100 Years in Pictures

Participants in Parade the Circle, an annual celebration of creativity Global Cleveland’s welcome centerInauguration ceremony of the 1975 World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City1996: Dunham Tavern MuseumHarold T. ClarkHarry Goldblatt, M.D.Wade Oval Wednesdays, summertime’s popular outdoor music seriesThe Retreat1991: Hathaway Brown SchoolJohn Sherwin Jr.Katharine Holden Thayer by Cindy NaegeleBarbecue 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.Great Lakes Science CenterThe Frederick C. Crawford Auto Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical SocietyVice President Hubert H. Humphrey showed his support for Stokes’s Cleveland: NOW! initiative on a visit to the city in 1968.New Gallery co-founders Marjorie Talalay (left) and Nina Castelli SundellProgressive Field at GatewayAlbert Sabin (left) developed the oral vaccine given to Cleveland children.1956: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland OrchestraA “City Canvases” mural by graphic designer John MorellSold out! Heritage Lane townhomes, built within walking distance of the CircleGraduation day at Cleveland Early College High School, 2012David GoldbergHalprin worksheetTom L. Johnson, a reformer who served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1901 to 1909, helped to shape the city’s progressive climate. 1961: Benjamin Rose Institute2010: Case Western Reserve UniversityThe Cleveland Housing Network assisted the Mt. Pleasant Now nonprofit development corporation with the construction of the Union Court senior apartments.Dancer/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.Glenville High School students, 1914Donald and Ruth GoodmanTo date, 100 percent of the student body at the School of Science and Medicine goes on to college.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.LAND Studio’s proposed redesign of Public Square1973: Severance HallThe cast of Nicholas NicklebyGoff 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. Reinhold W. Erickson, D.D.S.Frances Southworth, Goff’s bride and intellectual partnerPresbyterian 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.Dr. 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.Cleveland Housing Network financing programs have helped low- to moderate-income families become homeowners.The State TheatreCaptain Frank’s seafood restaurant at the end of the Ninth Street Pier once commanded downtown’s best view of Lake Erie.Slavic VillageAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards2001: Cleveland Botanical GardenAfter their father's untimely death, future political icons Carl (left) and Louis Stokes lived with their mother at Outhwaite Homes.2000: Cleveland Zoological SocietyStokes with his brother Louis (left)Singing AngelsNewBridge prepares adults for careers as health care technicians.Grand opening of the Outhwaite Homes, 1937Ivan 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.Treu-Mart FundRock and Roll Hall of Fame and MuseumGroundWorks Dance TheaterCommencement at Tri-C, 1975Manchester 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.Upper Chester, which abuts the Cleveland Clinic, is the next Circle neighborhood slated for redevelopment.Lakeview TerraceCleveland Museum of ArtPalace Theatre lobbySt. Joseph's Orphanage for Girls on Woodland AvenueCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteMalvin E. BankA. E. Convers Fund2006: Cleveland Clinic FoundationFred S. McConnellGreat Lakes Theater Festival2009: Cleveland Institute of ArtCleveland Film SocietyA 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.1982: Cleveland Institute of ArtChester Avenue demarks the northern border of the MidTown Corridor.1998: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic RailroadCleveland Housing Network was the lead developer of Greenbridge Commons, permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals, in the Fairfax neighborhood.Neighbors who have come together to work on improvement of their neighborhood2002: Cleveland Institute of MusicCarl B. Stokes at a town hall meeting, 1969: an historic but troubled mayoral administration 2010: Hawken SchoolOn December 15, 1978, Cleveland City Council considered and rejected Mayor Kucinich’s 11th-hour plan to avoid default.2006: MOCA Cleveland1986: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum1984: Cleveland Department of Parks, Recreation and PropertiesProtest demonstration at Cleveland State University, 1969: poverty rates in the central city on the riseThe 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.Robert E. Eckardt, Ph.D.Welcome committees were organized to greet bused students on their first day at their new crosstown schools. Tri-C’s early use of computers as a teaching aid, c. 1980Holsey Gates HandysideFrances Southworth GoffBarack Obama campaigns at Tri-C, 2007Uptown, the Circle’s exciting, new high-density neighborhood, has all the amenities associated with urban living.Proposed townhomes for East 118th StreetA 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.The 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. 1968: Karamu HouseMAGNET 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. 