…of NextMED Systems. He was previously with McKinsey & Company, KeyCorp and EmployOn. At McKinsey, he served as managing director for Canada, managing director of the Cleveland/Pittsburgh Office Complex and member of the worldwide Shareholders Committee. At Key he headed retail banking and operational services. Bennett is well known for his civic leadership in the nonprofit sector, working in the fields of economic development, social…
…00 Social Services 1988 National Puerto Rican Forum Comprehensiv Competncies Prog. $112,500 Education 1988 National Urban Fellows, Inc. National Urban Fellow $31,000 Education 1988 Neighborhood Health Care, Inc. Physician recruit. & org. dev. $5,000 Health 1988 Neighborhood Health Care, Inc. Physician recruitment $80,250 Health 1988 Neighborhood Progress Inc. Initial yr.of Neighbor.Progres $400,000 Civic Affairs 1988 New Organization for the…
…Contributions received from a record-breaking 325 individuals…
…ke care of its own.” On the last day of the drive, the fate of the campaign remained uncertain. That evening, 8,000 campaign solicitors gathered downtown in Public Hall to learn the final tally. The audience groaned over the news that an 11th-hour contribution of $150,000 from the estate of Samuel Mather, who had died a few months before, had not pushed the campaign over the top. Then Carl W. Brand took the podium. A Cleveland Foundation…
…t of the common people. Goff had started his legal career as a solo practitioner and become the “super-troubleshooter” at one of Cleveland’s leading corporate law firms. Because of his specialized skills, Goff was appointed trustee of a bankrupt private streetcar company with which the City of Cleveland had battled for control of these critical transportation lines for seven years. In short order, Goff and Johnson negotiated a Solomonic…
…Support for humanitarian aid to the unemployed: Stone carvers responsible for the iconic pylons of the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, a rare Depression-era construction project completed in 1932 with bond funds approved before the stock market crash Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartments First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first…
…es. In addition to requesting basic contact and operational information, the survey solicits information delineating each community foundation’s work and effectiveness. It concludes with an opportunity for each foundation to share a recent success story. CommunityFoundationAtlas.org website “We hope that community foundations will seize this unprecedented opportunity to speak directly about their work to a worldwide audience,” says Nick…
…d distributed more than $4 billion in annual grants. But the intrinsic value of Goff’s concept goes beyond the amassing and awarding of financial resources. As evidenced by the spread of community philanthropy throughout the world, from Astrakhan, Russia, to Mozambique, to New Zealand, the concept’s universal appeal lies in a community foundation’s ability to bring people together around a common cause. From the asset-rich cities and towns of…
…errelated problems of the central city. Johnson regretted that the foundation’s astounding growth, although gratifying, gave him little time to think and act other than mechanically. He retired in 1967, the year after Hough erupted in violence, becoming a symbol, known around the world, for the anger of African Americans toward the inequities of opportunity their country afforded them. He graciously stepped down to allow a younger leader with a…
…1915–17 survey of Cleveland’s city schools commissioned by the Cleveland Foundation. Ayres’s critical report resulted in a number of changes within the school system. At the outbreak of U.S. involvement in World War I, Lt. Col. Ayres volunteered to lend the Russell Sage Foundation’s statistical expertise to the Council of National Defense. After the war he moved to Cleveland, where he served for 26 years as vice…