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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