And since, like everything else, climate change affects us all differently, it follows that those closest to the problems are closest to the solutions, taking leadership where they are planted.”

What do you see? Who do you follow? Who is in your center?

Grantmaking /

Awarded Grants

Arts

Apollo’s Fire The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Cleveland outreach project.

$15,000
Art House, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Business plan.

$10,000
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Cleveland, Ohio

Seeing Green art exhibition.

$3,000
Arts Collinwood Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Capacity building.

$20,000
Beck Center for the Cultural Arts

Lakewood, Ohio

Market research and communication plan development.

$26,987
Broadway School of Music and the Arts

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and software upgrade.

$12,000
CityMusic Cleveland Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

City of Cleveland concerts.

$22,000
Cleveland Arts Education Consortium

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Cleveland Arts Prize

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

New project development.

$8,000
Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Ingenuity Festival.

$90,000
Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland, Ohio

Capital campaign.

$1,500,000
Cleveland International Film Festival Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support.

$90,000
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra

Bedford, Ohio

Jazz at the Hanna and board development.

$17,000
Cleveland Modern Dance Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$35,000
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Rock your world with STEAM Family Festival.

$10,000
Cleveland Play House

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and marketing support.

$110,000
Cleveland Public Library

Cleveland, Ohio

Octavofest 2011.

$5,000
Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support and DanceWorks.

$85,000
Community Partnership for Arts and Culture

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support.

$260,000
Dobama Theatre Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble

Shaker Heights, Ohio

International Peace Day performance.

$1,000
Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

El Sistema@Rainey.

$60,000 over 2 years
Gordon Square Arts District

Cleveland, Ohio

Discover Gordon Square Arts District Day.

$2,500
Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Education programs and 50th anniversary events.

$120,000
Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Photography.

$2,000
Inlet Dance Theatre

Cleveland, Ohio

Capacity building project.

$10,000
Karamu House

Cleveland, Ohio

Theater support.

$60,000
LIT Cleveland’s Literary Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Public fiction and poetry workshops.

$5,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$90,000
National Public Radio, Inc.

Washington, DC

Midwest news coverage.

$100,000 over 2 years
Near West Theatre

Cleveland, Ohio

Spring and summer programs.

$20,000
Ohio Credit Union Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Noteworthy Credit Union Community Development Financial Institution technical assistance.

$10,000
Opera Circle Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$15,000
Opera Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Taskforce facilitator.

$10,000
Piano International Association of Northern Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Executive director transition.

$7,375
Playhouse Square Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Capacity building projects.

$150,000 over 2 years
Professional Flair, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Promotional videos.

$10,000
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Induction Week community events.

$50,000
Roots of American Music Inc.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

New program development.

$20,000
Sculpture Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Sculpture XChange.

$6,000
Shore Civic Center Corporation

Euclid, Ohio

Program expansion.

$20,000
SPACES

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$55,000
St. Vincent Quadrangle, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Red Dot project.

$15,000
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ohio Cultural Data Project.

$25,000
Verb Ballets

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$35,000
Verb Ballets

Cleveland, Ohio

Space renovation.

$7,500
Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

ArtWorks summer program.

$10,000
Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Art is Education program.

$125,000
Zygote Press Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating and project support.

$30,000

Economic Development and Community Revitalization

Black Professional Association Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Scholarship program.

$10,000
Cleveland Development Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

TechBelt Initiative.

$5,000
Cleveland Housing Network, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategic initiatives in neighborhood stabilization.

$100,000
Cleveland Leadership Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Look Up to Cleveland attendance at State of the County address.

$1,750
Cleveland Leadership Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Transparency Action Plan Summit.

$10,000
Cleveland Leadership Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$50,000
Cleveland Restoration Society Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Preservation programs.

$20,000
Cleveland Social Venture Partners

Cleveland, Ohio

Challenge Cuyahoga Kick-Off event.

$10,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Re-thinking the Future of Community Development in Cleveland project.

$20,000 over 2 years
Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization

Cleveland, Ohio

Capitol Theatre sign.

$10,000
Downtown Cleveland Alliance

Cleveland, Ohio

Collaborative efforts for the economic success of Downtown Cleveland.

Up to $250,000
Economic Growth Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Cuyahoga County transition.

$10,000
Economic Growth Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Greater Cleveland Marketing Alliance.

$100,000 over 2 years
Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Film production, attraction and coordination.

