This month marks one year since life in Greater Cleveland was upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past 12 months, the challenges have been profound; lives and livelihoods have been lost, and deep-seated disparities across nearly every measure of wellbeing in our community have widened. In the midst of all of this, we have also seen...
UPDATED Dec. 17, 2021, 3 P.M. EST
Dear Friends,
The well-being of the Greater Cleveland community has been our focus for more than a century. During that time, our community has faced a number of serious challenges: from the 1918 Influenza pandemic to the HIV epidemic – from the Great Depression to the Great Recession. Through it all...
Creating Pathways to Careers in the Nonprofit and Public Sectors
The Cleveland Foundation has conducted a summer internship program since 1999 that provides talented and diverse undergraduate students, recent college graduates, and first-year graduate students an opportunity to work within Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector...
Now in its 24th year, the Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship Program provides talented and diverse undergraduate students and recent college graduates an opportunity to work within Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations during a paid summer internship. If your organization could use increased staff capacity for the...
Lillian Kuri promoted to Cleveland Foundation executive vice president and chief operating officer
14-year veteran of the foundation will move into newly created role on March 1
Release Date: 2.26.2021
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced that, effective March 1, 2021, Lillian Kuri will be promoted to the newly...
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 Joey Leppo, who spent his summer at the Cleveland Foundation helping track and organize project elements and...
The Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship offers emerging young leaders the skills and networks needed to create the community they envision and jumpstart a career in public service. In this #FellowFriday blog, 2019-20 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow Marsalis Hammons talks about his fellowship experience working...
Common Ground, a celebration of community conversation, brings people across Northeast Ohio together each year to talk about topics that matter to them and their communities. With support from the Cleveland Foundation and our partners, people and organizations across Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties sign up to host events of their own...
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Leta Obertacz brings 20 years of fundraising experience to The Cleveland Foundation as the Senior Vice President of Philanthropy. Leading strategy for growth of new donors and stewardship of long-term partners, she has spent her past...
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 Morgan Anderson, who spent her summer at the Down Syndrome Association of Northeast Ohio where she helped...