Launched in 2013 by the Cleveland Foundation, Encore Cleveland helps to connect and fund a network of organizations that provide experienced Greater Clevelanders an array of meaningful opportunities in the community upon retirement or near the end of their primary careers. In our “Spotlight Encore Cleveland” guest blog series, we go...
For seventeen years, the Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship program has stayed true to its goal of connecting undergraduate and graduate students with meaningful, career-related experiences in nonprofit and public sector agencies. The program adds value to the agencies by recruiting the talent and providing funding to pay the interns...
Earlier this month, we were thrilled to visit the Cleveland Print Room to see the opening reception of Multiple Exposure, a year-round, after school photography program and arts workshop for middle and high school students in the city of Cleveland. The program helps participants express creativity through photography via access to instant...
Gay Games Makes History, Donates Nearly $150,000 to Northeast Ohio LGBT Funds
Most-profitable Games ever gives $120,000 to new fund at Cleveland Foundation and $27,000 to Akron’s Gay Community Endowment Fund
release date: 2.19.2015
CLEVELAND+AKRON, Ohio – The ninth Gay Games were the most profitable in its 32-year history...
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 John Brett, who is working with Chagrin River Watershed Partners, where he supports the assessment of stream and wetland...
Applications for the 2024-2025 Public Service Fellowship Program are currently being reviewed and will continue to be accepted for consideration through March 18, 2024.
Details on Eligibility & How to Apply:
Applicants must be:
College graduates who earned their undergraduate degrees between spring 2020 and spring 2024 or...
Community Foundation Atlas Now Available: Most Comprehensive Dataset About Community Foundations Just Published
As field celebrates a century of impact, nearly three-quarters of community foundations were created in the last 25 years
RELEASE DATE: 10.20.2014
CLEVELAND - Today at the 2014 Fall Conference for Community Foundations, an...
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...
Purpose: Established in 2013, the Covia Aspire Scholarship of the Cleveland Foundation provides support to eligible employee dependents who desire to seek post-secondary education or training for a recognized credential. As such, the award encourages the career “aspirations” of promising young people in the Covia family.
Employees of...
The Cleveland Foundation recently issued a survey asking for feedback about our process for applying for grants. It is part of our ongoing commitment to listening to the grantee community and in recognition of implementing a new system later this year. We appreciate your positive feedback and suggestions for how we can improve!
Overall...