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Board of Directors

…o;s social service agencies. In April 1914, the council asked her to become its founding president. Later that year she requested that the Cleveland Foundation conduct a speedy study of how to strengthen the city’s relief effort. Sherwin joined the foundation’s board in 1917, resigning seven years later to assume the presidency of the National League of Women Voters in Washington. × Malcolm L. McBride Board: 1917–1941…

Indispensable Civic Roles

…Michael R. White’s request that he co-chair the Mayoral Commission on School Governance in 1996. The Cleveland Foundation had a long tradition of leading efforts to improve the public schools, and the foundation’s seventh chief executive was personally devoted to education reform. During the first three years of Minter’s tenure, the foundation had stepped forward to make the lead commitment to a $16 million philanthropic-corporate partnership…

Belle Sherwin

…ntire system running out of funds, Sherwin asked the Cleveland Foundation’s survey director Allen Burns, who was a member-at-large of the welfare council, to consider commissioning a study of how to strengthen the city’s relief effort. The foundation’s Survey Committee approved this request, and Burns hired Sherman C. Kingsley, director of the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund of Chicago, and Amelia Sears, welfare director for Cook County,…

Reforming Public School Governance

…Michael R. White’s request that he co-chair the Mayoral Commission on School Governance in 1996. The Cleveland Foundation had a long tradition of leading efforts to improve the public schools, and the foundation’s seventh chief executive was personally devoted to education reform. During the first three years of Minter’s tenure, the foundation had stepped forward to make the lead commitment to a $16 million philanthropic-corporate partnership…

Global Impact

…larities in their concerns or approaches. Another objective is to help government officials, policy makers, potential philanthropic partners and ordinary citizens understand and tap into the power of community foundations to effect positive change and innovation. “If the field enthusiastically embraces this outreach effort,” says Ronald B. Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation, “the lessons we will learn should be eye-opening…

Day Care for War-Effort Mothers

…Anticipating that large numbers of mothers would go to work during wartime, the foundation and the Welfare Federation of Cleveland jointly met the expenses of an Emergency Child Care Committee that was set up to locate or develop day care for the preschool children of working mothers….

Ronald B. Richard

…th the potential to meet emerging societal needs and turn those technologies into products that could be successfully sold in a competitive global marketplace. Ronn brought well-honed skills at identifying and actualizing beneficial new ideas to his leadership of the Cleveland Foundation. A year before his arrival, the foundation had completed a governance reorganization in which the size of the board of directors was expanded in order to gain a…

J. Kimball Johnson

…o work, and Johnson’s managerial skills attracted attention in Washington, D.C. In 1937, he was recruited to become a field office manager for the Social Security Administration. During World War II, he served as regional chief of field operations for the country’s manpower mobilization effort. After the war, he was tapped to head a five-state regional office that administered all of the programs then operating under the auspices the Social…

Steven A. Minter

…ious foundation directors Homer C. Wadsworth and James A. Norton. Minter deepened the foundation’s involvement with what he came to call the “enduring issues” of public education, jobs, housing and health care—sectors whose deficiencies and inefficiencies significantly affected the well-being of the region’s poor and minority citizens, from whose numbers he had risen. And, by stimulating the board to approve large-scale commitments to priority…

Introduction

…foundation for the “mental, moral and physical improvement of the inhabitants … regardless of race, color or creed.” In envisioning this mechanism, Goff not only vanquished “the dead hand,” he also upended the prevailing belief that philanthropy was the exclusive province of the wealthy. His concept of a community foundation endowed and managed by the members of a community for the benefit of a community was much more democratic. The Cleveland…