“Disability does not mean inability,” is what Mary Verdi-Fletcher, one of the first and foremost professional wheelchair dancers, hopes an audience understands when they see a performance of Dancing Wheels, the world’s first physically integrated professional dance company. Verdi-Fletcher founded the Dancing Wheels Company in 1980...
A History of Fugitives, a Contemporary Native American Novel and Civil War Voices as Poetry Have All Won the 84th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Release Date: 4.4.2019
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 84th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Jericho Brown, a 2015 Anisfield-Wolf honoree, made the...
Ceepo family announces creation of the Taylor Paige Ceepo Memorial Fund at the Cleveland Foundation
Release Date: 9.10.2019
CLEVELAND – The Ceepo family today announced the establishment of the Taylor Paige Ceepo Memorial Fund at the Cleveland Foundation to honor Taylor Ceepo’s legacy through causes and organizations that were...
Cleveland Foundation’s sixth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit will go virtual May 30
Featured speaker is award-winning activist, author and business leader Valeisha Butterfield Jones
Release Date: 5.20.2020
CLEVELAND – The sixth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit, presented by the African American...