Cleveland Foundation – 1984 Annual Report

The Cleveland Foundation Its Mission and Goals T h e C leveland F o u n d atio n exists to e n h a n c e th e q u ality of life for all c itizen s of G re ater C leveland by u sin g fu n d s e n tru s te d to th e F o u n d a­ tio n s stew ard sh ip by people of various m e a n s to a d d re ss c o m m u n ity p ro b lem s a n d o ppo rtu n ities.

S in ce its fo u n d in g in 1914 a s th e n a tio n ’s first c o m m u n ity tru st, T h e C leveland F o u n d atio n h a s b een ch aracterized by p erm an en ce, stew ard sh ip , flexibility a n d independence.

P e r m a n e n c e . Most of th e F ou n d atio n ’s a s se ts a re m a in ta in e d in p e rp e tu ity in in d iv id u al tr u s t fu n d s held a n d a d ­ m in iste re d by tru s te e banks. T h ro u g h so u n d fin an cial m a n a g e m e n t a n d co n ­ tin u a l giving from m an y citizens, th ese fu n d s have in cre ase d over th e years, e n a b lin g th e F o u n d atio n to m a in ta in lo n g-term in te re st a n d involvem ent in th e m ajo r p h ila n th ro p ic n e e d s of the co m m u n ity .

S t e w a r d s h i p . W hile a s u b s ta n tia l pro ­ p o rtio n of th e F o u n d atio n ’s fu n d s is u n ­ re stric te d o r restric te d in its u se only w ith in b ro a d lim its, m an y fu n d s are d ire c te d by th e ir do n o rs tow ard specific in s titu tio n s or p u rp o ses. As a stew ard of th e s e tru s ts, th e F o u n d atio n seeks first a n d fo rem o st to c a rry o u t th e in te n t a n d p u rp o se of its donors.

F l e x i b i l i t y . W ithin its b ro ad charter, a n d s u b je c t to re stric tio n s or directions c o n ta in e d in governing in stru m e n ts, the F o u n d a tio n h a s th e flexibility to resp o n d to c h a n g in g n e e d s a n d c u rre n t o p p o rtu ­ n itie s to e n h a n c e th e q u a lity of life for G re a te r C levelanders.

I n d e p e n d e n c e . T h e F ou n d atio n is in ­ d e p e n d e n t in its g ra n t m ak in g b e c au se it is a n a u to n o m o u s organization. At the s a m e tim e, its governance reflects broad c o m m u n ity in te re sts th ro u g h a n 11m e m b e r D istrib u tio n C om m ittee select­ ed for its know ledge of G reater Cleveland a n d s e n sitiv ity to p h ila n th ro p ic re ­ sp onsibilities. M em bers of th is C om ­ m itte e serve lim ited te rm s w ith o u t pay.

O p e r a t in g P h i l o s o p h y .

T he o p eratin g philosophy of th e F oun­ dation is characterized by a co m m itm en t to: R espect th e in te n t a n d tru s t of its donors; W ork th ro u g h , or in p a rtn e rsh ip w ith, existing o rganizations in th e co m m u n ity to achieve com m on objectives; Address, w here possible, th e u n d e rly ­ ing c a u se s of co m m u n ity problem s; Tkke p ru d e n t risk s to advance in ­ novative resp o n ses a n d solutions; E ncourage th e h ig h est sta n d a rd s of program qu ality a n d perform ance in gran tee organizations; Strive for th e h ig h est eth ical s ta n d ­ a rd s th ro u g h fairness in policies a n d procedures, full a n d objective review of all req u e sts for funds, a n d th e avoidance of conflict of interest; Leverage fu n d s a n d o th er resources th ro u g h collaboration w ith o th er fu n d ­ ing sources; S u p p o rt a w ide range of co m m u n ity projects a n d interests; M aintain a qualified professional staff accessible to th e com m unity.

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Table of Contents M ission a n d G o a l s ................................................. l T h e C h a irp e rso n ’s L e t t e r .................................3 T he D irector’s R e p o r t...........................................4 T h e C leveland F o u n d a tio n ................................. 5 Taking th e Long V ie w ...................................... 6 T h e Lifeblood of a C ity ’s D r e a m ....................9 T h e C o m m u n ity ’s O w n F o u n d a tio n . . . 12 1984 G ra n t M a k in g ........................................ 15 C u ltu ral A ffa irs.................................................16 E d u c a tio n .......................................................... 26 H e a lth ..................................................................38 Social S e r v ic e s ............................................. 48 Civic A ffa irs .................................................. 60 Special P h ilan th ro p ic S e r v ic e s ...............70 T h ist F unds, C om bined F unds, N o n tru st F u n d s a n d S u p p o rtin g O rg an izatio n s . . 75 F inancial R e p o r t .............................................77 D istrib u tio n C om m ittee, T rustees C om m ittee a n d S ta f f ...................................81

(C over p h o to g ra p h ) H ough P a st and Future: R e sid e n ts o f th e 93-year-old E liza B ry a n t Center, Cen M arie M cK n ig h t (standing) a n d R u th S c h a c k w a tc h EBC's n e w fa c ility take sh a p e.

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The Chairperson’s Letter N ineteen Eighty-Four—George Orwell n o tw ith sta n d in g —proved an especially satisfying year for T he Cleveland Foun­ dation. It w as a year th a t saw the realiza­ tion of several im p o rtan t projects we’d been n u rtu rin g for som e years—from the reopening of th e m agnificent State T h eatre on Playhouse S quare to th e longaw aited groun d b reak in g for a new Eliza B ryant C enter for th e frail elderly in H ough (see cover photograph). Both are described along w ith several other fasci­ n a tin g long-term projects in th is y ear’s A nnual Report.

A total of $16,721,842 in g rants was au th o rized by th e D istribution C om m it­ tee in 1984. T hese gran ts are listed in th e following pages. I th in k you’ll find th a t T he Cleveland Foundation continues to be a broadly responsive funder, p u t­ tin g its reso u rces—an d th a t m ean s the tim e a n d energy of our D istribution C om m ittee an d staff, as well as our g ran t m oney—beh in d a wide spectru m of projects an d activities in th e areas of h ealth , social services, civic an d cultural affairs, ed u catio n an d econom ic developm ent.

New fu n d s an d additions to existing funds held by The Cleveland Foundation totaled $3.4 m illion in 1984, bringing th e m ark et value of th e Foundation’s com bined assets an d those of its seven su p p o rtin g organizations to $309 m illion by y ear’s end. N ineteen EightyFive prom ises to be even m ore gratify­ ing. Since th e first of the year, the Foun­ dation h as already been notified th a t it will receive $8 m illion in new gifts.

In th e p ast 71 years m ore th a n 600 sep arate funds have been established at T he Cleveland Foundation. It is this kind of generosity on th e p a rt of our donors— th e m ajority of w hom have left u n re ­ stricted or loosely restricted fu n d s—th at m akes it possible for th e Foundation to take w h at we like to call “th e long view”: planning , choosing an d n u rtu rin g those projects w hich ad d ress m ost creatively th e ch an g in g n eeds of G reater Cleveland.

W hat is especially encouraging to us is th e increasin g n u m b e r of donors who are m ak in g gifts to th e Foundation d u r­ ing th eir lifetim es—an d in th a t regard it

gives m e a special pleasure to announce one 1984 gift, a new supporting organi­ zation of The Cleveland Foundation, the McDonald Fund. C reated by C harles and D eborah McDonald late in 1984, the fund will focus on the growth and rebuilding of sm all businesses in Cleveland’s inner-city neighborhoods.

We have been doing a lot of thinking over the p ast year about the ways in w hich the Foundation can contribute to the continuing recovery of Cleveland.

T h at m eans trying to take a fresh look at Cleveland’s greatest needs today. We find fundam ental issues w hich in ­ fluence the degree to w hich program s in all of The Cleveland Foundation’s grantm aking areas are successful in improv­ ing the quality of life in our com m unity.

These issues are: the need to develop consensus around key com m on issues; the desire for increased access and p ar­ ticipation on the p art of m inorities and w om en in the full range of the com m u­ n ity ’s institutions and opportunities: and the need to stren g th en the organiza­ tional skills and internal capacities of this com m unity’s institutions.

