Awarded Grants

Education

• America SCORES

  New York, New York

  Cleveland SCORES program.

  $75,000

• American Youth Policy Forum

  Washington, DC

  Congressional staff nonpartisan briefings on educational programs and policies.

  $17,000

• Art On Wheels Inc.

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Student video and photography project on public schools.

  $7,500

• Case Western Reserve University

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organziations.

  $120,000 over 2 years

• Case Western Reserve University

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Mandel Center’s Youth Philanthropy and Service program.

  $50,000 over 2 years

• Center on Education Policy

  Washington, DC

  Operating support.

  $250,000 over 2 years

• City Year Inc.

  Boston, Massachusetts

  Young Heroes Program.

  $45,000

• Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System

  Cleveland, Ohio

  ‘North Coast Neighbors Share a Book’ reading campaign.

  $7,500

• Cleveland Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Regional literacy coalition planning activities.

  Up to $50,000

• Cleveland Heights/University Heights City School District

  University Heights, Ohio

  Dialogue for community-based organizations interested in supporting the school district.

  $1,000

• Cleveland Initiative for Education

  Cleveland, Ohio

  School leadership training and literacy system development.

  $200,000

• Cleveland Initiative for Education

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Review of school reform support organizations.

  $7,500

• Cleveland Municipal School District

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Academic standards implementation.

  $150,000

• Cleveland Municipal School District

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Communications efforts.

  $25,000

• Cleveland Municipal School District

  Cleveland, Ohio

  CEO Support and Development Fund.

  $40,000

• Cleveland Scholarship Programs, Inc.

  Cleveland, Ohio

  College advisory services and last-dollar scholarships for Cleveland and first-ring suburban high school students.

  $75,000

• Cleveland State University Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  First-Ring Leadership Academy.

  $54,000

• Cleveland Tomorrow

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Bond Accountability Commission.

  $75,000

• Community Renewal Society

  Chicago, Illinois

  ‘Catalyst Cleveland’ news magazine.

  $160,000

• Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Cleveland Municipal School Board nominating panel process.

  $10,000

• Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Gap Grant Program.

  $3,500

• Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Youth Technology Academy.

  $50,000

• David N. Myers College

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Capacity building for capital campaign.

  $45,000

• E City

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $25,000

• Earth Day Coalition

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Northeast Ohio Student Environmental Congress.

  $30,000 over 2 years

• East Cleveland Public Library

  East Cleveland, Ohio

  Library expansion and renovation.

  Up to $50,000

• Editorial Projects In Education, Inc.

  Bethesda, Maryland

  National education symposium.

  $5,000

• Education Writers Association

  Washington, DC

  Revision of Covering the Education Beat handbook for journalists and website update.

  $40,000

• Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation Inc.

  Brookline, Massachusetts

  Operating support.

  $15,000

• Federation for Community Planning

  Cleveland, Ohio

  School-community research and education project.

  $7,500

• GLSEN, Inc.

  New York, New York

  National antibullying and harassment programs.

  $100,000 over 2 years

• Grantmaker Forum on Community and National Service

  Berkeley, California

  Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement operating support.

  $5,000

• Grantmakers for Education

  Portland, Oregon

  Briefings on union-district-community collaboration and the achievement gap.

  $5,000

• Grantmakers for Education

  Portland, Oregon

  Operating support.

  $5,000

• Hathaway Brown School

  Shaker Heights, Ohio

  Aspire Program.

  $30,000

• ideastream

  Cleveland, Ohio

  The SMART Consortium.

  $30,000

• ideastream

  Cleveland, Ohio

  RAISE science literacy program.

  $35,000

• John Carroll University

  University Heights, Ohio

  Institute for Educational Renewal.

  $60,000

• KnowledgeWorks Foundation

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Ohio 8 Coalition.

  $25,000

• Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Safe Schools Are for Everyone program.

  $25,000

• Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

  New York, New York

  Opening Doors Enhanced Services Program.

  $100,000 over 2 years

• Merrick House

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Tremont Urban Foods Systems.

  $20,000

• Minority Student Achievement Network

  Evanston, Illinois

  Operating support.

  $50,000

• Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $50,000

• Northeastern Ohio Science Fair

  Chagrin Falls, Ohio

  2004 Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair.

  $2,000

• Ohio Aerospace Institute

  Cleveland, Ohio

  FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotics Program.

  $5,000

• Ohio Fair Schools Campaign

  Athens, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $50,000

• Ohio Grantmakers Forum

  Columbus, Ohio

  Ohio Funders Promoting Service and Service Learning.

  $1,500

• Parents for Public Schools

  Evanston, Illinois

  Evaluation project.

  $7,500

• Public Education Network

  Washington, DC

  Public hearings on the No Child Left Behind Act.

  $75,000

• Senior Outreach Services

  Cleveland, Ohio

  The Living Legacy: Impact of Brown v. Board and Reed v. Rhodes oral history project.

  $17,500

• Shaker Heights City School District

  Shaker Heights, Ohio

  Efforts to close the achievement gap between African-American and white students.

  $80,000 over 2 years

• Temple University

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education Project.

  $128,000 over 2 years

• The Center for Community Solutions

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Cleveland Municipal School District Comprehensive Health Plan implementation assistance.

  $115,000

• The Center for Community Solutions

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Leadership training for Cleveland Municipal School District Board.

  $25,000

• The Center for Community Solutions

  Cleveland, Ohio

  School-community research and communications.

  $27,500

• The Center for Community Solutions

  Cleveland, Ohio

  GIS mapping of sites in Cleveland for after-school activities.

  $5,500

• The Johns Hopkins University

  Baltimore, Maryland

  Institute for Progressive Teacher Union Leadership start-up.

  $50,000

• The Learning Communities Network, Inc.

  Independence, Ohio

  Cleveland Schools Reform Support Case Study project.

  $5,000

• The Old Stone Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Parenting and Literacy Program.

  $5,000

• The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars

  Washington, DC

  Ohio Initiative.

  $5,000

• Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund

  New York, New York

  Operating support.

  $15,000

• United Negro College Fund, Inc.

  Fairfax, Virginia

  Operating support.

  $15,000

• United States Conference of Mayors

  Washington, DC

  Ohio Mayor’s Education Roundtable.

  $25,000

• University of Cincinnati Foundation

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Teacher Quality Partnership program.

  $40,000

• Urban League of Greater Cleveland

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Career Beginnings.

  $35,000

• West Side Community House

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Literacy Collaborative.

  $35,000 over 2 years

• Westside Industrial Retention & Expansion Network

  Cleveland, Ohio

  School to career program planning.

  $8,500

• Youth Opportunities Unlimited

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Operating support.

  $50,000