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Post-Goff Years

…by Cleveland in 1929 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,…

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…

George F. Karch Sr.

…Two weeks later he was promoted to the tax division of the trust department. And 47 years later he would retire as the bank’s chairman and chief executive officer. Karch had come up the hard way—selling newspapers, scrubbing pharmacy floors, laying pipeline and working as a laborer in a steel mill. After graduating from West High School, he enrolled in St. Lawrence University but dropped out less than two years later when his father lost his…

Bridge to Arts Education and Healthcare Careers

…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…

Board of Directors

…red personalized gift stores. His previous positions include president and CEO of HomePlace Stores, president and COO of Zale Corporation, and president and CEO of Karten’s Jewelers. From 1981 to 2000 Pollock was involved in buying, operating and selling broadcast properties, with ownership positions in seven radio stations, including the Cleveland stations WDOK, WWWE, WMJI, WRMR and WBBG. He began his professional career in 1969 at J. B….

A Greater University Circle

…gan operations with the support of a $1.15 million in grants from the Cleveland Foundation. The agreement of the Circle’s anchor institutions to redirect a portion of their combined $3 billion in annual procurement monies to buy goods and services from the Evergreen Cooperatives underpins the feasibility of this potentially revolutionary undertaking. The initiative’s most visible accomplishment is Uptown, a high-density, mixed-use superblock at…

Support of Carl Stokes’s Historic Mayoralty

…from the Schubert Foundation, $5.2 million had been pledged in support of Cleveland: NOW! by that fall. Had not a street activist by the name of Ahmed Evans used monies he earned in running a NOW!-sponsored youth program to buy guns, the public-private partnership that the foundation helped to assemble around NOW! might have indeed jump-started Cleveland’s physical and socioeconomic revival. But the community’s hopes for a better day were…

Creating Real Jobs for Neighborhood People

…ition to stimulating major physical improvements within the Circle, the initiative has undertaken two neighborhood-rebuilding campaigns, the objectives of which can be summed up in the phrases “Live Local,” “Hire Local,”and “Buy Local.” The first phrase describes an employee housing assistance program. The second and third phrases underpin a business formation plan that taps into the $3 billion the Circle’s anchor institutions spend annually on…

Indispensable Civic Roles

…rded 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 scientists led by cardiovascular-pulmonary specialist Alfred P. Fishman, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, the foundation agreed to support the rebuilding of CWRU’s basic sciences departments one at a time. Site reviews were to be conducted by the consultants…