#SummerOfPurpose: Audra Mahon

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 Audra Mahon, who is spending her summer working at Eliza Bryant Village, where she is supporting the work of the...

#SummerOfPurpose: Hakmat Manaa

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 Hakmat Manaa, who spent her summer working at the May Dugan Center where she provided communications and programmatic...

Planning Today for Your Family Legacy of Tomorrow

by Kaye M. Ridolfi, Senior Vice President of AdvancementIf you’ve ever sat down to do succession planning in your business or personally through a living will, it’s easy to appreciate the level of sophistication needed to ensure continuity beyond your own lifetime. The same level of philanthropic strategy and planning can be just as...

#FellowFriday: Tabitha Gillombardo’s Fellowship Experience

The Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship offers emerging young leaders the skills and networks needed to create the community they envision and jumpstart a career in public service. In our #FellowFriday weekly blog series, hear from members of the 2016-17 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship cohort about their...

A Look Back at Cleveland Book Week 2017

Last week we celebrated Cleveland Book Week, a series of book and literacy-themed events surrounding the 82nd annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Sept. 5-8, community events across Greater Cleveland honored this year’s Anisfield-Wolf winners and celebrated all things literary in our community.   Sept. 5 – We kicked Book Week...

#CLEvana: โ€œThe arts were all around us.โ€

This blog post is part of our #CLEvana series, sharing stories and insights from our Creative Fusion: Cuba Edition partners. In this post, Verb Ballets Producing Artist Director Dr. Margaret Carlson shares her thoughts from the Creative Fusion cohort learning trip to Cuba earlier this year. From the start, it was evident that the arts...

Encore: Purpose, Passion, Paycheck

Guest blog post by Encore Cleveland Consultant Wendy Albin Sattin, AICPEarlier this summer, grantees and participants in the Cleveland Foundation’s Encore Cleveland initiative met with Marc Freedman, the founder of Encore.org, for an enlightening discussion about engaging the time, energy and talents of people over the age of 50 to...

We are all pupils; we are all teachers

Guest blog post by Encore Cleveland Consultant Wendy Albin Sattin, AICPTwo heads – one dark-haired, the other grey – are bent over a map of Africa. One belongs to a ten-year-old boy in the afterschool program at the Fatima Family Center in Hough, the other to an Encore Cleveland volunteer that participates in the senior programming...

September Grant Highlights

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we are pleased to announce the Cleveland Foundation board of directors has approved $10.4 million in September grants, bringing the foundation’s third-quarter grantmaking total to $17.9 million. Check out some of this month’s grantmaking highlights, centered around the themes of education and...