As we approach these challenges we are fortunate to have the expertise and dedication of the Foundation’s fine staff and an involved and hard-working D istribution Com m ittee (see pages 12 and 13 of this report). I am pleased to re­ port th a t Sally Griswold and Harvey O ppm ann, who have served on the Com­ m ittee since 1978 and 1981 respectively, have been reappointed to new term s.

One could not ask for a livelier or m ore capable group of colleagues. The chal­ lenge of the Foundation’s m ission—to enhance the quality of life for all of the citizens of G reater Cleveland—is one well worth our tim e and effort.

The Foundation continues to be a broadly respon­ sive funder, p u ttin g its re­ sources behind a wide spectrum o f projects and activities.

Stanley C. Pace M ay 16, 1985

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The Director’s Report

A fte r several years o f eroding self-confidence, Greater Cleveland f in a lly turned a corner and began to fo c u s on a variety o f strategic investm ents.

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A lthough th ere will be pro g ram m atic shifts d u rin g th e period ah ead , th e Foundation will co n tin u e to rem ain ac­ tive in th e broad areas of education, health, social services, cu ltu ra l an d D uring th is p a st year I sen sed a re tu rn of civic affairs. In addition to its traditional confidence an d a renew ed civic com m it­ program areas, stro n g er em p h asis will m e n t to sh ap in g a n d m an ag in g th is re­ now be placed on su p p o rtin g econom ic gion’s social an d econom ic future. After developm ent activities w hich increase several years of eroding self-confidence— investm ent and em ploym ent in the a condition m ade worse by sagging com m unity. econom ic fortunes, declining population As a com m u n ity tru st, T he Cleveland a n d severe h u m a n services em erg en ­ Foundation plays different roles which cies—G reater Cleveland finally tu rn e d a vary according to needs an d circum ­ corner, an d com m unity leaders began to stances. We are a responsive funder, su p p o rtin g constructive an d im aginative focus on a variety of strategic invest­ proposals from a wide range of n o n ­ m en ts required to reinvigorate th is re­ gional center. profit an d public organizations. Som e­ Evidence of rejuvenation is now s u d ­ tim es we are a catalyst, identifying m a­ jo r co m m u n ity issues and initiating ac­ denly visible th ro u g h o u t Cleveland.

Bridges, streets, sewers and w ater sys­ tion. In o th er instances, th e Foundation tem s are being repaired. New m arketserves as a convenor, bringing together rate h o using is being b u ilt in U niversity disparate parties for dialogue and col­ Circle, Hough, C entral and TYemont as laboration. Finally, we play the role of well as in th e river front an d w arehouse educator, com m issioning studies and dis­ sem in atin g inform ation related to d istrict areas. Physical im provem ents are occurring on the lakefront, on Public significant co m m u n ity issues.

None of th ese roles could be effective­ S quare an d in th e neighborhoods. B usi­ ness, labor and university leaders are ly executed w ith o u t th e cooperation seeking ways to help local industries an d active participation of m any in­ reassert th eir com petitiveness in the dividuals an d organizations striving to global m arketplace. m ake a difference. T here is no substi­ T his year’s A nnual Report highlights tu te for innovative ideas, good ju d g ­ projects an d program s w hich in m any m e n t a n d bold leadership. Cleveland is respects have contributed to th is tu rn ­ fortunate to have its sh are of each. around. We are gratified to report th a t It would n o t be possible for the Foun­ Foundation grants and program staff dation to be engaged in so m any im m e­ assistan ce were often integral to the diate an d long-range projects w ithout success of m any im p o rtan t civic proj­ th e a stu te policy guidance and counsel ects, especially those requiring m u lti­ of th e D istribution Com m ittee, as well year investm ents. as th e distinguished professionalism of N ineteen Eighty-Four also proved to m y colleagues on th e staff. I consider it be an appropriate tim e to take a fresh a privilege to be the director of The look a t th e challenges facing G reater Cleveland Foundation and to work with Cleveland an d to determ ine how The su ch talented persons.

Cleveland Foundation can best respond.

Therefore, the D istribution C om m ittee an d staff, w ith the assistance of in ­ d ep en d en t consultants, engaged in an intensive review of com m unity needs an d concerns as they related to the Steven A. M inter Foundation’s cu rre n t grant-m aking M ay 16, 1985 priorities. T his reassessm en t led u s to th e creation of a new S tatem en t of Mis­ sion w hich reaffirm s th e Foundation’s co m m itm en t to addressing long-range co m m u n ity problem s an d opportunities while honoring the in ten t of its donors.

The Cleveland Foundation A trust for all time, supported by and for the people of Greater Cleveland

A s th e tw ig is b en t: A cla ss o f fir s t graders a t a w e s t sid e e le m e n ta ry school a d o p ts a m a p le tree to s tu d y grow th. (See E ducation.)

(P hotograph b y D avid Beach)

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"A trust for all tim e ...”

Taking the long view Cleveland is going to have a lakefront, a t long last. T h a t m u ch seem s certain now. And p a rt of th e reason it is going to h ap p e n is th a t th e plans have been properly laid, th e groundw ork done, and all of th e pieces put, one by one, into place. As a m a tte r of fact, th e realiza­ tion of a dow ntow n in n er harbor, though it h as go tten th e m ost m edia attention, is really only th e last piece, albeit a very im p o rta n t an d delightful one, of a p u z­ zle alm o st 10 years in th e assem bling.

In fact, th e lakefront is, in its way, a perfect exam ple of th e way real progress is achieved—bit by bit, w ith patience a n d determ ination, an d an openness to op p o rtu n ity w herever it is found.

T he Cleveland Foundation’s involve­ m e n t w ith th e developm ent of Cleve­ la n d ’s w aterfront goes back to the m id-1970s an d a g ran t to fund a study of Cleveland’s p ark s an d recreation.

One of th e recom m endations to come o u t of th a t stu d y was th a t th e City’s lakefront p ark s be transferred to a political en tity like th e S tate of Ohio w hich h a d th e funds to restore the p ark s a n d b each es to first-class condi­ tion. (Fittingly, it is again C olum bus to w hich th e co m m u nity now looks for funds to b reak ground for the new inner harbor.) A nd in 1976 th e Foundation worked w ith th e Mayor’s Lakefront Task Force to lay th e p lan s for th e transfer of Edgewater, G ordon an d Wildwood parks to th e Ohio D ep artm en t of N atural R esources on a long-term lease.

Again th e im p etu s for action was a n o th e r sm all Cleveland Foundation g ra n t w hich enabled five people—in ­ clu d in g th e head of th e Ohio D epart­ m e n t of N atural R esources—to travel to n o rth e rn Europe in th e su m m er of 1979 to look a t w aterfront developm ent in coastal cities. T he resu lt was th a t the D epartm en t, w hich h ad up u n til th en been less th a n en th u siastic ab o u t tak ­ ing on th e run-dow n u rb an parks, was

C le v e la n d ’s P r o p o se d In n er Harbor.- th e fin a l p ie c e in a p u z z le th a t h a s b een 10 y e a rs in th e a s s e m b lin g

suddenly excited about the possibilities.

The State subsequently poured m illions of dollars into reclaim ing Cleveland’s lakefront parks, w hich since have be­ com e the m ost heavily used parks in Ohio, attractin g in one recent year m ore th a n six million people.

Meanwhile, the Foundation continued to keep the big picture, and the long view, in m ind. Between 1981 and 1984, The Cleveland F oundation—working in partnership w ith the State and several other foundations and corporations— m ade three grants totaling $385,000 to the Trust for Public Land for the p u r­ chase of additional lakefront property to be developed for the use of the com ­ m unity. Last year, while the public debate was heating up over w hether Cleveland would a t long last realize its dream of a developed downtown lakefront, m ore th a n 70 acres at the site of the old Euclid Beach A m usem ent Park were acquired, m aking possible the creation of a mile-long stretch of b each —the first sw im m ing beach in years on the east side of Cleveland. (The san d arrives this sum m er. And a $1.5 million bike trail ru n n in g along the lakefront from one end of Cleveland to the other nears completion.)

In 1983 an o th er Foundation g ran t of $100,000 w ent to the City for the p u r­ poses of sifting through all the various plans th a t had been done over the years and determ ining w hat elem ents ought to be dusted off and incorporated into the final plan for downtown’s w ater­ front. And, at the Foundation’s request, the m ayor appointed a citizens’ advis­ ory com m ittee w ith responsibility for determ ining who should do the study and for overseeing the establishm ent of an independent Lakefront Development A uthority w hich would see th a t the plan was im plem ented.

