…er 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 trustee, he announced the foundation’s contribution of $75,000, arranged that very day. With the foundation’s timely intervention, the Community Fund surpassed its goal by $30,000, enabling the welfare federation to fully…
…le until 1990. He retired as chairman in 1991. In 1978, Vail launched the New Cleveland Campaign to promote the area’s many cultural, entertainment and industrial assets. He co-founded Cleveland Tomorrow (now the Greater Cleveland Partnership), a group of business leaders who work to improve the city’s building and industrial base by bringing business and government together. He has served as a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation,…
…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…
…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…
…mber, 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 stature as the world’s first community trust remained a source of pride. The multitude of organizational nameplates on the door to the Cleveland Foundation’s offices in the 1970s testified to its rebirth as a nexus of progressive…
…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 by global competition, to reinvent itself as a truly global city. In its annual reports and other public forums over the past decade, the foundation has also exerted its moral authority more forthrightly than ever before, taking impassioned stands in support of the right…
…-commissioned recreation survey, completed in 1919, recommended improvements in the variety of wholesome leisure-time activities available to Clevelanders. Goff had already hired a survey director, Allen T. Burns, whom he recruited from Pittsburgh, where in 1907 the Russell Sage Foundation, a newly formed national philanthropy dedicated to supporting social science research, had commissioned an influential study of living and working conditions…
…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…
…y foundation movement. As part of its contribution to the 100th anniversary of the movement in 2014, the Cleveland Foundation is collaborating with the Foundation Center, the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF), the Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) and a team of research and communications specialists to develop an easily accessible online information platform for the field. CommunityFoundationAtlas.org was unveiled…
In 2013, Jerry Sue Thornton retired as president of Cuyahoga Community College after 21 years at its helm. During her tenure, Tri-C added two corporate colleges, a campus in Westlake and a center in Brunswick, and developed a partnership with Case Western Reserve University that made it easier for Tri-C students to transfer. Before arriving in Cleveland in 1992, Thornton served as president of Lakewood Community College, now known as Century…