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Leonard P. Ayres
…1915–17 survey of Cleveland’s city schools 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…
Frederick H. Goff
…of a sailing vessel and circumnavigated the Great Lakes. In his first month as an attorney, he earned fees totaling $2.40—about $50 today. Goff made an offer to John D. Rockefeller, his law firm’s client, to take on the restructuring of Standard Oil to meet federal antitrust regulations. The proposed negotiation was rejected by President Theodore Roosevelt, whose administration subsequently entered into litigation that forcibly broke up the…
Kenneth W. Clement
…er advisory capacities. In 1967, he managed Carl Stokes’s successful campaign to become the first black mayor of a major American city. Clement served as president of the Cleveland Baptist Association, president of the National Medical Association, national board member of the NAACP and Urban League, and trustee of Kent State University and Howard University. His accomplishments have been honored through the naming of the Kenneth W….
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…63 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 Police and Tax Base Reform Preserving Mentor Marsh 1966 1966 Annual Report…
Decisive Response to the Great Depression
…ke care of its own.” On the last day of the drive, the fate of the campaign remained uncertain. That evening, 8,000 campaign solicitors gathered downtown in Public Hall to learn the final tally. The audience groaned over the news that an 11th-hour contribution of $150,000 from the estate of Samuel Mather, who had died a few months before, had not pushed the campaign over the top. Then Carl W. Brand took the podium. A Cleveland Foundation…
J. Kimball Johnson
…errelated problems of the central city. Johnson regretted that the foundation’s astounding growth, although gratifying, gave him little time to think and act other than mechanically. He retired in 1967, the year after Hough erupted in violence, becoming a symbol, known around the world, for the anger of African Americans toward the inequities of opportunity their country afforded them. He graciously stepped down to allow a younger leader with a…
Post-Goff Years
…research, experimental or new projects, demonstrations of services or extension of services which are new or relatively untried in this community and which give promise of beneficial results.” This statement of a community trust’s central mission holds true today, but at the time the reaffirmation of Goff’s vision did not substantially change the objectives of the Cleveland Foundation’s grantmaking. The community foundation field had yet to…
Ronald B. Richard
…ndreds, perhaps someday even 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…
James A. Norton
…degrees from Louisiana State University and, despite a passion for politics, ultimately decided to go into teaching. He studied for his second master’s at Harvard University’s Littauer School of Public Administration. During World War II, Norton served as a radio operator in the U.S. Army Air Force. After the war ended, he became an instructor at the University of Texas and, in 1949, an assistant professor in the school of public administration…