What We Talk about When We Talk About Middle Neighborhoods

By Nelson Beckford, Program Director, Neighborhood Revitalization and Engagement  This blog was originally published on www.MiddleNeighborhoods.org.   Think about curb cuts for a minute. Fifty years ago, wheelchair users found it difficult to navigate city streets because of the sharp sidewalk drop-offs making it impossible to travel...

Summer of Purpose: Marissa-Ann Pappas

During orientation, Cleveland Foundation Program Officer Stephen Love cautioned the 2016 summer intern cohort about how quickly our internship experiences would fly by. He was right. Six purposeful weeks are behind us already and here we are, thoughtfully completing our midterm evaluations and contemplating how to wring the most value...

Ronn Richard panelist on U.S.-Cuba relations

Cleveland Foundation President and CEO Ronn Richard was a panelist this week at The City Club of Cleveland’s “The Case for Opening Cuba” discussion.The panel hosted local voices on U.S. relations with Cuba, and the role Ohio can play as policies evolve. Panelists were joined by Luke Albee, senior advisor to Engage Cuba, a coalition...

April Grant Highlights

We’re pleased to let you know that our board of directors has approved $4.1 million in grants for the month of April. These grants support a variety of programs and services across Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.Here are a few highlights:Greater Cleveland Food Bank:16% of the 247,000 local residents served annually by the Greater...

Going digital

If you haven’t already heard the news, our region has a new ally in the effort to develop a thriving tech-driven ecosystem in Greater Cleveland. It’s a nonprofit called DigitalC that will work to solve pressing community problems with innovative technology, and help Greater Cleveland and other communities across the county build...

Summer of Purpose: Olivia Milne

It’s the third week of the Cleveland Foundation’s Summer Internship Program, and I’m writing from here at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. There’s been a lot to do in these first few weeks, and they’ve certainly kept me busy.I work in the Development and Communications department of Legal Aid, and mainly I’ve been promoting...

Summer of Purpose: Johanna Tomsick

Not all nonprofits are created equal. From small, grassroots organizations to massive private universities, any number of odd and different organizations have come together under the umbrella of “nonprofit.” In the past three weeks, working with an organization on the smaller end of the scale, I’ve noticed a few common threads...

Cleveland Foundation announces $12.7 million in July grants

Cleveland Foundation announces $12.7 million in July grants   RELEASE DATE: 7.31.2015 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors has approved $12.7 million in grants for the month of July.  A focus of the foundation’s July funding is youth development. “We’re pleased many of our grants this month support new...

2016 Grantmaking in Lake & Geauga Counties

We are happy to announce a total of $741,781 in fourth-quarter grants to Lake and Geauga nonprofit organizations, bringing the foundation’s 2016 grantmaking total in those two counties to $2.5 million.*Among the Lake and Geauga grants approved this quarter:$73,000 to Crossroads: Lake County Adolescent Counseling Service to support...