The Cleveland Foundation has announced September grants totaling $10.4 million, boosting its third-quarter grantmaking to $17.9 million.

In the area of education, the foundation awarded $986,444 to the Cleveland Municipal School District in support seven high schools that have opened since 2014, and $250,000 to fourteen schools in the district's Innovative School Network in support of their ongoing efforts to outperform on key indicators of student success, including graduation rates, ACT scores, third-grade literacy rates, and student attendance. The foundation also awarded $100,000 to Stonebrook Montessori School, the only public Montessori school on the east side of Cleveland and the only public school in the city that offers an authentic Montessori education, for start-up and expansion costs, and $250,000 to the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County in support of its Pre4Cle program, which is working to increase the number of high-quality preschool seats available to children in the city.

In addition, to help increase the number of manufacturing jobs in Northeast Ohio, the foundation awarded $300,000 to MAGNET and $266,804 to WIRE-Net for the third year of the Accelerate Cleveland Manufacturing, a unique collaboration aimed at sparking faster and smarter growth among core-city manufacturers located in Cleveland and its inner-ring suburbs. WIRE-Net also was awarded $173,172 to add two occupations — computer numeric control machinist and industrial manufacturing technician — to the apprentice training consortium it spearheads and to recruit candidates for at least fifty apprenticeship slots with at least thirty-five consortium employers.