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…Social Services 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Pre-development activities $350,000 Arts and Culture 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Construction of museum $600,000 Arts and Culture 1988 Rockefeller Park Cultural Arts Association Rockefeller Park Gardenfest 88 $7,500 Arts and Culture 1988 Rose-Mary Center General support $2,506 Social Services 1988 Saint Luke’s Hospital Association General Support $435…

Leonard P. Ayres

…r I, Lt. Col. Ayres volunteered to lend the Russell Sage Foundation’s statistical expertise to the Council of National Defense. After the war he moved to Cleveland, where he served for 26 years as vice president and chief economist of the Cleveland Trust bank. In 1940, Ayres was recalled to active duty as a brigadier general; he retired in 1942 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. After suffering a fatal heart attack in…

Leyton E. Carter

…Carter accepted the call to become grand jury foreman (although his agreement came with the understandable qualifier that he would serve “as long as he could”). He played his most significant leadership role in directing an effort to redevelop Cleveland’s slums that led to the Depression-era construction of the first public housing in America. Carter’s path to the Cleveland Foundation was similar to that of the foundation’s first director. Like…

Joseph P. Keithley

…hat same year joined Keithley Instruments, holding various positions in manufacturing, sales, marketing and division management. In 2010, the company was acquired by Danaher Corporation. Keithley is a member of the board of trustees of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the visiting committee of the Case School of Engineering. He also serves on the advisory council of Cornell University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He…

Thomas A. Burke

…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 stay in Washington, appointed to fill the term of the late U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft. Later that year, he ran…

Return of Farming to the Cuyahoga River Valley

…rehabilitating the 20 or so old farmsteads within the park’s boundaries and leasing them to persons committed to practicing sustainable agriculture. Long-term leases are awarded on a competitive basis, and the first request for proposals went out in 2001. A second foundation grant of $80,000 in 2003 gave the initiative, which was still in its formative stages, time to prove its effectiveness. To date, 11 farms have been placed back into…

Hiroyuki Fujita

…try’s top entrepreneurs. Ernst & Young bestowed its Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award on him in 2010, the same year that he founded eQED, a solar energy company that manufactures and distributes highly efficient, cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-install solar microinverters. Fujita, a Japanese national, came to Cleveland in 1992 to attend Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D., 1998), which presented him with its Outstanding Recent…

Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter Fund

…ly supported the Cleveland Museum of Art. As Porter considered how to perpetuate the charitable and cultural interests that had enriched his and Nancy’s lives, he initially thought of setting up a private family foundation. Reflecting on his wife’s admiration and affection for Steve Minter, Porter also investigated the possibility of bequeathing the couple’s estate to the Cleveland Foundation. He ultimately decided that establishing an endowment…

James A. Norton

…y of governmental services ranging from mass transportation to public health, METRO was expected to persuade county voters of the wisdom and efficiency of a form of governance that they had rejected at the polls three times before. The proposition went down to defeat once again in 1958, largely because African-American voters feared that they would lose the political clout they had slowly gained in Cleveland’s city council. Norton accepted a…

Bridge to Arts Education and Healthcare Careers

…- and 10th-graders selected by 40 high schools from across the county attended free, hands-on classes in ceramics, photography, digital arts, and music recording and production during the 2011–12 academic year. In contrast to usual turnout for afterschool programs, which often fail to attract young men, 55 percent of the attendees were male. The foundation affirmed its belief in NewBridge’s effectiveness with a second grant of $1.5 million in…