Well-known civic leader Lindsay Jordan Morgenthaler has served as a trustee of the PlayhouseSquare Foundation, Case Western Reserve University, Leadership Cleveland and Cleveland Ballet. She was also a longtime trustee of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, where she chaired the President’s Circle, and WVIZ/PBS, where she headed two highly successful auctions. She was a past president of the Great Lakes Theater Festival, serving as a trustee for 21 years. Over the past 50 years, Morgenthaler and her husband, David, have made significant philanthropic gifts, funding a professorship of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon, a founding sponsorship of the Entrepreneurship Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Morgenthaler Fellows Program at the Cleveland Clinic and the David T. Morgenthaler II Fellows Program at Stanford University. In 2006, a $1 million gift from the Morgenthalers allowed the Idea Center at Playhouse Square to establish an endowment at the Cleveland Foundation.