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….

Raymond C. Moley

…ation on September 1, 1919. Born in the Cuyahoga County town of Berea, Ohio, in 1886, Moley graduated from his hometown college (now Baldwin Wallace University) in 1906 and taught at a country school in nearby Olmsted Falls before being elected “boy mayor” of that rural village in 1908. He next decided to pursue a master’s degree (Oberlin College, 1913) and managed to earn a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1918 while…

Downtown Cleveland’s Resurgence

…ls, museums, stadiums, a convention center and a medical technology showplace. The Cleveland Foundation supported many of these endeavors, typically by providing planning, site analysis or design grants or supplementing construction budgets with funding for public amenities. The foundation also facilitated improvements in downtown infrastructure and downtown transportation, providing planning grants for a county-wide Regional Transit Authority…

100 Key Achievements

…mmunity College 1968Support of Carl Stokes’s Historic Mayoralty 1971Federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University 1973Rebirth of Playhouse Square 1975Lifting Civic Spirits and Sights 1975Peaceful School Desegregation 1979Digging Out from Default 1983Joining the Early Battle against AIDS 1984Envisioning North Coast Harbor 1986Turnaround in Hough 1988Sustained Resources for Neighborhood Redevelopment…

Modern Evolution

…ems. The reversal of downtown Cleveland’s stagnation, symbolized by the redevelopment of the Terminal Tower, is a 60-year-old work in progress in which the foundation has been steadily engaged. Cleveland’s well-financed and –run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation. The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by…

Maintaining the Excellence of the Lively Arts

…assistance, working capital and grants to underwrite needed staffing, planning and feasibility studies, and marketing. Sustaining Excellence, an invitation-only program of special support, was launched in 2008 to counter the effects of the economic downtown. This initiative extended a safety net of $6.6 million in grants to continue the movement of a spectrum of arts organizations toward self-sufficiency. In 2011, the foundation kicked off…

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Introduction

…t of the common people. Goff had started his legal career as a solo practitioner and become the “super-troubleshooter” at one of Cleveland’s leading corporate law firms. Because of his specialized skills, Goff was appointed trustee of a bankrupt private streetcar company with which the City of Cleveland had battled for control of these critical transportation lines for seven years. In short order, Goff and Johnson negotiated a Solomonic…

CEOs

…), the Cleveland Foundation’s fifth director, came to the position on January 1, 1968, after leading an affiliated philanthropy, the Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation (GCAF). As GCAF’s director for its intentionally brief, six-year… Read Bio in Timeline  Barbara Haas Rawson CEO: 1973–1974 Barbara Haas Rawson was a well-known volunteer active in Cleveland’s League of Women Voters, Citizens League and the PTA in her home suburb…

A Greater University Circle

…om the Evergreen Cooperatives underpins the feasibility of this potentially revolutionary undertaking. The initiative’s most visible accomplishment is Uptown, a high-density, mixed-use superblock at the eastern edge of the CWRU campus. The Cleveland Foundation set the redevelopment in motion with a $1 million grant for urban design services and made a series of loans totaling $4 million to support the initial phase of construction of the $150…