Two national conferences will bring foundation representatives from across the country to downtown Cleveland this fall. It’s So Easy Funding Green: The First National Conference for Funders on Green Building and Green Neighborhoods will take place October…
The George Gund Foundation made commitments at its September meeting to help develop plans for a “campus town” in University Circle, create a system for a universal pre-kindergarten program in Cuyahoga County and introduce environmentally sensitive…
New Cleveland Festival Debuts Labor Day Weekend Cleveland’s arts and technology communities have joined forces to present Ingenuity: A Fusion of Arts and Technology, a unique festival with more than 200 performances and events celebrating creativity in…
Projects to stop the “brain drain” in Northeast Ohio, stage events on Cleveland’s lakefront and coordinate efforts to improve early childhood education in Ohio received funding from the George Gund Foundation at its June meeting. The…
Cathy M. Lewis, who has played a leadership role with many Cleveland organizations, has been named to the George Gund Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Lewis was a member of the Citizens’ Committee on AIDS/HIV that devised…
The Center for Families and Children, in partnership with The George Gund Foundation, the Nord Family Foundation, the Saint Ann Foundation and the Cleveland Foundation, will sponsor the conference “Doing Well While Doing Good: The Role of Health…
NE Ohio Citizens to Create Agenda for Our Region’s Future The Fund for Our Economic Future, a collaboration of more than 60 philanthropic organizations working to improve the Northeast Ohio economy, is launching an ambitious project…
When foundations talk about their work, it is largely the work of their grantees that they describe. Most foundations do not run programs; the non-profits they fund run them. It is certainly true that the work…