We’re thrilled to announce $6.8 million in July grants to organizations serving residents of Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. Here are just a few highlights in the areas of music, health, environment, education, aging and neighborhoods:
$195,000 to Cleveland Leadership Center supporting the launch of “Advancing Cleveland,”...
The Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship offers emerging young leaders the skills and networks needed to create the community they envision and jumpstart a career in public service. In our #FellowFriday weekly blog series, hear from members of the 2016-17 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship cohort about their...
Last week we celebrated the inaugural Cleveland Book Week (CBW), a series of special events to celebrate Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners past and present, and showcase people and organizations working to promote literature and literacy in Greater Cleveland. Throughout the week, in coordination with a number of community partners, we...
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...
Rather than "How to move a store," this blog should be titled "Why move a store?" When Creative Fusion artist Cristián Schmitt came to Cleveland from his home in Santiago, Chile, in April this year, he saw much to inspire him in creating new work. Cristián is an architect-designer with a passion for finding solutions for distressed...
Curating the Fine Art of Giving
As art collectors with an eye for impressionist masterpieces and other European art, early 20th century Clevelanders Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn enjoyed meeting with New York art dealers at their home in Gates Mills. With each purchase, they were curating Cleveland history and laying the...
Once again we are privileged to welcome an amazing group of international artists into our community. Clustered from two geographical locations - South America and Eastern Europe - these six artists have already formed a strong bond with each other and with aspects of the Cleveland art scene. As you will see from their first few weeks...
Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $238,000 in eighth cycle of Phase II grantmaking
Fund stands at more than $3.5 million to support frontline nonprofit organizations in Greater Cleveland
Release Date: 2.23.2021
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund coalition announced today the most recent...
This week, community members gathered for the “Future Cleveland” panel discussion at The City Club of Cleveland. If you missed it, you can still watch or listen to the conversation.Panelists explored the kind of future we want for Cleveland. Our region’s core city is makingbig improvements, but there is still much work to be done...
Summer is here in the C-L-E, and it’s never felt quite this good. We witnessed the Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA Championship in historic fashion, and my summer internship with FutureHeights is off to a great start!FutureHeights, Cleveland Heights’ own civic engagement nonprofit, works to create a vibrant and sustainable future...