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#SummerOfPurpose: Ebony Kennedy

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 Ebony Kennedy...

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Cleveland Book Week Continues!

It’s Cleveland Book Week (CBW), which means there’s a great lineup of literary and literacy-focused events happening now through Saturday! CBW events celebrate Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners past and present, and many programs are free to attend. You...

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#SummerOfPurpose: Cheyanne Martin

Our #SummerOfPurpose blog series followed this year’s Cleveland Foundation Summer Interns as they spent 11 weeks working with Cleveland-area nonprofit and public sector organizations. In today’s blog we hear from Cheyanne Martin, who worked with the Maltz...

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August Grant Highlights

We’re excited to announce $2.6 million in August grants to organizations serving Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga County residents! Many of our August grants support human services and vital resources for area residents, as well as arts and educational programs for...

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#SummerOfPurpose: Briana Snoddy

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 Briana Snoddy, who is working with Towards...

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#SummerOfPurpose: Brittany Kincaid

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 Brittany Kincaid, who is working with...

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Noteworthy Women in Philanthropy

Cleveland has never been at a loss for brave, forward-thinking women. Here at the Cleveland Foundation, we're proud that many such women have shaped our history, and continue to shape our future. In 1935, poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf founded...

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