Gay Games Makes History, Donates Nearly $150,000 to Northeast Ohio LGBT Funds
Most-profitable Games ever gives $120,000 to new fund at Cleveland Foundation and $27,000 to Akron’s Gay Community Endowment Fund
release date: 2.19.2015
CLEVELAND+AKRON, Ohio – The ninth Gay Games were the most profitable in its 32-year history...
Our Common Ground day of community conversation returns for its third year on June 30, 2019! In this blog series, we’re featuring the stories of people who have participated in Common Ground conversations in years past. In this guest blog, Amir Saleem talks about the project he helped to launch after attending a 2018 Common Ground...
What I Know Meets Who I Know
My mother has always told me, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” While sometimes I believe that’s the case, I’ve come to the conclusion that 99% of the time it’s a hefty dose of both.
I am a “people person” by nature. Not only has The Cleveland Foundation connected me with...
For three months, beginning in September, six international artists created, collaborated and engaged with the Greater Cleveland community through our Creative Fusion international-artist-in-residence program. Hailing from Chile, Iran, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, the artists in the Creative Fusion 2015 fall class were in residency at...
Cleveland Foundation to host fourth biennial African-American Philanthropy Summit presented by Medical MutualPolitical strategist Donna Brazile to deliver keynote addressRELEASE DATE: 3.23.2016CLEVELAND – The African-American Philanthropy Committee of the Cleveland Foundation will host its fourth biennial African-American Philanthropy...
This month’s March into Kindergarten campaign has us thinking about the importance of preparing students for success in kindergarten. Kindergarten is an academic and developmental milestone for young children and their experience in this early step can have major implications for their future development, even into adulthood.There’s a...
Here at the foundation, we’re committed to supporting Greater Cleveland’s nonprofit and public sectors, and fostering the next generation of community leaders. Our summer internship program does just that. Since 1999, the Cleveland Foundation summer internship program has provided undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates...
If you haven’t already heard the news, our region has a new ally in the effort to develop a thriving tech-driven ecosystem in Greater Cleveland. It’s a nonprofit called DigitalC that will work to solve pressing community problems with innovative technology, and help Greater Cleveland and other communities across the county build...
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...
AOL Co-Founder, Author and Philanthropist Steve Case to Headline Cleveland Foundation 2017 Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank**DUE TO TREMENDOUS PUBLIC INTEREST, TICKETS TO THE 2017 ANNUAL MEETING WERE RESERVED WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF AVAILABILITY. TO STAY UP TO DATE, SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.**Release Date...