Among the many rewards of working here at the Cleveland Foundation, one that I particularly enjoy is the opportunity to have some connection to the Anisfield Wolf Book Award ceremony each year. If you don’t know about this award (and shame on you if you are in the literary world and you don’t), it is international in scope and the...
Here’s a fact little known by the public but very well understood by everyone who works in the nonprofit sector: Government funding can put programs and even nonprofit organizations themselves at risk. How? Kathleen Enright, executive director of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations says it quite economically in her recent...
Tickets now available for Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank
World-renowned presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to deliver Robert D. Gries Keynote Lecture
release date: 5.11.2016
CLEVELAND – Free tickets are now available for the Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank, scheduled for...
Founded and headquartered in Cleveland, Voices for Ohio’s Children is a non-partisan collaboration of individuals and organizations that advocate for children-focused public policy. In analyzing health, education, family, tax, and juvenile justice issues that effect children, Voices for Ohio’s Children provides advocacy for youth...
Originally posted on this blog: 2/20/08 In November, I first mentioned that the foundation was beginning to explore ways in which we might help expand the diversity of world culture in Cleveland. As part of our planning, I met recently with a small group of Cleveland arts leaders to learn about their plans for presenting international...
Too often I hear from those outside the nonprofit sector complaining that arts organizations are always in trouble because they don’t know how to run things like a business. I would challenge any businessperson to stay in business if: Every year you must invent and produce a whole new product line that has not been market-tested (five...
In its Sunday, July 13, opinion page editorial, the Plain Dealer noted an important requirement for the future success of this region in the shrinking world of the 21st century. A number of local civic organizations were chided for not moving aggressively to attract international business and talent to this end.
Through its mission to...
Everything goes back to the economy these difficult days, it seems. Last week I discussed the challenges facing the nonprofit sector in attracting strong leadership for the future. Many of the challenges stem from the historic, and too often endemic, lack of resources among organizations in the sector. This week I attended the...
In Atlanta this week, I am attending the annual conference of Grantmakers in the Arts, a professional association for my very specialized field. About 300 arts staff from family, private, corporate and community foundations and public funding agencies are here, and at the mid-point of the conference I am already filled with information I...
In December 2007, the Cleveland Foundation hosted a meeting of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a non-political think thank and consortium of organizations supporting the arts in learning. At that meeting, AEP rolled out a major frame-changing concept: to create the ImagiNation – a nationwide, grassroots movement to create public...