Ride the public transit system from Cleveland’s airport to its downtown and witness INTER|URBAN, one of the world’s largest outdoor public art experiences that connects transit riders to some of the most important and difficult issues facing our society.INTER|URBAN is a city-wide initiative led by LAND Studio, the City of Cleveland...
Cleveland Foundation announces $2.5 million in October grants release date: 10.30.2015CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors has approved $2.5 million in grants for the month of October.A focus of the foundation’s October funding supports programs promoting youth development and the overall well-being of young...
Foundations partner to share learnings on innovative audience-building strategies for the arts
Book commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the United States’ Cleveland Foundation released online today
RELEASE DATE: 9.11.2015
LONDON AND CLEVELAND – Attracting and retaining new audiences is one of the...
Just this summer, we celebrated the rededication of Public Square following a $50 million transformation that gave our city a vibrant new gathering space in the heart of downtown. The Cleveland Foundation supported the redesign of Public Square with an $8 million lead gift, in line with our longstanding commitment to support world-class...
What could be better than strolling out of your office on a warm summer day than freshly harvested produced, flowers, prepared lunch food, and more? On Wednesday, June 5, the North Union Farmers Market opened two summer lunch-time markets at the Cleveland Clinic main campus and Cleveland Clinic in Beachwood. The markets start at 10:30...
Neighborhoods are composed of homes, businesses, schools, people, families, local government, and institutions. When these components are effectively marshalled, a strong and healthy community is the result. Lately I have been thinking about the role grassroots community organizing plays in this process of building strong...
We don’t think this blog will become simply another place for reposting – but the implications of this are too important not to share. Hopefully old news for Cleveland-area nonprofits, but just in case… From GuideStar last week: “Half a million nonprofits could find themselves stripped of tax-exempt status in May 2010. According...
Lights. Camera. Action! Join us on March 23 for the Cleveland premiere of the film MANChild, written by Cleveland MLK high school student, Earlaina Kemp and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (yes, the writer/director of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story). Last year, nearly 1,000 Cleveland-area students submitted scripts to the...
Think about the YMCA, Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity. What do they all have in common? (Besides, of course, the fact that each organization has made significant contributions to society.)
Each of them was founded as a faith-based organization. In other words, these organizations can trace their origins to a particular religious...
I came across a recent blog post that questioned if the recent Neighborhood Progress, Inc. report, Re-imagining Cleveland was audacious or realistic. If you have not seen the plan, please take a look. My two cents: the plan is bold and doable. The small scale, neighborhood based projects weave together nicely to form the big...