Alzada Singleton Davis Scholarship

Purpose:  To provide scholarship support for an African-American female sophomore at Cuyahoga Community College’s Metropolitan Campus who has demonstrated academic excellence in the humanities (excluding education or physical sciences) and is matriculating to an upper-division college or university. Selection decisions are based on...

Summer of Purpose: Elizabeth Keller

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 Elizabeth Keller, who spent her summer at the Literacy Cooperative, where she supported the Dolly Parton...

2017 Common Ground History

Everyone wants a seat at the table. Common Ground offers the ability to take a seat – or to set the table for others – and participate in community conversations designed to encourage and foster new connections. Common Ground challenges individuals, organizations and community leaders to build, join and share conversations across our...

Celebrating three years of Say Yes Cleveland

Jan. 18, 2019 was a historic day for our community as Cleveland was officially named as the fourth Say Yes to Education community-wide chapter in the nation. With this announcement came the promise of holistic support – including tuition scholarships and wraparound support services – for students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School...

Reflecting on Transgender Day of Remembrance

By Bri Oldham, Cleveland Foundation Equity Communications and Engagement Fellow Transgender Awareness Week is the week leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual observance on Nov. 20 that honors the memory of transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. This is typically a time when...