How I Spent My Summer: Seerat Bahniwal

Improving education for children is one of my passions as a student at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. It's also a focus of STEM, an educational program bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to the urban school systems of Ohio. As a part of my internship with the...

Summer of Purpose: Diamond Green-Phillips

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 Diamond Green-Phillips, who is working with Joseph’s Home, where she is assisting with grant writing, social media and...

Working Together to Address the Nursing Shortage in Ohio

We’ve all heard the sobering statistics about the shortage of nurses: 40 percent of Ohio’s practicing nurses expect to leave the field in the next 10 years – a shortfall of nearly 32,000 registered nurses by 2020. At the same time, an educational bottleneck has resulted from an insufficient and diminishing pool of faculty to teach...

How I Spent My Summer: Nick Borchers

As over 250 young professionals departed Edgewater Park for BVU’s Summer of Service event, BVU’s mission of “linking businesses and nonprofits to foster excellence in the nonprofit sector” was running through my mind. Interns and young professionals from 26 different organizations (including the Cleveland Foundation...

And the Survey Says…

The Cleveland Foundation recently issued a survey asking for feedback about our process for applying for grants. It is part of our ongoing commitment to listening to the grantee community and in recognition of implementing a new system later this year. We appreciate your positive feedback and suggestions for how we can improve! Overall...

Covia Aspire Scholarship

Purpose: Established in 2013, the Covia Aspire Scholarship of the Cleveland Foundation provides support to eligible employee dependents who desire to seek post-secondary education or training for a recognized credential. As such, the award encourages the career “aspirations” of promising young people in the Covia family. Employees of...

Summer of Purpose: An Environment of Self-Discovery

By Maggie StarkHolden Arboretum This was certainly not the summer I expected. Road trip, backpack, plane, train or walk if I had to escape; the only thing on my mind was the six months of loan deferment I had left between graduation and entry in the real world.  The last 10 weeks involved no escape, yet they offered me far more of a...

A Scholarship for a New Generation

As we approach the season of giving, we’re highlighting important new initiatives and generous donors who give back to the community with their time, talent, and drive.One unique - and important - new initiative is the John Sullivan Wilson Family Fund of the Cleveland Foundation. It is sponsoring the Scholarship for a New...

How I Spent My Summer: Anne Brewka

To be a Cleveland Foundation intern involves balancing work responsibilities at a host organization with participation in the Summer Internship Program’s weekly seminars and events. To be a shared intern between three nonprofit organizations in addition to this balance has proven to be more of a juggling than a balancing act. The...