November Grantees Announced totaling $459,526

We are pleased to announce that our Board of Directors approved $459,526 in grants on November 20, 2025. The recipients included the following programs:

November Open Grants

Boys Hope Girls Hope of Northeastern Ohio - BHGH Academy Program - $15,000

Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc. - 2026 Summer Scholars Program - $10,000

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company - PROJECTS38: 2025-2026 School Year - $10,000

Cleveland Museum of Natural History - 2025-2026 CLE4SCI Inspire Program with CMSD - $15,000

Cleveland School of the Arts Board of Trustees - CSA Festival of New Works 2025-26 - $10,000

College of Wooster - B-WISER Science Camp for Teen Girls - $12,000

Columbus Symphony Orchestra Inc. - Columbus All City Orchestra - $10,000

Community Food Initiatives - Deepening the Roots: CFI Garden Education - $10,000

Contemporary Theatre of Ohio - In-School Residency Program - $15,000

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation - The Orchestra Program (TOP) FY26 - $15,000

Cuyahoga County Public Library - K-3 Grade-level reading rd support - $10,000

Erase the Space - Youth Advocacy Collaborative - STREEM - $19,000

Esperanza Inc. - Pathways for Youth Success - $15,000

Ideastream - FY26 NewsDepth - $15,000

Lake Erie Ink - A Writing Space for Youth - $9,896

Learning About Business Inc. - LAB Week 2026 - $12,000

Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland - LGBTQ+

School-Based Programming - $15,000

Licking Heights Local Schools - Invent the Future - $12,000

Miami University - Early Career Teacher Communities of Practice - $20,000

Middletown City Schools - Morphing Into Readers (Phase 2) - $15,000

Minds Matter - Summer College Immersion Programs- $25,000

Musical Arts Association - Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra - $30,000

Musical Arts Association - Crescendo & Music Mentors 2025-2026 - $20,000

Musical Theater Project - “Kids Love Musicals!” at 20 - $12,000

Playhouse Square Foundation - Virtual Classroom Connections Workshops - $30,000

Rainey Institute - Rainey School of Music - $10,000

Refresh Collective - Hip-Hop for Justice-Involved Youth - $15,000

Roots of American Music Inc. - Blues is the Backbone Spring 2026 - $15,000

University of Akron Foundation - Center for Structured Literacy - $15,000

Grants to Educators

Allison Bisignani - Greene County Career Center - Medical Career Lab - $3,000

Dr. Gus Farmakidis - Akron Public Schools - Woven Voices of Us - $1,930

Kelly Fulton - Delaware City Schools - Science Inquiry - $2,700

George Garrett - Mathews Local Schools - Everything but the (Science) Sink - $3,000

Fred Johnson - Manchester Local Schools - Code & Curriculum: CS+SCI - $3,000

Scott Lightle - Western Local Schools - Forward Fresh Farming - $3,000

Henry Rauhaus - Cleveland Metropolitan Schools - Problem-Based Learning Through the Air - $3,000

Dr. Tabitha Stover - Hilliard City Schools Preschool - Dream It, Build It: Our Community - $3,000