Daniel Burnham, a renowned urban planner associated with the 19th-century City Beautiful movement, once famously stated, “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never...
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Community Foundation Week 2016! Nov. 12-18, we’re joining more than 780 community foundations across the country celebrating this recognition week and the impact of our field in communities nationwide. Cleveland roots As the world’s first community foundation and one of the largest today, the...
Cleveland Arts Prize Announces 2016 RecipientsCleveland Foundation to present 56th Annual Cleveland Arts Prize Awards Event on June 30 at Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Arts Prize Board of Trustees announced today, Friday, April 29, 2016 thefollowing winners in the award categories for 2016:Lifetime Achievement Award...
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art Announces First Group of Participating Artists, Artists-in-Residence and Partner Sites for "An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises"Connecting regional, national, and international institutions, curators, and artists in Cleveland in a multipart curatorial programJuly 14 –...
Too often I hear from those outside the nonprofit sector complaining that arts organizations are always in trouble because they don’t know how to run things like a business. I would challenge any businessperson to stay in business if: Every year you must invent and produce a whole new product line that has not been market-tested (five...
"As a business owner, you have to wear multiple hats and you learn not to waste resources. Everything you spend has to have maximum impact. You want to do the same thing in philanthropy: make sure your dollars create a ripple effect." - Dr. Ellen Burts-Cooper
Entrepreneur Dr. Ellen Burts-Cooper started giving back at an early age...
Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series follows this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they reflect on 11 weeks spent working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog, we hear from Thomas Vodrey, who spent his summer at the Cleveland Tree Coalition and Western Reserve Land Conservancy helping...
Monday, April 13, 2009 A delicate third-grade girl wanted to know if we knew anything about NASA. She wanted to become an astronaut. Her classmate, a vocal young man wearing the blue and white sweater of the school uniform, asked if we knew anything about archeology. He once found part of an ostrich egg and decided he would become an...
If I hear one more person complain about the weather in Cleveland, I’m going to scream. We just had the most glorious spring/summer/fall season in my memory. So now it's (almost) winter. And we don’t have four feet of snow already like states in the north and west. Ohio is not on fire or being drowned in mudslides like...
Situations Where We Can Help Professional Advisors
The Cleveland Foundation will work closely with you to tailor solutions for your clients that meet their charitable giving needs, offer the maximum charitable tax deductions, and provide many ways to incorporate charitable giving into their estate plans. Here are examples of how we...