his parents...
Purpose: Since 1948, the Cleveland Women’s City Club Foundation has awarded more than $400,000 in grants to nonprofit organizations and institutions in Greater Cleveland. Its mission is to provide educational, cultural, and social projects and programs that benefit the general public. Some of the grants have gone to Women's City...
Purpose: The Ohio Laborers Future Leaders of America Scholarship is for dependent children of members of local affiliates of Laborers’ District Council of Ohio.
Eligibility:
Must be a child (whether natural, adopted, stepchild, or grandchild) of an active member in good standing
Enrolled or plan to be enrolled full-time in a...
Purpose: To provide scholarships for African-American vocal students who are U.S. citizens and pursuing graduate-level study in vocal performance or music education, with an emphasis on voice. Candidates must be committed to preserving the art form of Negro spiritual singing as exemplified by Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson...
Purpose: To enhance scholarship opportunities for persons with mental challenges who aspire and have the potential to succeed in undertaking college/university course work at either the undergraduate or graduate level. The program is intended to offer scholarship grants annually to persons selected by a committee for...
Charles D. Whitmer, a business owner in Greater Cleveland, learned at an early age the value of working, saving and investing his earnings. His father encouraged him, as early as the age of 10, to save a portion of his paper route earnings. Today, his endeavors have paid off the way he had hoped. The hard work of rising at 4 a.m., loading...
Ohio Local News Initiative Taps Local Innovator to Lead Cleveland Newsroom
With $6M raised, the statewide network will launch a newsroom in Cleveland, is joining forces with Cleveland Documenters
Release Date: 4.19.2022
CLEVELAND — After a five-month open search, the Ohio Local News Initiative, a new nonprofit organization that has...
Purpose: To provide scholarship support for graduating seniors from Shaker Heights High School (must have attended SHHS for at least two years) who have a 2.0 or higher GPA, and have been accepted at a qualified educational institution. Two letters of recommendation (one from an SHHS teacher) as well as an essay are also requested...
By Cameron Aloway, Cleveland Foundation Marketing & Communications Intern
At the Cleveland Foundation, we strive to build and unify our community through giving to establish significant connections with our neighbors. With the development of the Cleveland Black Futures Fund (CBFF), the foundation was able to give $1.9 million to 49...