The study, w hich was jointly u n d er­ taken by Zuchelli, H unter & Associates, Inc., and William A. Behnke Associates, Inc., was published this March. Besides recom m ending th a t the downtown lakefront area include a world-class

W hile the debate over downtown's lakefron t was heating up, a m ile long beach was a lre a d y being p u t together.

MICKEY Roonfv ? u ®a r

P la y h o u se S q u are c o m e s alive: a p la c e w h ere th e e n tire c o m m u n ity is m e e tin g

Playhou se Square has broken a k in d o f in v isib le mem­ brane that has existed f o r years between the east and west sides o f the city.

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aq u ariu m , a m aritim e m useum , a w inter garden, festival retail and a park, it a d ­ dressed th e old problem of the w ater’s edge really being too far away from the downtown b usin ess district, an d a d ­ vanced th e bold plan of scooping out an in n er harbor. A nother Foundation g ran t h as been m ade for interim staffing so th a t th e Mayor’s Com m ittee can con­ tin u e to carry the project’s gathering m o m en tu m forward.

The point is th a t Cleveland’s lakefront developm ent not only is going to h a p ­ pen, it is happening, it h as happened. It h as taken m any p artn ers working to­ gether, years of careful planning, th oughtful studies an d a gradual developm ent of consensus around the lakefront as a priority for Cleveland.

The several roles The Cleveland Foun­ dation h as played over the p ast decade in this resp ect—as educator, funder, catalyst, convenor—are typical of the kind of long-range involvem ent the Foundation takes on w ith respect to m any ongoing projects felt to be of key im portance to the G reater Cleveland com m unity. A nother m assive project, into w hich the Foundation h as p u t m ore th an $6 m illion since its first

m odest funding of a feasibility study back in 1972, is Playhouse Square. By 1986, w hen all three th eaters are up an d run n in g , a projected $35 million in co n su m er spending will be added to the dow ntow n Cleveland economy, and as m any as 1,700 new jo b s created.

B ut another, hidden benefit of the recovery of P layhouse S quare is already being felt. It h as broken a kind of invisi­ ble m em b ran e th a t h as existed for years betw een th e east an d w est sides of the city. (After m oving its a n n u al concert series from th e H eights downtown to the Ohio T heater, for exam ple, the Cleveland M odern Dance Association prom ptly tripled its su b scrib ers—40 p ercen t of w hich were now com ing, for th e first time, from the w est side, and a n o th er 10 percent up 1-77 from Akron!)

T h anks to Playhouse Square, downtown is once again becom ing the place where the entire com m u nity m eets. And th a t is exciting.

Because p a rt of taking the long view ab o u t Cleveland is beginning to th in k in regional te rm s—in everything from perinatal health care to recreation. It is tim e, in other words, th a t we stopped thinking sim ply ab o u t rebuilding Cleve­ land, and started th in k in g in term s of building a G reater Cleveland.

.supported by..." __________ The lifeblood of a city’s dream T he Cleveland Foundation h as been the beneficiary of m any gifts over th e p ast 71 years, an d its g ran t m aking is depen­ d e n t u p o n th e incom e it receives from over 600 sep arate funds th a t have been left to its stew ardship.

Gifts to th e Foundation m ay be m ade in a variety of ways. Many donors choose to .m ake w holly u n restricted gifts, en ­ tru stin g th e D istribution Com m ittee of T he Cleveland Foundation to decide how th ese fu n d s can b est be utilized.

U nrestricted gifts provide im p o rtan t flexibility th a t enables th e Foundation to respond effectively to ever-changing co m m u n ity needs. A donor m ay also direct gifts or b eq u ests to broad areas of co ncern or even to specific institutions.

Gifts m ay be m ade d u rin g th e donor’s lifetim e or established in a will. The donor m ay select any nam e for a fund— for exam ple, as a m em orial to a loved o n e—an d th is fund n am e will accom ­ pany all g ran t paym ents.

There are four basic ways in w hich donors m ay contribute to The Cleveland Foundation: Individual Trust Fund

a gift, large or small, w hich is held and m anaged by one of the Foundation’s trustee banks (see page 81).

Supporting O rganization

a m eans whereby a family or private foundation m ay create a separate fund w ithin The Cleveland Foundation. The supporting organization m aintains both a separate grant-m aking identity and the direct involvem ent of the donor while enjoying public charity statu s and the professional staff services of The Cleveland Foundation.

Donor-Advised Fund

a charitable vehicle w hich allows a donor to recom m end to The Cleveland Foundation philanthropic uses for the fund.

The C leveland Foundation is a fle x ib le resource able to serve both the p h ila n ­ thropic goals o f donors and the evolving needs o f the com m unity.

Nontrust Contribution

a donation m ade to The Foundation in any am o u n t by individuals, corpora­ tions and other institutions to be used in its entirety over a relatively lim ited period of time.

The Cleveland Foundation is a flexible resource able to serve both the diverse philanthropic goals of donors and their families and the evolving needs of the G reater Cleveland com m unity. On the following pages are the stories of two families and som e of the program s m ade possible by their generosity.

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Out of a City’s Past, a City’s Future.

The young re tu rn in g sold ier a n d h is fia n c e e were going to be p a rt o f the b u stlin g in d u s tria l city's fu tu r e —in more w ays th an they then knew.

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Progress w as in th e air of Cleveland in th a t sp rin g of 1919 following th e A rm is­ tice th a t ended the G reat War. And J o h n Short, w ho re tu rn e d to civilian life th a t M arch, a 28-year-old battalio n sergeant m ajor, an d h is young fiancee, LaVerne Maskell of Lakewood, were going to be p a rt of th e b u stlin g in d u strial city ’s future. They were m arried the following sum m er, an d w ithin a few years Jo h n w as building a prom ising career in sales w ith th e Cleveland Knife and Forge Company.

He h ad th e personality for it, friends agree: a n atu ral curiosity about people an d a wide variety of subjects. One long­ tim e colleague, Karl Bruch, recalls th a t J o h n S h o rt had a quick w it and an e n ­ gaging way of talking. S hort stayed w ith th e com pany th rough m ergers w ith Hill C lutch M achine and Foundry in the early T hirties and Acme M achinery in 1940, m oving up to sales m anager. Soon th e nation was at war again, an d S hort was h andling all the paperw ork con­ nected w ith the stepped-up w ar produc­ tion as th e thriving new Hill Acme Com pany tu rn ed out su ch exotic item s as surface grinders, abrasive belt polishers, alligator shears and up set forging m ach ines (which shaped artil­ lery shells betw een two iron jaws).

The m achine tool in d u stry prospered in those years, and so did J o h n and LaVerne Short. And they determ ined, at som e point after J o h n ’s retirem en t in th e m id-1950s, to repay the com m unity th a t h ad given th em the m ean s of a good life. W hen Jo h n S hort died in 1973, a year following his wife’s death, his will b eq u eathed th eir entire estate, th en am o u n ting to a little over $1 m illion (and now w orth alm ost twice that), to The Cleveland F oundation— w ith th e stipulation th a t the fu n d ’s in ­ com e be used by the Foundation’s D istribution C om m ittee for the a d ­ v ancem ent of m edical science, the assistance of young m en or w om en in procuring a m edical education, an d the im provem ent of hospitals or health institutions.

The decision to have the Jo h n and LaVerne S hort M emorial F und be fo­ cused on th e field of health care has allowed it to be used in recent years for a n u m b er of highly innovative projects.

In 1974, a $132,000 leadership grant from the S hort F und w ent to the Medical School of Case W estern Reserve U niversity to increase its m inority s tu ­ d en t enrollm ent. Five years later, in 1979—following a stu d y w hich revealed th a t 25 percen t of all persons now com ­ ing to psychiatric clinics for help were teen ag ers—a $225,000 g ra n t to CWRU’s D ep artm en t of P sychiatry helped make possible th e developm ent of an exciting program offering a range of m ental health services to troubled children and adolescents.

A $40,000 g ran t in 1982 helped create special o u tp atien t services for the vic­ tim s of spinal cord injuries a t Cleveland M etropolitan G eneral Hospital. Another g ran t m ade th e following year enabled the W estlake H ealth C am pus Associa­ tion develop a novel concept th a t brings together an integrated core of health and h u m a n services.