$60,000
Hiram College

Hiram, Ohio

Listening to Young Voters program.

$10,000
Hispanic Business Association

Cleveland, Ohio

Storefront signage.

$14,680
Jewish Federation of Cleveland

Beachwood, Ohio

Global Cleveland.

$100,000
Neighborhood Progress Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Study on individual and community asset building.

$10,000
Neighborhood Progress Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Strategy development consultant.

$10,000
Ohio City Near West Development Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Market 100.

$60,000
Ohio IAF Education Fund Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Parkworks, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

German Marshall Fund Cleveland Waterfront project.

$5,000
Parkworks, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

LAND Studio operating and project support.

$775,000 over 2 years
Policy Matters Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$60,000
Presidents’ Council Foundation Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$25,000
Summer on the Cuyahoga

Bay Village, Ohio

Operating and administrative support.

$10,000
The Center for Community Solutions

Cleveland, Ohio

NEO Data Consortium.

$7,500
The German Marshall Fund of the United States – A Memorial to the Marshall Plan

Washington, DC

Cities in Transition initiative.

$10,000
Trinity Cathedral

Cleveland, Ohio

Trinity Commons operating support.

$25,000
University of Akron Foundation

Akron, Ohio

Building the Ohio Innovation Economy summit.

$20,000

Education

Chess for Success Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Municipal School District chess program.

$10,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland.

$10,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland.

$50,000
Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Portfolio of Excellent Schools strategy.

$800,000
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Office of New and Innovative Schools.

$200,000
Cleveland Public Art, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Market Square park community art tiles preservation.

$5,000
College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

College access and advising services and scholarships.

$125,000
Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County

Valley View, Ohio

First Ring Superintendents Collaborative.

$200,000
Esperanza Incorporated

Cleveland, Ohio

Bilingual programming to support Hispanic achievement.

$40,000
Friends of Breakthrough Schools

Cleveland, Ohio

Breakthrough Charter Schools growth plan.

$400,000
Grantmakers for Education

Portland, Oregon

Operating support.

$10,000 over 2 years
Hathaway Brown School

Shaker Heights, Ohio

The Aspire Program.

$40,000
Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Program support.

$200,000
National Council on Teacher Quality

Washington, DC

Review of Ohio schools of education.

$25,000
Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio charter school law guidebook.

$3,200
Ohio Grantmakers Forum

Columbus, Ohio

State education policy initiative.

$35,000
OneCommunity

Cleveland, Ohio

Community Technology Executive program.

$55,000 over 6 months
Teach For America Inc.

New York, New York

Launch of Teach for America in Cleveland.

$500,000
Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Washington, DC

State education policy initiative.

$5,000
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Princeton, New Jersey

Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship.

$46,500
Youth Opportunities Unlimited

Cleveland, Ohio

Program and operating support.

$85,000

Environment

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Chicago, Illinois

Operating support.

$25,000
Beyond Pesticides

Washington, DC

Safe lawn and garden campaign.

$40,000
Buckeye Forest Council, Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Biomass forest protection campaign.

$50,000
Chagrin River Watershed Partners, Inc.

Willoughby, Ohio

Strategic planning.

$25,000
Cincinnati Energy Alliance Inc.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Northeast Ohio Energy Efficiency Alliance.

$40,000
Clean Fuels Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$40,000
Cleveland Botanical Garden

Cleveland, Ohio

RIPE! Food and Garden Festival.

$5,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland, Ohio

GreenCityBlueLake Institute operating support.

$100,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland, Ohio

Fresh Water Innovation Alliance start-up.

$200,000
Community Food Security Coalition Inc.

Portland, Oregon

Food Policy from Neighborhood to Nation conference.

$10,000
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Peninsula, Ohio

Marketing and technology upgrades.

$45,000
County of Cuyahoga

Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio Farm to School conference.

$10,000
Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy

Peninsula, Ohio

Marketing for outreach events.

$10,000
Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy

Peninsula, Ohio

Operating support.

$180,000 over 2 years
EcoWatch

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000 over 2 years
Enterprise Community Partners Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

Northeast Ohio Energy Efficiency Alliance.

$10,000
Environment Ohio Research and Policy Center Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$35,000
Environmental Health Watch Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Greater Cleveland Clean Air campaign.

$10,000
Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest

Chicago, lllinois

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
Great Lakes United

Amherst, New York

Operating support.

