100 Years in Pictures

Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropy1967: Blossom Music CenterFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partner1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyCarlton K. Matson2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenCleveland BalletThe foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990A burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Chester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.1985: Cleveland State UniversityCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyHarry Coulby FundsOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.Cleveland Institute of MusicGeorge and Janet VoinovichCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Lakeview TerraceJohn SherwinAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregation2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentH. Stuart HarrisonLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsGoff in a rare moment of leisureCleveland OrchestraLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundTitle VIII (the “Federal Fair Housing Act”) of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, signed by President Johnson a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., advanced the struggle for integration taking place in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs and elsewhere across the nation.The State TheatreTri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980GroundWorks Dance TheaterProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetDetroit ShorewayThe formal entrance to the Judson Park retirement community, an independent living facility erected in 1974 next to the traditional nursing home established by the Baptist Home of Ohio in the former Bicknell mansion on Cleveland’s east sideA satellite photograph of Lake Erie, downtown Cleveland and the Cuyahoga River valley: The foundation has learned to take the long view in helping the community craft fresh responses to persistent urban problems.Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueBarbecue restaurant owner Al (Bubba) Baker received a microloan that enabled the former Browns football player to begin local distribution of his proprietary de-boned baby-back ribs.A “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.A greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress Slavic VillageHough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Andrew Carnegie, the “king of steel,” created a private foundation to carry out his philanthropic activities. Goff invented a simpler, more affordable mechanism to serve the charitable impulses of caring individuals of all means.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Ronald B. RichardGreat Lakes Theater FestivalMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Stokes with his brother Louis (left)The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 19101997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationAdvocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioCleveland OrchestraNew Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.Great Lakes Science CenterThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938On December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.Singing AngelsSupport for humanitarian aid to the unemployed: Stone carvers responsible for the iconic pylons of the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, a rare Depression-era construction project completed in 1932 with bond funds approved before the stock market crashCharles A. RatnerAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.The Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Church Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Progressive Field at Gateway2004: The Gathering PlaceCleveland Museum of Art2006: Cleveland Clinic Foundation1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandBusiness growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Dancing Wheels2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Addressing the changing socioeconomic needs of the African-American community: 20th anniversary convening of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, hosted by Cleveland in 1929Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Sherwick FundTri-C JazzFest, 1993Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.Lake-Geauga FundTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyHarold T. ClarkThe NAACP-Cleveland’s fight for desegregation ultimately leads in 1973 to a federal lawsuit against the Cleveland public schools: the likelihood of court-ordering busing The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956John L. McChord1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandFirst grants to advance serious medical research in an era still plagued with quackery: The Cunningham Sanitarium, located at East 185th Street and Lake Shore Boulevard, c. 1928. The sanitarium offered patients access to the world’s largest hyperbaric chamber, but its claims for the benefits of oxygen therapy proved specious.Cleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherHolsey Gates HandysideJames R. GarfieldBy 1929, when Cleveland laid claim to having the tallest skyscraper in the country—the Terminal Tower, evocatively captured here by famed photographer Margaret Bourke-White—the community foundation movement had spread across America.The multitude of organizational nameplates on the door to the Cleveland Foundation’s offices in the 1970s testified to its rebirth as a nexus of progressive philanthropy and an incubator of social-action programs. A new generation of Circle fansFoundation leaders confer about how to distribute 1947 income of $614,479 to a standing list of charitable institutions and agencies. Foundation director Leyton E. Carter (third from right) is seated next to the board’s sole female member, Constance Mather Bishop. Ellwood H. FisherThe RetreatPalace Theatre lobbyDispersed by police, the protesters did not succeed in halting construction, but Klunder’s martyrdom inspired the civil rights community to continue what was ultimately a victorious fight against segregation of the Cleveland public schools.The cast of Nicholas NicklebyUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.The issues facing 21st-century Clevelanders—educational and economic opportunity, neighborhood and cultural vitality, and strong health and human services—are much the same as those with which earlier generations wrestled.Treu-Mart FundInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico CityMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhood2010: Hawken SchoolTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Cleveland Film SocietyCommencement at Tri-C, 1975The Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Dr. King speaking in Rockefeller Park on a visit to Cleveland in 1967. The previous year he had dramatized the issue of housing discrimination by moving his family into a grimy apartment on the segregated west side of Chicago and joining in protest marches into that city’s all-white neighborhoods.Carl W. Brand1976: Sokol Hall2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtA landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision righted the injustice experienced by Clarence Earl