September Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $9.9 million in September grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! This takes the foundation’s third-quarter grantmaking total to $21.1 million, bringing the yearly investment in Greater Cleveland to $62.9 million.Many of our grants this month concentrated on education...

Cleveland Foundation announces $9.9 million in September grants

Cleveland Foundation announces $9.9 million in September grantsBoard approves $21.1 million for Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga nonprofits in Q3 2017 RELEASE DATE: 09.27.207CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today approved $9.9 million in grants for the month of September. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and...

May Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day on Wade Oval

May Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day on Wade Oval May 24 will be the first free Saturday for Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Western Reserve Historical Society Includes special free programming at the always-free Cleveland Museum of Art Download the Cleveland Foundation Day on Wade...

Summer of Purpose: Shaela Hayes

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns, who spent 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog we hear from Shaela Hayes, who worked with Towards Employment, Inc. to support the organization’s advocacy agenda in two areas: career...

Summer of Purpose: Joey Leppo

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 Joey Leppo, who spent his summer at the Cleveland Foundation helping track and organize project elements and...

Cleveland Black Futures Fund

Click Here to Give to the Cleveland Black Futures Fund Since its inception in 2020, the Cleveland Black Futures Fund has granted a total of $6.5 million to invest in and strengthen Black-led and Black-serving nonprofits.   updated sept. 3, 2024, 9 A.m. EST About the Fund In 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, we bore...

Charles Hildreth Kelso Scholarship

Purpose: to implement the Charles Hildreth Kelso Scholarship Fund, which will allocate annually, two (2) scholarships in the amount of One-Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each to a deserving African American graduating senior student from Glenville High School and Collinwood High School, both of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District...

Angry at the arts: It’s the American way

“An artist with an instrument is every bit as 'shovel-ready' as a potential new highway. In fact, without some help maintaining jobs in culture in, say, struggling downtown Cleveland, there is one fewer reason to build another way to get there.” So says Chris Jones, theater critic for the Chicago Tribune, in his Feb. 9 blog post. As...