#BehindTheGrant: Using the Power of the Law to Help Vulnerable Populations

In January, we granted $115,000 to Legal Aid Society of Cleveland to help the organization expand its legal services to community members with limited English proficiency (LEP). In this guest blog, we invite you to go behind the grant to learn more about Legal Aid Society and its work:   Imagine living everyday life as a citizen in the...

October Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $3.7 million in October grants to organizations serving Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County residents! Many of our grants this month concentrated on the arts and social services. Just a few highlights include:Social Services:$40,800 to the Lake County Free Clinic (LCFC), the only free clinic in Northeast Ohio...

Meet our 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners!

This week, we announced the winners of our 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity. For 81 years, the distinguished books earning Anisfield-Wolf prizes have opened and challenged our minds. We hope you’ll join us September 15, 2016 at the Ohio Theatre...

Cleveland Foundation announces $15.6 million in fourth-quarter grants

Cleveland Foundation announces $15.6 million in fourth-quarter grants Foundation awards a record total of $95 million in grants in its centennial year RELEASE DATE: 12.19.2014 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today approved $15.6 million in grants for the fourth quarter of 2014. These latest grants bring the...

November Grant Highlights

We’re excited to share a few highlights from our recent grants to organizations serving residents of Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. These November grants focus on expanding access to vital community resources, promoting quality programs for local students, and connecting adults who are in or nearing retirement to meaningful...

#SummerOfPurpose: Caitly Reynoso

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns and Porter Cleveland Fellows as they spend 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog, we hear from Caitly Reynoso, a Porter Cleveland Fellow who is working with The Legal Aid Society of...

#OurCGStories: Jason Guo

#OurCGStories blog series highlights Cleveland Foundation staff and interns who participated in our Common Ground day of community conversation on June 30. In today's blog, we hear from Jason Guo, 2019 Cleveland Foundation Summer Intern, who attended a Common Ground Conversation at One University Circle:   Name: Jason Guo Common...

An Introduction to the Creative Fusion 2015 Spring Class: Beatriz Garcia-Huidobro

Once again we are privileged to welcome an amazing group of international artists into our community. Clustered from two geographical locations - South America and Eastern Europe - these six artists have already formed a strong bond with each other and with aspects of the Cleveland art scene. As you will see from their first few weeks...