…The three winners of grants of up to $46.7 million apiece will be determined in spring 2014. In Icebreaker’s case, the additional federal funding would cover about half of the estimated costs of building and installing the six turbines—the next step toward LEEDCo’s ultimate goal of demonstrating the commercial potential of offshore wind generation to private developers and helping regional metalworking companies gain the experience to serve…
…undation a means to help the community re-envision itself. In the fall of 1972, foundation director James Norton participated in an annual gathering of approximately a dozen members of the world’s intelligentsia aboard the luxurious yacht of a Greek shipping magnate, Nicolas Doxiadis. There Norton met and was impressed by Lawrence A. Halprin, a noted urban planner whose redevelopment projects included Ghirardelli Square on San Francisco’s…
…tion support, TPL opened a Cleveland field office in 1997, facilitating its efforts to connect Cleveland residents to Lake Erie, the Cuyahoga River and the national park. TPL-Cleveland subsequently acquired land for the Lake Link Trail connecting the river valley to Cleveland’s near west side and purchased property needed to extend the Towpath Trail through Cleveland’s industrial Flats. In 2006, the foundation made a $1 million program-related…
…aw firm Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue to review and critique the group’s plans, with the objective of nurturing the interest of local corporations in supporting the arts. At the end of this yearlong process of self-study, six of the organizations formed a consortium to pursue a joint $2 million challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Since the Cleveland Orchestra had recently been a beneficiary of an NEA challenge grant,…
…mid and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have joined the ranks of such past honorees as Zora Neale Hurston (1943), Langston Hughes (1954), Martin Luther King Jr. (1959), Toni Morrison (1988) and Ralph Ellison (1992). Originally, the Saturday Review presented the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Edith’s prescient decision to transfer stewardship to the Cleveland Foundation in 1963 ensured the prizes’ continuance. For the foundation, the awards have become an…
…f evaluating all over-the-transom grant requests. In addition to deep knowledge of their fields, hands-on management skills and political smarts became essential qualifications for senior program directors, as they were now expected to help execute board-directed initiatives by convening and collaborating with community partners. An expectation had been set during Norton’s tenure that the chair of the board of directors would actively partner…
…Leaders Board of Directors CEOs Torchbearers Staff Members Impact 100 Key Achievements The Built Environment Indispensable Civic Roles Grant Search References Annual Reports Historic Publications Centennial Videos Decades 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Timeline 1914 An Idea Whose Time Had Come Belle Sherwin First of eight surveys of pressing urban problems commissioned Frederick H. Goff Goff’s Vision…
Beth Oldenburg Rankin is past co-president and current co-vice chair of the board for the Cleveland Play House, where her involvement has included annual and capital fundraising, facilities location review, strategic planning and development of a three-year M.F.A. conservatory program in partnership with Case Western Reserve University. Rankin also serves on the executive committee of Town Hall of Cleveland and is a past member of the board of…
…& Arthur and Baker & Hostetler. He graduated with honors in economics from Northwestern University (B.A., 1983) and went on to study law at the University of Pennsylvania (J.D., 1986), where he was editor of the Law Review. An alumnus of Leadership Cleveland, an organization that works for the betterment of the City of Cleveland, Wilkerson is active in the community, having served on the boards of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church,…