…nd cooperation that would be overcome by subsequent foundation initiatives that built on this learning experience. PATH experienced greater success in helping the city leverage federal Housing and Urban Development monies to purchase or build high-rise apartments for the elderly and begin construction of new multifamily public housing projects, such as the King-Kennedy Estates in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood. During the brief…
…m to stimulate investment in and rehabilitation of the adjoining neighborhoods’ housing stock. Full-time employees of 35 participating Circle institutions are now eligible to receive a forgivable, no-interest loan toward the purchase of an owner-occupied home in Greater University Circle. Subsidies for rental units and exterior repair are also available. More than 225 individuals, couples and families have taken advantage of these incentives to…
…conservancy organization. With the support of a $250,000 foundation grant awarded in 2010 on the condition the monies be applied toward the creation of a public green space, CRF and TPL were able to raise the funds needed to purchase the concrete-covered property. Three acres were converted into Rivergate Park, which opened in May 2011 as a recreational resource for kayakers, canoers and rowers. The park also gave CRF room to expand its…
…even more useful and welcoming to teachers, students and amateur astronomers. The $590,000 that private donors had contributed as of August 2013 came on top of $2.1 million previously raised by the park district to cover the purchase of the observatory from Case Western Reserve University and the acquisition of more than 200 acres of surrounding land. As its founders intended, the Lake-Geauga Fund has helped the residents of these counties…
…tal improvements, $50,000 Applewood Centers Inc., independent living facility, $25,000 2001 Cleveland Botanical Garden, conservatory, $300,000 2002 Cleveland Institute of Music, renovation and expansion, $300,000 Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center, purchase of Hofbrau Haus, $100,000 Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center, renovations, $5,000 2003 Fine Arts Garden Commission, renovation, $100,000 Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development, Malvern…
…tal improvements, $50,000 Applewood Centers Inc., independent living facility, $25,000 2001 Cleveland Botanical Garden, conservatory, $300,000 2002 Cleveland Institute of Music, renovation and expansion, $300,000 Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center, purchase of Hofbrau Haus, $100,000 Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center, renovations, $5,000 2003 Fine Arts Garden Commission, renovation, $100,000 Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development, Malvern…
…shment of a Cleveland Recreational Council. Operating under the auspices of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, the council immediately began pushing for passage of a special tax levy to allow the Metropolitan Park Board to purchase land ringing the city. With 50 influential citizens on the campaign team, whom the council had taken on a guided tour of Bear Mountain Park in New York, the levy passed, and the park board set about assembling what…
…its beginnings in 1968 as a struggling commercial art dealership located in a Euclid Avenue storefront, the New Gallery had been on the cutting edge of Cleveland’s art scene, exhibiting (often for the first time locally) the works of serious contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein. In 1974, the gallery’s co-founder, Marjorie Talalay, decided to turn the gallery into a nonprofit organization with the added…
…ed. This private housing corporation was formed in 1933 to implement a program of slum clearance and low-cost housing construction to be financed by a $12 million allotment from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (PWA). With blight swallowing up fully one-fourth of Cleveland’s total acreage, Cleveland Homes prepared a master redevelopment plan that called for 1,000 acres of east-side slums to be replaced with new streets and…
…ose on the receiving end, it’s very significant. And that makes us feel wonderful.” Natives of New York, the Rechins began creating a lasting philanthropic legacy as a young married couple. Busy rearing four children, they nonetheless opened their Buffalo home and their hearts to orphans at Christmas. In 1955, Jim, a mechanical engineer with experience designing jet engines, accepted a job with TRW, and the Rechins moved to Cleveland. Rita made…