Recent Grants

Cleveland Foundation grants approved – 6/20/2008

(Does not include designated, donor advised or grants made by supporting organizations)

Arts and Culture

Access to the Arts
General operating support
$5,000

Apollo's Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Strategic sustaining support
$75,000

Art House, Inc.
General operating support
$5,000

Capacity building and 2008-2009 program support
$45,000

Art Therapy Studio
Phase II of its strategic planning
$12,500

Arts Collinwood Inc
General operating support
$5,000

Ashland University
Financial Literacy/Teacher Training Academy
$12,500

Baycrafters (d.b.a BayARTS)
2008 Summer Concert Series
$10,000

Beck Center for the Arts
Capital repairs to the Beck Center Armory building
$100,000

Berea Children's Home & Family Services
Freedom School partnership project
$67,500

Freedom School partnership project at Lakeland Community College
$25,000

Broadway School of Music & the Arts
General operating support
$5,000

Choral Arts Society of Cleveland
General operating support
$5,000

CityMusic Cleveland
General operating support
$5,000

Cleveland BoyChoir, Inc.
General operating support
$5,000

Cleveland Bridge Builders Inc. (d.b.a Cleveland Leadership Center)
Cleveland Executive Fellowship trip to Scandinavia
$15,000

The Cleveland Institute of Art
Planning of the renovation of its existing building and the construction of an addition to US Green Building Council LEED Standards
$50,000

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
General operating support
$5,000

Cleveland Music School Settlement
General operating support
$5,000

Musical Arts Association
Strategic sustaining support
$500,000

Cleveland Play House
Strategic sustaining support
$150,000

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Strategic sustaining support
$75,000

Cleveland Women's Orchestra
General operating support
$5,000

Cleveland Zoological Society
African Elephant Crossing
$500,000

Community Partnership for Arts and Culture
Strategic sustaining support
$300,000

Dobama Theatre, Inc.
General operating support
$,000

East Cleveland Public Library
Planning its presidential letters collection exhibit space
$37,500

Public jazz series
$5,000

Ensemble Theatre
General operating support
$5,000

Great Lakes Theater Festival
Strategic sustaining support
$150,000

GroundWorks Dancetheater
10th anniversary season and creative residencies
$45,000

Jewish Community Center of Cleveland
Leonard Krieger Jewish Film Fest
$90,000

Karamu House
General operating support
$5,000

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
Transportation to enable public school students in Cleveland and inner-ring suburbs to visit the museum
$20,000

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Strategic sustaining support
$100,000

Near West Theatre Inc.
General operating support
$5,000

Opera Circle, Inc.
General operating support
$5,000

Opera Cleveland
Music!Words!Opera!
$5,000

ParkWorks, Inc.
Lake to Lake bicycle and pedestrian trail
$15,000

Passport Project, Inc.
General operating support
$5,000

Playhouse Square Foundation
Discovery Theater Series for Children
$40,000

Strategic sustaining support
$100,000

Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute, Inc.
General operating support
$5,000

St. Vincent Quadrangle, Inc.
Red Dot Project's Market Expansion and Infrastructure Development Initiative
$45,000


Verb Ballets
2008-2009 Pre-Professional and Family Programming
$40,000


Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio
2008 Summer Interns Program
$10,000

Market expansion and sustaining support activities
$150,000


Youth Challenge
General operating support
$5,000

Civic Affairs

City of Painesville
Implementation of the Main Street Program
$15,000

Cleveland Bridge Builders Inc. (d.b.a Cleveland Leadership Center)
Year three of its merger implementation and year four of the Cleveland Executive Fellowship
$700,000

Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority
Trip to study the successes of the Port of Seattle
$17,600

Leadership Geauga County
Leadership Geauga Youth Program
$20,380

Leadership Lake County, Inc.
Strategic planning
$15,000

National Urban Fellows, Inc.
Sponsor an Urban Fellow in Cleveland
$63,000

Walk and Roll Cleveland
2008 Rockefeller Park programming
$7,500

Economic Development

Cleveland Council on World Affairs
Global Cleveland project
$100,000

Cleveland Foundation
Strategic planning of the International Trade Zone and Incentive Study for attracting international companies
$50,000

Kent State University Foundation
Phase two development of the Greater University Circle Community Wealth Enterprise
$50,000

Northeast Ohio Regional Economic Development Foundation (d.b.a. Team NEO)
Wind energy industry assessment
$75,000

Shorebank Enterprise Group Cleveland
Economic Inclusion for Greater University Circle
$750,000

WIRE-Net Expansion Network
Corridors Initiative, a project to expand services to the east side of Cleveland
$190,000

Education

America SCORES
Operating and general support for fall program in one Cleveland Metropolitan School
$5,000

Case Western Reserve University, Office of University Development
Developing a skilled workforce for the energy industry in Northeast Ohio cooperative education program
$62,523

