…-commissioned recreation survey, completed in 1919, recommended improvements in the variety of wholesome leisure-time activities available to Clevelanders. Goff had already hired a survey director, Allen T. Burns, whom he recruited from Pittsburgh, where in 1907 the Russell Sage Foundation, a newly formed national philanthropy dedicated to supporting social science research, had commissioned an influential study of living and working conditions…
…rd member of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Holden Arboretum. He remained closely tied to his alma mater, becoming a Case trustee in 1949 and serving as acting president from 1958 to 1961. He advocated for the consolidation of Case and Western Reserve University, and the two institutions merged in 1967 as Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). In 2010, the Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust donated $10.5 million to CWRU’s new university center,…
…epartment to observe procedures, ask questions and review documents. By the spring of 1980, the Operations Improvement Task Force (headed by Eaton Corporation chair and chief executive officer E. Mandell de Windt, who had recruited Voinovich to run) had produced more than 800 recommendations. These ranged from computerizing the city’s record-keeping to amending the city charter to provide a four-year term for the mayor. The Voinovich…
…, the Case School of Applied Science, concluded that the two institutions should be merged into a municipal university to rival those in New York, Boston and Chicago. Because of alumni pride in the independence of their alma maters, the two schools deferred federation until 1967. To signal its continuing strong support for the union, the Cleveland Foundation awarded its first-ever $1 million grant in 1971 to Case Western Reserve University…
…enriching experiences and caring adults. The Treu-Mart Youth Development Fellowship, a professional development program initiated in 2004 by the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and now housed at the university’s Weatherhead School of Management, strengthens the community’s capacity to produce positive outcomes for its youth. The program has introduced dozens of area agencies that work with…
…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…
…ems. The 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. Cleveland’s well-financed and –run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation. The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by…
…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…
…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…
…an Army Air Forces rest facility in England during World War II. It was at the headquarters of the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force that she met Lt. Royal Firman Jr. They married in 1944. In addition to being a fine horsewoman and running a farm in Kirtland, Ohio, Firman devoted her energies to community service. She sat on the boards of the Cleveland chapter of the Red Cross, Planned Parenthood and Central School of Practical Nursing, and served as…