From urban farming and community solar to inclusive environmental access and advocacy, we are witnessing a more racially diverse collective of environmental and climate leaders emerge in Cleveland (and beyond).”

We cannot achieve climate justice without racial justice.

Grantmaking /

Awarded Grants

Arts

Americans for the Arts Inc.

Washington, DC

Arts education activities.

$10,000
Apollo’s Fire The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Artist’s fees.

$25,000
Art House, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Start-up support.

$54,000 over 2 years
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000 over 2 years
Arts Renaissance Tremont

Cleveland, Ohio

Program expenses.

$2,500
Arts Renaissance Tremont

Cleveland, Ohio

Akron Symphony Orchestra performances for children.

$3,000
Broadway School of Music and the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Capacity-building initiative.

$20,000
The Center for Documentary Studies

Durham, North Carolina

Doubletake Documentary Film Festival.

$5,000
Cesear’s Forum

Twinsburg, Ohio

Marketing.

$2,500
Charenton Theater Co.

Cleveland, Ohio

Outdoor summer theater.

$5,000
The Children’s Museum of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Organizational and fundraising capacity project.

$25,000
Cleveland Artists Foundation

Lakewood, Ohio

Professionalization and organizational growth program.

$12,500
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$90,000
Cleveland Fire Fighters Memorial Fund

Cleveland, Ohio

Fire Fighters Memorial.

$20,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Workshop for Greater Cleveland arts organizations.

$2,500
Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland, Ohio

Development office expansion.

$44,000
Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland, Ohio

Planning expenses.

$50,000
Cleveland Institute of Music

Cleveland, Ohio

Distance learning.

$30,000
Cleveland International Film Festival Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000
Cleveland International Film Festival Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland International Film Festival travel.

$7,500
Cleveland Modern Dance Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000
Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, Ohio

Parade the Circle outreach workshops.

$15,000
Cleveland Play House

Cleveland, Ohio

Opening production.

$90,000
Cleveland Pops Orchestra

Beachwood, Ohio

Holiday Pops Concert marketing.

$12,500
Cleveland Public Art, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support.

$75,000
Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

SAFMOD’s production of “Requiem Descending.”

$2,000
Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Gordon Square Theatre floor renovation.

$25,000
Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support.

$70,000
Cleveland Signstage Theatre, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Transitional support.

$20,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Chamber Symphony.

$15,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Chamber Symphony.

$5,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

‘Envisioning the Future: Utopia, Dystopia and Beyond’ project.

$5,000
Community Partnership for Arts and Culture

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000
Council of Chief State School Officers, Incorporated

Washington, DC

Arts Education Partnership.

$15,000
Creative Writing Workshop Projects

Cleveland, Ohio

Langston Hughes Young Writers Project.

$2,000
Csardas Dance Company

Cleveland, Ohio

Planning activities.

$1,000
Cuyahoga Community College

Cleveland, Ohio

Showtime at High Noon.

$7,500
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Community Music Program.

$30,000
Dobama Theatre Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Artistic and Night Kitchen support.

$28,000
Downtown Cleveland Partnership

Cleveland, Ohio

Lower Euclid Artists Project.

$5,000
Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Summer day camp.

$6,000
Ensemble Theatre of Cleveland

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$23,000
Fine Arts Association

Willoughby, Ohio

Organizational capacity project.

$10,000
Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Photography program.

$17,000
Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

New Plays Festival.

$40,000 over 2 years
Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Theater Collective.

$6,500
Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Education Department.

$90,000
GroundWorks Dancetheater

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Heights Arts Collaborative Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Start-up funding.

$30,000 over 2 years
Hitchcock Center for Women, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Living Legacy Project.

$5,000
International Women’s Air and Space Museum, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Career Fair.

$3,000
Karamu House

Cleveland, Ohio

Theater program.

$50,000
Kenan Institute for The Arts Foundation

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

‘Building Creative Economies: Arts, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Appalachia’ conference.

$2,000
Lyric Opera Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Artistic and new venue expenses.

$40,000
The Mattress Factory, Ltd

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cleveland outreach.

$5,000
Media, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

‘Applause’ programming about arts and culture in Cleveland.

$30,000
Merrick House

Cleveland, Ohio

Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival.

$1,000
Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support.

$15,000
Musical Arts Association The Cleveland Orchestra

Cleveland, Ohio

Martin Luther King Jr. concerts.

$16,000 over 2 years
National Public Radio, Inc.

Washington, DC

Midwest coverage.

