Summer of Purpose: Darrin Redus

In early June, facilitators of the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), along with AmeriCorps HPAC leaders, volunteered to bring SOLE [Self Organized Learning Environments] to the Cleveland Public Library system for their Staff Development Day. In all, over 500 staff members participated in these SOLE sessions that allowed...

Summer of Purpose: Sam Braun

The past month working as a development intern at The Montefiore Foundation has been very new, exciting, and rewarding for me. Two themes that have emerged in these first four weeks and that I have been reflecting on are opportunity and collaboration. Coming into the internship I had a narrow understanding of what it meant to raise money...

How I Spent My Summer: Amy Freede

Since 1976, Towards Employment has helped individuals in the community by supporting their entry or re-entry into the working world. My work at the organization is focused on two specific job readiness programs: NETworks 2 Success and NETworks 4 Success. Both programs provide training and preparation in the areas of communication, resume...

Great Grants

What do emergency 911, the hospice movement, pap smears, public libraries, polio and yellow fever vaccines, rocket science, Sesame Street, white lines on highways, and ending world hunger have in common? They are all innovations initially funded by foundation grants.  The Council on Foundations, which has a wealth of online information...

Information Is Different Than Knowledge

Thursday, 3:30 p.m., when most students are on their way home from school, seven high school students from various Cleveland Metropolitan schools (John Hay, Promise Academy, Cleveland School of the Arts and John Marshall) gather at John Hay High School in University Circle to meet and work with internationally renowned Turkish playwright...

From The Garden To The Camps

What do Adam and Eve, Jews, Japanese Americans, Armenians and Native Americans have in common? These and other peoples have all experienced exile from their homeland and the hardship and conflict of being displaced. Some, like Japanese Americans during WWII, and Native Americans even today, were exiled within the borders of their own...

Seeking Summer Interns for 2010

We are currently recruiting the region’s best and brightest for the 2010 Cleveland Foundation summer internship program.  As we approach its 11th year, the program has helped us confirm two important pieces of information: 1) Nonprofits continue to provide interns with meaningful projects that are reflective of the times and 2)We...