Awarded Grants

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

• 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

• 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 National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to Disadvantaged and Handicapped Youth

  New York, New York

  E-City Cleveland start-up support.

  $5,000

• The Old Stone Foundation

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Parenting and Literacy Program.

  $7,500

• The SOS Test Preparation Program of Emmanuel Baptist Church

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Tutoring program.

  $5,000

• The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars

  Washington, DC

  Ohio Capital Scholars Program.

  $2,000

• 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

• 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