Gideon, a drifter who was convicted of felony theft because he could not afford an attorney and had defended himself at trial.A. E. Convers FundStanley C. PaceIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Cleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.NewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.The West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Manchester Bidwell, the Pittsburgh model on which NewBridge is based, has instilled a love of learning in teens who previously did not fare well in school.An examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityThe March on Washington, August 28, 1963, at which Martin Luther King Jr. called upon the nation to make good on democracy’s promise of social and economic freedom for all citizens Hunter MorrisonProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Belle SherwinCleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductFred S. McConnellDavid GoldbergFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housing1968: Holden ArboretumGlenville High School students, 19142007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegePlayhouse Square, c. 1969Global Cleveland’s welcome centerParticipants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.SPACESAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960Clean water advocates, 1968L. Dale Dorney FundHalprin worksheetJohn J. DwyerUnder the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.Halprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Kent H. Smith1968: Karamu HouseThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suitInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 19291972: Huron Road MallGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. 1976: Cleveland Play House2005: ideastreamJ. Kimball JohnsonMaster planner I. M. Pei (right), Cleveland’s urban renewal director James Lister (center) and chief architect Jack Hayes at the Erieview Tower construction site, 1954 Stokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Famed urban planner Lawrence Halprin (right) presented his ideas for downtown Cleveland’s redevelopment at a public forum in 1975 attended by Cleveland mayor Ralph J. Perk (center) and May Company department store president Francis Coy (left).CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration The Ohio Department of Natural Resources invested more than $40 million in capital improvements to the band of green spaces renamed the Cleveland Lakefront State Park. 1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleF. James and Rita Rechin Fund1956: Cleveland Institute of Art1999: Western Reserve Historical Society1982: The TempleIvan Lecaros (right), a master printmaker from Chile, puts the final touches on a drawing for a silkscreen print during his 2012 residency at Zygote Press.Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 193727 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleJames A. Ratner1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Richard W. PogueEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioJames A. NortonFrances Southworth GoffCleveland Play HouseMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentKaramu HouseCatharine Monroe LewisInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 19652010: Case Western Reserve University2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center1994: Great Lakes Science Museum1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933The reversal of downtown Cleveland’s stagnation, symbolized by the redevelopment of the Terminal Tower, is a 60-year-old work in progress in which the foundation has been steadily engaged.TremontGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012Goff wisely decided that an independent citizen’s committee should determine how a community foundation’s income should be distributed, rather than the directors of the foundation’s trustee bank. MAGNET consultants helped Nextant Aerospace of Richmond Heights, Ohio, apply lean principles to its specialty business of remanufacturing corporate jets for an under-$5 million market. Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.2006: MOCA ClevelandOhio CityThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationGoff did not believe that philanthropy should be the exclusive province of wealthy individuals such as Standard Oil Company founder John D. Rockefeller, a client of Goff’s former law firm.Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Kenneth W. Clement M.D.Kucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977MOCA Cleveland1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteBarbara Haas RawsonCleveland Public ArtBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationFairfaxDonald and Ruth GoodmanLeyton E. CarterHomer C. WadsworthThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseCharles P. BoltonAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.CommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteJacqueline F. Woods1996: Old Stone ChurchAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Dancer/choreographer Kapila Palihawadana of Sri Lanka, 2012 artist in residence with the Inlet Dance Theatre, conducts a master dance class at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts.Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyLinking city kids to life-enriching programs: Duffy Liturgical Dance teaches children to perform and thus preserve songs and dances created by African slaves in America.The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationRaymond Q. ArmingtonRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumMalvin E. BankSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Apollo’s FireCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.Lexington VillageMalcolm L. McBrideTri-C groundbreaking, 1966James D. Williamson1986: Cain ParkEdgewater Park under state stewardshipUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.The Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon and Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson stumping in 2012 for the passage of the first operating levy to be placed on the ballet in 16 years2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.MAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Raymond C. MoleyNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchPresbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder died while protesting the construction of three public elementary schools that Cleveland’s civil rights community believed would perpetuate a system of segregated and inferior education for African-American students.Steven A. MinterJohn Sherwin Jr.Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerGordon Park in its heydayMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution center1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. 1973: Severance HallThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbine2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterCleveland Institute of Art1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumAlthough the foundation’s trailblazing was a faded tradition by 1955, when this picture of the trustee bank presidents holding a replica of the foundation’s logo was snapped, its stature as the world’s first community trust remained a source of pride.