Board of Directors

…try professor at Case, had co-founded with Herbert Dow in 1897), leaving to serve as an engineer in the Army Signal Corps aviation section. After the war he worked as a courier for the Peace Commission in France, returned briefly to Dow, then headed a real estate construction and development firm. In 1928, Smith and his two younger brothers co-founded Graphite Oil Products Company. What began as an experiment, with the brothers mixing oil…

Grant Search

…eech Brook General support $1,200 Social Services 1989 Beech Brook General support $44,800 Social Services 1989 Beech Brook We Care Program $57,510 Social Services 1989 Bellefaire General support $20 Social Services 1989 Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau Family day care homes $5,500 Social Services 1989 Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau Support national conference $14,302 Social Services 1989 Bellevue Hospital General support…

James A. Norton

…program aimed at solving the city’s toughest problems, in part to set an example of risk-taking innovation for the more conservative “parent” foundation. In an era when racial tensions ran high in Cleveland, he was particularly effective in building productive coalitions between blacks and whites to address festering inequalities and inadequacies in education and housing. His courage, creativity and diplomacy persuaded the Cleveland Foundation’s…

The Built Environment

…maintenance and utility costs, and the project must be central to the grantee’s mission and help to meet a compelling community need. A new requirement was added in 2007 with the goal of making Cleveland a more environmentally conscious community. Henceforth, capital grants would be awarded only to projects that had adopted “green building” principles and qualified for the U.S. Green Building Council’s “LEED Silver” certification, in the case…