Working Together to Address the Nursing Shortage in Ohio

We’ve all heard the sobering statistics about the shortage of nurses: 40 percent of Ohio’s practicing nurses expect to leave the field in the next 10 years – a shortfall of nearly 32,000 registered nurses by 2020. At the same time, an educational bottleneck has resulted from an insufficient and diminishing pool of faculty to teach...

Tickets now available for Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank

Tickets now available for Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank World-renowned presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to deliver Robert D. Gries Keynote Lecture release date: 5.11.2016 CLEVELAND – Free tickets are now available for the Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank, scheduled for...

How I Spent My Summer: Anne Brewka

To be a Cleveland Foundation intern involves balancing work responsibilities at a host organization with participation in the Summer Internship Program’s weekly seminars and events. To be a shared intern between three nonprofit organizations in addition to this balance has proven to be more of a juggling than a balancing act. The...

How I Spent My Summer: Seerat Bahniwal

Improving education for children is one of my passions as a student at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. It's also a focus of STEM, an educational program bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to the urban school systems of Ohio. As a part of my internship with the...

Bridging the digital divide

As a program officer I am extremely fortunate to see many wonderful things individuals are doing daily to help Greater Clevelanders. Much of this work goes unnoticed, only known by the recipients and a few others. At times I'm privileged to play a role in celebrating these programs and the individuals that are key to their success. In...

Robert E. and Ada Hagan Public Service Scholarship

Purpose:  To provide scholarship support for students attending or accepted at Cleveland State University Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs pursuing a public service career. Robert E. Hagan was deeply committed to public service. He was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and he marched in civil rights protests and on...

Summer of Purpose: Diamond Green-Phillips

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 Diamond Green-Phillips, who is working with Joseph’s Home, where she is assisting with grant writing, social media and...

#GivingTuesdayNow: A Global Day of Giving and Unity on May 5

Giving Tuesday is an international day of charitable giving that normally takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. Recognizing the enormous need caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Giving Tuesday organizers are responding with #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of giving and unity that will take place on May 5, 2020...