April Grant Highlights

We’re pleased to let you know that our board of directors has approved $4.1 million in grants for the month of April. These grants support a variety of programs and services across Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties.Here are a few highlights:Greater Cleveland Food Bank:16% of the 247,000 local residents served annually by the Greater...

#SummerOfPurpose: Christina Abdelshahid

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 Christina Abdelshahid, who spent her summer working with the Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI) where she...

2017 Grantmaking in Lake and Geauga Counties

We’re thrilled to announce $172,590 in grants from our Lake-Geauga Fund to organizations serving residents of Lake and Geauga counties. This year’s round of grants from the Lake-Geauga Fund brings our total support to Lake and Geauga counties to $2.8 million in 2017!Our history of support in Lake and Geauga counties Established in...

Preview #CommonGroundCLE on July 30: Part 1

Common Ground is just days away! On our blog each day this week, we’ll share a selection of the Common Ground conversations happening Sunday, July 30 across Cuyahoga County. We hope you will register to attend one (or more!) of these free community events. You can explore all Common Ground locations, and register to attend here...

Summer of Purpose: Olivia Milne

It’s the third week of the Cleveland Foundation’s Summer Internship Program, and I’m writing from here at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. There’s been a lot to do in these first few weeks, and they’ve certainly kept me busy.I work in the Development and Communications department of Legal Aid, and mainly I’ve been promoting...

5 Smart Ways to Maximize Your Donor-Advised Fund

Guest blog by Cleveland Foundation Senior Vice President of Advancement Kaye Ridolfi Donor-advised funds have become a universally popular tool in charitable giving, and with good reason! With careful planning they can bring you great tax savings, flexibility and the benefit of centralizing your charitable dollars in one convenient...

2016 Grantmaking in Lake & Geauga Counties

We are happy to announce a total of $741,781 in fourth-quarter grants to Lake and Geauga nonprofit organizations, bringing the foundation’s 2016 grantmaking total in those two counties to $2.5 million.*Among the Lake and Geauga grants approved this quarter:$73,000 to Crossroads: Lake County Adolescent Counseling Service to support...

Losing Sight of the Shore*

No, this isn’t about lakefront preservation. It’s about the arts. It’s about how Cleveland’s cultural community must venture into uncharted waters to find the new and next generation of individuals needed to maintain our remarkable cultural sector’s strength and excellence. On June 6, the Community Partnership for Arts and...