$40,000
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Cincinnati, Ohio

Audience research and exhibit testing.

$5,000
Near West Theatre

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$18,000
New Cleveland Opera Company, dba Cleveland Opera

Cleveland, Ohio

Education department.

$60,000
The New Orchestra of Cleveland

Solon, Ohio

Administrative start-up expenses.

$25,000
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

New York, New York

International Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar.

$7,500
Northern Ohio Children’s Performing Music Foundation, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic planning and succession planning.

$5,000
Off Hollywood Flick Fest

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$17,500
Ohio Alliance for Arts in Education

Columbus, Ohio

Arts education assessment project.

$25,000
Ohio City Near West Development Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Open Air in Market Square arts activities.

$2,500
Ohio Dance Theatre

Oberlin, Ohio

Student performances in Cleveland.

$6,000
Opera Circle Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$5,000
Poets League of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Literary center programming.

$20,000
Professional Flair, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Dancing Wheels.

$20,000
The Repertory Project

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Collections management system.

$25,000
Safmod Performance Ensemble

Cleveland, Ohio

New work development.

$5,000
Sankofa Fine Arts Plus

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Fine Arts Expo education programs.

$1,500
Sculpture Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Transitional support and board development.

$11,500
Shaker Square Area Development Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Art Fair on Shaker Square.

$2,000
The Silver Factory, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Photography education.

$5,000
SPACES

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Tom Evert Dance Company

Euclid, Ohio

Consultant services.

$5,400
Tri-C JazzFest

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$31,500
Western Reserve Historical Society

Cleveland, Ohio

Programming activities.

$30,000
Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Initiative for Cultural Arts in Education.

$125,000

Civic Affairs

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.

New York, New York

Protecting civil liberties activities in wake of September 11.

$50,000 over 2 years
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Program organizing.

$6,000
American Forum

Washington, DC

Ohio Forum.

$6,000
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

Washington, DC

Legal Action Project.

$40,000
Center for Democratic Renewal and Education, Inc.

Atlanta, Georgia

Ohio Toolkit for victims of hate crimes.

$7,500
Citizens League Research Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
The City Club Forum Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Website redevelopment.

$50,000
City of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Policy and best practices program for Cleveland City Council.

$7,500
Cleveland Development Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Leadership Cleveland.

$2,500
Cleveland Development Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Mayoral Transition Committee.

$7,500
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Community Advocacy Legal Clinic.

$50,000
Commission on Catholic Community Action

Cleveland, Ohio

Racial Fairness in the Criminal Justice System monitoring project.

$36,499
The Cuyahoga Plan of Ohio, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Fair housing programs.

$50,000
Educational Fund To End Handgun Violence

Washington, DC

Firearms Litigation Clearinghouse.

$25,000
Fund For An Open Society

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

‘Integration Works II: Building Open and Thriving Communities’ conference.

$5,000
Heights Community Congress

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Integration maintenance and community relations.

$17,000
Kids Voting Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$7,500
Lake View Cemetery Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

September 11 day of remembrance.

$2,000
Law Enforcement Foundation, Inc.

Dublin, Ohio

Law Enforcement Professional Career Development training program.

$12,000
League of Women Voters of Cleveland Educational Fund, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Promoting Civic Education in Cleveland project.

$60,000
League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Voters Guide 2002.

$6,000
Look Up to Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$6,000
The Metropolitan Strategy Group Education Fund, Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Consulting services related to merger with Housing Advocates, Inc.

$15,000
National Urban Fellows, Inc.

New York, New York

Cleveland placements.

$32,500
Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission

Columbus, Ohio

Project to make sentencing documents available electronically.

$2,000
Violence Policy Center

Washington, DC

Research and advocacy on gun violence.

$30,000

Economic Development and Community Revitalization

American Institute for Social Justice, Inc.

Washington, DC

Community organizing in Collinwood neighborhood.

$20,000
Broken Connections, Inc.

East Cleveland, Ohio

‘Establishing a City of Refuge’ project.

$7,500
Cleveland Development Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

ArtSpace Cleveland symposium on artists’ live/work housing in Cleveland.

$1,000
Cleveland Development Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

‘Twelve Degrees of Freedom: R. Buckminster Fuller, Connections’ exhibition.

$5,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Richard Shatten Memorial Fund.

$7,500
Cleveland Historic Warehouse District Development Corp.

Cleveland, Ohio

Commercial and residential development activities.

