Highlights from Cleveland Book Week 2023

Hundreds of book lovers gathered to celebrate Cleveland Book Week this fall with a series of events taking place Sept. 22-30 celebrating past and present Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners.   In case you missed them, or would just like to enjoy again, you can watch recordings of author events showcasing 2023 poetry winner Saeed Jones...

Leadership succession: A 21st-century challenge for the arts

More than 10 years ago, a respected colleague of mine, John Kreidler, then the senior arts grantmaker for the San Francisco Foundation, began talking and writing about a critical dynamic of the nonprofit art world: the willingness of arts leaders to discount their labor in order to work in the field of the arts about which they were...

History

The World’s First Community FoundationFrederick H. GoffBanker and lawyer Frederick H. Goff was a “mover and shaker” in Cleveland long before that phrase became part of the American lexicon. Today, the moving and shaking that Goff began with his revolutionary idea have become a benevolent worldwide rumble. And its greatest...

How I Spent My Summer: Benjamin Osowski

I took one picture in Collinwood during our neighborhood tour that really made me think. While working downtown thus far, I have fallen deeper in love with the city. Cleveland is alive with summer time events every single day; Farmers markets near Cleveland State, lunchtime yoga at Star Plaza, live music, Walnut Wednesdays, the list...

July Grant Highlights

We’re thrilled to announce $6.8 million in July grants to organizations serving residents of Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties. Here are just a few highlights in the areas of music, health, environment, education, aging and neighborhoods: $195,000 to Cleveland Leadership Center supporting the launch of “Advancing Cleveland,”...