…GroundWorks DanceTheater, Cathy Haglundc, Ideastream, Invest in Children, JumpStart, Inc., Juniper Gallery, Karamu House, LAND Studio, Lexington Village Apartments, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, MAGNET (Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network), MidTown Cleveland, Incorporated, Robert Muller, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, MyCom, Neighborhood Connections, Neighborhood Progress Inc., Nesnadny + Schwartz,…
…keview Terrace public housing project on Cleveland’s near west side. After years of providing operating funds to education and welfare institutions, the foundation announced in its 1945 annual report that it would henceforth use its unrestricted funds primarily to “aid 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…
George E. Enos (1916–1972) was president of the Enos Coal Mining Company. Headquartered in Cleveland, Enos Coal’s Indiana surface mines produced bituminous coal for electrical utilities and general industrial use. In 1963, the Interlake Iron Corporation, a Cleveland-based producer of merchant iron and ferro-alloys, acquired Enos Coal and elected George Enos to its board of directors. He became chairman of the executive committee of…
…ommunity pursuits), Clark had interested a group of civic leaders in helping him organize a natural sciences museum for Cleveland in 1920. He later became president of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and of the art museum. With both museums located in University Circle, the home of the city’s most prestigious cultural, educational and medical institutions, it is not surprising that a first-time federation of Circle institutions aimed at…
…rs at the Nasher Company, a privately owned real estate development firm in Dallas, where he was responsible for supervising new development projects. Ratner holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He serves as emeriti trustee at Case Western Reserve University and is a member of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Urban Land Institute and PlayhouseSquare Foundation….
…s for mixed-income new construction developments through the federal HOPE VI program. Brown then spent two years as president of University Circle Incorporated (UCI), contributing to efforts for the long-awaited UpTown mixed-use development project. She joined National City Bank (now PNC) as senior vice president for corporate diversity and developed community programs and activities to achieve the corporation’s diversity goals. After…
…He studied chemistry, physics, engineering and metallurgy at the University of Minnesota, then worked as a troubleshooter for a ceramics company in St. Louis, learning to diagnose industrial ills. He would put this talent to use at Cleveland’s National Acme Company, a major maker of machine tools, becoming president in 1926 and increasing business by 300 percent. That number soared to 1,100 percent after the outbreak of WWII. He continued as…
…Interactive Graph 100 Years of Financial History This visual aid is key to understanding the Cleveland Foundation’s organizational development. Use it to identify, or to track year by year, three important data points: the cumulative annual value of the foundation’s endowment; total annual distributions to grantees; and the total value of donations received each year. Interactive Graph…
…The Cleveland Foundation contributed $300,000 to the $1 million cost of updating what was then Cleveland’s last citywide plan, completed in 1949, and its last downtown plan, completed in 1959. Unveiled in 1988, “Civic Vision 2000” was the culmination of two years of studies and dozens of community meetings conducted under the leadership of city planning director Hunter Morrison. Morrison, who had city planning degrees from both Harvard and…
…Case Institute of Technology received a grant to broadcast astronomical events as seen at the school’s observatory to students in campus classrooms, a pioneering use of television in educational instruction….