Celebrating a Championship Year for #CLE

Happy New Year! In case you missed it, check out our year-end highlight video, celebrating the many exciting moments for our community in 2016:   This year, we look forward to building on the momentum of 2016 and continuing our mission to enhance the quality of life of all Greater Clevelanders. We have big plans - stay tuned...

#NeighborUpCLE at Network Night

Wondering how you can take action on the community issues you care about? Join Neighborhood Connections’ Neighbor Up network! Neighbor Up unites people across lines of difference, creates a web of collaboration and exchange, and encourages residents and institutional leaders from different Cleveland neighborhoods to work together to...

September Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $9.9 million in September grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! This takes the foundation’s third-quarter grantmaking total to $21.1 million, bringing the yearly investment in Greater Cleveland to $62.9 million.Many of our grants this month concentrated on education...

Spotlight Encore Cleveland: Encore Career Network Helps Agencies Build Capacity

Launched in 2013 by the Cleveland Foundation, Encore Cleveland helps to connect and fund a network of organizations to provide experienced Greater Clevelanders an array of meaningful opportunities in the community upon retirement or near the end of their primary careers. In our “Spotlight Encore Cleveland” guest blog series, we go...

Cleveland Chain Reaction

Remember Cleveland Hustles? Get ready for Cleveland Chain Reaction! We are proud to join Fox 8 News, Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE), Glazen Urban and Cleveland Neighborhood Progress to put a spotlight on the economic and neighborhood development opportunities happening every day in Greater Cleveland.Our involvement Lillian Kuri...

#CommonGroundCLE: What’s Next?

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to Cleveland Public Square and sites across Cuyahoga County for Common Ground!Together, hundreds of Greater Clevelanders gathered over a shared meal for shared conversation. In Public Square, more than 600 lunches were served as residents discussed how to move our community forward. And at more...

March Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce our board of directors has approved $13 million in March grants to support organizations serving residents of Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga counties! These grants, which provide significant support for education and youth development efforts, bring our first quarter grantmaking total to nearly $20.6 million. Here...

June Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $11.4 million in June grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! This brings the foundation’s grantmaking total to $21.2 million for the second quarter of 2017 and to $41.8 million for the first half of the year.Many of our June grants support three of the foundation’s...

May Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $4.3 million in May grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! Many of our May grants support cultural and educational opportunities, as well as programs to help Greater Cleveland’s most underserved populations. Cultural & Educational Programming:$23,000 to the...

Highlights from the 2023 Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank

On July 13, hundreds of guests gathered at Severance Music Center for an historic annual meeting marking a dynamic year at the Cleveland Foundation. Focused on the theme “Opening Doors: Renewal, Reinvention & Responsibility,” the program celebrated the grand opening of the foundation’s new headquarters in MidTown as well as a...