Staff Members

…tkash Marilyn Potting Paul Putman R Barbara Rawson Jane Reisinger Ronald Richard Kaye Ridolfi Robert Risberg Ann Rittenhouse Carmen Rizzo Loretta Roman Betty Roode Stephen Rowan Bill Rudman Jennifer Rudolph (Bulloch) Dorothy Ruth Martha Rutkie S Kimberly Sabo Judy Salm Rikki Santer Lynn Sargi (Andreas) Karen Sayre Sheri Scanlon Carol Scheuer Joyce Schneider Suzanne Schneider Laura Schubert Donna Schuerger Cynthia Schulz Jo Ann Schwartz Kathy…

Groundbreaking Strategy

…-commissioned recreation survey, completed in 1919, recommended improvements in the variety of wholesome leisure-time activities available to Clevelanders. Goff had already hired a survey director, Allen T. Burns, whom he recruited from Pittsburgh, where in 1907 the Russell Sage Foundation, a newly formed national philanthropy dedicated to supporting social science research, had commissioned an influential study of living and working conditions…

Ronald B. Richard

…thousands of wealth-building jobs for city residents by tapping into the procurement streams of major nonprofit organizations. Under Ronn’s leadership, the Cleveland Foundation has supported international business attraction efforts, aggressive recruitment of highly skilled immigrants and residencies by artists presenting the best of world culture—all in an effort to inspire Cleveland, whose economy has been battered by global competition, to…

Day Care for War-Effort Mothers

…Anticipating that large numbers of mothers would go to work during wartime, the foundation and the Welfare Federation of Cleveland jointly met the expenses of an Emergency Child Care Committee that was set up to locate or develop day care for the preschool children of working mothers….

Global Impact

…larities in their concerns or approaches. Another objective is to help government officials, policy makers, potential philanthropic partners and ordinary citizens understand and tap into the power of community foundations to effect positive change and innovation. “If the field enthusiastically embraces this outreach effort,” says Ronald B. Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation, “the lessons we will learn should be eye-opening…

Torchbearers

…y respect the equal of her husband, Frederick Harris Goff. A woman of character and intelligence, she came from a family that helped to settle the portion of northeastern Ohio called the… Read Bio in Timeline  Dorothy Ruth Assistant to the Foundation’s First Four CEOs Dorothy Ruth was, for many Clevelanders, the face of the Cleveland Foundation for more than 40 years. A graduate of Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University,…

Boosting Biomedical Research

…staffed a major new department of molecular biology, making possible (among other things) research in the emerging field of genomics and gene sequencing. The foundation’s vote of confidence in Healy’s vision empowered her. Before leaving to head the National Institutes of Health in 1991, Healy continued to broaden the Clinic’s research interests, promoted the critical place of research in the Clinic’s medical education program, and took the…

Encouraging Collaboration on Medical Research and Education

…. Yet the study’s recommendations, which Eckardt and foundation director Steve Minter continued to bring to the attention of new leaders at the concerned institutions over the next decade, planted seeds that ultimately bore fruit. In 1995, CWRU’s school of medicine, which had long been exclusively associated with UH, entered into a joint venture with the Cleveland Clinic to create a center of excellence in structural biology. With significant…

Sitemap

…million 1976 Annual Report Enhancement of Public Spaces L. Dale Dorney Fund Start-up of Friends of Shaker Square 1977 1977 Annual Report Safeguarding Cleveland’s Cultural Assets 1978 1978 Annual Report Critical Infrastructure Replacement Stewardship of the City’s Lakefront Parks 1979 1979 Annual Report Digging Out from Default Reclaiming a Once Magnificent Parkway Stanley C. Pace 1980 1980 Annual Report Boosting Biomedical Research…

Treu-Mart Fund

…e Cleveland Foundation—has coalesced around a vision of a Greater Cleveland where every child receives the means to thrive. To that end, the Treu-Mart Fund has supported several promising collaborations covering a broad spectrum of youth development efforts. These initiatives include two new public-private partnerships conceived by the Cleveland Foundation: Invest in Children, a county-wide early childhood development initiative, and MyCom, a…