$32,000
Cleveland Housing Network, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$90,000
Cleveland Neighborhood Development Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000
Cleveland Restoration Society Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Neighborhood housing and landmark preservation programs.

$40,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Exhibit on the history of lakefront planning in Cleveland.

$1,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Neighborhood Leadership Cleveland and related programs.

$40,626
Cleveland Tenants Organization

Cleveland, Ohio

Upgrading news-letter and other communications.

$6,000
Cleveland Tomorrow

Cleveland, Ohio

Public engagement in lakefront highway quieting and land use planning.

$125,000 over 18 months
Cleveland Tomorrow

Cleveland, Ohio

Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition.

$50,000
Consumer Federation of America Foundation

Washington, DC

Cleveland Saves campaign.

$40,000
Corporation for Enterprise Development

Washington, DC

Greater Clevelanders’ participation in IDA Learning Conference.

$5,000
Coventry Village Special Improvement District of Cleveland

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Redevelopment project management.

$20,000
Downtown Cleveland Partnership

Cleveland, Ohio

Downtown real estate activity.

$150,000
East Cleveland Farmers Market Preservation Society

East Cleveland, Ohio

Market management.

$15,000
EcoCity Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Neighborhood community gardens.

$7,500
Enterprise Development, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Minority Assistance Program.

$40,000
First Suburbs Consortium Development Council

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

First Suburbs Development Council.

$50,000
Generation Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Study of NASA Glenn Research Center’s economic development potential.

$20,000
Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Film production coordination and website enhancement.

$40,000
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Neighborhood Leadership Institute.

$20,527
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Digital Vision.

$6,000
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Neighborhood Leadership Institute start-up support.

$7,500
Harbor Heritage Society

Cleveland, Ohio

Visitor programming and marketing.

$60,000
Hard Hatted Women

Cleveland, Ohio

Employment services.

$40,000
The Historic Gateway Neighborhood Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Commercial and residential development activities.

$48,000
Kent State University Foundation

Kent, Ohio

Cleveland Urban Design Center.

$140,000
Kent State University Foundation

Kent, Ohio

Urban Design Fellow program.

$25,000
Local Initiatives Support Corporation

New York, New York

CEO for Cities program.

$25,000
Local Initiatives Support Corporation

New York, New York

20th anniversary activities.

$5,000
Lutheran Housing Corporation

East Cleveland, Ohio

East Cleveland housing program.

$60,000
Metropolitan Area Research Corporation

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Study of socioeconomic disparity and regional growth in Ohio.

$5,000
National Trust for Historic Preservation

Washington, DC

National Preservation Conference in Cleveland.

$25,000
Negro Baseball Hall Of Fame, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Start-up planning.

$30,000
Neighborhood Progress Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$1,250,000 over 2 years
The North Cuyahoga Valley Corridor, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

National Heritage Corridor improvements.

$40,000
Ohio CDC Association

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Ohio CDC Association

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$7,000
Organize Ohio Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Parkworks, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Program support.

$60,000
Policy Matters Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

State-level public policy research on economic issues.

$150,000
Second Growth Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Five Points Redevelopment Project in Collinwood.

$30,000
Shorebank Enterprise Group Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$400,000
St. Vincent Quadrangle, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Reorganization.

$30,000
Trinity Cathedral

Cleveland, Ohio

Trinity Commons construction project.

$50,000 over 2 years
University Circle Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Engineering and design of Circle Walk project.

$10,000
University Circle Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Annual meeting programming.

$4,000
Urban League of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Capacity-building.

$50,000
WECO Fund, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Youth Individual Development Account program.

$25,000
Westside Industrial Retention & Expansion Network

Cleveland, Ohio

Industrial corridor and economic development strategy initiative.

$67,500
Westside/Eastside Congregations Acting Now, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000

Education

21st Century School Fund, Inc.

Washington, DC

Building Educational Success Together initiative.

$35,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.

New York, New York

Public education campaign on school vouchers.

$50,000
American Youth Policy Forum

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$40,000 over 2 years
Archaeological Conservancy

Albuquerque, New Mexico

‘American Archaeology’ magazine.

$20,000
Baldwin-Wallace College

Berea, Ohio

Presidential Discretionary Fund.

$100,000 over 2 years
Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations.

$200,000 over 2 years
Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

President’s Initiative Fund.

$500,000 over 2 years
Center on Education Policy

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$265,000 over 2 years
City Year Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

Young Heroes program.

