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...
Partners announce latest round of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients
Release Date: 5.1.2020
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund coalition announced today its latest round of grants to support the nonprofit community, which continues to face unprecedented challenges during the...
Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announces latest round of grants
Partners award more than $220,000 in fourth cycle of Phase II grantmaking
Release Date: 12.22.2020
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund coalition announced today the most recent round of biweekly grants to support the nonprofit...
An important new RAND report titled "State Arts Policy: Trends and Future Prospects" outlines new thinking and approaches being adopted by some state arts agencies (SAA's) to position themselves effectively in the changing political environment. The new thinking involves a shift in purpose and mission for these agencies, which were...
Partners announce fifth week of Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund grant recipients
Community gifts exceed $8 million, while grants total nearly $3.3 million in support of frontline nonprofit organizations
Release Date: 4.24.2020
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund coalition announced today its...
Cleveland Foundation announces $5.9 million in June grants
Board approval brings second-quarter total to $24 million for Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga nonprofits
Release Date: 7.10.2019
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today announced $5.9 million in grants for the month of June. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga...
We’re delighted to kick off 2018 with a great first month of grantmaking! In January we made a variety of grants – totaling nearly $3.4 million – to organizations serving residents of Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. Here are just a few highlights:$14,580 to A Kid at Art for the Heart to allow underserved children in Lake County...
Executive Coordinator: Emma Mobert, 216.615.7141
Leon Wilson joined the foundation in October 2015 as the Chief of Digital Innovation & Chief Information Officer in a dual role capacity. In this dual role, Leon is part of the executive committee and leads the foundation’s Information & Technology Services department, focusing...
The 2012 class of the Cleveland Foundation Summer Intern program is a smart, energetic and eclectic bunch. Each week, you will hear about their experiences, thoughts and reflections about their host organizations, the nonprofit sector and Cleveland. Stay tuned. But for now, let me introduce them to you.
Zachary Barley
A junior at...
What worries me is that Cleveland has been so deeply and painfully branded as a rust belt city and our collective consciousness has been bound to such an image of failure for so long that we will not free ourselves from it in my lifetime. I had always hoped to retire into downtown Cleveland. Surely, I thought, when a struggling...