…the proof department. 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…
…$81,550 Arts and Culture 1988 Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc. 1988-89 New Plays Festival $1,000 Arts and Culture 1988 Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc. Core personnel & guest artists $35,000 Arts and Culture 1988 Cleveland Research Institute Heart research with Soviets $105,000 Health 1988 Cleveland Restoration Society, Inc. General support $300 Civic Affairs 1988 Cleveland Rotary Club Foundation General support $1,000 Civic Affairs 1988…
…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…
…ts, keen instincts for negotiation and his personal charm. He credited his accomplishments to “two-pants suits—because you have to out-sit people.” Born in Pittsburgh in 1913, Wadsworth was at heart a hard-eyed realist whose world view had been shaped by tragedy. When Homer was eight, his father, a tugboat captain, died from the lingering effects of an accident that had crushed his leg. Homer and his sister grew up in a tough Pittsburgh…
…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…
…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…
…63 1963 Annual Report John Sherwin Start-up of Cuyahoga Community College The Cleveland Foundation ranks as the country’s largest community trust 1964 1964 Annual Report Assets surpass $100 million Establishing a Groundbreaking Interracial Forum First significant bequest for arts and culture received 1965 1965 Annual Report Bringing Public Television to Cleveland Police and Tax Base Reform Preserving Mentor Marsh 1966 1966 Annual Report…
…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…
…isbursement of endowment income. Goff insisted that a community trust’s income must be distributed by an independent group of citizens, of which a substantial number were to be named by the holders of positions of honor and trust in the community. Breaking with the practice of setting up foundations as private corporations with self-perpetuating boards, he proposed that only two of the five members of the Cleveland Foundation’s grantmaking body…