Cleveland, OH – June 3, 2026 – The Board of Trustees of the Saint Luke’s Foundation has approved grants totaling $2,150,000 for thirteen organizations during its second-quarter board meeting. These investments advance the Foundation’s mission and refined strategies to achieve health equity across five strategic areas:
- Belonging and People Power
- Economic Vitality
- Placemaking and Placekeeping
- Holistic Well-Being
- Lifelong Learning
TIM TRAMBLE | President & CEO
“Last year, we engaged in a deliberate process of listening, learning, and refinement, not to change our direction, but to more clearly articulate the conditions that allow communities to thrive. Earlier this year, we announced the reframing of our strategy shaped by community voice and grounded in lived experience: Belonging and People Power, Economic Vitality, Placemaking and Placekeeping, Holistic Well-Being, and Lifelong Learning. This quarter’s strategy partners are emblematic of that work. These thirteen organizations are advancing each of those vital conditions, transforming community voice into community power, and we are proud to stand alongside them as they do.”
Teresa DEWS | Board Chair
“At the Saint Luke’s Foundation, the Saint Luke’s Foundation’s board of trustees remains deeply committed to stewarding a mission and strategies that are rooted in listening, learning, and the inclusion of community voices. This quarter’s strategy partners exemplify exactly why that commitment matters. They reflect a deep understanding of the challenges faced in the communities we serve and a shared vision for solutions that advance belonging, well-being, and long-term opportunity for every resident. We are proud to approve investments in organizations doing this vital work, and we look forward to the impact ahead.”
Q2 2026 STRATEGY PARTNERS
$40,000 | 1 Year ● Belonging and People Power
This grant supports the Youth & Adult Story Workshop Series and Film Education Program. Art of Me empowers young people to tell their stories through writing, film, and art, engaging thirty students and twenty-five adults from various southeast CMSD schools and community centers in creating stories that challenge social norms and presenting them on national platforms.
Association of Black Foundation Executives
$150,000 | 1 Year ● Belonging and People Power
The grant will support ABFE’s national efforts to mobilize and coordinate resources for communities where suppression efforts to alter democracy are evident. The grant supports narrative coordination, shared learning, legal navigation and leadership development resources for impacted organizations and communities. The efforts will help strengthen philanthropic leadership, expand knowledge sharing and collaboration across the sector, and support long-term community well-being.
$100,000 | 1 Year ● Placemaking and Placekeeping
The grant will provide operational support for Elements of Internal Movement’s RevLove Farms initiative and its partnership with the Food Access Raise Everyone Project (F.A.R.E.) to strengthen a network of urban farmers and community partners in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Funding will provide operational support, technical assistance, agricultural education, and individualized planning to help growers expand their capacity, strengthen sustainability, and increase community food access.
$50,000 | 1 Year ● Economic Vitality
The grant will provide general operating support for Buckeye HEAL to increase access to healthy food, cooking demonstrations, and exercise programs, including partnering with City Fresh to deliver weekly fresh produce to 75 residents and connecting 200 residents to fitness resources. Additionally, funds will support staffing expansion, enhanced community outreach, and contracting residents to lead exercise programs and participate in Community Health Worker training.
$250,000 | 1 Year ● Holistic Well-Being
The grant will provide general operating support for Village of Healing’s holistic physical and mental health care services and peer support programs that address gaps in culturally responsive care across Northeast Ohio. Funding will help expand access to integrated care models that improve chronic disease management, mental health outcomes, maternal health, and overall community well-being.
$75,000 | 1 Year ● Belonging and People Power
The grant will provide general operating support for YWCA Greater Cleveland’s advocacy, community engagement, and systems change efforts focused on women’s empowerment, early childhood education, poverty, and homelessness. Funding will also support implementation of the organization’s strategic plan, including efforts to strengthen leadership, expand community voice and advocacy, and deepen the impact of its programs across Greater Cleveland.
$50,000 | 1 Year ● Economic Vitality
The grant will support Assembly for the Arts’ microgrant program for local artists across visual, performing, music, and traditional arts disciplines. Funding will help artists access supplies, creative spaces, and exhibition opportunities while strengthening neighborhood collaboration, community engagement, and arts programming in the Mt. Pleasant, Buckeye–Shaker, and Woodland Hills neighborhoods.
Black Environmental Leaders Association
$50,000 | 1 Year ● Holistic Well-Being
The grant will support My Grow Connect, in partnership with Collective Citizens Organized Against Lead (C.C.O.A.L.), in advancing urban agriculture and environmental education programming through the development of an Urban Forestry and Outdoor Learning Garden in the Buckeye neighborhood. Funding will help transform a vacant lot into a community farm and outdoor classroom while expanding hands-on training, environmental health education, and community workshops focused on food access, sustainability, and neighborhood leadership.
$35,000 | 1 Year ● Holistic Well-Being
The grant will provide program support to provide free youth development, mentoring, and wrestling programs for 200 underserved K–12 students in Cleveland’s Mount Pleasant, Buckeye, and Woodland Hills neighborhoods, aiming to boost school attendance, academic performance, confidence, and leadership skills. The program leverages sports to engage youth while fostering social capital through mentorship, with measurable outcomes tracked via attendance records, report cards, and pre- and post-program surveys.
$200,000 | 1 Year ● Lifelong Learning
The grant will provide program support to Cleveland Metropolitan School District for City Year Cleveland’s Whole School, Whole Child initiative at Harvey Rice and A.J. Rickoff Elementary Schools. Funding will support academic coaching, social and emotional learning, and positive school climate programming that helps students build skills and succeed both inside and outside the classroom.
$1,000,000 | 1 Year ● Placemaking and Placekeeping
The grant will support Cuyahoga Land Bank’s community development and neighborhood revitalization efforts in the Buckeye-Woodhill neighborhood. Funding will help advance housing stabilization, redevelopment planning, removal of unsafe structures when necessary, and additional support that contributes to long-term community reinvestment and neighborhood improvement.
$50,000 | 1 Year ● Economic Vitality
The grant will provide operating support to The Presidents’ Council to strengthen small businesses in the Buckeye-Shaker, Woodhill, and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods through business assessments, technical assistance, and hands-on implementation support. Funding will also support a youth entrepreneurship initiative in partnership with The Love Project that helps young people develop and launch business ideas.
$100,000 | 1 Year ● Placemaking and Placekeping
The grant will support Benedictine High School’s resurfacing of Bossu Field to improve safety and sustain athletic, enrichment, and community programming. The upgraded field will continue to serve students and neighborhood residents through sports, camps, and community activities that promote youth engagement and well-being.
This quarter’s grants exemplify the Foundation’s commitment to fostering positive change and improving community health and well-being.
About Saint Luke’s Foundation
The Saint Luke’s Foundation is dedicated to achieving health equity by addressing social determinants of health for people in neighborhoods surrounding Saint Luke’s and throughout Cuyahoga County. Saint Luke’s is committed to demonstrating grantmaking that is responsive to the community and believes that people thrive as a result of living free of racism and poverty and experiencing equitable economic opportunities and conditions that enable them to lead healthier lives. Since it was established with the charitable assets of the Saint Luke’s Medical Center in 1997, the Foundation has awarded over $231 million in grants. For more information, visit saintlukesfoundation.org.
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