A g ran t m ade only last S eptem ber is helping to fund an im p o rtan t stu d y looking a t th e rehabilitation of elderly p atien ts a t the Cleveland Clinic. In this collaborative effort, th e Clinic provides m edical m an ag em en t of the patients an d M argaret W agner House delivers re­ habilitation and n u rsin g services. A series of g ran ts m ade in 1983 and 1985 to the Free Medical Clinic of G reater Cleveland h as allowed a vital and heavi­ ly used facility, w hich had nearly been sw am ped by its own success, to restru c­ ture on a sou n d er organizational and financial basis.

Jo h n and LaVerne S h o rt’s w illingness to e n tru st The Cleveland Foundation w ith broad grant-m aking discretion w ithin their field of in tere st h as allowed the Foundation to respond to im p o rtan t and changing health care needs.

One Woman’s Gift: The History of a Fund.

To th e cu sto m s officers w ho greeted her at Ellis Island som etim e in th e early 1870s, sh e w as ju s t one m ore h u n g ry an d an x io u s face in th e latest wave of G erm an im m igrants. K atherine Bohm was only sixteen, in th e tow of her wary-eyed m other. She would carry her few possessions in a battered paper su itcase as they moved from place to place th ro u g h o u t th e teem ing neighbor­ hoods of Cleveland.

T he fact th a t th e Bohm s were m em ­ bers of th e larg est group of im m igrants in th e city gave th e m no advantages.

F rau Bohm an d h er d au g h ter found work as a cook an d a lau n d ress in the hom es of som e of Cleveland’s m ost p ro m in en t in dustrialists: Fred Beckwith, R alph King an d Sam uel Mather.

A freq u en t g u est a t the M athers’ im ­ posing residence in those days was a b an k er n am ed F rederick H. Goff, who was m ak in g m any speeches around the city on th e su b ject of som ething he called a co m m u n ity tru st. T his novel concep t w as no d o u b t discussed and de­ b ated over m any a dinner. And w hen S am u el M ather died, th e com m unity could n o t have been very su rp rised at th e generous su m of m oney he left to th e new ly form ed Cleveland Foundation, G offs dream realized. B ut no one was p repared for th e news in 1936 th a t G off s dream h ad equally inspired an 80-year-old, G erm an-speaking laundress n am ed K atherine Bohm to leave her en ­ tire life savings of $6,500 to The Cleveland Foundation.

It was “in m an y ways, th e m ost rem arkab le gift yet m ade to th e Foun­ dation,” said th e F oundation’s th en ch a irm a n M alcolm L. McBride. K ather­ ine Bohm h ad been alm o st com pletely blind w hen she died, ju s t a few days before h e r eig h tieth birthday, as a resu lt of inoperable cataracts. She h ad lost a leg to diabetes, b u t h ad kept h e r values of in d ep en d en ce an d self-sufficiency.

She rarely sp e n t m oney on herself. Her gift to th e Foundation was free of any strings: it w as to be used, in any way th e F oundation saw fit, to improve th e quality of life in h e r adopted com m unity.

In 1941 th e K atherine Bohm Fund began to m ake its own im p o rtan t co n ­ tribution s. T he first g ra n t ever m ade by T he Cleveland Foundation in K atherine B ohm ’s n am e went, touchingly, to The Cleveland Society for th e Blind, to buy

K ath erin e Bohm was a lm ost to ta lly b lin d when she died a t e ig h ty, and she had lost a leg to diabetes, but she had a con trib ution yet to m ake to her chosen com m unity.

Illu stra tio n s by B ruce S e reta

artificial eyes and glasses for those who could not afford them . K atherine Bohm ’s gift was also responsible for the training of volunteer leaders to work w ith innercity Girl Scout troops. The F und gave a scholarship to a paralyzed boy who w anted to study building repair and a grant to the Women’s Field Army for the control of cancer.

In 1944, while the Allies struggled to establish a beachhead on the coast of Normandy, the Fund paid for the PostWar Planning Council of G reater Cleve­ land, w hich was beginning to look at the new challenges th a t would come w ith peace. Over the years th a t followed, grants from the K atherine Bohm Fund would go to such diverse enterprises as The G arden C enter of G reater Cleve­ land, The Visiting Nurses Association, the Welfare Federation Com m ittee on Alcoholics, the Council on H um an Rela­ tions and a stu d y of Cleveland’s nursing hom es. One year the Fund provided for the publication and distribution of a booklet on “How to Participate in Cleveland G overnm ent.” And in 1983, w hen a million dollars’ w orth of free groceries were distributed to the hu n g ry in the wake of a superm arket court settlem ent, it was K atherine Bohm ’s generosity w hich paid for the the cost of overseeing th a t work.

T hough she h as been gone for nearly half a century, the raw -skinned h an d of this quiet w asherw om an is still p resent working am ong the citizens of G reater Cleveland. Six th o u san d five h undred dollars—an insignificant sum ? Not by the m easure of its accom plishm ents!

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“...and for the people of Greater Cleveland” The community’s own foundation The Cleveland F oundation is governed by an 11-person D istribution Com m ittee.

Its m em bers, w ho set policy an d allocate fund incom e an d principal, are chosen for th e ir know ledge of th e com m unity.

Five are appointed by th e TYustees Com ­ m ittee, com prised of th e chief executive officers of th e F oundation’s tru stee banks. Five are appointed by public offi­ cials, an d together select a six th person w ith a background in philanthropy. All serve w ithout pay, norm ally for a fiveyear term , an d for a m ax im u m of 10 years.

S t a n l e y C. P a c e , c h a ir p e r s o n A p p o in te d 1978 by th e T rustees C o m m ittee; rea p p o in ted 1982 Stanley C. Pace is vice c h a irm a n of th e board of TRW, Inc., an d ch a irm a n of th e N ational A ssociation of M anu­ facturers. A m em b er of U nited Way Services' B oard of T rustees since 1975, he chaired th e 1984 G reater Cleve­ lan d cam paign. He w as honored th e sam e y ear by th e N ational Conference of C h ristian s a n d Jew s as th e recipi­ en t of its N ational H um an R elations Award for his work in co m b attin g discrim in atio n an d prejudice. He is a director of N ational City C orporation a n d C onsolidated N atural G as C om pany and a m em b er of th e Executive C om m ittee an d p a st ch a irm a n of th e G reater Cleveland Roundtable. R esidence: S h ak er Heights.

A n d r e a T a y lo r C o a x u m A p p o in te d 1984 b y th e C h ie f J u d g e , U.S. D istrict C ourt, N orth ern D istrict o f O hio A ndrea lily lor C oaxum is p re sid e n t of C oastal C om m uni­ cations, a C leveland m ark etin g a n d co m m u n icatio n s firm . S h e is also im m ed iate p a st p resid en t of A B etter C hance, Inc., a nationw ide program w hich seeks out tal­ en ted m in o rity stu d en ts, an d vice p resid en t of U nited Way Services. S he is a tru ste e of H aw ken School, an d has served on th e n atio n al c o n stitu tio n com m ittee of the YWCA, of w hich she is p a st p resid en t (Cleveland area), as well as th e Cleveland Bar A ssociation's Tksk Force on Crim e. S he is a form er tru ste e of th e W omen’s Law Fund.

R esidence: Cleveland Heights.

J o h n J. D w y e r A p p o in te d 1984 b y th e P re sid e n t o f th e Federa­ tion fo r C o m m u n ity P la n n in g J o h n J. Dwyer is a vice c h airm an of the board and a directo r of Oglebay N orton C om pany an d a p a rtn e r in the law firm of T h om pson, H ine an d Flory. He is ch airm an of T h e Cleveland E d u catio n F u n d an d im m ediate p ast c h a irm a n of th e G reater Cleveland G rowth Association, a s well as a directo r of th e C leveland-C uyahoga C ounty Port A uthority, A cme-Cleveland C orporation, AmeriTrust C orporation a n d T he H igbee Company. He is a tru stee of U niversity H ospitals, th e M usical A rts A ssociation, Play­ h o u se S q u are F oundation, th e G reater Cleveland Round­ table an d Notre D am e College. Residence: S haker Heights.

