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…Annual Report Mass Polio Immunizations PACE’s School Library Campaign 1963 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…

A Greater University Circle

…om 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 the eastern edge of the CWRU campus. The Cleveland Foundation set the redevelopment in motion with a $1 million grant for urban design services and made a series of loans totaling $4 million to support the initial phase of construction of the $150…

Joseph P. Keithley

…hat same year joined Keithley Instruments, holding various positions in manufacturing, sales, marketing and division management. In 2010, the company was acquired by Danaher Corporation. Keithley is a member of the board of trustees of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the visiting committee of the Case School of Engineering. He also serves on the advisory council of Cornell University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He…

Thomas A. Burke

…nstead, graduating from Holy Cross College (B.A., 1920) and Western Reserve University (LL.B., 1923), and establishing a private practice. In 1930, he was appointed assistant county prosecutor, resigning seven years later to run for a municipal judgeship. He lost, vowing never again to enter a race for public office. But that decision would change. When Frank Lausche was elected Cleveland mayor in 1941, he appointed Burke as his law director….

Community Foundation Movement

…g local resources and promoting local giving through the creation of a community foundation. He spoke with all who approached him for information, granted interviews, and addressed civic groups, bar association meetings and trust bankers’ conferences. The editor of Trust Companies became an overnight ally and regularly published articles on the formation and activities of community foundations. Because of the American banking industry’s high…

Leyton E. Carter

…ment came with the understandable qualifier that he would serve “as long as he could”). He played his most significant leadership role in directing an effort to redevelop Cleveland’s slums that led to the Depression-era construction of the first public housing in America. Carter’s path to the Cleveland Foundation was similar to that of the foundation’s first director. Like Raymond Moley, who was six years his senior, Carter was born in rural,…

Grant Search

…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…

Everyone a Philanthropist

…simply… Read More in Timeline  Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Perpetuating Life-Saving Medical Care In October 2000, Donald Goodman, a retired dentist, returned to his Pepper Pike home after his morning exercise and abruptly collapsed on the floor. After being rushed to University Hospitals of Cleveland, he was diagnosed with acute… Read More in Timeline  On January 3, 1914, the day after the board of the Cleveland Trust bank…

Harvey B. Hobson

…ared a curriculum for introducing the teaching of hygiene that was later adopted for all junior high schools in Cleveland. She was a board member of the Child Health Association and the Eliza Jennings Home. Like his mother, Harvey Hobson also graduated from Western Reserve (B.A., 1934; LL.B., 1936). After earning his law degree, he joined the firm of Thompson, Hine & Flory. He was a member of the board of overseers for the WRU law school and…

Leonard P. Ayres

…ols 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 president and chief economist of the Cleveland Trust bank….