Scholarship FAQs

Answering Your Questions Expand AllWho can apply for a scholarship offered through the Cleveland Foundation?Please see our "How to Apply" page for all the details. The scholarships have varied and diverse criteria beyond the universal requirements. Visit our Scholarship Listings page where you can click on individual scholarships for...

Grantmaking FAQs

Answers to Your Questions Expand AllWhat types of programs do you fund? The Cleveland Foundation makes most of its grants to tax-exempt agencies classified as 501(c)(3) organizations (public charities as defined by the Internal Revenue Service) in Cuyahoga, Lake, and Geauga counties. Some grants are also made to government agencies and...

Schedule Announced for Cleveland Book Week 2017

Schedule Announced for Cleveland Book Week 2017Colson Whitehead, Professional Book Nerds Podcast and 82nd annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards among events promoting Cleveland as a literary destinationRELEASE DATE: 08.16.17CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the schedule for the second annual Cleveland Book Week. This...

Ronald B. Adrine

Appointed 2022 by the Bank Trustees Committee Ronald B. Adrine is a life-long resident of Greater Cleveland. He graduated from Fisk University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He passed the Ohio bar in l973. In 1974, he joined the staff of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor as an assistant in the criminal trial division. In 1976...

Organizational Funds

Strengthening our Community It seems that just when a charitable organization is needed most by its constituents, funds from private, philanthropic and government resources become all the more difficult to obtain. Forward-thinking board members and staff of charitable organizations are discovering the need to establish stable investments...