By Ronn Richard President & CEO, Cleveland Foundation
As 2014 came to a close, the Cleveland Foundation completed a yearlong centennial observance that surpassed our dreams. Thanks to dedicated donors, superb media partners like Crain's, generous corporate sponsors, supportive grantee organizations and more than 185,000 area...
Books About Love, Death, War, and a Small Baptist Church Have All Won the 86th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Release Date: 4.5.2021
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 86th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2021 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts...
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 Julia Mayer, who is spending her summer at The Upside of Downs of Northeast Ohio, where she is analyzing the DonorPerfect...
Valdia Burns-Frazier knew from a young age that she wanted to own her own business, and with this dream, she believed that serving her community should be at the core of her career path and life. As a featured philanthropist at the 2018 African American Philanthropy Summit, we spoke to Burns-Frazier, entrepreneur and founder of Rogers...
People with disabilities face a higher risk of serious health problems from COVID-19. To help organizations serving this population during the current pandemic, the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awarded a $100,000 grant to support a consortium of nonprofit service agencies in Cuyahoga County to purchase PPE for their...
The lights dimmed. The curtain drew back. A spotlight appeared. Two legs, two feet, and then…a flurry of furious tapping, twirling and jumping! I had never seen anything so precise and fantastic come from a person’s feet before. This was only the opening of Dorrance Dance’s performance at Cleveland Public Theatre, and my first...
By Nelson Beckford, Program Director, Neighborhood Revitalization and Engagement
In the era of COVID-19, my colleagues and community partners and I have spent time exploring the ways that people connect with each other, and with their community. Over the past few months, our friends at Neighborhood Connections have hosted a series of...
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 Erica Henrichsen, who is working with the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, supporting the work of the Reforest Our City...
By Bri Oldham, Cleveland Foundation Equity Communications and Engagement Fellow
What does it mean to build Common Ground? One Cleveland multi-media artist answers this question by highlighting the issue of plastic pollution and putting words into action through the creation of plastic-based art.
On Sept. 12, Ron Shelton, along with...
By Briana Oldham, Cleveland Foundation Equity Communications and Engagement Fellow
Representation matters. Baltimore philanthropists Eddie and Sylvia Brown understand this keenly and have made it a focus of their work in classrooms, boardrooms and philanthropy. On Nov. 10, in the second installment of “2020 Vision: Disrupting the...