…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…
…and accidentally crushed to death a Presbyterian minister who had joined an on-site demonstration organized by a coalition of civil rights groups to protest the construction project’s reinforcement of school segregation. The news of the Reverend Bruce W. Klunder’s demise horrified James A. Norton, the director of the Cleveland Foundation’s affiliated philanthropy, Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation (GCAF), who had for months been trying to…
…Contributions received from a record-breaking 325 individuals…
…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…
…projects, demonstrations of services or extension of services which are new or relatively untried in this community and which give promise of beneficial results.” This statement of a community trust’s central mission holds true today, but at the time the reaffirmation of Goff’s vision did not substantially change the objectives of the Cleveland Foundation’s grantmaking. The community foundation field had yet to discover the value of an…
…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…
…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…
…the strategy for environmental grantmaking, which began in 1990 as part of his program portfolio. On the national level, Eckardt sparked the creation of professional associations aimed at helping philanthropic organizations share expertise and resources, set standards and speak with a collective voice. Among those he helped to establish and lead are Grantmakers in Aging, Funders Concerned about AIDS and Grantmakers in Health. Eckardt also…
…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…