Encore Cleveland

Define Your Next Chapter The Cleveland Foundation supports leadership across generations for the benefit of our community. Launched in 2013 by the Cleveland Foundation, Encore Cleveland helps to connect and fund a network of local organizations offering meaningful opportunities for Greater Clevelanders who are retired or nearing...

An Encore for Cleveland Artists

Heard of Encore Cleveland? It's an effort to to channel the time, energy and talents of experienced Clevelanders into solving community challenges and filling unmet needs. Encore Cleveland opportunities abound in many areas, from entrepreneurship and education to arts and culture.Take the Encore Artists program at Benjamin Rose Institute...

Day of Family Fun: Dec. 30

In case you missed it, our December centennial gift to the community is “Cleveland Foundation Day of Family Fun” featuring a variety of healthy activities at more than three dozen sites in six counties throughout Northeast Ohio on Tuesday, Dec. 30. The gift includes: • Free tobogganing at Cleveland Metroparks Mill Stream Run...

Cleveland Foundation announces $15.6 million in fourth-quarter grants

Cleveland Foundation announces $15.6 million in fourth-quarter grants Foundation awards a record total of $95 million in grants in its centennial year RELEASE DATE: 12.19.2014 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation board of directors today approved $15.6 million in grants for the fourth quarter of 2014. These latest grants bring the...

Summer of Purpose: Stephanie Poutz

I’m helping to make a Greener Greater Cleveland. On the back of West Creek Conservancy t-shirts is a statement that inspires me at my internship every day: “I’m helping to make a Greener Greater Cleveland.” To me, the best part about interning with a nonprofit organization is knowing that my daily responsibilities are working...

#SummerOfPurpose: Katie Kuckelheim

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 Katie Kuckelheim, who is working with the Cleveland Restoration Society where she is integrally involved in research and...

A New Home for the Community’s Foundation

Open New Doors With Us  The Cleveland Foundation is excited to join residents, nonprofit partners and community leaders as part of a larger movement of equitable growth and placekeeping efforts already underway across Cleveland’s MidTown and Hough neighborhoods.   Cleveland Foundation Headquarters Panzica Construction Diversity...

New $500,000 Grant to Cleveland Public Theatre Expands Brick City Program

This month we kicked off our mastery-based arts initiative with a $500,000 grant to Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT), to expand their successful Brick City Theatre program for Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) kids. This new grant highlights our focus on providing access to mastery-based arts programs for underserved young...

Public Service Fellowship Host Organizations

Information for Host Organization Applicants   Host Site applications for the 2024-25 Public Service Fellowship Program will close on Friday, February 9, 2024. Through a competitive application and interview process, recent college graduates are selected from across the country to participate in the Cleveland Foundation Public Service...