100 Years in Pictures

Manchester Bidwell, the Pittsburgh model on which NewBridge is based, has instilled a love of learning in teens who previously did not fare well in school.2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityDispersed by police, the protesters did not succeed in halting construction, but Klunder’s martyrdom inspired the civil rights community to continue what was ultimately a victorious fight against segregation of the Cleveland public schools.Glenville High School students, 19142007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.A. E. Convers FundGeorge and Janet VoinovichGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. Sold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.Support for humanitarian aid to the unemployed: Stone carvers responsible for the iconic pylons of the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, a rare Depression-era construction project completed in 1932 with bond funds approved before the stock market crashTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.Carlton K. Matson2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. The RetreatThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.2006: MOCA ClevelandCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. Cleveland BalletGlobal Cleveland’s welcome center1985: Cleveland State University2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsFrances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerUptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012An owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryGoff did not believe that philanthropy should be the exclusive province of wealthy individuals such as Standard Oil Company founder John D. Rockefeller, a client of Goff’s former law firm.The passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 19561964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandHunter MorrisonInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorAndrew Carnegie, the “king of steel,” created a private foundation to carry out his philanthropic activities. Goff invented a simpler, more affordable mechanism to serve the charitable impulses of caring individuals of all means.Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 19102006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationCleveland Orchestra1967: Blossom Music Center1976: Cleveland Play HouseBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationThe Ohio Department of Natural Resources invested more than $40 million in capital improvements to the band of green spaces renamed the Cleveland Lakefront State Park. Presbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder died while protesting the construction of three public elementary schools that Cleveland’s civil rights community believed would perpetuate a system of segregated and inferior education for African-American students.1996: Dunham Tavern Museum2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature CenterThe East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.Tom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. Foundation leaders confer about how to distribute 1947 income of $614,479 to a standing list of charitable institutions and agencies. Foundation director Leyton E. Carter (third from right) is seated next to the board’s sole female member, Constance Mather Bishop. Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Institute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 19291999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyDancing WheelsHolsey Gates HandysideCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Great Lakes Science CenterCharles P. BoltonA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellThe formal entrance to the Judson Park retirement community, an independent living facility erected in 1974 next to the traditional nursing home established by the Baptist Home of Ohio in the former Bicknell mansion on Cleveland’s east sideCleveland Institute of MusicAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyRalph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. 1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater ClevelandTri-C groundbreaking, 1966Lake-Geauga FundCleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Cleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductStanley C. PaceLinking city kids to life-enriching programs: Duffy Liturgical Dance teaches children to perform and thus preserve songs and dances created by African slaves in America.1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumLAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public SquareFamed urban planner Lawrence Halprin (right) presented his ideas for downtown Cleveland’s redevelopment at a public forum in 1975 attended by Cleveland mayor Ralph J. Perk (center) and May Company department store president Francis Coy (left).FairfaxReinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Chester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.Kent H. SmithKenneth W. Clement M.D.Frederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Ivan Lecaros (right), a master printmaker from Chile, puts the final touches on a drawing for a silkscreen print during his 2012 residency at Zygote Press.In 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Fred S. McConnellAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.Great Lakes Theater FestivalOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.Church Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.The bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.1968: Karamu HouseThe multitude of organizational nameplates on the door to the Cleveland Foundation’s offices in the 1970s testified to its rebirth as a nexus of progressive philanthropy and an incubator of social-action programs. R. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksFirst Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingCleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.J. Kimball JohnsonInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentJacqueline F. WoodsBarbara Haas RawsonCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteHarry Goldblatt, M.D.The issues facing 21st-century Clevelanders—educational and economic opportunity, neighborhood and cultural vitality, and strong health and human services—are much the same as those with which earlier generations wrestled.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.Architectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971Title VIII (the “Federal Fair Housing Act”) of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, signed by President Johnson a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., advanced the struggle for integration taking place in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs and elsewhere across the nation.1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolLeyton E. CarterCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Dancer/choreographer Kapila Palihawadana of Sri Lanka, 2012 artist in residence with the Inlet Dance Theatre, conducts a master dance class at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts.Cleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Karamu House27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University CircleHarold T. ClarkThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.John Sherwin Jr.Apollo’s FireEvergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsLakeview TerraceEllwood H. Fisher2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyCleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon and Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson stumping in 2012 for the passage of the first operating levy to be placed on the ballet in 16 years1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtTri-C JazzFest, 1993Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Gordon Park in its heydayMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentThe