…a drug treatment center on Cornell Road The Cleveland Foundation was an early champion and financial supporter of the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland, which annually provides quality health care and related services free of charge to more than 10,000 people who lack appropriate alternatives. The Free Clinic was established in 1970 in a old frame house on Cornell Road in University Circle as a treatment center for young people with…
…onstrating to the city’s black and white leadership the imperative and benefits of collaboration and inclusion—a lesson that reshaped Greater Clevelanders’ conduct of civic affairs going forward. + more Advocate: Backing The Free Clinic 1970 The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell Road The Cleveland Foundation was an early champion and financial supporter of the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland, which annually…
…mour Academy General support $705 Education 1988 Glenville Health Association Start-up two new physicians $80,000 Health 1988 Good Samaritan Youth Center Staff and operational support $28,000 Social Services 1988 Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center Summer support $3,000 Social Services 1988 Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center General soperating support $5,000 Social Services 1988 Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center General support $8,000…
…Kauffman Foundation and Business Roundtable that helps to develop new, culturally diverse business enterprises. A recipient of the 2010 Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame award, Sondhe is the author of TEA: The Recipe for Stress-Free Living and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Stress-Free Living. × Rev. Stephen Rowan Board: 2009–Present Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Read Bio Rev. Stephen Rowan Board:…
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…key parcels in the district, including the Bulkley Building containing the Allen Theatre. With the option days away from expiring in 1982, it had become clear that a syndicate of PSF supporters would not be able to raise the purchase price. The foundation stepped forward to acquire the properties as a program-related investment. (Learn how this daring investment benefited PSF’s facilities and financial stability.) This was only the second time…
…ansfer, 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 grant, GLWN also collaborated with WIRE-NET, a…
…eveland Foundation in 2008, NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology opened in MidTown in the fall of 2010. The airy high-tech building houses a vocational program that prepares adults for careers as phlebotomy and pharmacy technicians and after-school arts classes for teens poised on the brink of quitting school. NewBridge is modeled after Pittsburgh’s highly successful Manchester Bidwell training center, which has been in operation…
…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…
…t. The concept behind a PRI is to invest principal to advance projects that have not only socioeconomic value but also the potential to produce a reasonable return on the investment. In applying a $3.6 million PRI toward the purchase of the Bulkley and Selzer Buildings on Euclid Avenue near East 14th Street, the foundation secured the land needed for the reconstruction of the State Theatre stage house to accommodate professional ballet and opera…