H e n r y J. G o o d m a n A p p o in te d 1982 b y th e C o m m itte e o f Five D istrib u tio n C o m m itte e M em bers H enry J. G oodm an is p resid en t of H. G oodm an, Inc. He also is p resid en t of th e Jew ish C om m unity Federation of Cleveland a n d serves on th e Executive C om m ittee of the C ouncil of Jew ish F ederations (National). He pu rsu es a special in terest in h ea lth issu es as secretary of the G reater Cleveland H ospital A ssociation, vice ch airm an of the G reater Cleveland V oluntary H ealth P lanning Associa­ tion an d a m e m b e r of th e Civic Advisory Board of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He also serves on th e Cleve­ lan d C ultural R esources S tu d y C om m ittee a n d th e Water­ front S teerin g Com m itee. Residence: S haker Heights.

A n d re a C o a xu m

L i n d s a y J o r d a n M o r g e n th a l e r A p p o in te d 1984 b y th e T ru stees C o m m ittee

S ta n Pace

L indsay Jo rd a n M orgenthaler is a well-known civic leader w ho h a s organized several of Cleveland's m ost successful benefits. S h e is a t p re se n t a tru ste e of Play­ h o u se S q u are Foundation, Case W estern Reserve Univer­ sity, L eadership Cleveland a n d Cleveland Ballet, She is also a longtim e tru ste e of P ittsburgh's C arnegie Mellon University, w here sh e cu rren tly ch airs th e P resident's Circle, a n d WVIZ-TV, for w hich sh e head ed up two highly successful auctions. S he is a p ast p resid en t of th e G reat Lakes S hak esp eare Festival, w here sh e h a s served as a tru stee for 21 years. R esidence: Lakewood.

R o y H oldt

Dick Pogue

H a n k G oodm an

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Tbm Vail

D avid Hill

by Lynne S la d k y

S a lly G risw old

Photograph

J a c k D w yer

D a v i d G. H ill.

R o y H. H o ld t

A p p o in te d 1977 b y th e C h ie f J u stic e , C ourt o f A p p e a ls, 8 th J u d ic ia l D istrict o f O hio; reap­ p o in te d 1981.

A p p o in te d 1982 by the T rustees C o m m ittee

David G. Hill is a p a rtn e r in th e law firm of B artunek, Garofoli an d Hill, an d p resid en t of David G ordon Hill & A ssociates, Inc., a m a n ag e m e n t c o n su ltan t firm w hich w orks w ith m inority b u sin e ss enterprises. He is ch a ir­ m a n of th e board of O peration Alert, vice p resident of the board of U nited Way Services, an d serves on th e execu­ tive com m ittee of th e G reater Cleveland R oundtable as well as on th e S tate J o b TVaining C oordinating Council.

His extensive background in h ealth an d h ig h er ed u ca­ tion in clu d es a term as vice p resid en t of th e Ohio Board of R egents. R esidence: Cleveland.

H arvey O p p m a n n

Roy H. Holdt is ch airm an of the board and chief execu­ tive officer of W hite Consolidated Industries. He was nam ed 1985 B usiness Executive of th e Year by th e Sales and M arketing Executives of Cleveland. Besides serving as a director of A m eriTrust Company, Cleveland Electric Illum inating Company, Midland-Ross C orporation and LTV C orporation, he is a tru stee of su ch diverse in s titu ­ tions as Dyke College, Fairview G eneral Hospital, the G reater Cleveland R oundtable and Playhouse S quare Foundation. He holds th e Croix de G uerre w ith Bronze S tar from the French G overnm ent. Residence: Lakewood.

S a lly K . G r is w o ld R i c h a r d W. P o g u e A p p o in te d 1979 b y th e T ru stees C om m ittee; re a p p o in te d 1983 R ichard W. Pogue is nation al m an ag in g p a rtn e r of the law firm of Jo n es, Day, Reavis an d Pogue. He also serves as a director of C hubb In d u stries Lim ited, A m eri'frust Company, AmeriTVust C orporation an d Ohio Bell Tele­ phone Company. He is ch a irm a n of th e board of Cleve­ land B allet and a tru stee of University Circle, Inc., the C enter for H um an S ervices an d th e G reater Cleveland R oundtable, w here he chairs th e Labor-M anagem ent Forum . He also chaired the F oundation’s Advisory Panel on th e R and C orporation project regarding econom ic de­ v elopm ent in G reater Cleveland. R esidence: S haker Heights.

T h o m a s V.H. V a il A p p o in te d 1976 b y th e M ayor o f C leveland; reap­ p o in te d 1981 T h o m as V.H. Vail is p u b lish er a n d editor of T h e Plain D ealer. He c u rren tly serves a s a tru ste e of th e Cleveland Clinic, th e Cleveland C ouncil on World Affairs an d the C om m ittee for E conom ic D evelopm ent, a national n o n ­ p a rtisa n group of b u sin essp e rso n s an d educators. He was recently ap pointed by P resid en t R eagan to th e C om m is­ sion on Private S ector Initiatives. He is a recipient of the Ohio N ew spaper A ssociation’s G overnor's Award, a s well a s h o n o rary degrees from Kenyon College, W ilberforce U niversity and Cleveland S tate University. Residence: H u n tin g Valley.

A p p o in te d 1978 by th e T rustees C om m ittee; reappointed 1985 Sally Kenny Griswold is a tru stee of J o h n Carroll Univer­ sity (of w hich she is p ast presid en t of the board), the B enjam in Rose In stitu te and the Federation for C om m u­ nity Planning, as well as an active m em b er (and p ast co­ chair) of the Federation’s Com m ission for Social C on­ cerns. P u rsu in g a longtim e special interest in health and aging, she is curren tly active on the Women's Council of th e G olden Age C enters of G reater Cleveland an d th e Ad­ visory C om m ittee of th e Regional Perinatal Network at Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s School of Medicine.

She is also a director of The Ohio M otorists Association.

Residence: S haker Heights.

L in d sa y M orgenthaler

H a r v e y G. O p p m a n n A p p o in te d 1981 by th e P residing Ju d g e, Probate C ourt o f C uya h o g a C ounty; reappointed 1985.

Harvey G. O ppm ann is presid en t of O ppm ann Properties an d th e owner/developer of various real estate projects w hich include the rehabilitation an d rem odeling of The Arcade an d N icholson Tferminal. He is ch airm an of the board of the Cleveland Institu te of Art, a tru stee of Hawken School a n d form er c h airm an of th e Ohio B uilding Authority, in w hich connection he was largely in s tru ­ m ental in locating an d com pleting con stru ctio n of $300 million in state office buildings. He also serves on the boards of th e Ju n io r O lym pics an d H illcrest Hospital.

Residence: G ates Mills.

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T h e m em b ers of th e D istribution Com ­ m ittee convene in a series of m eetings four tim es a y ear—u su ally M arch, Ju n e, S ep tem b er an d D ecem ber—to award grants. B ecause T he Cleveland F ounda­ tion is a c o m m u n ity tru st, its g ran t m ak in g is re stricted —except w here a donor h as directed the Foundation to su p p o rt a p artic u la r agency in an o th er geographical location—to th e G reater Cleveland area, w ith prim ary em p h asis on Cleveland an d C uyahoga County.

Who C an Receive G rants?

T he Cleveland F oundation m akes g ran ts prim arily to tax-exem pt private agencies (which th e Internal Revenue Service h as classified as 501(c)(3) organizations) and som etim es to governm ental agencies. No g ran ts are m ade to individuals.

The Foundation is looking for innova­ tive program s th a t ad d ress problem s to be solved, or opportunities to be seized, in th e G reater Cleveland area. It is not interested in funding the operating costs of established program s and agencies.

A free booklet entitled G uidelines fo r G rant Seekers, w hich discusses all of these points in m ore detail, as well as the com ponents of a good proposal and the procedure for su b m ittin g (at least three

A R em arkable Woman Remembered

For m any o f the Foundation's grantees through out fo u r decades, Dorothy R u th sim p ly was The Cleveland Foundation.

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A com m unity foundation, first and last, is people. And the staff of The Cleveland Foundation h as been blessed over the years by th e presence of som e rem ark ­ able individuals w hose contributions to th e G reater Cleveland com m unity will be felt for m any years to come. One such person was Dorothy R uth G raham , b etter know n to generations of college stu d en ts as “Miss Ruth.” W hen she died last w inter a t the age of 89, the Foundation lost a very special m em ber of its family.

