Announcing the host sites for the 2024-25 Public Service Fellowship!

Seventeen fellows will be placed across 11 organizations including the City of Cleveland, the Cleveland Foundation as part of the marketing and communications team, Cuyahoga County, Greater Cleveland Partnership, and seven community development corporations serving neighborhoods across the city.   The City of Cleveland will host a...

December Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day of Family Fun

December Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day of Family Fun Foundation’s final centennial gift to provide free, healthy activities at 38 sites throughout Northeast Ohio Release Date: 12.3.2014     Updated: 12.15.2014 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation’s December – and final – centennial gift to the community involves...

Summer of Purpose: Connor Brentar

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 Connor Brentar, who spent his summer at Bike Cleveland assisting in planning a youth bike summit and providing...

Public Service Fellowship

Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship Timeline March 19 - April 3* – Semi-Finalist Interviews April 8 - May 3* – Virtual Finalist Interviews with Host Agencies Week of April 22 – Fellows Selection Begins August 1* – Fellowship Begins *Candidates must be available on these dates  Creating Pathways to Careers...

Summer of Purpose: Nahomy Ortiz-Garcia

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 Nahomy Ortiz-Garcia, who is working with Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center (JDB) and East End Neighborhood House on...

#SummerOfPurpose: Heather Eby

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 Heather Eby, who is working with West Creek Conservancy on the "Repurposing Parmadale" capital campaign, as well as...

#SummerOfPurpose: Samantha Greenfield

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 Samantha Greenfield, who spent her summer at Cleveland Public Theatre, where she provided support in finance, accounting...

History

The World’s First Community FoundationFrederick H. GoffBanker and lawyer Frederick H. Goff was a “mover and shaker” in Cleveland long before that phrase became part of the American lexicon. Today, the moving and shaking that Goff began with his revolutionary idea have become a benevolent worldwide rumble. And its greatest...