…borative effort to replicate the Manchester Bidwell program here. Cleveland’s leading medical institutions advised on the design of the adult curricula, resulting in a high rate of employment of the 36 adults who graduated in 2011 and 2012. More than 350 ninth- and 10th-graders selected by 40 high schools from across the county attended free, hands-on classes in ceramics, photography, digital arts, and music recording and production during the…
…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 his father lost his…
…teenager, she entered the male-dominated financial field in the late 1960s after graduating from Northwestern University. A decade later, she started her own company. She has the distinction of being the founder of the first female-owned money management and financial planning firm in Ohio. Gries also is a founder and chair of Fieldstone Associates Inc., a real estate investment advisory firm, and is an investment committee member of several…
…laced Pamela Firman Humphrey as the sole woman on the foundation board, the Cleveland Foundation began to champion local women’s initiatives. The first empowerment grant was awarded in 1972 to the Women’s Law Fund, a team of female attorneys helping women litigate cases of sex discrimination. The Rape Crisis Center, which counseled victims and monitored police response to rape reports, was the most prominent of a host of new women’s…
…t, the Sherwick Fund inspired the creation of a host of supporting organizations. Today, with assets of about $20 million, the Sherwick Fund is the largest of the Cleveland Foundation’s 10 supporting organizations. In 2012, the Sherwick Fund awarded more than $1 million in grants. Helping to perpetuate his family’s distinguished philanthropic heritage, John (Jack) Sherwin Jr. has chaired the fund’s five-person board since 1987. (From 2003 to…
…Foundation leaders confer about how to distribute 1947 income of $614,479 to a standing list of charitable institutions and agencies. Foundation director Leyton E. Carter (third from right) is seated next to the board’s sole female member, Constance Mather Bishop. Although the foundation’s trailblazing was a faded tradition by 1955, when this picture of the trustee bank presidents holding a replica of the foundation’s logo was snapped, its…
…il on Aging Fund Founder: Lake County Council on Aging Mayfield Schools Education Foundation Fund Founder: Mayfield Business Education Community Alliance Foundation The Scarborough House Endowment Fund Founder: Scarborough House, Inc. 2004 Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland Fund Founder: Hunger Task Force of Greater Cleveland dba Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland Inc. Endowment Fund Founder: Ronald McDonald…
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…st prominent and beloved citizens. He was also a national intellectual treasure but, sadly, his name is not well known among most 21st-century Americans or even among Clevelanders. This lack of recognition is unfortunate because Goff, like his better-known contemporaries Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, changed philanthropy forever, here and around the world. As the American philosopher William James has stated, “The great use of a life…
…ution to the ideas of the world. At the time of Hayes’s speech in 1926, more than 55 community trusts had been created in cities large and small across this country. Goff’s concept had also begun to spread internationally, to Canada, where the Winnipeg Foundation had been established in 1921. A century after the Cleveland Foundation’s invention, more than 1,700 community foundations operate around the globe. Small wonder that, in 2001, the…