$40,000
Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System

Cleveland, Ohio

2002 regionwide book reading campaign, “North Coast Neighbors Share a Book.”

$7,500
Cleveland Botanical Garden

Cleveland, Ohio

School Garden Outreach Program.

$100,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Community Building Initiative

Cleveland, Ohio

Family Education Center.

$20,000
Cleveland Heights/University Heights City School District

University Heights, Ohio

Wiley Middle School improvement planning activities.

$7,200
Cleveland Heights/University Heights Public Schools Foundation

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Reaching Heights operating support.

$75,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Initiative for Education

Cleveland, Ohio

Activities to impact academic standards, principal leadership and teacher quality in the Cleveland Municipal School District.

$600,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Academic standards implementation.

$100,000
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Communications initiatives

$20,000
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

CEO Support and Development Fund.

$45,000
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Implementation of School-to-Career Plan.

$80,000
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Establishment of the Office of Institutional Advancement.

$87,500
Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland, Ohio

Project coordinator for “Journeys Through Africa” exhibit.

$25,000
Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Student Theatre Enrichment Program.

$4,000
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

President’s Initiative Fund.

$250,000 over 2 years
Community Renewal Society

Chicago, Illinois

“CATALYST: for Cleveland Schools” newsmagazine.

$200,000
Cuyahoga Community College

Cleveland, Ohio

Teachers’ Aid, Inc.

$5,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Greater Cleveland Higher Education Fellowship.

$7,500
Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center

Peninsula, Ohio

Establishment of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association.

$85,000 over 2 years
Earth Day Coalition

Cleveland, Ohio

Northeast Ohio Student Environmental Congress.

$30,000 over 2 years
East Cleveland Pastors for Progress

East Cleveland, Ohio

East Cleveland Educational Summit.

$5,000
El Barrio, Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Los Conquistadores After-School and Summer Program.

$15,000
Engineers and Technicians of the Future

Cleveland, Ohio

Engineering robotics competition.

$2,500
Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation Inc.

Brookline, Massachusetts

Greater Cleveland program.

$30,000 over 2 years
Federation for Community Planning

Cleveland, Ohio

Implementation of Cleveland Municipal School District comprehensive health plan.

$250,000 over 2 years
Federation for Community Planning

Cleveland, Ohio

Nominating panel process for Cleveland Municipal School District school board.

$29,500
Federation for Community Planning

Cleveland, Ohio

Research regarding youth development and governance of the Cleveland Municipal School District.

$30,000
Federation for Community Planning

Cleveland, Ohio

Monitoring state education funding and policies.

$7,300
Federation for Community Planning

Cleveland, Ohio

Research related to youth development agenda.

$7,500
Film Arts Foundation

San Francisco, California

‘They Closed Our Schools’ documentary.

$30,000
Global Issues Resource Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Positive S.P.I.N. Program.

$30,000
Hathaway Brown School

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Aspire Program for minority and low-income girls.

$35,000
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Scholarship fund.

$1,500
John Carroll University

University Heights, Ohio

Institute for Educational Renewal.

$100,000 over 2 years
KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio Eight Coalition.

$40,000
Lake Erie Junior Nature and Science Center

Bay Village, Ohio

Resource Center specialist.

$20,000
Lake Erie Junior Nature and Science Center

Bay Village, Ohio

Board development and organizational communications project.

$5,000
Lakewood City Public Schools

Lakewood, Ohio

Establishment of Lakewood Project, a high school rock orchestra.

$15,000
Lakewood Public Library Foundation

Lakewood, Ohio

Sharp Student Academy.

$6,500
Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Executive search.

$2,000
Libraries for the Future

New York, New York

Operating support.

$7,500
Merrick House

Cleveland, Ohio

Youth employment and urban gardening program.

$17,000
Minority Student Achievement Network

Evanston, Illinois

Operating support.

$45,000
National College Access Network

Cleveland, Ohio

Annual conference.

$5,000
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to Disadvantaged and Handicapped Youth

New York, New York

E-City Cleveland start-up support.

$5,000
National Gardening Association, Inc.

South Burlington, Vermont

‘Orchard Elementary: Slow Change in Fast Times’ documentary.

$7,500
Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair

Cleveland, Ohio

2002 Science Fair.

$2,000
Ohio Aerospace Institute

Cleveland, Ohio

Regional Alliance for Informal Science Education (RAISE).

$40,000
Ohio Campus Compact

Granville, Ohio

VISTA volunteer training program.

