Your Primary Contact at Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

Meet Our Program Team

The following CAC staff members oversee a portfolio of organizations that receive funding through CAC’s General Operating Support or Project Support grant programs. They work to build relationships with and provide technical assistance, guidance and support to grant recipients and applicants.

You may contact any one of them for guidance on our application or reporting process:

216.306.0110ipierreingram@cacgrants.org

Read more about India at cacgrants.org/india

India Pierre-Ingram, manager - grant operations & racial equity initiatives

216.306.0109jmurphy@cacgrants.org

Read more about Julia at cacgrants.org/julia

Luis Gomez, program manager

216.306.0114lgomez@cacgrants.org

Read more about Luis at cacgrants.org/luis

Heather Johnson-Banks, director of grant programs

216.306.0108hjohnsonbanks@cacgrants.org

Read more about Heather at cacgrants.org/heather

Julia Murphy, program manager

Achievement Centers for Children

America Asian Pacific Islander Organization

America SCORES Cleveland

American Hungarian Friends of Scouting

Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra

Aradhana Committee

Art House

Art Song Festival

Art Therapy Studio

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve

Arts Cleveland

Arts in Strongsville

Arts Renaissance Tremont (ART)

Arts Without Borders

ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership

Baldwin Wallace University

Baseball Heritage Museum

Bay Village Community Band

BAYarts

Beck Center for the Arts

Bedford Downtown Alliance

Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging

Berea Arts Fest

Big Creek Connects

Blazing River Freedom Band

Blue Streak Ensemble

BlueWater Chamber Orchestra

Bodwin Theatre Company

BorderLight

Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland

Brite Cleveland

Broadway School of Music and the Arts

Brooklyn Heights Service Clubs

Buck Out Foundation

Burten, Bell, Carr Development

Campus District Inc.

Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation

Case Western Reserve University

Cassidy Theatre

Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland

Cavani String Quartet

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Existing grant recipients can identify their program managers by their initials:

Cedar Fairmount Special Improvement District

Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cesear’s Forum

Chagrin Documentary Film Festival

Chagrin Valley Little Theater

ChamberFest Cleveland

Children’s Museum of Cleveland

Choral Arts Cleveland

City Ballet of Cleveland

CityMusic Cleveland

Cleveland Arts Prize

Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers

Cleveland Ballet

Cleveland Botanical Garden

Cleveland Chamber Choir

Cleveland Chamber Collective

Cleveland Chamber Music Society

Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Cleveland Classical Guitar Society

Cleveland Composers Guild

Cleveland Contemporary Chinese Culture Association

Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation

Cleveland Grays Armory Museum

Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center

Cleveland Inner City Ballet

Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland Institute of Music

Cleveland International Film Festival

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra

Cleveland Kids’ Book Bank

Cleveland Leadership Center

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland Opera Theater

Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra

Cleveland Play House

Cleveland POPS Orchestra

Cleveland Print Room

Cleveland Public Theatre

Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

Cleveland Restoration Society

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Cleveland School of the Arts Board of Trustees

Cleveland Seed Bank

Cleveland Shakespeare Festival

Cleveland TOPS Swingband

Cleveland Treatment Center

Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project

Cleveland Women’s Orchestra

Collective Arts Network

CollectivExpress

Comité Mexicano

Community Cup Classic Foundation

Connecting for Kids of Westlake OH

Contemporary Youth Orchestra

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Coventry Village Special Improvement District

Cudell Improvement

Cuyahoga River Restoration

DANCECleveland

DANCEVERT

Dancing Wheels

Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization

Djapo Cultural Arts Institute

Dobama Theatre

Downtown Cleveland Alliance

DuffyLit

Dunham Tavern Museum

Earth and Air: String Orchestra

East Cleveland Farmers’ Market Preservation Society

Edward E. Parker Museum of Art

Eliza Bryant Village

ENCORE Chamber Music

Ensemble Theatre

Environmental Health Watch

Esperanza

Euclid Beach Park Now

Far West Center

Focus On Education

Folknet

Foluke Cultural Arts

Food Strong

Friends of the East Cleveland Public Library

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Friends of the McGaffin Carillon

