Minority Arts and Education Fund announces 2019 grant recipients
More than $350,000 awarded to 34 minority-led organizations to assist with capacity building
Release Date: 2.28.2019
CLEVELAND – The City of Cleveland’s Cable Television Minority Arts and Education Fund (MAEF), a supporting organization of the Cleveland Foundation...
Food. Medicine. Shelter. A number of organizations here in Greater Cleveland and around the world are coordinating relief efforts to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding from the war in Ukraine. And generous donors are responding. See our list below for more information and a pathway for direct giving. In this time of dire need, your...
Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Cleveland Foundation and partners announce the launch of PACE initiative to connect students to career pathways and living wage jobs
Release Date: 11.15.2021
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and Cleveland Foundation today announced the launch of the Planning and...
Cleveland Black Futures Fund announces nearly $2 million in grants
49 organizations supported by first round of grantmaking
Release Date: 6.29.2021
View video from Cleveland Black Futures Fund committee.
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation and its partners today announced $1.89 million to 49 organizations in the initial round of...
The Cleveland Foundation upholds a longstanding commitment to racial equity ingrained in our grantmaking and community engagement initiatives and heightened by the recent national reckoning on systemic racism. As an urgent and timely extension of this work, including the 2020 launch of the Cleveland Black Futures Fund, our board and staff...
Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund awards $346,750 in second cycle of Phase II grantmaking
Fund stands at more than $3.2 million to support frontline nonprofit organizations in Greater Cleveland
Release Date: 11.24.20
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund announced today its second cycle of...
Reflecting on an impactful journey ‘centering’ philanthropy
Bob and Sally Gries have collaborated to help enhance the quality of life in our region through decades of service and philanthropy
(This article originally appeared in the foundation's Summer 2023 issue of its Gift of Giving publication.)
Bob and Sally Gries were...
Appointed 2022 by the Bank Trustees Committee
Ronald B. Adrine is a life-long resident of Greater Cleveland. He graduated from Fisk University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He passed the Ohio bar in l973. In 1974, he joined the staff of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor as an assistant in the criminal trial division. In 1976...
By Sinegugu Gasa, Cleveland Foundation Community Narrative & Engagement Fellow
At the corner of East 66th Street and Euclid Avenue, new artwork has been installed on the construction fence at the site of the future Cleveland Foundation headquarters in MidTown. Titled Stardust: An Exploration of Black Futures, the public art...
A guest blog from Black Environmental Leaders
What do we mean when we talk about environmental justice?
It starts with an acknowledgement, for instance, that African Americans are more likely to live near coal-fired power plants, oil and gas refining plants, and other generating facilities while disproportionately suffering their ill...