$5,000
Ohio Children and Educators Assistance Network, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

‘A Salute to Teachers-Celebrating Cleveland’s Educators’ program.

$1,000
Ohio State University Development Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Urban gardening program.

$50,000
The Old Stone Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Parenting and Literacy Program.

$7,500
Poverty and Race Research Action Council

Washington, DC

Research project on private funding of public education.

$29,700
Project Learn, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Development office.

$20,000
Rethinking Schools Limited

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Operating support.

$40,000 over 2 years
Rethinking Schools Limited

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Public awareness campaign on vouchers.

$7,250
Rural School and Community Trust

Randolph, Vermont

The Fund for Rural Education Equity.

$25,000
Shaker Heights City School District

Shaker Heights, Ohio

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

$100,000 over 2 years
Shaker Heights City School District

Shaker Heights, Ohio

‘Crossings’ documentary.

$6,450
Shaker Heights Youth Center, Inc.

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Expulsion program start-up support.

$25,000
Sisters of St. Dominic of Akron – Our Lady of the Elms

Akron, Ohio

Farm-based environmental education program for Cleveland schools.

$5,000
The SOS Test Preparation Program of Emmanuel Baptist Church

Cleveland, Ohio

Tutoring program.

$5,000
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund

New York, New York

Operating support.

$15,000
United Church of Christ

Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio Close the Gap Campaign.

$45,000
United Negro College Fund, Inc.

Fairfax, Virginia

Operating support.

$15,000
Urban League of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Career Beginnings.

$35,000
US Foundation for the Inspiration and Recognition of Science

Manchester, New Hampshire

FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotic Competition.

$2,500
The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars

Washington, DC

Ohio Capital Scholars Program.

$2,000
Westside Industrial Retention & Expansion Network

Cleveland, Ohio

School-to-career youth workforce development.

$45,000 over 18 months
Women in History

Lakewood, Ohio

Greater Cleveland public schools project.

$5,000
Youth Opportunities Unlimited

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic plan implementation.

$5,000
Youth Opportunities Unlimited

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000

Environment

Alaska Conservation Foundation

Anchorage, Alaska

Operating support.

$25,000
American Farmland Trust

Washington, DC

Ohio office operating support.

$70,000 over 2 years
Buckeye Environmental Network

Grove City, Ohio

People Power project.

$30,000
Buckeye Forest Council, Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Forest protection on public land.

$25,000
Center for Health Environment and Justice

Falls Church, Virginia

Stop Dioxin Exposure Campaign.

$40,000
Center for Public Interest Research, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

Project to advocate

$25,000
Chagrin River Watershed Partners, Inc.

Willoughby, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000 over 2 years
Citizens Policy Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Campaign contributions disclosure in Ohio.

$43,000
Citizens Policy Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Statewide program to execute “good neighbor agreements” with industrial facilities.

$48,000
The Clean Air Conservancy

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland ozone database project.

$50,000
Cleveland Metroparks System

Cleveland, Ohio

Planning for greenway along the east branch of the Rocky River.

$50,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland, Ohio

Conference on West Nile Virus.

$1,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio Conservation Alliance.

$5,250
Collins Center for Public Policy, Inc.

Miami, Florida

Strategic Assessment Project.

$6,500
Cuyahoga Countryside Conservancy

Peninsula, Ohio

Re-establishment of farmsteads in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

$45,000
Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
The Delta Institute

Chicago, Illinois

Lake Erie Fish Consumption Advisory project.

$45,000
Earth Day Coalition

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$120,000 over 2 years
EcoCity Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Building the Livable Urban Edge BLUE Project.

$110,000
EcoCity Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$65,000
EcoCity Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Green building strategies for the Cleveland Municipal School District.

$7,000
Ecological Design Innovation Center

Oberlin, Ohio

Northern Ohio Foodshed Alliance.

$15,000
Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Washington, DC

Policymaker briefings on energy and smart growth.

$40,000
Environmental Fund for Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$35,000
Environmental Health Watch Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Healthy Indoor Environments for Children project.

$100,000 over 2 years
Environmental Law Institute

Washington, DC

Federal and state policy research on invasive species control.

$25,000
Environmental Support Center, Inc.

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$40,000
Environmental Working Group

Washington, DC

Lead poisoning prevention program in Ohio.

$45,000
Foundation for Environmental Education

Columbus, Ohio

Wind Powering Ohio project.

$5,000
The Friends of the Crooked River, Inc.

Peninsula, Ohio

Organizational planning.

