To ensure that grants are made from a neighborhood perspective, The Cleveland Foundation has turned over the responsibility to review grant applications and to make all funding decisions for the program to a committee made up of 25 Cleveland residents. Each Committee member was nominated by a neighborhood organization. The committee is designed to be broadly representative of Cleveland, with committee members serving for three-year terms. A number of alternates work with the committee, in preparation to assume roles as full committee members as vacancies arise. As alternates become Committee members, on an annual basis, nominations for new alternates are sought from Cleveland neighborhood groups.
Current Grant Making and Monitoring Committee members include:
Gloria Aron Detroit Shoreway
"Neighborhood Connections provides access to money for regular people to do creative grassroot organizing projects."
Janet Loehr Cudell
"It is gratifying to be associated with a program that actually does help neighborhoods."
Akilah Ashraff Lee-Harvard
"Funding grassroots rganizations helps keep the roots of the community healthy."
Laverne McLain Mt. Pleasant/ Union Miles
"Neighborhood Connections can help address some of your community's concerns."
Reverend Heidi Barham Lee-Harvard
Reverend Gordon Martin Stockyards
Millie Caraballo Westown
Emily Miller Ohio City
Benne Christian Mt. Pleasant
J. Scott Muscatello Westown
"...such an opportunity to foster
the creativity alive in Cleveland."
Grace Crawford Buckeye
Twila Norris Central
Fay Harris Ohio City
Joyce Porozynski Slavic Village "...fair, equitable and relatively easy process to get seed money to neighborhood supported civic groups."
Michael Hoag Old Brooklyn
Cathy Sabolik Kamm's Corner
Lovel Henderson Hough
Patrick Shepherd Shaker Square
Frances Collinwood North Collinwood
Barbara Szaibel Shaker Square
Fred Irvon Glenville
"...an extraordinary opportunity to serve and watch ideas vitalize and enrich people in neighborhoods.
Archester Thomas Westown
"Neighborhood Connections can provide the funds to make my community a safe and attractive place to live."
Diane Jagielski Slavic Village
"Neighborhood Connections has enabled me to broaden my corner of the universe."
Isiah X. Thomas Hough / St.Clair Superior
"Neighborhood Connections is a tool to fund the vision and hopes for communities in the city of Cleveland."