Dorothy R uth was a co n stan t presence for m ore th a n 40 years at the Foundation, w orking alongside four of the F ounda­ tion’s seven directors, and proved an in ­ valuable consultant, even after h er re­ tirem en t in 1968 at the age of 73, to the next two directors. Indeed, h er title of assistan t to the director did not reflect th e full scope of h er responsibilities.

For m any of the Foundation’s grantees th ro u g h o u t those years, Dorothy R uth sim ply w as The Cleveland Foundation.

m o n th s before th e m eetin g a t w h ich it is to be considered), is available by w riting to the F oundation or stopping by th e of­ fices. (The Cleveland F oundation, 1400 H anna Building, Cleveland, Ohio 44115) W hat Is the Process?

E ach proposal su b m itted (w hich m u st include a detailed budget) is assigned to a program officer according to the gener­ al su b ject area into w hich it falls. A prom ­ ising one will undergo a com prehensive review, draw ing on the varied experience of th e staff and D istribution Com m ittee m em b ers an d occasionally on outside experts in th e field.

After m eetin g w ith representatives of the organization su b m ittin g the propo­ sal, and frequently w orking w ith them to sh arp en it up, the program officer and th e F oundation’s director w rite a staff evaluation w hich is carefully exam ined by the appropriate S ubcom m ittee of the D istribution C om m ittee prior to the q u arterly m eeting of the full Committee.

T he C om m ittee as a whole decides, in th e light of th e S ubcom m ittee’s recom ­ m en d atio n s an d staff com m ents, w h eth er to fund or decline the proposal.

She reviewed all g ran t proposals, m ade follow-up phone calls, sen t the letters notifying grantees of th eir awards, and personally processed each of the h u n ­ dreds of scholarships given to deserving stu d e n ts over four decades, contacting the colleges, w riting to the stu d en ts an d m aking sure they h ad received th eir checks.

But perh ap s the m ost rem arkable th in g Dorothy R uth G raham (who m ar­ ried late in life) ever did was to set up a tru s t fund w ith T he Cleveland Founda­ tion in 1972. She started the Dorothy an d Helen R uth F und (to honor, in part, h er m o th e r’s m em ory) w ith $1,000. And every year thereafter, u ntil h er death, contributed betw een $700 and $1,000 m ore out of h er m odest pension. And w hen in 1983 th e D istribution C om m it­ tee voted h er a cost-of-living increase of $600, she signed th a t over to th e fund as well. The Foundation, w rote Dorothy R uth, had “b etter use for it” th a n she did.

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The Cleveland Foundation 1984 Grant Making lbtal Grants Authorized— $16,7 21 ,8 4 2

* A d m in istra tive e x p e n se s in 1984 rep resen ted 9.7% o f total g ra n ts a u th o rize d by T h e C leveland F oundation.

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Cultural A ffairs.

Palace joins the S tate an d 1,000-seat Ohio T heatre on a full-tim e basis, brin g ­ ing the total n u m b er of seats in the com ­ plex to 7,000, a few m ore th a n are found in W ashington’s K ennedy Center.)

It was noted in th e en tertain m e n t pages A significant n u m b er of ticket buyers, of new spapers from Fort Lauderdale, box office records show, are com ing from Florida, to S an Diego, California; in surrounding counties, even from as far O pera N ew s an d V ariety; in United away as Pennsylvania, M ichigan and A irlines’ M a inliner M agazine, even in New York State. T his is h eartening news. th e staid co lu m n s of Forbes. C olum nist It h as been, in part, the belief th a t Play­ E arl W ilson, w riting in th e New York house S quare C enter could becom e a m a ­ Post, hailed it as th e d eb u t of “Cleve­ jo r regional arts and en tertain m en t la n d ’s super-rival to our Lincoln C enter facility, bringing increased consum er a n d W ashington’s JF K C e n te r... .ex­ dollars and jobs into th e city, th a t has pected to help estab lish th e G reat Lakes led The Cleveland Foundation to take a city as a m ajor show b u sin ess v e n u e ... leadership role in m oving this im portant All were referring to th e long-awaited project forward. Over th e p ast decade g rand reopening of th e splendidly reno­ the Foundation h as m ade grants totaling vated S tate T heatre, th e flagship facility approxim ately $2 million to the Play­ of Cleveland’s Playhouse S quare Center, house Square Foundation, the entity es­ on J u n e 9, 1984—ju s t in tim e to play tablished in 1973 to renovate and oper­ h o st to th e to u rin g M etropolitan Opera ate the three historic theaters as well as for one of th e g ran d est weeks in any­ to do econom ic and developm ent p lan ­ b ody’s m em ory. As a perform ance facil­ ning for the area. The Cleveland Foun­ ity, all agree, th e m agnificent State dation also has invested $3.8 m illion in ran k s w ith th e c o u n try ’s finest—from its the purchase of the adjacent Bulkley glitterin g m u ltitiered chandelier, the Complex and additional funding for sym bol of th e old th e a te r’s 1920s op u ­ planning and land acquisition in the solence, to its b ran d new $7-million stage- called Superblock. house, w h ich featu res one of th e largest A nother m ajor reason for The Cleve­ stages in th e world (65 feet deep an d 10 land Foundation’s decision a decade ago stories high), state-of-the-art lighting and to support the reclam ation of th e th e ­ aters was its conviction th a t several of so u n d e q u ip m en t an d a 50-by-72-foot Cleveland’s professional perform ing arts resilien t dance floor.

T he im pressive th e a te r was p u t to the groups ought to have a p erm an en t hom e and proper facilities in w hich to achieve te st in th e m o n th s th a t followed, w ith th eir full potential. In 1978, Cleveland everything from visiting sym phony or­ ch estra s to Broadway shows. T he critics Opera was perform ing in a ju n io r high cheered. A nd th e people c am e—9,102 of school auditorium . And the th en twoyear-old Cleveland Ballet was dancing to th em d u rin g one of th e w in ter’s worst recorded m usic in the 1,500-seat H anna b o u ts of sub-zero w eath er to pack the Theatre. Both officially becam e resident 3,150-seat facility th re e n ig h ts ru n n in g com panies of the renovated S tate T h e­ for th e Alvin Ailey A m erican Dance atre beginning w ith the 1984-85 sea­ T heater, an d 96,044 of th em to see Yul B rynner in T h e K ing a n d I an d A nthony son—ju s t as G reat Lakes T heater Festi­ val an d the Cleveland M odern Dance Q uinn in Zorba. Betw een J u n e 1984 an d J u n e 1985 (the S tate’s first full year A ssociation series, Ohio Ballet and Ohio C ham ber O rchestra are now ensconced of operation), a projected 650,000 p er­ in the Ohio—and both had highly su c­ sons will have a tten d ed shows a t the Playhouse S q u are C enter—m ore people, cessful seasons a t the box office.

A Cleveland Foundation g ran t of Playhouse S q u are F oundation presid en t Larry W ilker is fond of saying, th a n w ent $120,000 to Cleveland Opera helped to Brow ns’ g am es last year. (The n u m b er underw rite three festive productions— J o h a n n S tra u ss’ ever popular Die is expected to ju m p to 850,000 a year F lederm aus, a delightful Wild West ver­ by 1986, w h en th e com pletely restored sion of D onizetti’s T h e E lixir o f Love, an d a full-blown staging of Verdi’s A ida, com plete w ith cam els, a real elephant an d the first use in th e Midwest of supertitles, w hich enabled the audience T riu m p h a l E n try ; C lev e la n d O p e ra ’s la v ish p ro d u c tio n o f V erdi’s A id a —c o m p le te w ith s u p e r title s — w a s th e h ig h p o in t o f th e re sid e n t c o m p a n y 's f i r s t se a s o n in th e lo vin g ly restored S ta te T h e a tre . (P hotograph b y R o b e rtH e n sle ig h )

B y Ju n e 650,000 people w ill have attended shows a t Playhouse Square in 1984-85 —more than went to B row ns *games.

R e c a p tu r e d glory: P la y h o u se S q u a re's S ta te T h e a tre jo in s 1920s o p u le n c e w ith state-ofthe- a rt technology.

“W hat a wonderful opportunity you are p rovidin g f o r business people in the m iddle o f the day. I cam e aw ay buoyed, refreshed and hum m ing

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to follow th e Italian w ith o u t burying th e ir noses in librettos. T he larger facili­ ty enab led th e nine-year-old profes­ sional com pany to em ploy a m u ch g ran d er set an d larger p it o rch estra th a n in e ith er of its previous hom es.

