…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…
…nted to their colleagues at monthly staff meetings. The “Centennial Moments” briefs were so well received that the foundation decided to preserve digital highlights of each presentation. These short but memorable videos are archived here for the enjoyment of all. Produced by Susan Christopher of the foundation’s marketing & communications department and filmed and edited by Jeff Reidel of Flagship Media, they are narrated by the…
…Contributions received from a record-breaking 325 individuals…
…degrees from Louisiana State University and, despite a passion for politics, ultimately decided to go into teaching. He studied for his second master’s at Harvard University’s Littauer School of Public Administration. During World War II, Norton served as a radio operator in the U.S. Army Air Force. After the war ended, he became an instructor at the University of Texas and, in 1949, an assistant professor in the school of public administration…
…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…
…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…
…ishing to help PSF find new tenants, the foundation affirmed its satisfaction with its decision to relocate to the Hanna Building in 1984 by signing a new long-term lease. As evidenced today by the building’s busy Starbucks, market forces have been restored to the district. Indeed, a private developer is now converting the Hanna Building annex into rental apartments, realizing the last component of the vision of Playhouse Square as a desirable…
…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…