In January, we granted $22,500 to LifeAct to broaden the organization’s suicide prevention efforts in Lake and Geauga County. In this guest blog, we invite you to go behind the grant to learn more about LifeAct and its work: LifeAct is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving young lives. Its mission is to prevent suicide by...
Cleveland Foundation announces $115,000 grant to the Cleveland International Film FestivalFoundation to sponsor CIFF’s Global Health Competition, FilmSlam and Perspectives Virtual Reality Exhibitionrelease date: 3.3.2017CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today announced a grant of $115,000 to support the 41st...
Cleveland Foundation announces $13 million in March grants to Greater Cleveland communityEducation and youth development key areas for Q1 2017 supportrelease date: 3.16.2017CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today announced more than $13 million in March grants to support residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga...
Cleveland Foundation partners with Tri-C to bring free mastery dance program to three low-income Cleveland neighborhoodsLatest grant in foundation’s Mastery Arts Initiative will nearly triple the number of youth served in Tri-C’s year-round Creative Arts Academy dance programRELEASE DATE: 4.7.2017CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation...
Yesterday we announced the winners of the 82nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity. Anisfield-Wolf Jury Chair Dr. Henry Louis Gates delivered the big news at the 2017 F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture at Case Western Reserve University last...
Cleveland chain reaction takes major steps forward in bringing $1M investment to a city neighborhoodFive investors and neighborhood finalists are announcedRelease Date: 4.3.2017CLEVELAND, OH – Major developments are taking place with The Cleveland Chain Reaction, an economic development project that will match local investors with local...
Lillian Kuri, our Vice President, Strategic Grantmaking, Arts & Urban Design Initiatives, was live on Fox 8 yesterday representing the Cleveland Foundation as one of five investors participating in Cleveland Chain Reaction, an economic development project that will match local investors with local entrepreneurs to open five new...
Launched in 2013 by the Cleveland Foundation, Encore Cleveland helps to connect and fund a network of organizations to provide experienced Greater Clevelanders an array of meaningful opportunities in the community upon retirement or near the end of their primary careers. In our “Spotlight Encore Cleveland” guest blog series, we go...
$1M of Investment Going to Slavic Village as Part of Cleveland Chain Reaction Release Date: 4.21.2017CLEVELAND – Slavic Village, an east side neighborhood in the city of Cleveland, has been selected as the host neighborhood for Cleveland Chain Reaction, an economic development project that will match local investors with local...
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...