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…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…
…horities. But Carter’s unpaid and time-consuming leadership of Cleveland Homes should also be acknowledged as part of the Cleveland Foundation’s record of accomplishment. Convener: Establishing a Groundbreaking Interracial Forum 1964 Presbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder died while protesting the construction of three public elementary schools that Cleveland’s civil rights community believed would perpetuate a system of segregated and inferior…
…on a series of big-time projects: indoor shopping malls, museums, stadiums, a convention center and a medical technology showplace. The Cleveland Foundation supported many of these endeavors, typically by providing planning, site analysis or design grants or supplementing construction budgets with funding for public amenities. The foundation also facilitated improvements in downtown infrastructure and downtown transportation, providing planning…
…formed in 1989 to promote the health, educational and social benefits of rowing, needed to find a permanent headquarters on the Cuyahoga River for its 800 members and the urban schoolchildren it mentored. A vacant commercial site with 1,100 feet of riverfront and two buildings seemed ideal, but the $3.5 million price tag for the seven-acre property was daunting. CRF sought assistance from the Cleveland Foundation, which recognized the challenge…
The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national leader in land conservation based in California, has been working in Ohio since 1974. With the support of a $100,000 grant from the Cleveland Foundation in 1977, the organization played a key role in acquiring 30,000 acres of land for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park around Blossom Music Center, at the former site of the Richfield Coliseum, and along the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, a scenic…
…otions. He was named CEI’s president in 1945 and board chairman in 1960, then chairman of the executive committee from 1967 until his retirement in 1974. Lindseth worked tirelessly to champion Cleveland as an excellent site for new industry and expansion, serving as president of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development. He was a trustee of Case Western Reserve University and held…
…s the stadium and arena themselves, in 1992 the Cleveland Foundation made a $750,000 grant and a $2 million program-related investment to provide Gateway Economic Development Corporation with the resources to design and construct gracious exterior plazas filled with public art. A competitive application process overseen by Cleveland Public Art attracted 125 submissions, from which four artists were commissioned to create outdoor works that…
…publications, incorporating material and information from annual reports, newsletters and white papers; the foundation’s 50th anniversary history, Trust for All Time: The Story of the Cleveland Foundation and the Community Trust Movement; the foundation’s 75th anniversary history, Rebuilding Cleveland: The Cleveland Foundation and Its Evolving Urban Strategy; and monographs examining the tenures of two foundation CEOs: The People’s…
…d, Robert, currently reside in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. × Russell R. Gifford Board: 1989–1994 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Read Bio Russell R. Gifford Board: 1989–1994 Appointing Authority: Trustees Committee Russell Gifford retired as president of CNG Energy Services. He joined CNG in 1962 as a management trainee at the East Ohio Gas Company, becoming president of East Ohio Gas in 1989, then moved to CNG Energy…