…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…
…s public institutions and nonprofit entities. Her legal expertise focuses on various aspects of corporate law and corporate governance, general business transactions, and commercial real estate acquisition, development, construction and financing. Chappell has served as bond and company counsel to a variety of government and corporate clients. She has particular expertise representing school districts in the provision of educational programming…
…to 74 percent African American. No longer a middle-class enclave, Hough suffered from rising unemployment, unacceptable poverty rates, a high incidence of crime and delinquency, and the decay and overcrowding of its housing stock. In the 1960s, the Cleveland Foundation contributed $106,000 over five years to the Welfare Federation of Cleveland to support the development of a comprehensive social services plan to ameliorate the problems…
…ant relatives) to the Cleveland Foundation. During 60 years of unremitting toil—later in life she had cleaned offices in downtown Cleveland and washed laundry in her three rented rooms—she had accumulated well over $10,000. Prudently invested in blue-chip stocks, Bohm’s nest egg would be worth more than $150,000 today. Bohm had been almost completely blind as a result of inoperable cataracts when she died, just a few days before her 80th…
…rsity, where he was a leader on two PAC championship basketball teams. He captained the team before graduating in 1986 with a degree in communications. Harris had deep roots in the city’s media communities, working in radio, newspapers, television and advertising before rising to lead WEWS’s news, information and entertainment operations. He served on the boards of several community and nonprofit organizations, including the Greater Cleveland…
…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…
Albert E. Convers was the chairman of Dow Chemical Company and one of the company’s largest shareholders at the time of his death in 1935. The Massachusetts native had formed a lasting attachment to Cleveland, however, during the 30 years he operated a tack manufacturing company here. Believing that the community in which he laid the foundation for his fortune should share in his wealth, he bequeathed almost $4 million to the Cleveland…
…and accidentally crushed to death a Presbyterian minister who had joined an on-site demonstration organized by a coalition of civil rights groups to protest the construction project’s reinforcement of school segregation. The news of the Reverend Bruce W. Klunder’s demise horrified James A. Norton, the director of the Cleveland Foundation’s affiliated philanthropy, Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation (GCAF), who had for months been trying to…
…iterion in layoffs; empowers a panel of business, community and school leaders called the Cleveland Transformation Alliance to ensure the accountability of all the city’s schools; and permits CMSD to intervene quickly to restructure failing schools and share local tax revenues with partnering charter schools. It is, in sum, the most groundbreaking reform strategy in the district’s recent history. In recognition of their contributions and…
…the Cleveland Zoo, and for a quarter century served as vice president of the Cleveland Society for the Blind. When Leonard C. Hanna Jr., scion of a Great Lakes shipping fortune, died in 1957, he left Clark in charge of his trust fund. Hanna had instructed that the fund be liquidated within five years of his death, with $33 million to be given immediately to the Cleveland Museum of Art. That left Clark, who had been Hanna’s personal attorney,…