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…

Championing Advanced Energy

…to the foundation’s new president and CEO, Ronald B. Richard. Struck by the windy chop of Lake Erie during his first trip to interview for the foundation job in 2003, Richard had barely settled into his new responsibilities before he began to talk about the environmental and economic benefits to be derived from the region’s taking a lead role in clean energy creation. Having gained extensive experience with manufacturing and environmental issues…

James A. Norton

…y of governmental services ranging from mass transportation to public health, METRO was expected to persuade county voters of the wisdom and efficiency of a form of governance that they had rejected at the polls three times before. The proposition went down to defeat once again in 1958, largely because African-American voters feared that they would lose the political clout they had slowly gained in Cleveland’s city council. Norton accepted a…

Hiroyuki Fujita

…try’s top entrepreneurs. Ernst & Young bestowed its Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award on him in 2010, the same year that he founded eQED, a solar energy company that manufactures and distributes highly efficient, cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-install solar microinverters. Fujita, a Japanese national, came to Cleveland in 1992 to attend Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D., 1998), which presented him with its Outstanding Recent…

Grant Search

…Social Services 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Pre-development activities $350,000 Arts and Culture 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Construction of museum $600,000 Arts and Culture 1988 Rockefeller Park Cultural Arts Association Rockefeller Park Gardenfest 88 $7,500 Arts and Culture 1988 Rose-Mary Center General support $2,506 Social Services 1988 Saint Luke’s Hospital Association General Support $435…

Kent H. Smith

…irit of Fred Goff’s surveys. But GCAF would have found it difficult to carry out its research-action agenda had it not been for the support of its chairman, Kent H. Smith, whose leadership of GCAF’s reformist mission lent it instant credibility with the Cleveland establishment. The city’s “men of money”—as GCAF’s inventor Harold Clark termed the white-male CEOs who constituted Cleveland’s most powerful civic leadership group—were not going to be…