Indispensable Civic Roles

…institute’s potential as an engine of technology transfer, awarding GLEI a $3 million grant in 2009 to fund wind turbine research. On the manufacturing front, the Cleveland Foundation helped to establish the Great Lakes Wind Network (GLWN), a supply chain advisory group that works to link regional metalworking companies with domestic and international wind turbine manufacturers seeking to source components. With the support of a 2008 foundation…

Boosting Biomedical Research

…es departments, as new faculty members would hold joint hospital appointments. The new dean of the medical school, Richard E. Behrman, looked to the Cleveland Foundation for funds to enable his new department heads to update laboratories and attract nationally regarded researchers. Behrman’s request for $3 million was three times larger than the foundation’s largest grant to date. Acting on the advice of a team of 11 nationally known basic…

Board of Directors

…poration and the Cleveland Initiative for Education. He served as vice chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and trustee of United Way of Greater Cleveland, National Ballet of Canada and Hathaway Brown School. Bennett holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a juris doctor degree from Harvard University Law School. × Catharine Monroe Lewis Board: 1994–2004 Chair: 2000–2003 Appointing Authority: Trustees…

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Championing Advanced Energy

…group that works to link regional metalworking companies with domestic and international wind turbine manufacturers seeking to source components. With the support of a 2008 foundation grant, GLWN also collaborated with WIRE-NET, a manufacturing advocacy group on Cleveland’s west side, to educate local casting, machining, forging and fabrication firms about the growth potential of serving the wind power industry. On the generation front, Stuebi…

Maintaining the Excellence of the Lively Arts

…, planning and feasibility studies, and marketing. Sustaining Excellence, an invitation-only program of special support, was launched in 2008 to counter the effects of the economic downtown. This initiative extended a safety net of $6.6 million in grants to continue the movement of a spectrum of arts organizations toward self-sufficiency. In 2011, the foundation kicked off Engaging the Future, a three-year initiative that enlisted 11 established…

Post-Goff Years

…dget had survived the scrutiny of the federation’s lay oversight committees and professional planners, its grant request would usually be approved by the foundation, which had limited staff resources to devote to independent reviews. To his credit, Johnson recognized the need to address growing economic and social distress in the nation’s eighth-largest city, which was beginning to lose good-paying manufacturing jobs. The foundation consistently…

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…tives” launched to revitalize schools, neighborhoods and the lakefront 1988 1988 Annual Report Sustained Resources for Neighborhood Redevelopment Understanding the Causes of Poverty 1989 1989 Annual Report George and Janet Voinovich John J. Dwyer Lake-Geauga Fund The Cleveland Foundation at Seventy-Five 1990 1990 Annual Report Sustained grantmaking begins in the field of the environment 1991 1991 Annual Report Encouraging Collaboration on…