Saint Luke's Foundation - TRANSFORM

The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio reinvests its resources to provide leadership and support for the improvement and transformation of the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities of Greater Cleveland.

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Cleveland.com launches new site

Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer unveiled a new home-page design today -- simpler and easier to navigate. Click here to access the site. Also, read the latest news from philanthropy reporter April McClellan-Copeland by clicking here.

 

MetroHealth on innovation

Click here to read comments from Mark Moran, interim chief executive officer of MetroHealth Medical Center, on Plain Dealer readers' recommendations on ways MetroHealth can be more innovative, presented as part of the Plain Dealer's Community Prescription series. In 2005, the Saint Luke's Foundation announced a 10-year, $10 million grant to MetroHealth in support of the MetroHealth Buckeye Health Center.

 

Foundation awards nearly $800,000 in community grants

In its second grantmaking cycle for 2008, Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, awarded nearly $800,000 to 15 organizations – several of which are dedicating efforts to foreclosure prevention and low-income housing in various Cleveland neighborhoods. Saint Luke’s Foundation also announced support of the East Cleveland Public Library, a unique opportunity to advance the mission of a valuable community resource. For more, click here. (7/22/2008)

 

Foundation makes "transformational" grant

The Saint Luke’s Foundation has announced a $916,000,
10-year “transformational” grant to the University Hospitals of Cleveland’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery to create the Timothy L. Stephens, Jr., MD, Orthopaedic Fellowship. This unique fellowship program is designed to increase the number of African-American, Latino and Native American medical students pursuing careers in orthopaedic medicine. The fellowship grant is the Foundation’s eighth transformational initiative and is named in honor of Timothy L. Stephens Jr., M.D., the first African-American orthopaedic surgeon in the state of Ohio and the first African-American orthopaedic attending physician in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UH Case Medical Center. For more, click here. (7/8/2008)

From left to right: Carla Harwell, M.D., Medical Director of the Otis Moss, Jr. - UH Medical Center; Dr. Richard Grant, Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair, University Hospitals; Timothy L. Stephens, Jr., M.D.; Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr.; Edgard Jackson, Jr., M.D., Chief of Staff Emeritus, Senior Advisor to the President and CEO of University Hospitals and UH Case Medical Center; Denise San Antonio Zeman, President and CEO, Saint Luke's Foundation; and Fred Rothstein, M.D., President, UH Case Medical Center. (7/8/2008)

Government too costly?

According to Crain's Cleveland Business, among all the data in the Cost of Government Study for Northeast Ohio released today, July 14, by the Fund for Our Economic Future, two numbers stand out.  The first is that the money spent on public administration in Northeast Ohio from 1992 to 2002 grew 2.3 times faster than inflation, while the population has stood still. The second is that 38.3% of all government spending — $6.03 billion in 2002 — is spent on education. For more, see links below:

  • For Crain's Cleveland Business article, click here.
  • For additional details on the report, click here for the Fund for our Economic Future website.

Drowning in paperwork?

Nonprofit organizations and foundations alike are beginning to stagger under the weight of a grant application and reporting system that needs fixing, according to Drowning in Paperwork, Distracted from Purpose, a new report commissioned by Project Streamline, a coalition of organizations representing both grantmakers and grantseekers.  Click below to:

Project Streamline, a collaborative initiative of the Grants Managers Network in partnership with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Association of Small Foundations, Council on Foundation, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, the Foundation Center, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and the National Council of Nonprofit Associations.  To learn more about Project Streamline, go to www.projectstreamline.org.  Project Streamline is funded by The Saint Luke's Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Ford Foundation, Frey Foundation, Harold K. Castle Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 

Annual report receives award

“10th and Progress,” the 2006 annual report of the Saint Luke’s Foundation, has been recognized with a Vision Award by the International Association of Business Communicator’s (IABC) Cleveland chapter.  The Vision Awards recognize excellence in Northeast Ohio's communications community.  (added June 23, 2008)

 

Fathers matter

For Brandon Goins, there is nothing more special than being a father, and he credits the Cuyahoga County's Fatherhood Initiative for helping him see the importance of his role in the lives of his children. Brandon shared his testimony at The Cuyahoga County Fatherhood Initiative’s Celebration of Fatherhood, an annual forum created specifically to promote healthy father-child relationships, address the social problems that result from “father absence” and strategize as to what we must do, as a community, to ensure that every child has a dad in his or her life. The Saint Luke's Foundation provided a $10,000 grant to the 2008 Fatherhood Conference.  For more information on The Cuyahoga County Fatherhood Initiative (CCFI), click here.

