…e Causes of Poverty 1992Boosting the Manufacturing Sector’s Growth and Competitiveness 1992Gateway’s Public Plaza and Art 1995“National Heritage Corridor” Designation for Ohio & Erie Canalway 1997Trust for Public Land’s Local Field Office 1999Return of Farming to the Cuyahoga River Valley 2001Promoting Green Buildings 2003Fund for Our Economic Future 2003Increasing the Community’s Capacity to Relieve…
…rged a new path in institutionalizing a collaborative relationship between the board and staff. Because program officers do the legwork on grants, Minter perceived that the board of directors often felt that they were merely rubber-stamping others’ decisions. He envisioned a far more active role for the trustees. He wanted to see their intelligence and experience brought to bear on major policy decisions. Immediately upon his appointment, Minter…
…Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland, Terminal Tower information center, $25,000 1982 Cleveland Institute of Art, renovation of the Factory building, $300,000 The Temple, major repairs of national landmark building, $53,000 Ruffing Montessori School, building program, $50,000 1983 WCPN, start-up capital and operating support, $300,000 Food Communities Organization of People, new Food Co-op facility, $50,000 Viaduct View, Inc., construction of…
…ems. The reversal of downtown Cleveland’s stagnation, symbolized by the redevelopment of the Terminal Tower, is a 60-year-old work in progress 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…
…ld-drawn steel. In 1903, he purchased a second plant in Youngstown, and by 1907 the Fitzsimons Company was producing 500 tons of cold-drawn product each month. Fitzsimons was active in civic and political affairs, particularly in the tax reform movement, and ran twice for mayor of Cleveland as an independent candidate. He died in 1921, leaving three sons to run the family’s iron and steel businesses….
…and civic life. Gries, a graduate of Yale, has served on more than three dozen nonprofit boards, including the national board of the Council on Foundations. He helped to establish and was the first chair of the Grantmakers Forum of Northeast Ohio (Philanthropy Ohio). He has worked closely with the municipal school district twice, most recently as chair of the civic committee that recommended and then helped raise a bond issue providing more than…
…he division head of personnel and public relations. He resigned from Aetna in 1967 to set up an independent agency, Chapman & Chapman, where he served as president until 1982. The fifth-generation family business is now run by his sons. Chapman served as chairman of the Northeast Ohio American Heart Association and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. He volunteered as a Cleveland Clinic Ambassador, served for over a decade on the United…
…cer. Karch had come up the hard way—selling newspapers, scrubbing pharmacy floors, laying pipeline and working as a laborer in a steel mill. After graduating from West High School, he enrolled in St. Lawrence University but dropped out less than two years later when his father lost his sight. He took night classes at Cleveland Law School while working in the bank during the day, and received his law degree in 1930. In 1940, he graduated from…
…;s cultural life, helping to found the Northern Ohio Opera Association (which prompted the Metropolitan Opera to add a stop in Cleveland to its annual spring tour). As vice chairman of the Musical Arts Association he was instrumental in establishing the Cleveland Orchestra’s tradition of summer pop concerts. He was a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art, a director of National City Bank for 43 years, and in 1961 became a life trustee of…
…e to Cleveland in 1992 to attend Case Western Reserve University (Ph.D., 1998), which presented him with its Outstanding Recent Alumni Award in 2010. An adjunct professor of physics, radiology and electrical engineering at CWRU and the University of Queensland, Australia, he holds 15 patents and has published more than 30 papers and abstracts in respected engineering, imaging and physics journals. He has received numerous awards for excellence…