$30,000
Greater Ohio Policy Center Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000
Green Energy Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Institute for Conservation Leadership

Takoma Park, Maryland

Capacity building initiatives.

$185,000 over 2 years
Institute of Applied Phenomenology in Science and Technology Inc.

Canal Fulton, Ohio

‘Waking the World Up To Water’ film production.

$5,000
Land Trust Alliance, Inc.

Washington, DC

Capacity building for Ohio land trusts initiatives.

$20,000
Lorain County Community College Foundation

Elyria, Ohio

WestShore Corridor Transportation Project.

$3,000
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio farmland preservation.

$90,000 over 2 years
Nature Conservancy

Arlington, Virginia

Operating support.

$50,000
North Union Farmers Market

Cleveland, Ohio

Final phase of organizational capacity building.

$7,500
Northeast Ohio Chapter of the United States Green Building Council

Cleveland, Ohio

Northeast Ohio Green Building resource directory.

$35,000
Oberlin College

Oberlin, Ohio

Oberlin project implementation.

$50,000
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund

Cincinnati, Ohio

Campaign to retire old coal plants in Ohio.

$35,000
Ohio City Bicycle Co-Op

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association

Columbus, Ohio

Advocacy for sustainable farm policies.

$45,000
Ohio Environmental Council

Columbus, Ohio

Public policy and advocacy work.

$150,000
Ohio Grantmakers Forum

Columbus, Ohio

Local food movement tour.

$500
Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc.

New York, New York

RE-Amp project.

$55,000
Slavic Village Development

Cleveland, Ohio

Bike Cleveland.

$60,000
State Environmental Leadership Program

Madison, Wisconsin

Annual conference.

$5,000
The Burning River Foundation Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Burning River Fest.

$5,000
The Ohio State University Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Food Policy from Neighborhood to Nation Conference.

Up to $10,000
The Ohio State University Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Community gardening program.

$109,522 over 2 years
Tremont West Development Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio

Flats governance and visioning initiative.

$10,000
Trust for Public Land

San Francisco, California

Operating support.

$150,000 over 2 years
Water Watch of Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Western Lake Erie Association Inc.

Toledo, Ohio

Lake Erie improvement forum.

$3,800
Young Men’s Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Healthy Communities Active Transportation Conference.

$5,000

Human Services

Advocates for Youth

Washington, DC

Education and advocacy promoting comprehensive sexuality education.

$50,000
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio Advocates Youth Leadership Council.

$29,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.

New York, New York

Reproductive Freedom Project.

$40,000
Center for Families and Children

Cleveland, Ohio

Mental Health Advocacy Coalition.

$25,000
Center for Families and Children

Cleveland, Ohio

Breakthrough Preschool Project.

$40,000
Cleveland Foodbank, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Advocacy and public education initiative.

$50,000
Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Capital campaign.

$150,000
Cleveland Housing Network, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Emergency support for families.

$5,000
Cleveland Mediation Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Emergency housing services.

$4,000
Cleveland Municipal School District

Cleveland, Ohio

Responsible Sexual Behavior program.

$40,000
Cleveland State University Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Forums on health care reform implementation

$5,000
Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

State policy advocacy on homeless and low-income housing issues.

$120,000 over 2 years
Community Care Network, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Cudell Boys Basketball Leagues.

$9,000
Community Catalyst, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

Health care reform implementation in Ohio.

$100,000 over 2 years
Community Catalyst, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

National Advisory Board on Religious Restrictions to Health Care.

$80,000 over 2 years
Community Re-Entry, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Women’s Re-Entry Network.

$60,000 over 2 years
Council for a Strong America

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$45,000
County of Cuyahoga

Cleveland, Ohio

Invest in Children: universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) program.

$1,000,000 over 3 years
Daily Dose of Reading

South Euclid, Ohio

Literacy programming at Lee Harvard Medical Center.

$10,000
Daybreak, Inc.

Dayton, Ohio

Roadmap To Youth Housing Project.

$10,000
Domestic Violence Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Merger support.

$13,000
Domestic Violence Center

Cleveland, Ohio

The Tina Project.

$75,000 over 2 years
Early Childhood Funders Collaborative

Operating support.

$5,000
Early Childhood Funders Collaborative

Operating support.

$10,000
Families in Schools

Los Angeles, California

Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors program in Cuyahoga County.