$15,000
Grand River Partners, Inc.

Painesville, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000 over 2 years
Great Lakes United

Amherst, New York

Great Lakes Action Agenda.

$2,000
Great Lakes United

Amherst, New York

Habitat and Biodiversity Taskforce.

$50,000
Green Energy Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
The Greene Environmental Coalition, Inc.

Yellow Springs, Ohio

Cleanup 2000 Project.

$35,000
Heartwood, Incorporated

Bloomington, Indiana

Operating support.

$20,000 over 2 years
Institute for Conservation Leadership

Takoma Park, Maryland

Great Lakes Executive Director Training Program.

$100,000 over 18 months
International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals

Cumberland, Ohio

Center for Restoration Ecology.

$96,000 over 2 years
The Izaak Walton League of America, Inc.

Gaithersburg, Maryland

Great Lakes Wetland Conservation Policy Workshop.

$4,000
Land Trust Alliance, Inc.

Washington, DC

Ohio land trust training and technical assistance.

$45,000
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Inc.

Washington, DC

Facilitation of an Ohio coalition on energy issues.

$5,000
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Inc.

Washington, DC

List enhancement, SOAP Project, coalition-building and leadership development in Ohio.

$50,000
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Air quality project.

$1,750
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

Columbus, Ohio

Policymaker education on smart growth in Ohio.

$47,067
National Audubon Society

New York, New York

Bird conservation programs in Ohio.

$48,000
National Wildlife Federation

Reston, Virginia

Great Lakes Mercury Phaseout Project.

$40,000
Natural Resources Council of America, Inc.

Washington, DC

Leadership Roundtable.

$20,000
Ohio & Erie Canal Corridor Coalition, Inc.

Akron, Ohio

Operating support.

$46,000 over 2 years
Ohio Lake Management Society

Kent, Ohio

Citizen Lake Awareness and Monitoring program in Northeast Ohio.

$5,000
Ohio League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Legislative Agenda Setting Summit.

$2,000
Ohio League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Ohio Parklands Foundation

Westerville, Ohio

Ohio Greenways project.

$50,000
Ohio River Advocacy

Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio River basin conservation coordination and technical assistance.

$25,000
Ohio to Erie Trail Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Field consultants.

$5,000
Outdoor Writers of Ohio

Willoughby, Ohio

Annual convention and educational program.

$2,000
The Regents of the University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Great Lakes Radio Consortium training for environmental journalists.

$25,000
River Network

Portland, Oregon

National River Rally scholarships for Great Lakes river conservation activists and Clean Water Act online tutorial project.

$30,000
Rivers Unlimited

Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio Environmental Enforcement Campaign.

$25,000
Safe Energy Communication Council

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$40,000
Shorebank Enterprise Group Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Entrepreneurs for Sustainability Project.

$25,000
Shorebank Enterprise Group Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Entrepreneurs for Sustainability Project.

$6,250
The Sierra Club Foundation

San Francisco, California

Wayne National Forest management plan.

$1,500
The Sierra Club Foundation

San Francisco, California

Great Lakes Clean Air Program in Ohio.

$30,000
The Society of Environmental Journalists Inc.

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

Conference scholarships for Ohio journalists.

$7,200
St. Clair-Superior Coalition

Cleveland, Ohio

Environmental Issues Organizing Project.

$35,000
Surface Transportation Policy Project

Washington, DC

Smart Growth America.

$50,000
Tides Center

San Francisco, California

Funders Forum on Environment and Education Wingspread Symposium on Healthy Schools.

$6,000
Trust for Public Land

San Francisco, California

Revolving loan fund for open space purchase in Northeast Ohio.

$150,000
Trust for Public Land

San Francisco, California

Ohio office operating support.

$50,000
Union of Concerned Scientists

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Federal policy research and education on invasive species control.

$25,000
University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Earth Shareholders Report.

$30,000
Water Watch of Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Operating support.

$25,000
West Creek Preservation Committee

Parma, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Western Reserve RC&D, Inc.

Painesville, Ohio

Center for Farmland Preservation in Northeast Ohio.

$48,000
Western Reserve RC&D, Inc.

Painesville, Ohio

Countryside Program to promote residential conservation development.

$60,000
Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council, Inc.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Cuyahoga Valley Partnership program to restore habitat on corporate land.

$20,000
Worldwatch Institute

Washington, DC

Rebuilding Local Foodsheds workshop in Cleveland.

