Kathryn Terrell

216.685.2007 | Email kTerrell [Enable Javascript to send an email] Kate Terrell joined the Cleveland Foundation in June 2019 and currently serves as a Program Officer focusing on projects related to health and human services. Prior to joining the Foundation, Kate spent nearly a decade working with and for out-of-school time programs...

Losing Sight of the Shore*

No, this isn’t about lakefront preservation. It’s about the arts. It’s about how Cleveland’s cultural community must venture into uncharted waters to find the new and next generation of individuals needed to maintain our remarkable cultural sector’s strength and excellence. On June 6, the Community Partnership for Arts and...

Winnovation

My first issues of Arts Journal for the year arrived, and the two top articles in the "Ideas" section dealt with the role of jargon in the field of arts and arts grantmaking. Judith Dobrzynski (yes, she’s related to our own Marsha Dobrzynski of Young Audiences) talks about "Inventional Wisdom," a term coined at the Massachusetts...

Cleveland Foundation approves $17 million in Q3 grants

Cleveland Foundation approves $17 million in Q3 grants Foundation, donors grant more than $72 million in 2019 year-to-date RELEASE DATE: 9.27.2019 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today announced $17 million in grants approved in the third quarter of 2019. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga...

Evaluation is Not a Thing: It is a Way

I just returned from a very meaty and reflective meeting on the role of evaluation in philanthropy (NOT as dry a subject as it may sound!). It was organized by the Evaluation Roundtable, a program of the Foundation Center to improve philanthropy. The Roundtable was held in Baltimore, at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, headquartered there...