 

Foundation staffer, trustee honored

At the annual YWCA Women of Achievement luncheon held May 12th, Saint Luke's Foundation trustee Stephanie McHenry, President, Shorebank-Cleveland Region, was among the distinguished group of recipients of the 32nd annual YWCA Women of Achievement Award. Sandra Chappelle, senior program officer at the Foundation, was also honored by the YWCA as a Woman of Professional Excellence. (added 5/13/2008)

 

A big job: retooling Northeast Ohio's economy

Since 2004, philanthropic organizations in Northeast Ohio have worked together to bolster economic development in a region suffering from decades of decline. Click here to access a reporter's analysis of Northeast Ohio as told to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation of Miami, Florida. (added 5/7/2008)

 

Aspiring to be the best

The Aspire Program is an all-girls bonding, leadership and growth experience. This three-year program provides girls from Cleveland, East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights schools with the opportunity to grow academically and learn different leadership skills through workshops and classes. Aspire also exposes new and upcoming teachers to what educating is really like. These teachers come from colleges and universities such as Harvard, Brown, and Yale. The Saint Luke's Foundation is a proud supporter of the Aspire Program. To learn more about Aspire, click here.

 

Storytelling resources now available

Click here to access our "Tool Kit" of marketing communications resources that will help your organization tell its story. To recommend a resource, click here.

 

Foundation announces grant awards

The Saint Luke's Foundation has awarded nearly $1.8 million in grant support to local organizations and community projects. For more, click here.

- Click here to read coverage in Crain's Cleveland Business. (added 4/7/2008)

 

Lead poisoning can be prevented

Locally, 70 agencies are trying to do something about the problem of lead poisoining. Together, they make up the Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council, which is supported in part by the Saint Luke's Foundation. The Council has created a Lead Elimination Plan which aims to wipe out childhood lead poisoning by 2010. To read recent Plain Dealer coverage of this issue, click here.To learn more about Saint Luke's Foundation's involvement in efforts to eliminate lead poisoning, click here. (added 4/2/2008)

 

What's happening in philanthropy?

The Ohio Grantmakers Forum produces a monthly "EventsLine" that details skill building and networking events and activities across Ohio.  Click here to access EventsLine.  And to learn more about what's happening in the philanthropic sector across the nation, click here to access Philanthropy News Digest, a Foundation Center news source.

 

Tell us your stories!

Are you a Saint Luke's grantee with a story to tell? Or do you have a story from the old Saint Luke's Medical Center? If so, click here - we want to hear about it! (added 3/19/2008)

 

Economic Fund selects Abbott; CWRU signs on with Fund

David Abbott, executive director of the George Gund Foundation, is the new board chairman of the region's largest economic development philanthropy. And in one of his first acts as chair, Abbott announces Case Western Reserve University has committed $100,000 over three years to join the organization that is working to bolster the region's economic competitiveness. Click here to read:

 

Foundations concerned about foreclosure crisis

According to the Wall Street Journal, some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropies are turning their attention to the growing foreclosure crisis, and Cleveland is one of the cities that could benefit from their efforts.


In its article, the Wall Street Journal says some foundation officials fear the foreclosure crisis could usher in the type of urban blight that devastated pockets of American cities in the 1970s and 1980s.”  Click here to read the Crain's Cleveland Business summary of the Wall Street Journal article -- includes an embedded link to the Wall Street Journal article. (2/28/02)

 

Vision shapes Fund

Rob Briggs is stepping down as the chairman of the Fund for Our Economic Future, saying it's time for another to lead the four-year-old initiative. His successor will be elected at the group's March 4 meeting. Denise San Antonio Zeman, president and CEO of the Saint Luke's Foundation, currently serves as vice-chair of the Fund. For more, click here. (2/23/08)

 

A deeper look at Mt. Pleasant

In December, The Plain Dealer and ideastream ran a series of interviews and reports examining Mt. Pleasant . Click here to access WCPN's "Poverty Series." To read the series from the Plain Dealer, click here.

 

 

 

 


Saint Luke's Briefs

A deeper look at Mt. Pleasant

In December, The Plain Dealer and ideastream ran a series of interviews and reports examining Mt. Pleasant . Click here to access WCPN's "Poverty Series." To read the series from the Plain Dealer, click here.