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San Antonio Zeman Recognized as 2007 Rainmaker Denise San Antonio Zeman, president and CEO of The Saint Luke's Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, is one of twelve business leaders selected by Northern Ohio Live Magazine as a 2007 Rainmaker. Click here for more.
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Luke’s Announces Third Quarter Grants The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has awarded 11 grants, totaling $786,333, in its third quarter round of grantmaking. Click here for more.
Heather
C. Clayton Joins Saint Luke’s Foundation as Francis H. Beam, Jr.
Fellow CLEVELAND, October 1, 2007 The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has named Heather C. Clayton its 2007 Francis H. Beam, Jr. Fellow. The 20-month fellowship began on October 1st. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s
Acknowledges Building Healthy Community Grantees At its annual meeting held Monday, September 10, The Saint Luke’s
Saint Luke's Foundation
Appoints Senior Program Officer The Saint Luke’s Foundation has named Sandra Byrd Chappelle Senior Program Officer. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s Announces
Call for Francis H. Beam Fellowship Applicants The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has announced a call for applicants for its Francis H. Beam Fellowship Program. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s
Announces Building Healthy Community and Second Quarter Grants The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has announced $1.4 million in grants in support of programs and initiatives that align with the Foundation’s mission of improving and transforming the health and well being of individuals, families and communities throughout Greater Cleveland. Click here for more.
Saint Luke's
Foundation Names Communications Officer The Saint Luke’s Foundation has named Kimberly St. John-Stevenson its first communications officer. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s
Kicks Off Tenth Year with $1 Million Earmark The Saint Luke’s Foundation’s Board of Trustees has a list of initiatives planned to recognize the organization’s 10-year anniversary, the first of which is $1 million to fund programs aimed at building healthy communities. Click here for more. Denise
San Antonio Zeman Recognized as 2007 Rainmaker Denise San Antonio Zeman, president and CEO of The Saint Luke's Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, is one of twelve business leaders selected by Northern Ohio Live Magazine as a 2007 Rainmaker. Click here for more.
Saint
Luke’s Announces Third Quarter Grants The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has awarded 11 grants, totaling $786,333, in its third quarter round of grantmaking. Click here for more.
Heather
C. Clayton Joins Saint Luke’s Foundation as Francis H. Beam, Jr.
Fellow CLEVELAND, October 1, 2007 The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has named Heather C. Clayton its 2007 Francis H. Beam, Jr. Fellow. The 20-month fellowship began on October 1st. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s
Acknowledges Building Healthy Community Grantees At its annual meeting held Monday, September 10, The Saint Luke’s
Saint Luke's Foundation
Appoints Senior Program Officer The Saint Luke’s Foundation has named Sandra Byrd Chappelle Senior Program Officer. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s Announces
Call for Francis H. Beam Fellowship Applicants The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has announced a call for applicants for its Francis H. Beam Fellowship Program. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s
Announces Building Healthy Community and Second Quarter Grants The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio has announced $1.4 million in grants in support of programs and initiatives that align with the Foundation’s mission of improving and transforming the health and well being of individuals, families and communities throughout Greater Cleveland. Click here for more.
Saint Luke's
Foundation Names Communications Officer The Saint Luke’s Foundation has named Kimberly St. John-Stevenson its first communications officer. Click here for more.
Saint Luke’s
Kicks Off Tenth Year with $1 Million Earmark The Saint Luke’s Foundation’s Board of Trustees has a list of initiatives planned to recognize the organization’s 10-year anniversary, the first of which is $1 million to fund programs aimed at building healthy communities. Click here for more.
>> NEW << Community Health Fellow joins team; will focus
CLEVELAND, July 27, 2010 - The Case Western Reserve University Center for Reducing Health Disparities at MetroHealth Hospital, with funding support from the Saint Luke’s Foundation, has recruited Vedette Gavin, M.P.H., as its first Community Health Fellow. Ms. Gavin will work at the Buckeye Area Development Corporation in the Buckeye/Woodland Hills/Larchmere community to facilitate collaborative, neighborhood-specific planning and action around healthy community lifestyles.
Ms. Gavin comes to this position from the Safe Communities Program at the Columbus Department of Public Health. Her professional experience reflects innovative public health program design and implementation with a strong emphasis on process and outcomes measurement.
“The Community Fellow will have significant opportunities to support the integration of several initiatives funded through the Saint Luke’s Foundation,” said Sandra Byrd Chappelle, senior program officer for Transformational Initiatives at the Foundation. “The Fellow will be principally engaged in integrating our “Closing the Gap” grant to MetroHealth with our Buckeye/ Larchmere neighborhood empowerment work. Key to Ms. Gavin’s work will be the extension the Foundation’s focus on ensuring that those most affected by health disparities have a significant voice in developing initiatives to reduce them. Efforts developed will be envisioned, initiated and sustained by community residents,” Ms. Chappelle added.
