Funding search · Deaconess Foundation · grants
Deaconess Foundation: all 179 grants
Largest first · $8.6M across 2022–2025 · back to the overview
- $300,000
Fund for Our Economic Future · Cleveland, OH · 2023
For membership, 2022-2024; for the workforce funders group (ffef as fiscal sponsor)
- $293,250
Youth Opportunities Unlimited · Cleveland, OH · 2022
For staff leadership of the greater cleveland career consortium; for general operating support;incentive program to engage youth to participate in and complete programming;participation in mini assessment
- $275,500
Towards Employment · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Career pathway support to overcome systemic injustice and provide tools to find work, navigate life's obstacles, and secure long-term careers.; capacity building chief program officer (cpo); meeting stipend
- $245,000
Towards Employment · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs, deb vesy systems change champion award
- $230,500
Youth Opportunities Unlimited · Cleveland, OH · 2023
General operating support; youth opportunities unlimited summer youth programming grant; meeting stipend
- $230,000
Youth Opportunities Unlimited · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $222,000
Youth Opportunities Unlimited · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $220,000
Fund for Our Economic Future · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $218,000
Towards Employment · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General operations; pilot with neighborhood connections
- $195,000
Towards Employment · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $180,000
College Now Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2022
To train school and community personnel to integrate career planning within the cmsd and beyond systematic change from c4ci program;systematic change from c4ci program
- $176,248
Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology (Dba Newbridge) · Cleveland, OH · 2023
2023 public service fellow support; adult healthcare workforce development programming; continuous improvement coaching to develop high performing teams and academic success
- $175,000
Fund for Our Economic Future · Cleveland, OH · 2022
For the workforce funders group (ffef as fiscal sponsor)
- $130,000
College Now Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $130,000
College Now Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2023
College now center on education to career advising
- $130,000
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Support for the acer project year 3 of 4
- $130,000
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Support for the acer project - year 2
- $130,000
Local Initiatives Support Corp · New York, NY · 2022
Financial opportunity centers
- $115,000
Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology (Dba Newbridge) · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $115,000
The Centers for Families & Children · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $110,000
Open Doors Academy · Cleveland, OH · 2023
High school plus program
- $107,250
Open Doors Academy · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Participant in mini assessment; for the high school plus program
- $100,000
Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology (Dba Newbridge) · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Healthcare training programs and healthcare sector partnership
- $100,000
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $100,000
Cleveland Neighborhood Progress · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $100,000
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $98,912
Ohioguidestone · Berea, OH · 2022
General operating support for workforce 360 program; pilot initiatives to increase recruiting outreach thru student stipends, incentives, ads
- $90,000
Open Doors Academy · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $90,000
Local Initiatives Support Corp · New York, NY · 2024
Grants
- $90,000
Open Doors Academy · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $90,000
Local Initiatives Support Corp · New York, NY · 2023
Foc/bridges expansion strategy
- $90,000
Neighborhood Progress · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Strengthening the workforce development ecosystem
- $86,091
Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology (Dba Newbridge) · Cleveland, OH · 2022
New bridge abhes credentialing; adult healthcare workforce development programming
- $84,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2022
For a pilot to provide retention & advancement support to tri-c graduates in health care occupations
- $80,000
Greater Cleveland Works · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $80,000
Ohio Guidestone · Berea, OH · 2025
Operating support for workforce 360
- $80,000
The Centers for Families & Children · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $80,000
Ohioguidestone · Berea, OH · 2024
Grants
- $80,000
Ohioguidestone · Berea, OH · 2023
General operational support for workforce 360
- $80,000
The Salvation Army · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Pace employment program
- $75,000
College Now Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $75,000
Resource Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $75,000
The Salvation Army · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $75,000
The Salvation Army · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $75,000
The Centers for Families & Children · Cleveland, OH · 2023
El barrio workforce program
- $75,000
The Salvation Army · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Pace employment program coordination for community corrections re-entry clients
- $75,000
Neighborhood Progress · Cleveland, OH · 2022
To support cdcs in connecting neighborhood residents with workforce development services
