Summer of Purpose: Audrey Ray

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they reflect on 11 weeks spent working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog, we hear from Audrey Ray, who spent her summer at FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, a free public...

#CLESuccess: Highlights From Our Annual Meeting

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...

#SummerOfPurpose: Tameka Coleman

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they spend 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog we hear from Tameka Coleman, who is spending her summer working at The Ohio State University Extension (OSUE) where she is supporting...

#SummerOfPurpose: Maritess Escueta

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they spend 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog, we hear from Maritess Escueta, who is working with Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, where she develops and executes a summer listening...

Cleveland Foundation announces Creative Fusion: Waterways to Waterways

Cleveland Foundation announces Creative Fusion: Waterways to Waterways Release Date: 1.31.2019 CLEVELAND – As part of the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River catching fire on June 22, 1969, the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion: Waterways to Waterways Edition will bring together a group of international and...

Meet the Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellows!

It’s official – we’re excited to introduce the inaugural cohort of Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellows! After a nationwide search that attracted 110 applicants from 19 states and 50 universities, nine recent college graduates were selected. Beginning in September, the fellows will be paired with six Greater Cleveland public...

Cleveland’s Arts Sector: Bucking the Trends

The Grantmakers in the Arts READER: Ideas and Information on Arts and Culture is a much anticipated, thrice-yearly journal for professional arts grantmakers. The fall 2010 issue offered a compilation of research across the field that is chock full of interesting, useful, and sometimes scary data. Often scary data.  Helicon...

December Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day of Family Fun

December Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day of Family Fun Foundation’s final centennial gift to provide free, healthy activities at 38 sites throughout Northeast Ohio Release Date: 12.3.2014     Updated: 12.15.2014 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation’s December – and final – centennial gift to the community involves...