20,000 New Manufacturing Jobs by 2020

…), MAGNET’s new program seeks to help companies with annual sales of between $10 million and $500 million create new products and enter new markets, thus propelling double-digit percentage sales growth. A second foundation grant of $400,000 awarded in early 2013 will enable MAGNET to expand PRISM’s portfolio of clients with an eye to fostering the creation of 20,000 new jobs in northeastern Ohio by 2020….

Portfolio of 20 Innovative and Excellent Schools

…in the talent and promise of urban youth, the Cleveland Foundation sought to demonstrate that public school students could achieve their potential if given an opportunity to learn in high-performance educational settings. In 2006, the foundation partnered with the George Gund Foundation and the Cleveland Municipal School District to create a portfolio of new, innovative and excellent schools. To date, the two foundations have contributed more…

Global Impact

…tions (GFCF), the Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) and a team of research and communications specialists to develop an easily accessible online information platform for the field. CommunityFoundationAtlas.org was unveiled in the fall of 2014. A formal atlas survey was prepared by the project’s research consultant, Barry Knight, a social scientist based in the United Kingdom who has previously assisted the GFCF and WINGS with…

Grant Search

Grant Search Year Span 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 to 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Amount $0 $500 $1,000 $5,000 $25,000 $50,000 $100,000 $250,000 $500,000 $1,000,000 $5,000,000 $10,000,000 to $0 $500 $1,000 $5,000 $25,000 $50,000 $100,000…

Board of Directors

…’s degree from Case Western Reserve University. × Ric Harris Board: 2002–2005 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Read Bio Ric Harris Board: 2002–2005 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee From 2000 to 2005, Ric Harris was vice president and general manager of WEWS-NewsChannel 5 in Cleveland. A Cleveland native, he attended John Carroll University, where he was a leader on two PAC championship basketball teams. He…

Rebirth of Playhouse Square

…each year about 1,000 arts and entertainment events that draw a combined audience of one million. In the 1990s, the Cleveland Foundation helped PSF save a fourth theater, the Allen, from demolition and contributed $750,000 in 2011 toward the theater’s remodeling into a state-of-the-art home for the Cleveland Play House. Marshaling broad-based community support, Great Lakes Theater successfully completed a $19 million campaign that renovated the…

Terms

…nks to websites of various nonprofits and nonprofit resources. Unless we expressly state otherwise, the Cleveland Foundation makes no representations whatsoever concerning the content of those sites. A link to a website from www.ClevelandFoundation.org is not an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship or affiliation with respect to such site, its owners or providers. This privacy policy applies solely to the information collected by this site….

Goff’s Vision

…e to be made primarily from earnings on principal, the gifts made to a community trust would form a permanent and, in time, sizable endowment. To put it in contemporary terms, one might think of Goff’s concept as a community savings account that earns interest and investment income. Citizen trustees, representing all sectors of the community, award grants from these earnings to worthy nonprofit organizations and causes. Some of Goff’s banking…

Increased Public Access to the Cuyahoga River

…ought assistance from the Cleveland Foundation, which recognized the challenge as an opportunity to expand public access to the Cuyahoga River. The foundation connected CRF with the Trust for Public Land (TPL), a conservancy organization. With the support of a $250,000 foundation grant awarded in 2010 on the condition the monies be applied toward the creation of a public green space, CRF and TPL were able to raise the funds needed to purchase…