…simply… Read More in Timeline Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Perpetuating Life-Saving Medical Care In October 2000, Donald Goodman, a retired dentist, returned to his Pepper Pike home after his morning exercise and abruptly collapsed on the floor. After being rushed to University Hospitals of Cleveland, he was diagnosed with acute… Read More in Timeline On January 3, 1914, the day after the board of the Cleveland Trust bank…
…research, experimental or new projects, demonstrations of services or extension of services which are new or relatively untried in this community and which give promise of beneficial results.” This statement of a community trust’s central mission holds true today, but at the time the reaffirmation of Goff’s vision did not substantially change the objectives of the Cleveland Foundation’s grantmaking. The community foundation field had yet to…
…mber, Constance Mather Bishop. Although 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. The 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…
…ield will soon be addressed. An international research partnership funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation of Flint, Michigan, is gathering hard data as well as narrative evidence documenting the field’s impact for the world’s first comprehensive atlas of the community foundation movement. As part of its contribution to the 100th anniversary of the movement in 2014, the Cleveland Foundation is collaborating with the Foundation Center, the…
…ts, keen instincts for negotiation and his personal charm. He credited his accomplishments to “two-pants suits—because you have to out-sit people.” Born in Pittsburgh in 1913, Wadsworth was at heart a hard-eyed realist whose world view had been shaped by tragedy. When Homer was eight, his father, a tugboat captain, died from the lingering effects of an accident that had crushed his leg. Homer and his sister grew up in a tough Pittsburgh…
…recruitment of highly skilled immigrants and residencies by artists presenting the best of world culture—all in an effort to inspire Cleveland, whose economy has been battered by global competition, to reinvent itself as a truly global city. In its annual reports and other public forums over the past decade, the foundation has also exerted its moral authority more forthrightly than ever before, taking impassioned stands in support of the right…
…of new business development for United Way Services. He has also served on the boards of the Cleveland Advertising Club and Holy Name High School, the advisory board of Catholic Social Services of Cuyahoga County, and as a trustee of the American Cancer Society’s Cuyahoga County Division. Upon his retirement from the Cleveland Foundation board, Patton served as a trustee of Suite 1300 Services Inc., the foundation’s separate nonprofit arm which…
…ron Higley Watts, Michael Hoffmann 1995 The City of Cleveland’s Cable Television Minority Arts and Education Fund Directors: Kathy Allen, Robert Eckardt, Maria Haller, Steven Minter, Mia Moore, Yvonne Pointer, Terrell Pruitt, Martin Sweeney, Hilary Taylor 1998 Billie Howland Steffee Family Fund Directors: Susan Cargile, Susan Eagan, Robert Eckardt, Billie Howland Steffee, Jon Outcalt 1998 Medical Mutual of Ohio Charitable Foundation…
…ently begun to sponsor biannual summits on the use of wealth for charitable purposes. The 2010 and 2012 summits were open to members of the public and attracted a broad range of attendees, including young adults who were encouraged to perpetuate African-American traditions of philanthropy that can be traced back to (among other antecedents) the Free African Society, a mutual aid society founded by free blacks in Philadelphia in 1787….
…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…