…r the Flats sparked a renewed interest in this undervalued section of town and paved the way for the creation of a restaurant and nightclub district along the industrial riverfront. Halprin’s formal master plan remained largely unexecuted, but its farsighted support of an embryonic concept called the “Euclid Transit Corridor” that would link the city’s two major employment centers—downtown and University Circle—influenced the continuation of…
…ance and incentives to aspiring home buyers with low to moderate incomes. To date, CHN’s Homeward Program has produced more than 1,000 units of market-rate housing, generating more than $60 million in direct capital investment in Cleveland’s neighborhoods. More recently, CHN has become involved, with ongoing foundation support, in the rehabilitation or development of multifamily properties, senior housing and permanent housing for the…
America faces a shortage of primary care physicians that will only become more severe when aging baby boomers become the frail elderly. The lack of primary care is especially acute in urban neighborhoods. In Greater Cleveland, a pioneering collaboration between the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and Cleveland State University (CSU) is tackling the shortage head-on. With the support of a $250,000 planning grant from the Cleveland…
Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929 Harry Goldblatt, M.D. A $1,000 grant advanced the highly significant hypertension research of Harry Goldblatt, M.D., director of Western Reserve University’s Institute of Pathology. Goldblatt’s experiments in the 1930s provided a partial answer to clinicians’ bafflement about the causes of hypertension. He demonstrated that if a portion of the main…
Sally Gries is the founder and chair of Gries Financial LLC, a multi-family wealth management firm for private clients, foundations and institutions. An avid reader of the Wall Street Journal as a teenager, she entered the male-dominated financial field in the late 1960s after graduating from Northwestern University. A decade later, she started her own company. She has the distinction of being the founder of the first female-owned money…
Sally Kenny Griswold, a former schoolteacher, served two terms on the Shaker Heights School Board. She was an honorary trustee of John Carroll University (and past president of the board), a member of the visiting committee of the College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, and a member of United Way Services’ delegate assembly. Pursuing a longtime special interest in health and aging, she served on the women’s council of the Golden…
…d fireside chats. A difference of opinion with the secretary of state about foreign trade—Moley favored a certain degree of protectionism—prompted the assistant secretary’s resignation in September 1933. He soon found new bully pulpits as a syndicated political journalist and the editor of the weekly journal Today (which later merged with Newsweek). When he left the Cleveland Foundation, Moley said that he regretted the move because he…
…Hope Ministries Union Miles Development Corporation Fund Founder: Union Miles Development Corporation Citizens’ Academy Endowment Fund Founder: Initiatives in Urban Education Foundation Louisa Oliver Endowment for Family Connections Founder: Family Connections of Northeast Ohio LEAF Administrative Endowment Fund Founder: Lake/Geauga Educational Assistance Foundation LEAF Last Dollar Grant Endowment Fund Founder: Lake/Geauga Educational…
…, with assets of about $20 million, the Sherwick Fund is the largest of the Cleveland Foundation’s 10 supporting organizations. In 2012, the Sherwick Fund awarded more than $1 million in grants. Helping to perpetuate his family’s distinguished philanthropic heritage, John (Jack) Sherwin Jr. has chaired the fund’s five-person board since 1987. (From 2003 to 2006 Jack Sherwin also chaired the Cleveland Foundation.) His eldest daughter, Heather,…
…constructing a new 60,000-square-foot facility for the Foodbank near Interstate 90 on the far east side of Cleveland. The new headquarters, which opened in 2004, positioned the organization to expand its services. Unfortunately, the economic downturn dramatically increased demand in neighborhoods the Foodbank had not previously served and did not have the capacity to fulfill. A $300,000 grant from the foundation in 2009 supported the hiring of…