T he results, w hich played to a n u m b er of sold-out houses, prom pted Opera N ew s to pronounce th e S tate “a firstrate hom e for full-scale opera.”

A $73,000 F oundation g ran t to Cleveland Ballet, along w ith $39,000 left over from a previous grant, w ent for special stage fittings (scrims, backdrop, acoustically m uffled floor) a n d the co stu m es for a new full-length ballet choreographed by D ennis N ahat to Beethoven’s N in th S y m p h o n y . T he a m ­ bitious work, w hich utilized n o t only th e entire 38-m em ber com pany b u t an enlarged Ohio C ham ber O rchestra an d a ch o ru s of 60 voices, had its world prem iere a t the S tate T heatre in November before a full house.

O ther Cleveland Foundation grants helped u n d erw rite the cost of a series featuring four internationally know n orch estras an d two internationally know n dance com panies (Alvin Ailey an d Mazowsze), as well as special dow n­ town concerts by T he Cleveland O rches­ tra. And a $20,000 g ran t for continued audience developm ent w ent to th e Cleve­ land M odern Dance Association, w hich b ro u g h t th e Nikolais Dance Com pany an d th e M urray Louis tro u p e—w ith the Dave B rubeck Q uartet—to the State.

T he first heyday of Playhouse Square is rem em bered for having bro u g h t to Cleveland such great perform ers as Fred Astaire, Fanny Brice, J a c k Benny an d H arry Houdini. H istorians of the future will surely note th a t the second heyday of Playhouse S quare began in earn est in th e su m m er of 1984.

■ “I have ju s t retu rn ed to the office from an absolutely delightful lunchim e, w here I was am ong the large audience treated to th e superb Mozart program you prepared for th e ‘Show tim e a t High Noon’ series at the Ohio Theatre,” be­ gins a letter from one downtown Cleve­ land office w orker to Lucille Gruber, director of cu ltural arts a t Cuyahoga C om m unity College (TH-C). “W hat a wonderful opportunity yo are providing for b u sin ess people to take in su ch o u t­

stan d in g events in th e m iddle of ‘th e daily g rin d ’!” it continues. “I cam e away buoyed, refreshed a n d h u m m in g — ” The program in q u estio n w as one of a series of free lu n ch tim e events a t the Ohio produced by TVi-C a n d G ru b er d u r­ ing th e 1984-85 seaso n w ith u n d erw rit­ ing in the for of a 1982 g ra n t from The Cleveland Foundation. (Other program s in the series included TH-C’s acclaim ed “One H undred Years of J a z z ” —Parts One an d TWo, a m ulti-art-form look at th e co u rt of F rance’s Louis XIV, a special lecture-dem onstration by m em bers of th e Alvin Ailey A m erican D ance T heater an d th e lig h th earted pairing of “Ja z z B eats an d B aroque S u ite s ”) T he appreci­ ative noon-hour crowds som etim es n u m b ered as m any as 600 persons.

A nother lunch-hour experim ent lau n ch ed w ith a g ran t from the Founda­ tion involved a Cleveland Ballet m ini-per­ form ance (repeated a t 5:45 for the after­ work crowd) in th e State, as a way of in­ troducing CB to new audiences. Still an o th e r g ran t enabled the Footpath dancers, a Cleveland-based m odern dance troupe, to m ake its d eb u t a t the Ohio th is spring. T he evening included the world prem iere of a dance choreo­ graphed by Footpath’s Alice R ubinstein to m usic by Pulitzer Prize-w inning com ­ poser C harles W uorinen, who was pre­ sen t for th e occasion.

Diverse A rts O fferings Spice a W inning Year

G reater Clevelanders enjoyed an u n ­ u su al array of cu ltu ral opportunities du rin g th e 1984-85 season, in p a rt as a resu lt of Cleveland F oundation grants.

Playw right A rth u r Miller was brought to th e Cleveland Play H ouse in O ctober for the prem iere of th e newly revised ver­ sion of his play T h e A rch b ish o p ’s Ceil­ ing, a provocative an d highly articulate work w hich looks a t th e lives of a group of w riters in a sm all com m unist-bloc co u n try som ew here in eastern Europe.

T he sam e g ran t also b ro u g h t to Cleve­ land two o th er a u th o rs w hose work was being produced a t th e Play House: C ather­ ine M uscham p, w hose T h e W aiting Room is one of five new plays by th is a u th o r w hich are u n d er option or in negotiation for Broadway or London’s West End; and K enneth Ludwig, w ho h ad com pleted a new version of his play D ram atic License, first produced in 1983 a t th e A m erican Stage Festival in Milford, New H am p­ shire. T hese two plays were p a rt of the Play H ouse’s adventuresom e Brooks T heatre Series, w hich h as been fostered by earlier Cleveland Foundation grants.

T riple v isio n ; A n d e rso n /B ro w n /R a u sc h e n b e rg 's “S e t a n d R e se t" brings p o st-m o d e rn d a n ce to C levelan d .

O ther g ran ts b ro u g h t th e C entral Tra­ live perform ances of New Dance Ohio. ditional O rch estra of Beijing to th e Cleve­ One of the Brown dances, “S et and Reset,’’ land M useum of A rt for a special concert b rought together three of the biggest an d sponsored a series of free concerts n am es in contem porary dance, visual in various public places (such as th e zoo) and perform ance art: com poser/singer by th e Ohio Blues Society, an d th e Na­ Laurie A nderson, Brown herself as chore­ tional Folk Festival held last su m m er in ographer and artist Robert Rauschenberg, th e C uyahoga Valley N ational Recreation who created the costum es and spectacu­ lar set. The result, w hich was prom ptly A rea n e a r Blossom Music Center. Yet pronounced the city’s first “post-m odern” a n o th e r g ra n t w ent to help underw rite dance concert, was presented a t the th e second seaso n of th e new Robert Page Singers, a professional choral group S tate Theatre.

C oncurrent w ith the series, the C enter w hich gave several concerts a t Lakewood’s Beck C enter for th e C ultural Arts, one of h u n g a docum entary exhibit, “R auschen­ berg Performance,” w hich included rep ­ th em featu rin g a world prem iere of a resentative pieces from R auschenberg’s new w ork by th e critically acclaim ed a rt work in the th eater done over the past song com poser R ichard H undley com ­ three decades. m issioned by th e R obert Page Singers.

B ut p erh ap s th e m o st u n u s u a l—and provocative—collaboration funded last New M aestro M ounts year by T he Cleveland F oundation (along an A m b itio u s Season w ith o th er p a rtn e rs in cluding th e Ohio C hristoph von D ohnanyi’s first season A rts Council a n d th e N ational Endow­ as the new m usic director of The Cleve­ m e n t for th e Arts) w as a fall series called land O rchestra was as exhilarating an N ew D ance/N ew Vision jo in tly u n d e r­ inaugural year as anyone could have taken by th e C ontem porary Art C enter wished.

The subscription series was of Cleveland (form erly th e New Gallery) m arked by fresh and innovative pro­ an d th e Cleveland M odern D ance Asso­ gram m ing, daring juxtapositions of the ciation. Four evenings of an interdiscipli­ old an d new, the fam iliar and the unfa­ n ary n a tu re featu red a lecture by Village miliar, and a general level of excitem ent Voice d an ce critic D eborah Jow itt, a per­ form ance by th e TVisha Brown Dance C om pany of New York, a program of h is­ toric perform ing a rts film excerpts and

“Set and R eset” brought together three o f the biggest nam es in contem ­ p o ra ry dance , v isu a l and per­ form an ce art.

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D o h n a n y i had u ndertaken a num ber o f special projects cle a rly designed to place h is stam p on the Orchestra's a rtistic program m ing.

th a t did not let u p u n til th e final b u rst of ap p lau se died away a t th e season’s la st co n cert th is May. And, ju d g in g by th e fact th a t the s u b ­ scrip tio n series was 95 p ercen t s u b ­ scribed, w ith m any concerts StandingRoom-Only, th e new m aestro h ad stru ck th e rig h t chord w ith n o rth e rn Ohio concert-goers. D ohnanyi h ad u n d ertak en a n u m b e r of special projects clearly de­ signed to place his stam p on th e artistic pro g ram m ing of th e O rchestra. They in ­ cluded: th e scheduling of im p o rtan t b u t rarely played works of th e o rch estra repertoire; th e com m issioning an d p er­ form ance of new works by A m erican com posers; a collaboration w ith an o th er m ajor Cleveland a rts organization; and a n invitation to a leading com poser of our tim e not only to co n d u ct the O rches­ tra in som e of his own works, b u t also to offer his perspective on the classic repertoire.