$1,000

Human Services

Advocates for Youth

Washington, DC

Public policy and MTV project.

$50,000
Alliance for Children and Families

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Faces of Change Project.

$7,500
Alliance for Justice

Washington, DC

Nonprofit Advocacy Project and Foundation Advocacy Initiative.

$35,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.

New York, New York

Reproductive Freedom Project.

$75,000
Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Birth parent counseling services.

$100,000 over 2 years
Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau

Shaker Heights, Ohio

HIV/AIDS risk reduction program.

$12,000
Berea Children’s Home

Berea, Ohio

Government affairs and public policy program.

$35,800
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$35,000
Catholics for a Free Choice

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
CCAO Research and Educational Foundation, Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Biennial Legislative Education Seminar.

$14,200
Center for Families and Children

Cleveland, Ohio

Local government liaison and annual public policy conference.

$40,000
Center for Law and Social Policy

Washington, DC

Welfare reform initiatives.

$50,000
Center for Leadership in Education, Inc.

Elyria, Ohio

Reggio Emilia exhibit.

$15,000
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$250,000 over 2 years
Chagrin Falls Park Community Center

Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Emergency support for the Child Developmental and Family Resource Center.

$7,500
Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest

Washington, DC

Training conference.

$30,000
The Children First Campaign Education Fund

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$25,000
Choice USA

Washington, DC

Next Generation Campaign.

$50,000
Christian Legal Services of Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Staff support.

$15,000
City of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Community re-entry strategy.

$50,000
City of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Girls summer basketball league.

$7,920
Clergy United For Juvenile Justice, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Project Restoration.

$45,000
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Hope Center.

$40,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Center for Poverty Studies.

$15,000
Cleveland Works, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Housing Trust Fund initiative.

$25,000
Communications Consortium Media Center

Washington, DC

Foster Parent Association of Cuyahoga County.

$25,000
Contact Center, Inc.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio Empowerment Coalition’s annual statewide grassroots welfare conference.

$2,500
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Infant and toddler program.

$25,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Faculty Development Project on the Brain.

$40,000
Cuyahoga County Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Inc.

Warrensville Heights, Ohio

Special education conference.

$2,500
East End Neighborhood House Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Project Seed.

$28,000
East End Neighborhood House Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Development support.

$5,000
The Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, Inc.

Albany, New York

Hospital Access Project.

$6,200
The Equal Justice Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Legal assistance for low-income families.

$110,000
Families USA Foundation, Inc.

Washington, DC

‘Strange Bedfellows’ initiative to expand health insurance coverage.

$150,000
Federation for Community Planning

Cleveland, Ohio

Public policy, advocacy and public finance project.

$170,000 over 2 years
Feminist Majority Foundation

Arlington, Virginia

National Clinic Access Project.

$35,000
The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio

Nelsonville, Ohio

Kids in Distressed Situations (K.I.D.S.) Program.

$25,000
The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Needle Exchange Program.

$50,000
Funders Concerned About AIDS, Inc.

New York, New York

Public policy program.

$15,000
Glenville Community Youth Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Summer Youth Employment and Youth Enrichment Programs.

$11,000
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Early Childhood Funders Collaborative fall convening.

$6,000
Greater Cleveland Committee on Hunger

Cleveland, Ohio

Emergency food community coordination plan.

$80,000 over 2 years
Greater Cleveland Healthcare Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Northeast Ohio Nursing Resource Center.

$20,000
Hampshire College

Amherst, Massachusetts

Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program.

$30,000
Harvard Community Services Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Development activities.

$5,000
Helen Keller International, Inc.

New York, New York

Cleveland ChildSight Program.

$60,000 over 2 years
Hunger Task Force of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Community liaison and client advocacy.

$15,000
Lexington-Bell Community Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Summer day camp.

$15,000
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Association of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Westhaven youth shelter.

$50,000 over 2 years
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Association of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Advocacy staff.

$6,000
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

New York, New York

Continuation of Urban Change study.

$200,000 over 2 years
Merrick House

Cleveland, Ohio

Community AIDS Prevention Program.

$15,425
Ms. Foundation for Women, Inc.

New York, New York

Collaborative Fund for Youth-Led Social Change.

$50,000 over 2 years
Ms. Foundation for Women, Inc.

New York, New York

Reproductive Rights Collaborative Fund.

$50,000 over 2 years
National Abortion Rights Action League of Ohio Education Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Education activities.

$25,000
National Abortion Rights Action League of Ohio Education Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Emergency administrative support.

