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…for Children $52,000 Social Services 1988 Cleveland Student Health Program Operating support $10,000 Health 1988 Cleveland Student Health Program Health clinic at East High $49,500 Health 1988 Cleveland Tenants Organization Expand tenant orgnizing $75,000 Civic Affairs 1988 Cleveland Tomorrow Neighborhood Progress, Inc. $500 Economic Development 1988 Cleveland Tomorrow Technology Leadership Council $150,000 Economic Development 1988 Cleveland…

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Board of Directors

…1988 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Roy Holdt (1920–2001) retired as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of White Consolidated Industries, a manufacturer of machine tools and home appliances. In 1985, Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland named him Business Executive of the Year. Born in Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, Holdt served with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II and was awarded the Croix de Guerre with…

Global Impact

…ing with the Foundation Center, the Global Fund for Community Foundations (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…

Indispensable Civic Roles

…aw firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue to review and critique the group’s plans, with the objective of nurturing the interest of local corporations in supporting the arts. At the end of this yearlong process of self-study, six of the organizations formed a consortium to pursue a joint $2 million challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Since the Cleveland Orchestra had recently been a beneficiary of an NEA challenge grant,…

Pamela H. Firman

…Creme Fraiche, bred by Pamela Humphrey Hanna Firman and her nephew on Firman’s Whileaway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. She was committed to continuing the bloodlines of the Thoroughbred horses she inherited from her father, George M. Humphrey, a Cleveland industrialist who had served as Eisenhower’s secretary of the treasury. Born in 1913 in Saginaw, Michigan, Pamela moved to Cleveland as a child when her father joined the M. A. Hanna Company. A…

Credits

…Creative Director and Principal Photography Research: Mark SchwartzDesign: Shawn Beatty, Ryan Camp, Gregory Oznowich and Jamie WilhelmProgramming: Bryce Taylor and Shawn Beatty About the Photographs The Cleveland Foundation extends thanks to all the generous individuals and institutions that contributed images to this project. Please contact Photos@ClevelandFoundation100.org regarding any errors, omissions, or comments about the photographs…

Digging Out from Default

…ributed to a decision by local banks to call the $15.5 million in short-term notes at a time when the city was $30 million in debt. The day after his election as mayor, Voinovich approached the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation with a proposal. In exchange for his agreement to run for mayor, Voinovich had extracted a promise from a small group of corporate leaders that they would provide him with volunteer experts from business…