It’s Cleveland Book Week (CBW), which means there’s a great lineup of literary and literacy-focused events happening now through Saturday! CBW events celebrate Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners past and present, and many programs are free to attend. You can find the full line-up of #CBW2017 events here. If you haven’t already made...
The holiday giving season officially kicks off Nov. 28 with #GivingTuesday, the perfect time to reflect and support important charitable organizations in our community. This year, we're pleased to highlight giving opportunities with more than 170 nonprofits with Organizational Funds at the foundation.Organizational Funds are stable...
Skate Free on New Year’s EveCleveland Foundation Skating Rink in Public SquareRELEASE DATE: 12.21.2017CLEVELAND – Looking for a fun, family-friendly outing to bring in the New Year? The perfect hassle-free afternoon date? A low-key, high-energy friends and neighbors celebration? The Cleveland Foundation Skating Rink will be open...
Cleveland Foundation announces new hires, enhancements to grantmaking team structure in 2018Release Date: 1.8.2018CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced new enhancements to the program/grantmaking team structure to further the expertise of the foundation and its impact on the community.The new structure refines specific...
Did you know? Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we have more than 64 scholarship funds here at the foundation. Most of the scholarships are designated for graduating high school seniors attending colleges and universities, but some of the funds provide current college students and adults returning to school the opportunity to pursue...
Cleveland Foundation to host fifth biennial African-American Philanthropy SummitBestselling author, social entrepreneur and Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore to deliver keynote addressRelease Date: 2.9.2018CLEVELAND – The fifth biennial African-American Philanthropy Summit and luncheon, presented by the African-American Philanthropy Committee of...
**DUE TO TREMENDOUS PUBLIC INTEREST, TICKETS TO THE 2018 ANNUAL MEETING WERE RESERVED WITHIN 8 HOURS OF AVAILABILITY. TO STAY UP-TO-DATE ON THE LATEST CLEVELAND FOUNDATION NEWS AND EVENTS, PLEASE SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.**World-renowned architect Sir David Adjaye to headline Cleveland Foundation 2018 Annual...
We’re excited to announce this year’s cohort of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners! Unveiled today by 2015 Anisfield-Wolf winner Marlon James onstage at Case Western Reserve’s ThinkForum, 2018 winners include:Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor, PoetryN. Scott Momaday, Lifetime AchievementJesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing...
Building on a collaboration that began as part of our spring 2017 Creative Fusion: Cuba Edition international artist residency, Verb Ballets of Cleveland and ProDanza of Havana have taken their partnership a step further to form the Cleveland Havana Ballet, a temporary merging of the two companies to produce the full-length Cuban ballet...
On May 1, more than 1,000 people joined us at the Palace Theatre at Playhouse Square to celebrate the Cleveland Foundation’s 104 years of community impact. The theme of the 2018 Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting presented by KeyBank was “A Sense of Place,” with a program focused on the links between the places and people that make...