…’s degree from Case Western Reserve University. × Ric Harris Board: 2002–2005 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Read Bio Ric Harris Board: 2002–2005 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee From 2000 to 2005, Ric Harris was vice president and general manager of WEWS-NewsChannel 5 in Cleveland. A Cleveland native, he attended John Carroll University, where he was a leader on two PAC championship basketball teams. He…
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…in the talent and promise of urban youth, the Cleveland Foundation sought to demonstrate that public school students could achieve their potential if given an opportunity to learn in high-performance educational settings. In 2006, the foundation partnered with the George Gund Foundation and the Cleveland Municipal School District to create a portfolio of new, innovative and excellent schools. To date, the two foundations have contributed more…
…), MAGNET’s new program seeks to help companies with annual sales of between $10 million and $500 million create new products and enter new markets, thus propelling double-digit percentage sales growth. A second foundation grant of $400,000 awarded in early 2013 will enable MAGNET to expand PRISM’s portfolio of clients with an eye to fostering the creation of 20,000 new jobs in northeastern Ohio by 2020….
…tions (GFCF), the Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) and a team of research and communications specialists to develop an easily accessible online information platform for the field. CommunityFoundationAtlas.org was unveiled in the fall of 2014. A formal atlas survey was prepared by the project’s research consultant, Barry Knight, a social scientist based in the United Kingdom who has previously assisted the GFCF and WINGS with…
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…here, the Cleveland Foundation has a long, rich tradition of serving as the community’s “go-to partner,” a tradition that it intends to perpetuate in the years ahead. Leader: Paving the Way for Public Housing 1933 A postcard view of Lakeview Terrace (bottom left) Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937 Lakeview Terrace After their father’s untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite…
…an Orff-Schulwerk Association International Outreach Fund Founder: American Orff-Schulwerk Association Paul and Vercile Strege Fund to Benefit International Partners in Mission Founder: International Partners in Mission East View United Church of Christ Endowment Fund Founder: East View United Church of Christ The Antioch Baptist Church Fund Founder: Antioch Baptist Church The Foundation Center Scholarship Fund Founder: The Foundation Center The…
…ution to the ideas of the world. At the time of Hayes’s speech in 1926, more than 55 community trusts had been created in cities large and small across this country. Goff’s concept had also begun to spread internationally, to Canada, where the Winnipeg Foundation had been established in 1921. A century after the Cleveland Foundation’s invention, more than 1,700 community foundations operate around the globe. Small wonder that, in 2001, the…
…a $19 million campaign that renovated the last of Playhouse Square’s five historic theaters. Doors to the excitingly updated Hanna Theatre (the recipient of a significant capital grant from the Cleveland Foundation) opened in 2008. The foundation has also been a steadfast supporter of the effort, now in its fourth decade, to redevelop the theater district itself. Its first grant to the PlayhouseSquare Foundation in 1973 underwrote a master plan…