The Cleveland Foundation
Administrative expenses of the Fenn Educational Fund committee activities
$40,000

Cleveland Hillel Foundation, Inc.
Graduate Student Assistant program
$10,000

Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Leading Change Initiative, a principal leadership development program
$38,800

MC²STEM High School
$500,000

Reading Achievement project
$200,000

Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc.
Cleveland State University - BioHealth Care: A Cooperative Education Initiative (year three)
$97,520

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation
E-Business Management Program expansion
$33,593

E City
Youth entrepreneurship program
$50,000

Friends of E Prep Schools
Operating support of the Entrepreneurship Preparatory School
$200,000

Grantmakers for Education
2008-2009 annual membership and general support
$10,000

Hathaway Brown School
ASPIRE program
$100,000

The Intergenerational School
Collaboration Feasibility Study
$40,000

The Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
Public Education Initiative
$3,000

KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Phase III of the Governor's Institute for Creativity and Innovation in Education
$50,000

Lake Erie College
Austin Hall of Science

The Lakeland Foundation
Hispanic Leadership Program
$29,420

Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education
Responding to the Call: Upgrading/Expanding Northeast Ohio's Regional Internship Initiative
$100,000

Ohio Grantmakers Forum
Phase III of the Education Initiative
$70,000

University Circle Incorporated
Early Learning Initiative
$5,000

Education - Scholarship

B aldwin-Wallace College
Charles J. Stilwell Scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year
$12,000

John Carroll University
Henry Ford II Scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year
$2,000

Notre Dame College
R. Earl Burrows Scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year
$6,000

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
Cleveland State University Initiative
$65,495

Environment

Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest
Creation of an Ohio Office
$105,000

National Audubon Society Ohio
Summer Camp at Rockefeller Park Greenhouse
$20,000

New Agrarian Center
City Fresh program
$60,000

Ohio Environmental Council
Diesel pollution reeducation campaign
$50,000

Trust for Public Land
Support of the Cleveland office and its work in Canal Basin Park
$150,000

Health

Cleveland Cord Blood Center
Start-up initiative
$200,000

Cleveland Society for the Blind (d.b.a Cleveland Sight Center)
Fund for the Future capital campaign
$750,000

The Free Medical Clinic of Cleveland
Creation of Behavioral Health Department
$135,000

Health Policy Institute of Ohio
2008-2009 operations: Improving the Health and Well Being of Ohioans through Informed Policy Decisions
$100,000

Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland
Website planning for "Tools for Today and Tomorrow"
$12,200

Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services Foundation
Senior Independence - Implementation of the Advance Care Planning program
$62,605

University Hospitals of Cleveland
Pediatric Contact Lens Program
$10,000

Philanthropic Sector

Business Volunteers Unlimited
Capacity building services to nonprofits and new Volunteer Consulting program
$90,000

Cleveland Foundation
2008 Homer C. Wadsworth Award
$16,000

Cleveland Social Venture Partners
2008 International Social Venture Partners Conference
$7,500

Social Services

American Red Cross, Greater Cleveland Chapter
Citizen Emergency Preparedness Initiative
$199,470

Catholic Charities Community Services Corp.
Families of Incarcerated Persons: Families of Promise program
$70,000

Safe Spaces and Violence Prevention Program at the Fatima Center
$41,000

Cleveland Foundation
Communications strategy and launch of the Youth Development Initiative
$165,000

Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc.
Design a Life: A Community of Ideas conference
$7,500

Cogswell Hall
Renovation of Cogswell Hall
$250,000

Computers Assisting People Inc.
Bridging the Digital Divide
$24,285

Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners
Cuyahoga County Department of Workforce Development – SmartStart 2008 summer youth employment program as part of the Youth Development Initiative
$250,000

Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners
Cuyahoga County District Board of Health – Implementation of the youth transition component of the Youth Development Initiative
$198,958

Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners
Family and Children First Council – Operations of the Youth Development Initiative
$270,000

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority
Community Supportive Services Program
$89,600

Emerald Development and Economic Network Inc.
Program and office expansion
$175,000

Family Pride of Northeast Ohio, Inc
Program Coordinator position
$10,000

Family Transitional Housing, Inc.
Costs related to the merger with the West Side Catholic Center
$75,000

Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center
Gaitway Expansion project
$25,000

The Gathering Place
Moving Forward program for 2008 and 2009
$24,000

Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association
Strategic planning
$16,000

Task Force on Violent Crime (d.b.a Partnership For A Safer Cleveland)
Youth engagement and leadership in the Youth Development Initiative
$150,000

Union Miles Development Corporation
MLK After-School Program
$20,000

Voices For Children of Greater Cleveland (d.b.a Voices for Ohio's Children)
Advocacy component of the Youth Development Initiative
$76,000

Youth Opportunities Unlimited
Youth summer jobs program as part of the Youth Development Initiative
$50,000