Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they spend 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog we hear from Audra Mahon, who is spending her summer working at Eliza Bryant Village, where she is supporting the work of the...
By Cameron Aloway, Cleveland Foundation Marketing & Communications Intern
The past year demonstrated the power faith holds in binding our communities together. We at the Cleveland Foundation acknowledge that faith is integral in instilling hope within our neighborhoods, and many faith-based organizations deliver vital services and...
We’re thrilled to announce $13.8 million in June grants to organizations serving residents of Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. This latest round of grants brings our total support to $22.9 million in the second quarter of 2018. Our June grants align with a number of priority areas, including economic and workforce development, youth...
This month we kicked off our mastery-based arts initiative with a $500,000 grant to Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT), to expand their successful Brick City Theatre program for Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) kids. This new grant highlights our focus on providing access to mastery-based arts programs for underserved young...
I just returned from conferencing and vacationing in the Southwest. While there, I got a jolt when someone mentioned that Taos, N.M., had recently celebrated its TRI-centennial. That’s 300 years to Cleveland’s 200-plus-a-few. We forget – or at least I hadn’t thought much – about how this country was settled by historic...
Greetings, and welcome to what I intend to become a regular sharing of ideas and information from my world to yours. My world is complex and so the sharing may take many forms, but mostly I will focus on issues relating to the Cleveland Foundation and the arts - writ large.
Being a generally optimistic person, even in situations that...
Cleveland Foundation announces $15.6 million in fourth-quarter grants
Foundation awards a record total of $95 million in grants in its centennial year
RELEASE DATE: 12.19.2014
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today approved $15.6 million in grants for the fourth quarter of 2014. These latest grants bring the...
Cleveland Foundation announces $13.8 million in March grantsBoard approves $22.2 million for Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga nonprofits in Q1 2018 Release Date: 3.19.2018CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today approved $13.8 million in grants for the month of March. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga...
Time does fly. We are in week ten of the Cleveland Foundation's 2012 summer internship program and I have three reflections to share. First, this year's class is a smart, capable and likeable bunch.
Second, they have made an impact on their host site organizations. Some of the projects include the ambitious 60 blogs in 60 days at New...