How I Spent My Summer: MaryKate McHugh

What could be better than strolling out of your office on a warm summer day than freshly harvested produced, flowers, prepared lunch food, and more? On Wednesday, June 5, the North Union Farmers Market opened two summer lunch-time markets at the Cleveland Clinic main campus and Cleveland Clinic in Beachwood. The markets start at 10:30...

Meet our 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners!

Yesterday we announced the winners of the 82nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity. Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Dr. Henry Louis Gates delivered the big news at the 2017 F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture at Case Western Reserve University last...

Alert: Dramatic Changes to the GED Ahead

Do You Remember Polynomials and Quadratic Equations? The GED is getting overhauled. Starting in January 2014, the GED will be based on the national Common Core state standards, designed to better prepare grades K-12 for the workplace and higher education. The GED is accepted nationwide as an alternative to a high school diploma, The...

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...

Renee Drefahl Spirit of Life Scholarship

Purpose: The Renee Drefahl Scholarship Fund, established in 2011, awards an annual scholarship for post-secondary education to a member of the graduating class of Edgewood High School (Ashtabula County, Ohio). The purpose of the scholarship is to advance the skills, learning, and life chances of a deserving young person and to inspire him...

Internship Exceeds Student’s Expectations

We are now accepting host site applications for the 2013 Cleveland Foundation summer intern program. The deadline to apply to be a host site is Nov. 30.  Get more information here. To give you an idea of what the internship program is about, we are reposting past interns’ reflections on their experiences.  Today, we go back to August...

Noise is in the Ears of the Listener

So what do you know about "Noise Music?” Not much? Or maybe a lot? Depends on your age maybe, or what your musical interests are. I fancy myself a music lover and I like all kinds – classical, Broadway musicals, Cole Porter, Steven Sondheim, Hoagy Carmichael, Phil Collins, blues, jazz, folk, a little country, new age, hard rock...

Open Season for the Artist

Please note I said open season FOR the artist.  The first round of Fellowship grants to 20 local visual artists was delivered recently by the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.  The second round, for performing and literary artists, is now in the application stage and will be delivered this fall.  Cleveland is becoming a...

Nonprofit Management Lessons from Obama’s Campaign

There seems no end to the praise for the quality and discipline of the campaign run by President-elect Barack Obama.  Now, smart observers have identified virtues and best practices from the campaign that they believe are applicable to the management of organizations in the nonprofit realm.  Paul Schmitz, the CEO of Public Allies, ...