- $70,000
Local Initiatives Support Corp · New York, NY · 2025
Workforce programs
- $70,000
Cuyahoga County Public Library · Parma, OH · 2022
Expansion of citizenship training at the library; to prepare women outside the workforce for office and administrative jobs
- $65,000
The Spanish American Committee · Cleveland, OH · 2022
For the latino construction project & workforce program under families first; organizational and programmatic assessment and evaluation and succession planning
- $50,000
Center for Employment Opportunities · New York, NY · 2025
Workforce programs
- $50,000
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Management fellowship at edwins
- $50,000
Magnet · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Manufacturing sector partnership
- $50,000
Argonaut · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $50,000
Center for Employment Opportunities · New York, NY · 2024
Grants
- $50,000
Collaborate Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $50,000
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $50,000
Fund for Our Economic Future · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $50,000
Resource Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $50,000
Center for Employment Opportunities · New York, NY · 2023
Comprehensive reentry employment services for clevelands justice-impacted returning citizens
- $50,000
Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Expansion & continuation of elri and management fellowship program
- $50,000
Urban City Codes Technology and Community Resources · Cleveland, OH · 2022
For program support to deliver training in digital literacy and it occupational skills
- $45,750
The Spanish American Committee · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Latino construction program
- $45,000
Saint Martin De Porres High School · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $45,000
The Spanish American Committee · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $45,000
The Spanish American Committee · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $45,000
Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Aspen institute workforce leadership academy;contextualized reading and math high school pilot
- $42,500
Saint Martin De Porres High School · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $40,000
Greater Cleveland Works · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $40,000
One Fair Wage · Cambridge, MA · 2023
One fair wage high road kitchens program
- $40,000
Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Expansion of workforce preparation programming
- $40,000
Smart Development · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Program and organizational audit, evaluation and recommendations; support staffing and program model to provide wraparound supportive services to job seeking clients
- $40,000
Thea Bowman Center · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Connecting mt. Pleasant residents to evidence based programs; strategic planning
- $35,000
Beat the Streets Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $35,000
Argonaut · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Aerospace and maritime career pathways for high school students
- $35,000
Envision Excellence in STEM Education · Cleveland Heights, OH · 2022
To support the neostem wir'ed program
- $33,000
The McGregor Foundation · East Cleveland, OH · 2022
Stna and medication aide training
- $31,300
Burten Bell Carr Development · Cleveland, OH · 2023
To support the universal basic employment pilot
- $31,000
The McGregor Foundation · East Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $30,000
Tri-C Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Workforce programs
- $26,000
The Cleveland Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Public service fellows; continued support for greater cleveland funders collaborative (gcfc)
- $25,100
Center for Employment Opportunities · New York, NY · 2022
To support workforce program operations; meeting stipend
- $25,000
Metro West Cdo · Cleveland, OH · 2024
2024 connections
- $25,000
Cleveland Owns · Cleveland, OH · 2023
The worker- and community-owned cooperative development program at cleveland owns
- $25,000
Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation · Cleveland, OH · 2023
2023 connections
- $25,000
Near West Side Multi Service Corporation (Dba May Dugan Center) · Cleveland, OH · 2023
May dugan center strategic planning
- $25,000
The McGregor Foundation · East Cleveland, OH · 2023
Arena analytics pilot
- $25,000
Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Staff salaries to continue connections
- $22,000
Smart Development · Cleveland, OH · 2024
2024 connections
- $22,000
The City Mission · Cleveland, OH · 2024
2024 connections
- $20,000
Collaborate Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Presidents fund
- $20,000
Center for Community Solutions · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Grants
- $20,000
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2024
2024 pres discretionary grant
- $20,000
Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation · Cleveland, OH · 2024
2024 connections
- $20,000
Young Women'S Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio · Cleveland, OH · 2024
2024 connections
- $20,000
Smart Development · Cleveland, OH · 2023
2023 connections
- $20,000
Social Venture Partners Cleveland · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Community insights & research for svp's next chapter
- $20,000
Funders Together To End Homelessness · Boston, MA · 2022
For the fund for workforce equity
- $20,000
The Centers for Families & Children · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Development and implementation of marketing strategy to recruit
- $18,000
Metro West Cdo · Cleveland, OH · 2023
2023 connections

