Summer of Purpose: Maddie Schwartz

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 Maddie Schwartz, who spent her summer at FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, where...

Creating A Charitable Legacy

Planning Today to Give Tomorrow A planned gift is a charitable donation created in a donor's lifetime but not available to the Cleveland Foundation until sometime in the future. Types of planned gifts include:   Bequest by Will A bequest to the Cleveland Foundation is the simplest means for providing for the future of the community...

Cleveland Women’s City Club Foundation Scholarship

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...

Summer of Purpose: Catherine Galla

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 Catherine Galla, who spent her summer at Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation assisting with...

Summer of Purpose: Diane Frangulea

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 Diane Frangulea, who spent her summer at LEAP (Linking Employment, Abilities and Potential), where she supported...

Charles D. Whitmer Fund Scholarship

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...

Jack Rumbaugh Scholarship

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...

Women’s Civic Club of Cleveland Heights Scholarship

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...

How We Help Professional Advisors

Your Partner in Client Service As a professional advisor, you are privileged to work with your clients at key times in their lives, whether they are engaged in retirement, estate or tax planning. In these moments, you are in a unique position to learn about your clients’ passions and interests, including their charitable...