Benefits Abound for Summer Interns

While the Cleveland Foundation’s Intern program benefits the host site organizations by providing the talent to help them complete important short-term projects, we have found that interns also benefit: First, through the weekly professional development seminars, interns are exposed to the work done by our dynamic local nonprofit and...

Announcing the winners of the 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Each spring, we celebrate a new class of writers joining the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards canon. This year, in the midst of a global pandemic, the announcement has moved online while the works being honored take on a new kind of importance. "The new books explore human diversity in riveting style, putting the lie to racism and ableism,...

Listening to Cleveland’s nonprofit community

Many of you participated in our recent rounds of community conversations.  In fact, we met with over 250 individuals representing organizations from across sectors: arts, human services, economic development, environment, neighborhoods and more.  One of our goals was to give nonprofits the opportunity to share what they have been doing...

Scenes from a film festival

I am privileged to be a judge for the Independent Shorts Awards for the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) this year. This is the 33rd festival and, as anyone who has gone knows, it is a fabulous event for the city, as it grows each year. Two attendance records have been broken so far, and CIFF hopes the festival will reach a...

History

The World’s First Community FoundationFrederick H. GoffBanker and lawyer Frederick H. Goff was a “mover and shaker” in Cleveland long before that phrase became part of the American lexicon. Today, the moving and shaking that Goff began with his revolutionary idea have become a benevolent worldwide rumble. And its greatest...

2012 Interns Are Ready To Make Their Mark On Cleveland

When I think about leadership development, I often think about this Chinese proverb: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. This summer, the Cleveland Foundation's Summer Internship Program celebrates its 13th year of recruiting, placing, and developing the next generation of leaders. The class of...

Summer of Purpose: Danielle Dickinson

Summer is halfway done and I am enjoying the rooftop garden at the Mandel Community Studies Center at Case Western Reserve University, gaining some inspiration for my summer as a research assistant for the National Initiative on Mixed Income Communities (NIMC).After I manage to say the long name, the first question I get from others is...

A Remembrance of Steve Minter by Cleveland Foundation President & CEO Ronn Richard

A Remembrance of Steve Minter by Cleveland Foundation President & CEO Ronn Richard “There are people you meet in your lifetime who you immediately know were put on this earth to be a powerful, life-changing force for good – Steve Minter was one of those people. Steve started his career as a social worker, and became one of the...

Summer of Purpose: Joshua Pugh

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 Joshua Pugh, who is working with Geauga Growth Partnership, Inc. (GGP) to support the transition to a new customer...