From Me 2 U

FRONT International

Front Steps Housing and Services

FrontLine Service

FutureHeights

German Music Society

Golden Ciphers

Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble

Graffiti HeArt

Great Lakes Science Center

Great Lakes Theater

Greater Cleveland Film Commission

Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association

Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation

Greater Collinwood Development Corporation

GroundWorks DanceTheater

Harvard Community Services Center

Hasani Management Inc

Heights Arts

Heights Youth Theatre

Hispanic Business Center

Hispanic Police Officers Association

Historic Gateway Neighborhood Corporation

Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation

Hospice of the Western Reserve

ICA - Art Conservation

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In Education

India Fest USA

Ingenuity

Inlet Dance Theatre

International Community Council

International Women’s Air & Space Museum

Italian Cultural Garden

Jennings Center for Older Adults

Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio

Jewish Federation of Cleveland

Jones Road Family Development Corporation

Joyful Noise Neighborhood Music School

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Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center

Karamu House

Kulture Kids

Lake Erie Ink

Lake Erie Institute

Lake Erie Native American Council

Lake Erie Nature & Science Center

Lake View Cemetery Foundation

Lakewood Historical Society

Lakewood Young Filmmakers Academy

LAND studio

Larchmere PorchFest

LatinUs Theater Company

Les Délices

Lexington-Bell Community Center

LGBT Community Center Greater Cleveland

Literary Cleveland

Little Italy Redevelopment Corporation

Little Lumpy’s Center for Educational Initiatives

LYLESART

M.U.S.i.C.

Maelstrom Collaborative Arts

Malachi Center

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage

Mandel JCC

May Dugan Center

Mercury Theatre Company

Merrick House

Metro West Community Development Organization

MidTown Cleveland

Mojuba! Dance Collective

Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation

Mt. Pleasant NOW Development Corporation

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Music and Art at Trinity

Naach Di Cleveland

NAMI Greater Cleveland

Nature Center at Shaker Lakes

Near West Theatre

Negative Space Gallery

New Avenues to Independence

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NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology

Night Market Cleveland

No Exit

North Union Farmers Market

Northcoast Men’s Chorus

Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope (NOAH)

Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless

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Notre Dame College

Ohio City Incorporated

Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation

Open Doors Academy

PALS for Healing

Parma Area Fine Arts Council

Parma Heights Historical Society

Piano Cleveland

Playhouse Square

Playwrights Local

Polish Village Parma

Praxis Fiber Workshop

Progressive Arts Alliance

Quire Cleveland

Rainey Institute

Reaching Heights

Refresh Collective

Restore Cleveland Hope

Roberto Ocasio Foundation

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

Rollin’ Buckeyez

Roots of American Music

Sankofa

Schmooze Ohio

Shaker Arts Council

Shaker Historical Society

Shore Cultural Centre

Slavic Village Development

Slovenian Museum and Archives

SOS: Strengthening Our Students

SPACES

StandUP! For Change

Stellar Acrobatic Dance Academy

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STV Bavaria

Suburban Symphony Orchestra

Symphony West Orchestra

Talespinner Children’s Theatre

Tender Hearts Crusades

The City Club of Cleveland

The Cleveland Opera

The Cleveland Orchestra

The Gathering Place

The German Central

The Harvard Square Center

The Movement Project

The Music Settlement

The Musical Theater Project

The RASHAD Center

The Sculpture Center

The Singing Angels

The Trust for Public Land

Thea Bowman Center

Transformer Station

Tremont West Development Corporation

Twelve Literary Arts

UCI

Ukrainian Museum-Archives

Underground Classical

University Hospitals (UH)

UpStage Players

Ursuline College

Valley Art Center

Verb Ballets

VIVA Bavaria

Wake Up and Live’s Actor’s Studio

Waterloo Arts

West Creek Conservancy

West Park Kamm’s Neighborhood Development

West Shore Chorale

West Side Catholic Center

West Side Community House

Western Reserve Fire Museum & Education Center

Western Reserve Historical Society

Western Reserve Land Conservancy

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Westlake Chinese School

Westlake-Westshore Arts Council

Westown Community Development Corporation

Windsong, Cleveland’s Feminist Chorus

Women in History

Woodland Cemetery Foundation of Cleveland

Youth Challenge

Zygote Press

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