Cleveland Foundation announces more than $24 million in third quarter grantmaking

Cleveland Foundation announces more than $24 million in third quarter grantmaking Release Date: 9.30.2021 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation Board of Directors today announced more than $24 million in grants approved in the third quarter of 2021. Supporting residents in Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties, the foundation and its...

Summer of Purpose: Ann Mastandrea

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns, who spent 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog we hear from Ann Mastandrea, who worked with Maximum Accessible Housing of Ohio in coalition with ADA Cleveland helping to finalize and...

Support your community on #GivingTuesday

December traditionally marks a season of giving — to our friends and families, and for many, to the charitable organizations and causes we hold dear. As the country continues to contend with the long-term societal and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for charitable giving feels particularly strong this...

Building Community: Cleveland Purpose Built Communities and Common Ground

By Kimalon Dixon, Senior Project Director, Cleveland Purpose Built Communities & Makela Hayford, Cleveland Foundation 2018-2019 Public Service Fellow Launched in 1995, Purpose Built Communities is a nation*]}*al model for implementing holistic change in underserved communities. The model is a three-pronged approach to community...

#SummerOfPurpose: Armin Ameri

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they spend 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog we hear from Armin Ameri, who is working with the Refugee Response, where he works in close cooperation with the Director of Education...

Cleveland Metroparks and Cleveland Foundation Announce Centennial Trail 5K

Cleveland Metroparks and Cleveland Foundation Announce Centennial Trail 5K All registration fees to benefit the Cleveland Metroparks Emerald Necklace Endowment Fund of the Cleveland Foundation Release Date: 8.2.2018 CLEVELAND – Cleveland Metroparks and the Cleveland Foundation are holding the first annual Cleveland Metroparks and...

Summer of Purpose: Melissa Haynam

Remaining Human and Keeping My Promises This entire academic year for me has been about getting out of my comfort zone and taking advantage of all the wonderful opportunities Cleveland State and the city of Cleveland have to offer. #CLE I participated in the Mentoring Program organized by Senator Grace Drake in the Maxine Levin College...

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City of Cleveland Neighborhood Safety Fund The $10 million fund is housed at the Cleveland Foundation and was seeded with American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money from the City. The fund will provide grants for community-driven, evidence-informed programming serving Cleveland residents that address the root causes of violence under the...

A day in the life…

It is deadline day for material that will go to the foundation's Grantmaking Committee this quarter – though this line is invisible to the community – and so my day and my desk are filled with a host of other things that have their own timing pressures: There's the report from a major institution’s financial recovery plan that has...