For more on the Community Health Fellow, click here
Foundation announces Make it Stick! grants
CLEVELAND, June 23, 2010
The Saint Luke's Foundation has announced ten grants awarded as a part of its Make it Stick! communications initiative. Click here for details on the ten Make it Stick! grants! (6/23/2010)
Saint Luke’s Foundation Wins Award from Council on Foundations for Excellence in Communications CLEVELAND, April 26, 2010
The Saint Luke’s Foundation has been named a Silver Award winner for excellence in communications – electronic publications by the 2010 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program. Sponsored by the prestigious Council on Foundations, the awards program recognizes effective communications to increase public awareness of foundations and corporate giving programs.
The Foundation received the award for its innovative 2008 online interactive annual report, which can be accessed here. Kimberly St. John-Stevenson, the Foundation's Communications Officer, accepted the award on Mon., April 26 at the Council on Foundations’ Annual Conference in Denver.
For more, click here. (4/26/2010)
Saint Luke’s
Announces First Quarter 2010 Grants
The Board of Trustees of the Saint Luke’s Foundation has approved first quarter grants for 2010, with nineteen organizations receiving more than $1.4 milllion for safety net and basic needs organizations.
For more, click here.
Saint Luke’s
Announces New Chair, Board Members
Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, has appointed several Executive Committee members to new roles for 2010, including the appointment of Thomas Rathbone as Chair, while announcing several additions to its Board of Trustees. Founded in 1997, the Saint Luke’s Foundation is committed to improving and transforming the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities throughout Greater Cleveland.
Douglas Wang, former Chair of the Foundation’s Investment Committee, will serve as Vice Chair and Geraldine H. Burns will be Secretary. John P. O’Brien will remain Treasurer and Chair, Finance/Audit Committee; Baiju R. Shah remains as the Chair of the Governance Committee; and Eric Von Hendrix remains as Chair of the Grant Committee.
New trustees appointed to the Board are John Corlett, Claudia Coulton, Edgar Jackson and Karen Johnson. For the full release, click here.
Saint Luke’s Foundation Awards More than $1 Million in Community Grants CLEVELAND, Oct. 13, 2009 The Saint Luke’s Foundation this week announced its Board of Trustees has approved 20 grants totaling more than $1 million in support of several of the region’s leading health and human services agencies. The funds, which will support agencies’ operating, capacity and program efforts, were awarded as part of the Foundation’s third grantmaking cycle of 2009. For more, click here.
Ohio Association of Free Clinics Honors Foundation CLEVELAND, October 16, 2009
The Ohio Association of Free Clinics (OAFC) recently presented the Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland with its 2009 Free Clinic Partnership Award in support of its partnership with The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland and North Coast Health Ministry, which serve the uninsured in Cleveland. For more on this honor, click here.
Saint Luke’s Foundation Awards $776,000 in Community Grants CLEVELAND, July 14, 2009
The Saint Luke’s Foundation has announced grants totaling $776,000 to several Cleveland-based health and human services organizations. A total of 13 grants were announced as part of the Foundation’s second grantmaking cycle of 2009, and half were made as general operating support in order to allow the organizations providing critical safety net services to use the funds in whatever way best supports their operations. Fore more, click here.
Saint Luke's Foundation Announces Grants CLEVELAND, April 14, 2009 Saint Luke’s Foundation has announced its first cycle of grantmaking for 2009, providing critical operating support and community services to several Greater Cleveland nonprofit agencies during this time of economic hardship. The 12 grants total more than $900,000. For more, click here.
Over $1.2 million in new grants announced CLEVELAND, November 18, 2008 Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, has announced grants in its third grantmaking cycle for 2008, awarding over $1.2 million to 23 Cleveland-area organizations. This final grantmaking cycle of the year focused strongly on supporting housing and children services, underscoring the Foundation’s mission to improve and transform the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities throughout Greater Cleveland. For more, click here. (11/13/2008)
Foundation awards nearly $800,000 in Community Grants CLEVELAND, July 22, 2008 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.
Foundation announces grant awards CLEVELAND, April 7, 2008 The Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, has announced it will provide nearly $1.8 million in grant support to 19 community programs and initiatives through its first grantmaking cycle for 2008. Click here for more.
Denise San Antonio Zeman Will Sing Out for Rape Crisis Center On Monday, May 19, 2008, Denise San Antonio Zeman, president and CEO of The Saint Luke's Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, will join voices with other local leaders to Sing Out Against Sexual Violence at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center's Biennial Benefit Concert honoring Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Judge K.J. Montgomery.
Saint Luke’s Announces Fourth Quarter Grants In its final round of grantmaking for 2007, The Saint
Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio awarded
16 grants, totaling nearly $822,000. |
Rathbone, a Foundation trustee since 2005, will assume the role of Chair of the Board of Trustees. He succeeds Sandra Kiely Kolb, a former banker with National City who served as Chair for four years and will remain a trustee.