Courageous Books About Black Soldiers, Feuding Asian-American Brothers in Wisconsin, Horseracing’s Racial History, and the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy Have All Won the 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Release Date: 4.3.2023
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf...
Book lovers, boxing fans and history buffs gathered at the Parma-Snow Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library on April 3 to hear Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards-winning poet Adrian Matejka read from his new book “Last on His Feet,” a graphic novel about the life of Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing...
2024 African American Philanthropy Summit to Spotlight
Philanthropy and the Black Family
Distinguished professor and bestselling author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson to deliver keynote at April 13 event at Tri-C Corporate College East
Cleveland, OH – The eighth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit, presented by the African...
Cleveland, OH (March 26, 2024) – The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by the Cleveland Foundation, today announced the winners of the 89th annual awards. The 2024 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity are:
Maxine Hong Kingston, Lifetime Achievement
Ned...
Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga County and T-Mobile partner to launch the Greater Cleveland Digital Equity Fund
Coalition formed to bridge the digital divide throughout Greater Cleveland
Release Date: 7.16.2020
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga County and T-Mobile today announced the creation of the Greater Cleveland...
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the national reckoning on systemic racism in America that has been at the forefront in recent weeks, Common Ground has adapted this year to give existing registered and multi-year hosts the flexibility to take action on the issues that matter to them and their communities.
Because of the...
Cleveland Foundation among winners of HUD and Council on Foundations Secretary's Award for Public-Philanthropic Partnerships
Cleveland partnership honored for work on "Digital Inclusion for All" initiative
Release Date: 4.30.2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Council on...
Thank you to everyone who joined us on May 7 for the Cleveland Foundation 2019 Annual Meeting presented by KeyBank! It was our largest annual meeting yet, with more than 1,600 people in attendance.
Pictured above are talented dancers from the Cuyahoga Community College Creative Arts Dance Academy's Advanced Ensemble, who closed the...