…ontinental Europe and the United Kingdom. Received much less positively by the study subjects in Cleveland, the criminal justice survey nonetheless led to new leadership at the city prosecutor’s offices and at the city workhouse, both of which had been singled out for laxity; the creation of the administrative position of chief justice of the county common pleas court; the elimination of a mandatory preindictment court appearance by police that…
…help to revitalize central-city neighborhoods. The civic affairs program officer persuaded the board to make a program-related investment of $800,000 in Lexington Village—only the second time to date that the foundation had used the still-unconventional tactic of investing principal in a project. Minter then went on to assemble a coalition of 27 public and private lenders that provided the additional $13.3 million in needed working capital. The…
…show jumpers. He was also a partner in the New York Yankees. In 1975, he retired as Leaseway’s chief executive officer but continued as a director. He was a trustee of St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Gilmour Academy, Cleveland Safety Council and Trinity College in Washington, D.C. Throughout his life, O’Neill was noted for his philanthropy. A few years after his death, his wife, Dorothy, and their eldest son, William Jr., established the William…
…his law director. When Lausche was elected governor in 1945, Burke filled his remaining term as mayor. Running as an independent Democrat, in four successive mayoral elections he would flatten his opponents, including former safety director Eliot Ness. His administration instituted a large capital-improvement program, including a lakefront airport later named in his honor, the first downtown airport in the country. In 1954, Burke had a brief…
…or a blighted area immediately northeast of downtown overlooking the lake. Except for the hotel, the downtown plan had been implemented by the mid-1970s, and Erieview’s scale influenced future redevelopment efforts, which focused on a series of big-time projects: indoor shopping malls, museums, stadiums, a convention center and a medical technology showplace. The Cleveland Foundation supported many of these endeavors, typically by providing…
…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…
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…il on Aging Fund Founder: Lake County Council on Aging Mayfield Schools Education Foundation Fund Founder: Mayfield Business Education Community Alliance Foundation The Scarborough House Endowment Fund Founder: Scarborough House, Inc. 2004 Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland Fund Founder: Hunger Task Force of Greater Cleveland dba Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland Inc. Endowment Fund Founder: Ronald McDonald…
…Foundation’s grantmaking. The community foundation field had yet to discover the value of an energetic and visionary program staff. During the 1950s, the Cleveland Foundation’s grantmaking became even more standardized. Because the foundation’s chief executive officer now served as an ex officio member of the board and planning committee of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, director J. Kimball Johnson frequently relied upon the federation’s…
…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…