Summer of Purpose: Kerrigan Ponsart

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 Kerrigan Ponsart, who spent her summer at May Dugan Center, where she worked with their food distribution...

Summer of Purpose: Tate Farinacci

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 Tate Farinacci, who's spending his summer at Cleveland VOTES supporting their civic engagement efforts.   ...

Academic learning pods help Cleveland students learn remotely

Academic learning pods help Cleveland students learn remotely Coalition of partners including Cleveland Foundation and United Way of Greater Cleveland lead project to safely connect academically vulnerable students with small group, in-person support for virtual learning and tutoring Release Date: 9.14.2020 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland...

Summer of Purpose: Haley Marblestone

Before starting my internship at the Cleveland Health Tech Corridor (HTC), I knew little about the organization. I had done my research and knew the facts, but still didn’t grasp what the nonprofit was all about. What exactly is a business incubator? How does the HTC geography fit in with the mission of the Corridor? How might I...

Summer of Purpose: Community Values Not Lost in Translation

By Erin AmschlingerStockyard, Clark-Fulton & Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office I never had cable TV as a kid so, when morning cartoons ended for the day, pickings were pretty slim for what to watch. I used to flick through our eight channel choices and inevitably stop when I landed on the Spanish one. I didn’t speak a...

Summer of Purpose: An Environment of Self-Discovery

By Maggie StarkHolden Arboretum This was certainly not the summer I expected. Road trip, backpack, plane, train or walk if I had to escape; the only thing on my mind was the six months of loan deferment I had left between graduation and entry in the real world.  The last 10 weeks involved no escape, yet they offered me far more of a...

Apply Now to Host 2015 Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns

The summer of 2015 will be the 16th year of the Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship program. The program is based on a simple, yet effective recipe: connect undergraduate and graduate students with meaningful work-related projects in Cleveland-area nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies. We are looking for projects that...