Common Ground Host Stories: Cosmic Bobbins

Our Common Ground day of community conversation returns for its third year on June 30, 2019! In this blog series, we're featuring the stories of people who have hosted Common Ground conversations in years past. In this guest blog, Sharie Renee of Cosmic Bobbins reflects on her experience as a Common Ground host.  Name:  Sharie...

Vote FOR Issue 68 to keep Cleveland kids moving ahead

At the Cleveland Foundation, education has been a grantmaking priority throughout our 106-year history because we understand the vital role that it plays in determining an individual’s and community’s current and future well-being. Over the past 30 years, the foundation has awarded more than $263 million in grants to support quality...

Cleveland Foundation to host sixth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit

Cleveland Foundation to host sixth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit Award-winning activist, author and tech executive Valeisha Butterfield Jones to deliver keynote address Release Date: 2.24.2020 CLEVELAND – The sixth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit and luncheon, presented by the African American...

Our Response to COVID-19

UPDATED Dec. 17, 2021, 3 P.M. EST Dear Friends, The well-being of the Greater Cleveland community has been our focus for more than a century. During that time, our community has faced a number of serious challenges: from the 1918 Influenza pandemic to the HIV epidemic – from the Great Depression to the Great Recession. Through it all...