October Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $3.7 million in October grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! Many of our grants this month concentrated on the arts and social services. Just a few highlights include:Social Services:$40,800 to the Lake County Free Clinic (LCFC), the only free clinic in Northeast Ohio...

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...

#SummerOfPurpose: Armin Ameri

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 Armin Ameri, who is working with the Refugee Response, where he works in close cooperation with the Director of Education...

Behind the Grant: Seeds of Literacy

Guest blog post from Seeds of LiteracyDid you read the latest election coverage? For that, thank your literacy skills.When your child was sick, could you measure 1.5 teaspoons of cough syrup to help her feel better? High-five those literacy skills again.When we say that 84% of adults in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood on Cleveland’s east...

Meet our 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners!

Yesterday we announced the winners of the 82nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity. Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Dr. Henry Louis Gates delivered the big news at the 2017 F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture at Case Western Reserve University last...

Meet the Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellows!

It’s official – we’re excited to introduce the inaugural cohort of Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellows! After a nationwide search that attracted 110 applicants from 19 states and 50 universities, nine recent college graduates were selected. Beginning in September, the fellows will be paired with six Greater Cleveland public...

#CLEPublicService: Meet the 2018-19 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellows

We're excited to introduce you to the 2018-19 cohort of Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellows! After a nationwide search that attracted nearly 100 applications from 18 states, and representing 58 colleges and universities, nine individuals have been selected for this year's fellowship. In September, these fellows will begin their...

#CLExHAV: Behind the Scenes of the Cleveland Havana Ballet

Building on a collaboration that began as part of our spring 2017 Creative Fusion: Cuba Edition international artist residency, Verb Ballets of Cleveland and ProDanza of Havana have taken their partnership a step further to form the Cleveland Havana Ballet, a temporary merging of the two companies to produce the full-length Cuban ballet...