Summer of Purpose: Understanding the Justice System

By Maria RamosCuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office What is the first law of thermodynamics? The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. To your everyday science major, the definition of the first law of thermodynamics is a typical test question. We have been well trained to spit out these...

How I Spent My Summer: Kachi Udeoji

Opera Cleveland was born in 2006 out of the amalgamation of two Cleveland-based nonprofit arts organizations with similar missions. The Lyric Opera of Cleveland and Cleveland Opera both had a mission of enriching the communities of Northeast Ohio by staging operatic productions that attract youthful and seasoned performers to Cleveland...

#SummerOfPurpose: Cristina Burris Proano

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 Cristina Burris Proano, who spent her summer working at MAGNET where she supported the scaling of the Early College, Early...

2016 Grantmaking in Lake & Geauga Counties

We are happy to announce a total of $741,781 in fourth-quarter grants to Lake and Geauga nonprofit organizations, bringing the foundation’s 2016 grantmaking total in those two counties to $2.5 million.*Among the Lake and Geauga grants approved this quarter:$73,000 to Crossroads: Lake County Adolescent Counseling Service to support...

5 Smart Ways to Maximize Your Donor-Advised Fund

Guest blog by Cleveland Foundation Senior Vice President of Advancement Kaye Ridolfi Donor-advised funds have become a universally popular tool in charitable giving, and with good reason! With careful planning they can bring you great tax savings, flexibility and the benefit of centralizing your charitable dollars in one convenient...

Summer of Purpose: Olivia Milne

It’s the third week of the Cleveland Foundation’s Summer Internship Program, and I’m writing from here at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. There’s been a lot to do in these first few weeks, and they’ve certainly kept me busy.I work in the Development and Communications department of Legal Aid, and mainly I’ve been promoting...

Darryl Bradley

216.615.7150 | Email dBradley [Enable Javascript to send an email] In his role as Facilities Maintenance Technician, Darryl works closely with the Building Operations and Guest Services team. His primary duties include work-order management and reporting, oversight of facilities maintenance, monitoring staff requests, and overall...

Ohio City – but not the one you think

This past Monday, I spent a very stimulating 90 minutes with the folks at Glazen Creative Studios brainstorming ways to engage the local population’s pride and confidence in the city and the region. These were sincere, smart, and committed folks who cannot understand why the locals are so down on their own community. First there was...

Get to know Old Brooklyn with Jeff Verespej

Jeff Verespej, former executive director of the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation, gives us a tour of neighborhood treasures in this guest blog.   If you were born in Old Brooklyn like I was, or visiting for the first time, the highlight reel is well known. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is the No. 1 tourism destination...