Carl W. Brand

…y to the position of manager. In 1910, after his uncle’s death, he became president of the Widlar Company. At the 1920 convention of the National Coffee Roasters Association he was elected to a third consecutive term as that organization’s president. Brand’s commitment to civic pursuits was equally energetic. He served as president of the Children’s Fresh Air Camp and Hospital, director of the Cleveland Community Fund, and trustee of the Welfare…

Board of Directors

…iversity, where she chaired the President’s Circle, and WVIZ/PBS, where she headed two highly successful auctions. She was a past president of the Great Lakes Theater Festival, serving as a trustee for 21 years. Over the past 50 years, Morgenthaler and her husband, David, have made significant philanthropic gifts, funding a professorship of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon, a founding sponsorship of the Entrepreneurship Center at the…

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…

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Grant Search

…Inc. Visions 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…

Rebirth of Playhouse Square

…n Theatre’s main auditorium The State Theatre The Cleveland Foundation’s commitment to the revitalization of Cleveland’s Jazz Age theater district dates to 1973, a year after the Junior League of Cleveland, a women’s service organization, inspired by a visionary educator named Ray Shepardson, mounted a campaign to prevent two boarded-up theaters from being demolished to create parking lots. A series of grants awarded during the 1970s supported…

Increased Public Access to the Cuyahoga River

…to find a permanent headquarters on the Cuyahoga River for its 800 members and the urban schoolchildren it mentored. A vacant commercial site with 1,100 feet of riverfront and two buildings seemed ideal, but the $3.5 million price tag for the seven-acre property was daunting. CRF sought assistance from the Cleveland Foundation, which recognized the challenge as an opportunity to expand public access to the Cuyahoga River. The foundation…

Decisive Response to the Great Depression

…pal bulwark protecting Clevelanders from the worst dislocations of the Great Depression. In the boom years preceding the stock market crash, the federation had annually raised millions to support the city’s nonprofit welfare organizations and agencies. With more than 100,000 Clevelanders on the breadlines as of 1931, the need for social services of all kinds had never been more urgent, yet it had become painfully clear that the federation would…

Updated Approaches to Successful Aging

…using choices. Community life measures the availability and accessibility of social and safety services. Mobility assesses how easy it is for seniors to get around in their communities. Finally, the initiative gave nonprofit organizations the means to create or expand programming that serves seniors. For example, the Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Cleveland (RSVP) received a grant to enlarge its Experience Corps. The program, which began in…