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.1981: Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland2007: Great Lakes Theater FestivalCleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of an entirely new concept of philanthropyThe bulldozer operator accidentally backed over Rev. Klunder in order to avoid hurting the protestors lying in front of him.MOCA Cleveland’s faceted, mirrored, four-story art gallery anchors the Uptown development.Under the leadership of former CEO Baiju Shah, BioEnterprise created, recruited or helped to grow more than 170 local biotechnology companies.Leadership of a 1933 initiative to replace squalid tenements with subsidized garden apartmentsA greasy-spoon diner and flophouse at Payne and Walnut Avenues downtown, c. 1968—emblems of the City of Cleveland’s intensifying financial distress James A. NortonClean water advocates, 1968Cleveland OrchestraFrederick Harris Goff, humanitarian, 1858‒1923Charles P. BoltonThe West 25th Street retail district in Ohio City exemplifies the objective recently adopted by Neighborhood Progress, Inc. of restoring market forces in target neighborhoods.The Peter B. Lewis Building, designed by Frank Gehry, is the home of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.James D. WilliamsonHunter Morrison1968: Holden ArboretumKucinich proclaiming victory on the eve of his election as mayor in 1977Richard W. PogueCleveland Play HouseThe 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 Evergreen Energy Solution’s photovoltaic panelsRaymond Q. ArmingtonGreen City Growers Cooperative’s 3.25-acre hydroponic greenhouse in the Central neighborhood opened in 2013. The Great Lakes Science Center’s wind turbineAn east-side Cleveland elementary school, 1963: growing frustration with what appears to be systematic segregationCleveland’s well-financed and -run network of community development organizations targeted this crumbling but historic eight-unit rowhouse in the Central neighborhood for rehabilitation.A new company that makes and installs solar-panel arrays has been created with foundation support.Ralph J. Perk lends a hand to the theater restoration project, which began during his tenure as Cleveland mayor. Linking 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.Hough’s frustrations with its seemingly intractable problems erupted into violence during the summer of 1966.Edgewater Park under state stewardshipRonald B. RichardCleveland Institute of MusicCircle institutions have invested or are planning to invest billions in capital improvements, such as University Hospitals of Cleveland’s new Seidman Cancer Center.2004: Cleveland Museum of ArtAndrew 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.Business growth: The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s business development team1999: Western Reserve Historical SocietyMOCA ClevelandIn 1967, this Cleveland Heights home, owned by an African American, was bombed in a senseless and vain attempt to halt the suburb’s integration.Euclid Avenue, looking east, c. 1910The Board of Education building in downtown Cleveland, longtime headquarters of the system’s central administrationThe 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 sideSherwick FundCleveland City Hospital’s “iron lung” respirator, used for treating polio patients whose paralyzed muscles cause breathing difficulties, 1933The original Free Clinic, a drug treatment center on Cornell Road1986: Cain Park1957: Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryCleveland Institute of ArtThe Allen Theatre, originally an opulent silent movie house, c. 1938First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (third from left) at the 1937 dedication of Lakeview Terrace, the nation’s first public housingBy 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.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 philanthropy and an incubator of social-action programs. Cleveland mayor Ralph S. Locher2005: ideastreamSophisticated life support equipment in an air ambulance made by Nextant Aerospace, Ohio’s only aircraft manufacturer and a MAGNET clientInstitute of Pathology at Western Reserve University, as it appeared at its opening in 1929Lexington VillageCarlton K. MatsonPrivately developed Beacon Place Townhomes on East 82nd Street—evidence of the return of middle-class Clevelanders to the central cityMichael D. White won voter support for “mayoral control” of the Cleveland public schools.Ohio CityMembers of the African-American Philanthropy Committee: Reverend Elmo A. Bean, Doris A. Evans, M.D., David G. Hill, Lillian W. BurkeAn owner-employee of the Evergreen LaundryMAGNET incubator graduate, DXY Solutions, makes components and software for mobile devices.Contaminants flowing into Lake Erie, 1965Green City Growers supplies Bibb lettuce, green leaf lettuce, gourmet lettuces and basil to institutional and commercial customers.J. Kimball JohnsonCarl W. Brand1976: Sokol Hall2000: Therapeutic Riding CenterSupport 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 crashJacqueline F. WoodsAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Dancing WheelsThe foundation helped to draft and win passage of a clean energy law for Ohio.Dispersed 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.George and Janet VoinovichF. James and Rita Rechin Fund2004: The Gathering PlaceOn his way to building Cleveland Trust into America’s sixth largest bank, Goff occasionally took time out to indulge his passion for fishing.The grand opening of The Avenue at Tower City, 1990SPACES1976: Cleveland Play HouseTremontJames R. GarfieldFoundation 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. Addressing 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 1929Tri-C groundbreaking, 1966Steven A. MinterCharles A. Ratner1964: Garden Center of Greater ClevelandKaramu HouseThe Cleveland Foodbank’s LEED-certified distribution centerMaster 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 Frank H. and Nancy