The Greater Cleveland Interfaith Alliance (GCIA), launched with support from the Cleveland Foundation in 2015, strives to bring houses of worship together across lines of race, faith tradition, geography and more to serve the community. Formerly called the Greater Cleveland Faith Based Collaborative, the Alliance creates opportunities for...
African American philanthropists in Greater Cleveland are inviting others to join their change-making movement, which is having a positive impact in local communities and raising the profile of those who give back. The 2022 African American Philanthropy Summit presented by the Cleveland Foundation will be held April 30 from 8 a.m. to 1:30...
Cleveland Foundation’s eighth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit will provide both in-person and virtual options on April 30
Luncheon keynote speaker is Michele Ghee, CEO of EBONY and JET magazines
Release Date: 3.22.2022
CLEVELAND – The eighth biennial African American Philanthropy Summit, presented by the African...
By Sinegugu Gasa, Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow for Community Narrative and Engagement
Why do we celebrate Black History Month?
Did you know that each year, Black History Month focuses on a particular theme to accompany the month-long reflections and celebrations of our nation’s history? This year’s theme is...
By Cameron Aloway, Cleveland Foundation Marketing & Communications Intern
Referred to as America’s pastime, baseball is a quintessential sport that has brought community members together to cheer on their favorite teams. The sport gives many people the opportunity to participate and play with others. But for people who are blind...
In this #SummerOfPurpose blog, we catch up with Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship Program alum Shneur Kushner, who shares his reflections on his 2020 internship at Union Miles Development Corporation. Shneur now works as a special projects officer at Slavic Village Development where he helps encourage future leaders as an intern...
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 Zoe Bale, who spent her summer with Community Partnership on Aging, where she assisted with a new...
By Maggie McGrath, Executive Director, Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland
New classes, professors, study groups, meeting new people, dining halls, roommates and dorms…
These are some of the things most of us think about when we remember our college experiences. For the high school graduating class of 2020, which enrolled...
Schedule unveiled for virtual Cleveland Book Week 2021; Hour-long Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards show to air on WVIZ/PBS
86th class of winners to be featured in documentary-style production
Release Date: 9.9.2021
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the schedule for the sixth annual Cleveland Book Week. This year’s...
The Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center (ASC3) started with a simple question.
In the early 2000s, as people were connecting to the internet in greater numbers, small business owner and long-time community activist Wanda Davis saw that many of her fellow residents in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood seemed slow to adopt emerging...