…Clinic was established in 1970 in a old frame house on Cornell Road in University Circle as a treatment center for young people with drug-related problems. The foundation backed the creation of this safe haven, where medical care was provided with no questions asked. The need for indigent health care on the east side of Cleveland was so great that the Free Clinic soon began treating anyone who walked in. In less than a decade, it had evolved…
…muel 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 the final tally. The audience groaned over the…
…le on the John Hay campus, which reopened in 2006 after extensive renovation, exemplify the range of excellent educational options now available to Cleveland public school students. The School of Science and Medicine boasts a 100 percent graduation rate, with 100 percent of its students accepted into college. Cleveland Early College High School offers high-achieving students an accelerated curriculum that allows them to graduate high school in…
1973: Severance Hall 1976: Cleveland Play House 1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts 1972: Huron Road Mall 1976: Sokol Hall 1970 Juvenile Court of Cleveland, suburban branch office, $13,450 1971 National Council of Jewish Women, headquarters renovation, $31,833 1972 Huron Road Mall, downtown construction, $40,000 1973 Severance Hall, renovation, $41,191 1974 Rainey Institute, building repair, $3,000 1975 Kenneth C. Beck Center…
…known for his civic leadership in the nonprofit sector, working in the fields of economic development, social services, healthcare delivery, education and the arts. He is a trustee of the Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation and the Cleveland Initiative for Education. He served as vice chair of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and trustee of United Way of Greater Cleveland, National Ballet of Canada and Hathaway Brown School….
…on grant awarded by the Cleveland Foundation in 2008, NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology opened in MidTown in the fall of 2010. The airy high-tech building houses a vocational program that prepares adults for careers as phlebotomy and pharmacy technicians and after-school arts classes for teens poised on the brink of quitting school. NewBridge is modeled after Pittsburgh’s highly successful Manchester Bidwell training center,…
…Martin Luther King Jr. In a 30-minute speech broadcast on all three local television stations on May 1, 1968, Stokes proposed to turn the city around in 10 years through new programs in the areas of employment, neighborhood rehabilitation, youth development, health and welfare and downtown revitalization. In its first phase, Cleveland: NOW! called for the expenditure of $177 million on training 11,000 of the city’s hard-core unemployed;…
…ss 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 Burten, Bell and Carr Development Corporation Sustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland…
…eveland stations WDOK, WWWE, WMJI, WRMR and WBBG. He began his professional career in 1969 at J. B. Robinson Jewelers, becoming president and CEO. Pollock serves on the board of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and holds trustee positions with the Musical Arts Association, ideastream, Kent State University, University School, Bellefaire JCB, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation and Wingspan Care Group. He holds a…
…d or abandoned children required to live in institutions on a long-term basis, the foundation initiated a multiple-year demonstration project to be undertaken by two private welfare agencies, the Children’s Bureau and the Cleveland Humane Society, to test the feasibility of placing orphans in foster homes. The demonstration, which proved the benefits of foster family care, gradually reduced the reliance on institutional care here….