L. Porter FundKent H. SmithSustaining the excellence of the region’s cultural assets: a summer solstice party at the Cleveland Museum of Art1967: Blossom Music CenterCool Cleveland editor and publisher Tom MulreadyCommunityFoundationAtlas.org websiteRaymond C. MoleyFamed 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).Malcolm L. McBrideMAGNET’s Prism program helped Cleveland-based Vitamix keep up with demand for its high-end blenders.Leyton E. CarterUniversity Circle’s cultural institutions have long been renowned for their enriching educational activities.Kenneth W. Clement M.D.Cleveland Ballet co-founder Dennis Nahat as the tsar and Nanette Glushak as the tsarina in the company’s signature holiday performance of The NutcrackerVietnamese lutist Pham Thi Hue was Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio’s artist in residence in 2013.Detroit ShorewayWade Lagoon, the tranquil heart of Cleveland’s cultural hub John J. DwyerJames A. RatnerThe Palace, the flagship of the Keith chain of vaudeville theaters, reinvented itself as a wide-screen movie house in the 1950s.The foundation’s vision of creating a wind farm in Lake Erie is moving closer to reality.A new generation of Circle fansPlanning model of Cleveland, c. 1960MAGNET incubator tenant Tom Lix, the founder and CEO of Cleveland Whiskey, which has developed a proprietary process for accelerating the aging of distilled liquorsProjects receiving recent Neighborhood Connection grants have ranged from hands-on crafts classes to the reintroduction of beekeeping. Cleveland’s busy riverfront, south of the Superior ViaductArchitectural drawing of the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority's Lakeview Tower, a senior high-rise proposed for the near west side in 1971The gallery's second home on Bellflower Road in University CircleCleveland voters expressed their hopes for the success of the reform plan by approving the Issue 107 operating levy.Tri-C JazzFest, 1993Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, Oberlin College1982: The Temple1959: Cleveland Institute of MusicEntrepreneurship: Wood Trac, an affordable, drop-ceiling system developed and marketed by Sauder Woodworking, a family-owned business in Ashland, OhioThe Cleveland Trust Company’s neoclassical banking hall, which opened in 1908, was topped by an immense stained-glass dome.Advocating greater reliance on clean energy: a wind farm in northwestern OhioBarbara Haas RawsonAn examination room at the Glenville Health Clinic27 Coltman, a luxury townhome development on the eastern boundary of University Circle2002: Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center2013: Friends of the Cleveland School of the ArtsBelle SherwinThe 2011 renovation of the Allen Theatre's main auditoriumLake-Geauga FundOhio governor John Kasich at the signing of House Bill 525, legislation enabling education reform, in June 2012Apollo’s FireArtist’s conception of the new Regional Transit Authority station planned for Mayfield Road in Little ItalyNancy Dwyer’s Who’s on First? benchBusiness attraction: The Global Center for Health InnovationStokes and his wife, Shirley, on election day, 1968 The East Central Townhomes, after a $1.2 million renovation by Burten, Bell and Carr Development CorporationThe Cleveland Foundation emerged from the crucible of the 1960s a stronger leader and more strategic grantmaker.H. Stuart HarrisonAn assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Brook Park, 1973: manufacturing jobs on the declineA burning desire to be an attorney animated Goff as a young man. 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 foundation’s 1915 public education survey resulted in sweeping reform. For decades thereafter, Cleveland’s school system was regarded as a model of excellence.Gordon Park in its heydayFostering economic opportunity via college scholarships: Garment workers at Joseph & Feiss Company, makers of the $15 blue serge suit1972: Huron Road MallCleveland Public ArtMort Epstein’s Pop Art-inspired electrical outlet, a CAAC-commissioned mural, graced the Union building on Euclid Avenue.Flotsam despoiling the beach at Gordon ParkMayor Dennis Kucinich’s ceremonial presentation of a post-default debt paymentHalprin’s impressionist sketch of Cleveland’s “Flats,” which he praised as a “tremendous resource.” 1994: Great Lakes Science MuseumEllwood H. FisherThe Goff home on Lake Shore Boulevard in Bratenahl1996: Old Stone ChurchThe Dolan Center for Science and Technology at John Carroll University incorporated green building materials and smart energy and water systems.FairfaxPlayhouse Square, c. 1969The 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 Cleveland BalletStanley C. PaceR. M. Fischer’s Sports StacksInnovation: CleveMed’s wireless sleep monitorTitle 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.1997: Cleveland Clinic FoundationChurch Square Commons, offering affordable apartments for adults 55 and older, is one of the Famicos Foundation’s most recent projects in Hough.Aretha Franklin at the Tri-C JazzFestHarry Coulby FundsGoff in a rare moment of leisureCatharine Monroe LewisCleveland 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 yearsThe restored Hungarian Cultural GardenJohn L. McChord1975: Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural ArtsL. Dale Dorney FundGoff 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.1985: Cleveland State University2003: Hanna Perkins Center for Child DevelopmentHomer C. WadsworthThe passenger terminal at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, c. 1956John Sherwin