$30,000
Family Planning Services of Lorain County

Elyria, Ohio

Adolescent reproductive health services.

$50,000 over 2 years
Grantmakers in Health

Washington, DC

GIH Health Reform Resource Center Fund

$10,000
Health Policy Institute of Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support.

$200,000 over 2 years
InterReligious Partners in Action of Greater Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Homeless Stand Down program.

$7,500
Lake County Free Medical Clinic

Painesville, Ohio

Planning for federal health care reform.

$1,373
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry

Cleveland, Ohio

Interim management of St. Herman’s House of Hospitality.

$10,000
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry

Cleveland, Ohio

Advocacy program.

$30,000
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry

Cleveland, Ohio

Volunteer program at men’s emergency shelter.

$35,000
Media In The Public Interest, Inc.

Boulder, Colorado

Ohio News Connection.

$10,000
Merrick House

Cleveland, Ohio

Advocates for Budget Legislation Equality.

$90,000 over 2 years
MetroHealth Foundation, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Partners in Care medical home initiative.

$100,000 over 18 months
NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Reproductive advocacy issues.

$5,000
New Life Community

Cleveland, Ohio

New Life Community and Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cleveland merger expenses.

$25,000
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Northern Kentucky Children’s Law Center, Inc.

Covington, Kentucky

Ohio juvenile justice reform initiative.

$100,000
Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association

Columbus, Ohio

Medicaid eligible for home visiting service.

$10,000
Ohio Children’s Hospital Association Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Solutions for Patient Safety initiative.

$150,000 over 2 years
Ohio Grantmakers Forum

Columbus, Ohio

Funders network on health care reform implementation.

$20,000
Ohio Justice and Policy Center

Cincinnati, Ohio

A Working Ohio is a Safe Ohio initiative.

$50,000
Oriana House

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Transition Center.

$50,000
PFLAG Cleveland

Berea, Ohio

Operating support.

$10,000
Preterm Cleveland, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio

Workshop on secondary trauma and trauma stewardship.

$5,000
Public Interest Projects Inc.

New York, New York

National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Justice Systems.

$60,000
Recovery Resources

Cleveland, Ohio

Recovery Resources and Spectrum merger implementation.

$40,000
Shaker Family Center at Sussex

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Merger implementation.

$10,000
Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood planning.

$65,000
The Center for Community Solutions

Cleveland, Ohio

groundWork strategic planning.

$7,500
The Center for Community Solutions

Cleveland, Ohio

AIDS Funding Collaborative.

$70,000
The Children’s Museum of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Capital campaign feasibility consultant.

$10,000
The Ohio State University Foundation

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Health Care Coverage and Quality Council Payment Reform Summit.

$5,000
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Partnership for America’s Economic Success.

$50,000
Third Sector New England, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

BUILD initiative.

$100,000
Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio Inc.

Columbus, Ohio

Operating support and healthcare reform implementation.

$100,000 over 2 years
Voices for Ohio’s Children

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$100,000

Special Commitments

Business Volunteers Unlimited

Cleveland, Ohio

Capacity building services to nonprofits.

$55,000
Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$70,000 over 2 years
City Year Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

City Year Cleveland Support.

$80,000 over 2 years
Cleveland Social Venture Partners

Cleveland, Ohio

bigBang! Conference on Social Innovation.

$7,500
Council on Foundations, Inc.

Arlington, Virginia

Operating support.

$34,500
Diocese of Ohio Episcopal Community Services Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Episcopal community services.

$20,000
Environmental Grantmakers Association

New York, New York

Operating support.

$1,000
Foundation Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Operating support.

$30,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

Retinal degenerative disease research.

$2,000,000
Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc.

Columbia, Maryland

Cleveland VisionWalk.

$5,000
Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, Inc.

Coral Gables, Florida

Operating support.

$50,000 over 2 years
Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families, Inc.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Operating support.

$5,000
Grantmakers in Health

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$5,000
Grantmakers in the Arts

Seattle, Washington

Operating support.

$3,000
Grants Managers Network, Inc.

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$2,000
Independent Sector

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$12,500
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Washington, DC

Operating support.

$10,000
Ohio Grantmakers Forum

Columbus, Ohio

Annual Conference.

$10,000
Philanthropy Northwest

Seattle, Washington

PRI Makers Network.

$5,000

$16,550,187 / 225 Grants