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Frank C. Sullivan

…RPM in 1987 as regional sales manager at RPM’s joint-venture AGR Company, then rose through the ranks as vice president of corporate development, chief financial officer, executive vice president, and president and chief operating officer. Before joining RPM he held various positions in the areas of commercial lending and corporate finance at Harris Bank and First Union National Bank. He received his bachelor’s degree from the…

Bridge to Arts Education and Healthcare Careers

…- 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 2011–12 academic year. In contrast to usual turnout for afterschool programs, which often fail to attract young men, 55 percent of the attendees were male. The foundation affirmed its belief in NewBridge’s effectiveness with a second grant of $1.5 million in…

Groundbreaking Strategy

…today’s dollars. Survey findings, which were published in hard cover and presented in public forums, received widespread press coverage locally. Even so, several of the surveys, such as the inaugural 1914 study of “poor relief” and a 1920 survey of political unrest among Cleveland’s immigrant populations, yielded only modest results. A proposed study of the Cleveland lakefront, to be undertaken in 1923 with the goal of developing the Lake Erie…

Hiroyuki Fujita

…one of the country’s top entrepreneurs. Ernst & Young bestowed its Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award on him in 2010, the same year that he founded eQED, a solar energy company that manufactures and distributes highly efficient, cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-install solar microinverters. Fujita, a Japanese national, came to Cleveland in 1992 to attend Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D., 1998), which presented him with its…

Return of Farming to the Cuyahoga River Valley

…f the Cuyahoga Valley Association (CVA), a citizens advocacy group that played a key role in the creation of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in 1975. In addition to providing operating funds, the foundation supported CVA’s efforts to protect the perimeter of the newly established park from commercial exploitation. Over the years the foundation has helped the park enhance its infrastructure and programs. Perhaps the most innovative of these…

Carlton K. Matson

…fare Federation of Cleveland and during his time there co-authored a report for the Cleveland Foundation’s recreation survey. Fred Goff subsequently hired Matson to head Cleveland Trust’s public relations department. Matson left Cleveland Trust to pursue a career in financial advertising in Cleveland and Grand Rapids, Michigan. In sum, the foundation’s second director was not “from the conventional uplifter genus,” as Oberlin’s alumni magazine…

Digging Out from Default

…computerizing the city’s record-keeping to amending the city charter to provide a four-year term for the mayor. The Voinovich administration implemented almost 75 percent of the suggested cost-cutting and efficiency measures; and indeed, with additional guidance from the state-imposed Financial Planning and Review Commission, the city was able to balance its budget and refinance its defaulted notes during Voinovich’s first year in office….

Rebirth of Playhouse Square

…developing property would also give the PlayhouseSquare Foundation a reliable income stream. In stretching to help PSF realize its outsized ambitions, the Cleveland Foundation built a new capacity to stimulate redevelopment efforts throughout the community. In 1977, PSF had acquired the right to purchase several key parcels in the district, including the Bulkley Building containing the Allen Theatre. With the option days away from expiring in…

“National Heritage Corridor” Designation for Ohio & Erie Canalway

The Ohio Canal Corridor Inc. received a $40,000 foundation grant to support its efforts to secure a “National Heritage Corridor” designation for the historic Ohio & Erie Canal route, extending south from Lake Erie through the Cuyahoga River Valley to New Philadelphia, Ohio. Congress awarded the canalway this recognition in 1996, paving the way for Ohio Canal Corridor Inc. to receive $1 million in federal funds. A second $40,000 grant in…

Decisive Response to the Great Depression

…worry, Mr. President,” Cleveland industrialist Samuel L. Mather, the father of the community chest concept, told Herbert Hoover when the president had appointed Mather to a committee charged with mobilizing a national relief effort earlier in the year. “Cleveland will take 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…