Cleveland Foundation announces $13.8 million in March grants

Cleveland Foundation announces $13.8 million in March grantsBoard approves $22.2 million for Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga nonprofits in Q1 2018 Release Date: 3.19.2018CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today approved $13.8 million in grants for the month of March. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga...

March Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $13.8 million in March grants to organizations serving residents of Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga County. This latest round of grants brings our total support to $22.2 million in the first quarter of 2018. Our March grants concentrate primarily on three priority areas: youth & social services, economic &amp...

Why I Give: A Prescription for Philanthropy with Ed Rivalsky

Why do so many people choose to give through the Cleveland Foundation? The reasons and interests are as unique as the story of the donor. Northeast Ohioan Ed Rivalsky established a customized giving strategy with the Cleveland Foundation a few years after the sale of his home IV infusion pharmacy and home health agency network to a...

#SummerOfPurpose: Nathan Pflaum

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 Nathan Pflaum, who spent his summer working with the Alliance for Working Together Foundation (AWT) where he helped to...

#CLESuccess: Highlights From Our Annual Meeting

Thank you to everyone who joined us on May 7 for the Cleveland Foundation 2019 Annual Meeting presented by KeyBank! It was our largest annual meeting yet, with more than 1,600 people in attendance.  Pictured above are talented dancers from the Cuyahoga Community College Creative Arts Dance Academy's Advanced Ensemble, who closed the...

#FellowFriday: Jordan Lopez’s Fellowship Experience

The Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship offers emerging young leaders the skills and networks needed to create the community they envision and jumpstart a career in public service. In our #FellowFriday blog series, hear from members of the 2017-18 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship cohort about their year-long...

Impact Investing

The Cleveland Foundation is the world’s first community foundation — and one of the largest nationally — with nearly $3 billion in assets and annual grants of more than $120 million made in partnership with our donors since 2020. In addition to our grantmaking, the Cleveland Foundation is a national leader in impact investing, with...

#SummerOfPurpose: Caroline Carulas

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 Caroline Carulas, who spent her summer working with Evergreen Business Services where she was integrally involved in market...

Internships matter

NOCHE (The Northeast Ohio Council On Higher Education) recently released a fascinating report called the Internship Market Research study.  In short, the report concluded that:    As a student, you should know that internships provide real world experience which makes you a more desirable candidate for a job and helps you build a...