How I Spent My Summer: Seerat Bahniwal

Improving education for children is one of my passions as a student at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. It's also a focus of STEM, an educational program bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to the urban school systems of Ohio. As a part of my internship with the...

Working Together to Address the Nursing Shortage in Ohio

We’ve all heard the sobering statistics about the shortage of nurses: 40 percent of Ohio’s practicing nurses expect to leave the field in the next 10 years – a shortfall of nearly 32,000 registered nurses by 2020. At the same time, an educational bottleneck has resulted from an insufficient and diminishing pool of faculty to teach...

Advice From Grantees

A discussion of hashtags needs to start with a discussion of Twitter. I first blogged about Twitter in early 2009 (see post). Since that time more and more nonprofits and foundations have started using it (including @CleveFoundation). On the other hand, many folks are still shunning this technology. One of the benefits I’ve discovered...

How I Spent My Summer: Nick Borchers

As over 250 young professionals departed Edgewater Park for BVU’s Summer of Service event, BVU’s mission of “linking businesses and nonprofits to foster excellence in the nonprofit sector” was running through my mind. Interns and young professionals from 26 different organizations (including the Cleveland Foundation...

Economic & Workforce Development

The Cleveland Foundation works to strengthen Greater Cleveland’s economy, with an emphasis on the core city, to ensure equitable economic opportunities for all residents. Cleveland Innovation Project  An aligned effort to foster innovation and strengthen technology-based economic growth and prosperity for all Greater Cleveland...