A Novel Singing Zambia, Poetry from a “Deaf Republic” and a Group Portrait of Anthropology’s Renegades Have All Won the 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

A Novel Singing Zambia, Poetry from a “Deaf Republic” and a Group Portrait of Anthropology’s Renegades Have All Won the 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Release Date 3.30.2020 CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2020 recipients of the only...

May Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day on Wade Oval

May Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day on Wade Oval May 24 will be the first free Saturday for Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Western Reserve Historical Society Includes special free programming at the always-free Cleveland Museum of Art Download the Cleveland Foundation Day on Wade...

Summer of Purpose: Maria Ferrato

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 Maria Ferrato, who spent her summer at Cleveland Kids' Book Bank, where she is working with various community...

Happiness and ecstacy: Existence temporarily suspended – living in a creative flow

I first encountered the concept of "flow" more than 40 years ago at a summer ceramics workshop in California. One of the instructors tried to explain what happened in that moment of creativity at the potter’s wheel when we felt excited and calm at the same time, and when everything was going so exactly as it should that it seemed we...

Frank Jason Feola, Ph.D.: A Life Lived for Others and a Legacy that Lives On

There’s a common thread that links the stories told about Frank Jason Feola, Ph.D.Frank’s father, Frank Sr., tells a story from Frank’s high school days. A talented artist, Frank had the opportunity to tour Europe with Mentor’s Top 25 Show Choir. When a classmate fell seriously ill on the trip, Frank went out of his way to take...

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...

Now Recruiting: Summer Interns

For fifteen years, the Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship program has stayed true to its goal of connecting undergraduate and graduate students with meaningful, career-related experiences in nonprofit and public sector agencies. The program adds value to the agencies by recruiting the talent and providing funding to pay the interns...

#SummerOfPurpose: Armin Ameri

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 Armin Ameri, who is working with the Refugee Response, where he works in close cooperation with the Director of Education...