…ents can be directed for assistance. Called PRISM (Partnership for Regional Innovation Services to Manufacturers), MAGNET’s new program seeks to help companies with annual sales of between $10 million and $500 million create new products and enter new markets, thus propelling double-digit percentage sales growth. A second foundation grant of $400,000 awarded in early 2013 will enable MAGNET to expand PRISM’s portfolio of clients with an eye to…
…more democratic. The Cleveland Foundation came into being under the sole trusteeship of the Cleveland Trust bank on January 2, 1914. Speaking to the City Club of Cleveland 12 years later, Ralph A. Hayes, the director of the New York Community Trust, prophesied that Goff’s invention would one day be deemed Cleveland’s most important contribution to the ideas of the world. At the time of Hayes’s speech in 1926, more than 55 community trusts had…
…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…
…eland Music School Settlement, and co-founded the Playhouse Square Association. In 1975, she chaired the International Women’s Year gathering in Cleveland, which attracted some 50,000 attendees. After a divorce, she married Bruce Newman, executive director of the Chicago Community Trust. The 1982 death of her 22-year-old son from paranoid schizophrenia led her to advocate for the treatment and support of people with mental and neurological…
…itiveness for national science grants well into the next century. The ability of many Cleveland hospitals to attract topflight physicians also depended on the rebuilding of the medical school’s basic sciences departments, as new faculty members would hold joint hospital appointments. The new dean of the medical school, Richard E. Behrman, looked to the Cleveland Foundation for funds to enable his new department heads to update laboratories and…
…or a silkscreen print during his 2012 residency at Zygote Press. Creative Fusion, the Cleveland Foundation’s innovative artist-in-residence program, supports long-term residencies at local arts organizations for accomplished international artists, with a goal of expanding the region’s exposure to world culture. Selected and hosted by cultural institutions throughout Greater Cleveland, the artists hail from cultures not well represented here. As…
…inability Fund Founder: Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization Educational Gift Fund of the Chagrin Valley Woman’s Club Founder: The Educational Gift Fund of the Woman’s Club of Chagrin Falls MedWish International Fund Founder: MedWish International Fund for the Future of Heights Libraries Founder: Fund for the Future of Heights Libraries Volunteers of America Fund Founder: Volunteers of America of Greater Ohio MidTown…
…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 discover the value of an…
…r, he worked for the City of Pittsburgh for eight years, most notably as head of the department of parks and recreation. In the late 1940s, he briefly served as vice president and dean of the New School of Social Research in New York before moving on to Kansas City, whose postwar revitalization he helped to bring about. Wadsworth also influenced philanthropic policy and professional standards at the national level, especially in his promotion of…
…installs photovoltaic solar-panel arrays for institutional and commercial customers. Given the region’s manufacturing heritage, the design and production of wind power components seemed an even better bet to the foundation’s new president and CEO, Ronald B. Richard. Struck by the windy chop of Lake Erie during his first trip to interview for the foundation job in 2003, Richard had barely settled into his new responsibilities before he began to…