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 Morgan Mackay, who is working with WomenSafe, Inc. where she develops marketing strategies for the agency, implements...
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Foundation Announce Creative Fusion: Composers Series
Series will support the creation of six original works by international composers for the museum’s performing arts series
Release Date: 8.23.2018
CLEVELAND – A new performing arts initiative is bringing six exceptional and diverse composers...
The African American Philanthropy Committee of the Cleveland Foundation invites you to attend the fifth biennial Cleveland Foundation African American Philanthropy Summit from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at Landerhaven.
This year’s summit: “CLE for Life, Giving for Life,” celebrates African American philanthropists in...
Lights. Camera. Action! Join us on March 23 for the Cleveland premiere of the film MANChild, written by Cleveland MLK high school student, Earlaina Kemp and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (yes, the writer/director of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story). Last year, nearly 1,000 Cleveland-area students submitted scripts to the...
Strengthening our Community
It seems that just when a charitable organization is needed most by its constituents, funds from private, philanthropic and government resources become all the more difficult to obtain. Forward-thinking board members and staff of charitable organizations are discovering the need to establish stable investments...
That’s the question posed and answered by a terrific new tool for nonprofit organizations hot off the press from NORI – the Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative Working Group. Cumbersomely called the Operating Reserve Policy Toolkit for Nonprofit Organizations (available here), the toolkit is nevertheless the most comprehensive...
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The Cleveland Foundation's Kathleen Cerveny recently traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a contingent of Cleveland-area arts professionals. Their goal is to work with Turkish artists, teachers and others to develop arts programs for urban youth. Click here for more information.)
Two days back from the remarkable...
For the past 25 years, the Cleveland Foundation has worked with our donors to enhance the lives of residents in Lake and Geauga Counties, providing more than $32.8 million in grants. At the December 18, 2015, meeting of the Cleveland Foundation board of directors, the board reiterated our commitment to Lake and Geauga Counties by...