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…city’s meritocracy. Katharine Holden Thayer, whose father, Albert Fairchild Holden, lived near the Goffs in Bratenahl, is a good example. Upon her death in 1985 at the age of 86, she left $14.1 million to the foundation (see video). As knowledge of the foundation’s mission spread more broadly, donations of all sizes, from people from all walks of life, began to pour in. As of the end of 2013, the foundation had received gifts whose combined…
…t’s alphabet soup of new social service agencies before becoming the fourth director of the Cleveland Foundation. Having ultimately been… Read Bio in Timeline James A. Norton CEO: 1968–1973 James A. Norton (see video), the Cleveland Foundation’s fifth director, came to the position on January 1, 1968, after leading an affiliated philanthropy, the Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation (GCAF). As GCAF’s director for its…
…ion that it gave the foundation the means to aggressively promote… Read More in Timeline Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Focusing Attention on Social Justice and Cultural Diversity Those who knew Edith Anisfield Wolf (see video), the beloved only child of John and Daniela Anisfield, called her reserved and self-effacing. Yet this unassuming native Clevelander, born in 1889, left a unique mark on the world… Read More in Timeline A. E….
…and for one of three new public elementary schools to be built in predominately African-American neighborhoods on Cleveland’s east side backed up 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…
…rts and Culture 1988 La Mesa Espanola 1988 J.C. Tucker Memorial Prog $400 Arts and Culture 1988 Lake County Historical Society General support $1,000 Administrative 1988 Lake County Historical Society Install American Indian Site $5,000 Civic Affairs 1988 Lake County Young Men’s Christian Association General support $1,000 Administrative 1988 Lake Erie College General support $769 Education 1988 Lake Erie College General support $6,000…
Master 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 In 2013, Forbes ranked Cleveland as one of 15 cities with a resurgent downtown. The magazine’s appraisal was based on information provided by the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, the latest in a long series of endeavors undertaken with the support of the Cleveland Foundation to…
Businessman Leland Dale Dorney (see video), a native and longtime resident of Findlay, Ohio, turned over his life savings to the Cleveland Foundation upon his death in 1976. The disposition, as well as the size, of Dorney’s $5 million estate — the equivalent of $20 million today — no doubt surprised those of his neighbors and associates who mistook for stinginess this bachelor’s frugality. Dorney, who was born in 1866, had no television or…
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…otions. He was named CEI’s president in 1945 and board chairman in 1960, then chairman of the executive committee from 1967 until his retirement in 1974. Lindseth worked tirelessly to champion Cleveland as an excellent site for new industry and expansion, serving as president of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development. He was a trustee of Case Western Reserve University and held…