NAACP-Cleveland’s fight for desegregation ultimately leads in 1973 to a federal lawsuit against the Cleveland public schools: the likelihood of court-ordering busing 1972: Huron Road Mall1968: Holden ArboretumAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.Halprin worksheetH. Stuart HarrisonCharles A. RatnerThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development teamWade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music series1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationAlthough the foundation’s trailblazing was a faded tradition by 1955, when this picture of the trustee bank presidents holding a replica of the foundation’s logo was snapped, its stature as the world’s first community trust remained a source of pride.James A. RatnerTreu-Mart FundCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933Fostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit1996: Old Stone ChurchCleveland OrchestraMaster planner I. M. Pei (right), Cleveland’s urban renewal director James Lister (center) and chief architect Jack Hayes at the Erieview Tower construction site, 1954 MAGNET consultants helped Nextant Aerospace of Richmond Heights, Ohio, apply lean principles to its specialty business of remanufacturing corporate jets for an under-$5 million market. The foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.James R. GarfieldProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseThe Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Donald and Ruth Goodman1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryThe Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration Barack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Wade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub Playhouse Square, c. 1969Raymond C. MoleyWelcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. The Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.Harry Coulby FundsLeadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsGreen City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.2005: ideastreamSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of ArtBarbecue restaurant owner Al (Bubba) Baker received a microloan that enabled the former Browns football player to begin local distribution of his proprietary de-boned baby-back ribs.Cleveland mayor Ralph S. LocherSlavic VillageThe State TheatrePlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960A new generation of Circle fansCleveland Public ArtRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditorium1986: Cain ParkThe March on Washington, August 28, 1963, at which Martin Luther King Jr. called upon the nation to make good on democracy’s promise of social and economic freedom for all citizens Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsAddressing the changing socioeconomic needs of the African-American community: 20th anniversary convening of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, hosted by Cleveland in 1929Captain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.GroundWorks Dance TheaterOhio CityThe foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.First grants to advance serious medical research in an era still plagued with quackery: The Cunningham Sanitarium, located at East 185th Street and Lake Shore Boulevard, c. 1928. The sanitarium offered patients access to the world’s largest hyperbaric chamber, but its claims for the benefits of oxygen therapy proved specious.Artist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalySinging AngelsAretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestCleveland Institute of ArtJohn J. Dwyer1982: The TempleCleveland Museum of ArtCatharine Monroe LewisAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980A satellite photograph of Lake Erie, downtown Cleveland and the Cuyahoga River valley: The foundation has learned to take the long view in helping the community craft fresh responses to persistent urban problems.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhoodHomer C. WadsworthGoff wisely decided that an independent citizen’s committee should determine how a community foundation’s income should be distributed, rather than the directors of the foundation’s trustee bank. On his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.New Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli Sundell2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyGoff in a rare moment of leisureFrank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundThe original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell RoadA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress The Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchDavid GoldbergJohn L. McChordThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Lexington Village1982: Cleveland Institute of Art1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadMalvin E. BankFrances Southworth GoffThe 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.The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleAlfred M. Rankin Jr.James A. Norton1976: Sokol HallL. Dale Dorney Fund2010: Hawken SchoolMOCA ClevelandUpper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Mort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.The restored Hungarian Cultural GardenCleveland Play HouseTremont2004: The Gathering PlaceAdam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin CollegeVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990Malcolm L. McBrideFlotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkJames D. WilliamsonContaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 19651984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.John SherwinAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeAn examination room at the Glenville Health ClinicThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in BratenahlVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.1973: Severance HallStokes with his brother Louis (left)SPACESPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityMAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsKatharine Holden Thayer by Cindy Naegele1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicMOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET client1961: Benjamin Rose InstituteA new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Steven A. MinterF. James and Rita Rechin FundProposed townhomes for East 118th StreetBelle SherwinOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Dr. King speaking in Rockefeller Park on a visit to Cleveland in 1967. The previous year he had dramatized the issue of housing discrimination by moving his family into a grimy apartment on the segregated west side of Chicago and joining in protest marches into that city’s all-white neighborhoods.MAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Raymond Q. ArmingtonA landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision righted the injustice experienced by Clarence Earl Gideon, a drifter who was convicted of felony theft because he could not afford an attorney and had defended himself at trial.Progressive Field at GatewayEdgewater Park under state stewardshipStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 Sherwick FundCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.Cleveland Film SocietyRonald B. Richard2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenSt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueBy 1929, when Cleveland laid claim to having the tallest skyscraper in the country—the Terminal Tower, evocatively captured here by famed photographer Margaret Bourke-White—the community foundation movement had spread across America.Richard W. Pogue2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtCarl W. BrandPalace Theatre lobbyNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Detroit ShorewayClean water advocates, 1968Circle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.