#BlackFuturesFundCLE: Finding the Value in Education

By Cameron Aloway, Cleveland Foundation Marketing & Communications Intern   The Cleveland Foundation is proud to announce the second round of grantmaking for the Cleveland Black Futures Fund. In the second round of funding, monetary grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 will be available, in addition to a limited number of...

Excellence in Teaching Awards Celebrate Cleveland Educators

We are thrilled to unite with The George Gund Foundation, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), and the Cleveland Teachers Union, to honor outstanding educators within Cleveland public schools. This week, we will celebrate the inaugural Excellence in Teaching Awards, which recognize teachers in our community who demonstrate...

Cleveland Foundation Announces the 2016 Greater Cleveland Caucus Series

Cleveland Foundation Announces the 2016 Greater Cleveland Caucus SeriesMarch 12 event launches a year-long partnership effort to engage Greater Clevelanders in shaping the future of our region Release date: 2.12.2016CLEVELAND – In this important year for our nation and our community, the Cleveland Foundation, The City Club of...

2016: A Year in Blog Posts

Throughout the year, we have been sharing news and stories from the foundation on our bi-weekly blog. As we close out 2016 and ring in the New Year, we’re celebrating a few of the top stories from our year of blogging:A foundation of leadership We started the year with exciting news that our President & CEO Ronn Richard was ranked...

How I Spent My Summer: Stephanie Pedicini

I think I've heard the word "partnership" more in the past week and a half than I ever have in my entire life. Just to be clear, this type of "partnership" that I am referring to is defined as "a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal." This partnership is...

Cleveland’s Arts Sector: Bucking the Trends

The Grantmakers in the Arts READER: Ideas and Information on Arts and Culture is a much anticipated, thrice-yearly journal for professional arts grantmakers. The fall 2010 issue offered a compilation of research across the field that is chock full of interesting, useful, and sometimes scary data. Often scary data.  Helicon...

2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners include stories that navigate racial politics’ influence on Asian-American identity, Indigenous people’s shaping of American history, and race at the intersection of art and history

Cleveland, OH (March 26, 2024) – The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by the Cleveland Foundation, today announced the winners of the 89th annual awards. The 2024 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity are: Maxine Hong Kingston, Lifetime Achievement Ned...

Cleveland Foundation announces inaugural Public Service Fellows

Cleveland Foundation announces inaugural Public Service FellowsMillennials from across the country to be partnered with six Greater Cleveland agencies for year-long fellowships designed to inspire the next generation of public sector leaders Release Date: 5.5.16CLEVELAND – In an effort to create a pipeline of new talent for...

Foundations for Philanthropy: Le’Priya White shares their experience

Presented by the Cleveland Foundation’s Center for Philanthropy, Foundations for Philanthropy is an interactive cohort experience designed to launch emerging leaders into lifelong charitable giving. Supporting a pipeline of diverse, rising philanthropists, the program shares the critical skills and strategies necessary to leverage time...