…5 Years: 1914–1939 1941 Bellwether Support of African-American Girl Scout Troops First Stand-Alone Adoption Service Inaugurating Counseling at Divorce Court Innovative Library Program for Shut-ins Katherine Bohm 1942 Carl W. Brand Day Care for War-Effort Mothers Fred S. McConnell Lynn J. and Eva D. Hammond 1943 First logo unveiled The Combined Fund is created to enable small gifts to the endowment 1945 Contributions received from a…
…redits About the Project “Leading a Century of Change” draws upon a rich archive of Cleveland Foundation 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…
…e new public elementary schools to be built in predominately African-American neighborhoods on Cleveland’s east side backed up 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…
…e Living, a $4 million incentive program to stimulate investment in and rehabilitation of the adjoining neighborhoods’ housing stock. Full-time employees of 35 participating Circle institutions are now eligible to receive a forgivable, no-interest loan toward the purchase of an owner-occupied home in Greater University Circle. Subsidies for rental units and exterior repair are also available. More than 225 individuals, couples and families have…
…s technically a new trust fund of the Cleveland Foundation. “All of its funds will go for studying community needs, proposing solutions to problems and making these findings available to philanthropic, service and government organizations,” Fisher noted. “The foundation [GCAF] is also expected to finance pilot and demonstration projects when these may point the way to new community ventures.” GCAF planned to expend both the income and principal…
…ition to stimulating major physical improvements within the Circle, the initiative has undertaken two neighborhood-rebuilding campaigns, the objectives of which can be summed up in the phrases “Live Local,” “Hire Local,”and “Buy Local.” The first phrase describes an employee housing assistance program. The second and third phrases underpin a business formation plan that taps into the $3 billion the Circle’s anchor institutions spend annually on…
…from the Schubert Foundation, $5.2 million had been pledged in support of Cleveland: NOW! by that fall. Had not a street activist by the name of Ahmed Evans used monies he earned in running a NOW!-sponsored youth program to buy guns, the public-private partnership that the foundation helped to assemble around NOW! might have indeed jump-started Cleveland’s physical and socioeconomic revival. But the community’s hopes for a better day were…
…as general counsel for the Cleveland Foundation from 1967 to 2003 certainly reflects the utmost standards of loyalty and commitment to the client’s best interests, as does his service over the years as a director of more than 50 nonprofit businesses. Bank has also provided wise counsel and gentle guidance to the more than 30 charitable and educational institutions of which he has been a trustee. Mal Bank grew up in a poor and tough neighborhood…
…nhancing, responsibility-building experiences that middle-class children take for granted: out-of-school enrichment activities, caring adult mentors, summer jobs. The planning for MyCom began in 2007, when some 250 community organizations, government agencies, faith-based groups, and youths came together at the Cleveland Foundation’s invitation to consider how to mitigate adolescents’ exposure to risk and help them harness their potential. The…
…s and 1,127 pages, the encyclopedia had first been suggested to its eventual co-editors, David D. Van Tassel and John J. Grabowski, by retired Cleveland Foundation director Homer C. Wadsworth. A series of foundation grants supported the research and writing of more than 2,300 entries. An updated edition of the encyclopedia can now be found online….