The Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners is collaborating with almost two dozen community, corporate and private foundations on a five-year, $70 million-plus Invest in Children (IIC) initiative that will focus on creating quality early childhood development programs and services. The…
CLEVELAND, OH — The George Gund Foundation awarded grants at its September meeting to organizations working to improve public policy in Ohio related to child welfare, public education, adoption and health care access. “Year after year we make…
The Foundation is conducting a search for a senior program officer in education to replace Jeffrey Glebocki who has accepted a position at the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust in Arizona. For more information about the…
The George Gund Foundation has launched a new website, www.gundfoundation.org, to provide up-to-date information to the nonprofit community about the Foundation’s priorities and interests. The site features a searchable database of all grants made since 1997 as…
CLEVELAND, OH — George Gund Foundation Trustees made a $1.6 million grant at their June meeting for construction of the Idea Center, a downtown facility that will serve as a shared home for ideastream, Cleveland’s public broadcasting organization,…
CLEVELAND, OH — Jill Paulsen, a recent graduate of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University, has been awarded the first George Gund Foundation Fellowship. The George Gund Foundation Fellowship provides an opportunity for…
The Fund for Our Economic Future (the Fund), an unprededented response by the philanthropic sector to the many pressing long-term economic challenges facing Northeast Ohio (NEO), recently made its first grants to four initiatives viewed as…
Cleveland’s environmental community has created a new website that will serve as a portal to environmental and conservation organizations in Northeast Ohio. The new site includes a directory of environmental and conservation organizations, a community calendar…