$3,000
National Health Law Program, Inc.

Los Angeles, California

Medicaid policy analysis.

$50,000
National Women’s Law Center

Washington, DC

Reproductive health and child care programs.

$70,000
Neighborhood Health Care Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Community education materials.

$2,500
New Life Community

Cleveland, Ohio

Graduate housing specialist.

$25,000
Northern Kentucky Children’s Law Center, Inc.

Covington, Kentucky

Juvenile defense study.

$15,000
Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks

Columbus, Ohio

Anti-hunger advocacy and food stamp participation.

$45,000
Ohio Family Care Association

Columbus, Ohio

Capacity-building and staff support.

$45,000
Ohio Family Care Association

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$5,000
Ohio State University Development Fund

Columbus, Ohio

Young Women’s Summer Institute.

$5,000
Parkworks, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Junior community parks liaisons and Showagon Performing Arts Troupe.

$15,000
Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Camp Mueller evaluation and bridge operating support.

$29,000
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

New York, New York

Adolescent reproductive health program and Access to Care project.

$20,000
Public Children Services Association of Ohio, Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Attendance at Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families conference.

$1,292
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Princeton, New Jersey

Cover the Uninsured Week.

$50,000
Rutgers University Foundation

Piscataway, New Jersey

National Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project.

$35,000
Rycus-Hughes Institute for Human Services

Columbus, Ohio

Colloquia on child welfare issues.

$27,000
The Salvation Army

Cleveland, Ohio

PASS program.

$35,000
The Salvation Army

Cleveland, Ohio

Summer camp.

$7,500
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States

New York, New York

Public policy program and welfare reform project.

$50,000
Shoes for Kids, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic planning.

$7,500
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, New York

Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism.

$40,000
UHHS/CSAHS-Cuyahoga, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Community-based health initiative.

$25,000
Universal Health Care Action Network

Cleveland, Ohio

Health Care Justice Coalition.

$50,000
Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Capacity-building.

$30,000
University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

Curriculum Development for “Give Us Your Poor” documentary.

$20,000
The Urban Institute

Washington, DC

Returning Home study.

$75,000
Women’s Leadership Fund

New York, New York

The White House Project.

$5,000
Worldwide Documentaries, Inc.

Bloomfield, New York

‘A Closer Walk’ documentary.

$6,000
Young Men’s Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Y-Haven transitional housing program.

$40,000
YWCA of Cleveland Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Teen parenting and pregnancy prevention programs.

$35,000

Special Commitments

BBB Wise Giving Alliance

Arlington, Virginia

Operating support.

$3,000
BoardSource

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$5,000
Business Volunteers Unlimited

Cleveland, Ohio

Technical assistance to nonprofit organizations.

$25,000
Changemakers

San Fancisco, California

Operating support.

$5,000
Collins Center for Public Policy, Inc.

Miami, Florida

Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.

$7,500
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity Inc.

San Francisco, California

Operating support.

$5,000
Council on Foundations, Inc.

Arlington, Virginia

Operating support.

$35,000
Foundation Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$20,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

Retinitis pigmentosa research.

$2,000,000
The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio

Nelsonville, Ohio

Grantseekers reference collection project.

$5,000
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc.

New York, New York

Operating support.

$2,000
Funders Network on Population Reproductive Health and Rights

Rockville, Maryland

Operating support.

$2,500
Grantmaker Forum on Community and National Service

Berkeley, California

Membership and operating support.

$4,000
Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families, Inc.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Operating support.

$4,000
Grantmakers for Education

Portland, Oregon

Operating support.

$3,000
Grantmakers in Health

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$3,500
Grantmakers in the Arts

Seattle, Washington

Operating support.

$3,000
The Greater Cleveland Community Shares

Cleveland, Ohio

Open Ohio project.

$5,000
The Greater Cleveland Community Shares

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$65,000 over 2 years
Independent Sector

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$12,500
Independent Sector

Washington, DC

Annual conference in Cleveland.

$45,000
Media, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Local television news programming.

$250,000 over 2 years
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$7,500
Neighborhood Funders Group, Inc.

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$3,000
Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Ohio Grantmakers Forum

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Ohio Grantmakers Forum

Columbus, Ohio

Website redesign.

$5,000
Ohio Grantmakers Forum

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$8,000
Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc.

New York, New York

Environmental Grantmakers Association.

$1,100
Tides Center

San Francisco, California

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.

$1,000

$19,698,906 / 443 Grants