We’re thrilled to announce $9.9 million in September grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! This takes the foundation’s third-quarter grantmaking total to $21.1 million, bringing the yearly investment in Greater Cleveland to $62.9 million.Many of our grants this month concentrated on education...
Cleveland Foundation announces $9.9 million in September grantsBoard approves $21.1 million for Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga nonprofits in Q3 2017 RELEASE DATE: 09.27.207CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today approved $9.9 million in grants for the month of September. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and...
May Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day on Wade Oval
May 24 will be the first free Saturday for Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Western Reserve Historical Society
Includes special free programming at the always-free Cleveland Museum of Art
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Minority Arts and Education Fund announces 2019 grant recipients
More than $350,000 awarded to 34 minority-led organizations to assist with capacity building
Release Date: 2.28.2019
CLEVELAND – The City of Cleveland’s Cable Television Minority Arts and Education Fund (MAEF), a supporting organization of the Cleveland Foundation...
Cleveland Foundation president & CEO Ronn Richard announces plans to retire in second half of 2023
Release Date: 01.12.2023
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CLEVELAND – Cleveland Foundation president & CEO Ronn Richard has informed the organization’s board of directors that he intends to retire in the second half of 2023...
Ohio Local News Initiative Taps Local Innovator to Lead Cleveland Newsroom
With $6M raised, the statewide network will launch a newsroom in Cleveland, is joining forces with Cleveland Documenters
Release Date: 4.19.2022
CLEVELAND — After a five-month open search, the Ohio Local News Initiative, a new nonprofit organization that has...
Fearless Stories About Lynching, Resilience, the Rise of Xenophobia and a Black Family Heirloom Have All Won the 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Release Date: 4.5.2022
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2022 recipients of the only national juried...
Food. Medicine. Shelter. A number of organizations here in Greater Cleveland and around the world are coordinating relief efforts to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding from the war in Ukraine. And generous donors are responding. See our list below for more information and a pathway for direct giving. In this time of dire need, your...
Local coalition, working with American Journalism Project, raises over $5.8M to launch nonprofit newsroom in Cleveland
Independent newsroom in Cleveland to launch in 2022, producing daily, high-quality, community-oriented journalism as part of a new statewide network of newsrooms across Ohio
Release Date: 11.9.2021
CLEVELAND – A...
For many, the impacts of COVID-19 are felt closest to home. But as soon as the pandemic began to spread last spring, the 300-plus colleagues at The Riverside Company had a clear sense of the crisis on a wider scale. Representatives from the global investment management firm’s 14 offices reported in regularly on the toll the virus was...