Giving Priorities
Cleveland Clinic dedicated the last century to transforming healthcare for patients around the world. We will spend the next century tackling the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow, developing the boldest ideas and providing the most innovative solutions to change even more lives.
Your support will play an essential role in helping us advance medical research, expand health education and improve our communities. The next 100 years look bright because of donors like you.
Research and Innovation
The Cleveland Clinic Brain Study
The Cleveland Clinic Brain Study is a first-of-its-kind, 20-year neurological research project aimed at predicting, preventing and treating neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s and epilepsy. The study will track biomarkers in the brains and bodies of at-risk individuals — before symptoms appear and before a diagnosis is made. This long-term initiative will enlist physicians, scientists and researchers from across Cleveland Clinic’s global health system. It will compile decades of data from up to 200,000 participants and give us the information we need to find a cure.
Cleveland Clinic has launched a landmark study to better understand why millions of people around the world are affected by brain diseases, with the goal of pinpointing disease biomarkers early, well before clinical symptoms present themselves.
Prevention of the World's #1 Killer: Heart Disease
Our first century of care focused on treating acute cardiovascular conditions and saving lives hanging in the balance. Now we are intent on understanding why people develop cardiovascular disease and knowing how to prevent it from ever happening at all.
Catalyst Grants
Cleveland Clinic’s Catalyst Grants empower caregivers to turn innovative ideas into reality, improving patient care, medical advancements, and community wellness. Every dollar donated has an immediate impact, helping caregivers pioneer breakthroughs that often evolve into permanent programs supported by departmental budgets, foundations, or the NIH. Even small gifts can drive lasting change in healthcare.
Launched in 2018, the Caregiver Catalyst Grants were created to help our caregivers implement their best and brightest ideas and positively impact our patients and communities.
Strategic Initiatives
A New Neurological Institute
The future Neurological Institute on our main campus in Cleveland will bring together clinical care and research programs that are currently spread across eight facilities. Our new, one-million-square-foot, consolidated building will significantly streamline research and patient care. It will expand digital distance health services to reach tens of thousands of patients dealing with neurological disorders.
The new Neurological Institute will feature the most advanced technology and house care teams in various neuroscience subspecialties to enable a new level of clinical collaboration and individualized treatment planning.
The Cleveland Innovation District
The Cleveland Innovation District gives scientists, clinicians and students the space and resources they need to translate discoveries into real-world solutions for patients. The district has already created research-based jobs, providing career development opportunities for healthcare professionals and features leading-edge facilities and technology.
The Innovation District is home to the first onsite private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States. The IBM Quantum System One installed at Cleveland Clinic is the first quantum computer in the world to be uniquely dedicated to healthcare research with an aim to help Cleveland Clinic accelerate biomedical discoveries.
The CEO Transformation Fund
The CEO Transformation Fund provides resources for Tom Mihaljevic, MD, Chief Executive Officer and President and Morton L. Mandel CEO Chair of Cleveland Clinic, to be creative, nimble and proactive in working to meet current and emergent needs of patients across our global health system. Gifts of all sizes to the fund collectively impact Cleveland Clinic's mission of caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