T he first took th e form of the U.S. or­ chestral prem iere of Arnold S choenberg’s stirrin g oratorio, Ja co b ’s Ladder (an am bitious piece requiring eight soloists, a 12-part m ixed chorus an d four off­ stage taped orchestras), w hich was re ­ peated in New York’s C arnegie Hall to en th u siastic reviews. Pulitzer Prizew inning com poser C harles W uorinen, com m issioned to w rite a new work for th e O rchestra, responded w ith a piece he entitled (perhaps w ith a bit of wry geographical hum or) Movers a n d Shakers; while th e celebrated G erm an com poser H ans W erner Henze artfully ju x tap o sed the alm ost wistful strain s of

D o h n a n y i on th e podium : bold p ro g ra m m in g co upled w ith in spired m u sic -m a k in g

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M ozart’s final piano concerto w ith the U.S. prem iere of h is own b ru ta l a n d deeply m oving S eventh Sym phony. And th e season concluded w ith a w arm ly re­ ceived perform ance of S trav in sk y ’s a n i­ m al fable, R enard, w ittily choreo­ graphed by Cleveland B allet artistic director D ennis N ahat a n d realized by four CB dancers. (R e n a rd w as repeated a t New York’s Avery F isher Hall.)

A $75,000 g ra n t from T he Cleveland Foundation helped u n d erw rite th e cost of th ese several special projects, th e re­ su lts of w hich m et w ith considerable acclaim both in Cleveland an d on tour, castin g reflected glory back on the O rchestra’s hom etow n. In S eptem ber 1983, th e F oundation h ad authorized a g ra n t of u p to $100,000 to help u n d er­ w rite th e cost of videotaping D ohnanyi’s in au g u ral co n cert w ith the O rchestra, featuring g u est soloist Itzhak Perlm an in th e Berg Violin Concerto, an d pro­ ducing a 90-m inute television program featuring a candid interview w ith the new m aestro, w hich was beam ed to Europe by satellite an d show n national­ ly on PBS th is April.

C ity 's B la c k F o lk A rtis ts Introduced to P u b lic

“I’ve been m aking th in g s all m y life,” says Peggy Davenport. “Nobody taught m e how to do it. I’d ju s t w atch them and I’d learn.” D avenport could be speaking for alm ost any one of th e artists whose work was displayed in a fascinating ex­ hibition entitled Black Folk Art in Cleve­ land: “Tradition, Transition and Adapta­ tion” last April a t Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s M ather Gallery. T his show, coordinated by N ancy D ickenson (for­ m erly of M ather Gallery) and folklorist Gladys-M arie Fry of the University of M aryland, gave D avenport an d other Cleveland area folk artists a chance to be recognized for th eir varied, beautiful an d inventive work.

Like m ost of th e show ’s o th er artists, D avenport h as had no form al training.

Now 83, she worked as a vaudeville singer and d an cer in O klahom a until she cam e to Cleveland in 1929. Even while working full tim e she n u rtu red her hobby of m aking a rt o u t of found objects. “W hen I was 17 or 18, I’d travel w ith shows an d after th e show, I’d go up to m y room an d m ake things. I’d m ake som ething out of n o th in g —all kinds of th in g s out of popsicle sticks or bottle caps or th in g s I found.” Her work in the folk a rt show included an ornate woven

Rev. A lb e r t W agner a n d th e P a rtin g o f th e R ed Sea: W h a t s e e m e d to h a v e b een lo st h a s c o m e to p a ss.

basket m ade o u t of bottle caps and wire. She says, “I learned all these th in g s w hen I was a child an d I never did forget.”

Needleworker J.D. H arm on learned his craft m u ch th e sam e way. “My m other would be teach in g m y sister how to sew w hen I w as a b o u t seven or eight. My sister a n d I were real close—you know how kids a re —an d w hatever she’d be doing, I’d be doing, too.” H arm on, now 78, kept u p w ith his needlew ork and h as developed m any of his own stitches.

He says, “Som e m en th in k it’s sissy work, w h at I do, b u t I don’t feel th a t way ab o u t it. I ju s t feel like I’m doing crafts.

I like to teach sew ing w hen I can.” For th e show he crocheted an im posing fiveby-seven-foot A m erican flag in three colors.

“I h ad always w anted to p ain t since I was five years old, b u t th ere was nothing, n o t even an old piece of cardboard to work on,” recalls th e Reverend Albert Wagner, w ho takes h is su b jects from the Bible an d black A m erican history.

“B ut I couldn’t be b itter w ith anyone because w h at seem ed to have been lost h as all com e to p ass a t its proper time.”

T he work of th e 12 artists (six w om en and six m en) displayed in th e show rep­ resen ts a wide diversity of craft an d m e­ dium , from m etalw orking to dollm aking to w oodcarving. D espite th e differences in th eir creations, th ese artists have sev­ eral elem en ts in co m m o n —a powerful urge to create, a deep religious faith, a lack of form al train in g an d an aw are­ ness, conscious or not, of th e tension betw een being black an d being an A m er­ ican. T h eir a rt is intensely personal.

D ollm aker M arcella Welch n am es all

h er dolls and refuses to sell those she feels especially close to. She says, “Each doll has a personality. T hey’re like an extension of myself.”

Only recently h as the im portance and artistic m erit of contem porary black folk a rt been recognized. T he desire to pre­ serve th is work was one of the chief m o­ tivating factors behind the M ather show and catalog (which was produced w ith the help of a $3,500 g ran t from The Cleveland Foundation). Folklorist Fry worked for three m o nths w ith black clergy and com m unity groups to find local artists. She had been w arned by other folklorists th a t she w ouldn’t find any tru e folk artists in Cleveland. She found so m any th a t she was forced to lim it the n u m b er of participants in the show. Black Folk Art in Cleveland opened a t a four-day-long celebration of black folk a rt th a t included dance, m usic and a reading by acclaim ed au th o r Ishm ael Reed.

“We w anted to find naive artists who showed a transition from a rural heritage to an u rb an heritage,” says J a n e Tesso, who helped coordinate the show. The Black Folk Art show was em inently su c­ cessful in doing that, but, in addition to that, adds Tesso, “It was good to see the two cultures com ing together. The area around Case tends to be dom inated by w hite interests, and, especially because Cleveland is predom inantly black, it was tim e we [CWRU] worked w ith the black com m unity in Cleveland. The show gave u s a chance to do that.”

W agner’s “A m erica n Y esterd ay” : a n a rt o f th e p eo p le

Dollmalcer M arcella W alsh nam es a ll her d o lls and refuses to se ll those she fe e ls especially close to. “They're like an extension o f m yself .”

P u b lic R adio Wins Its Way into Cleveland's H eart

Last S eptem ber 8th, after a nearly sixyear absence, public radio retu rn ed to Cleveland. But w ith a difference. The new station, WCPN (90.3 FM), bears little sim ilarity to any previous incarnation.

A sophisticated m ix of news, talk, jazz an d public affairs provides an alternative m edia resource th a t has been m issing from the local scene for far too long.

With th eir fresh and distinctive redefi­ nition of w hat is news, M orning Edition and A ll T h in g s Considered, the ju stly popular syndicated m orning and even­ ing drive-tim e potpourris produced by N ational Public Radio (NPR), have already becom e a m uch-appreciated p art of the aural landscape. And som e

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of th e locally originated program m ing, as well, is m ak in g an im p o rtan t co n tri­ b u tio n to th e G reater Cleveland com ­ m u n ity T he m ost strik in g exam ple of th e latter, an d WCPN’s m ost am bitious project to date, was a five-hour series w hich aired over as m any evenings th is April. E ntitled L est We Forget: R e m e m ­ bering th e H olocaust—a C leveland Per­ spective, th e series ju x tap o sed the painful rem iniscences of area survivors of th e Nazi d eath cam ps w ith insightful co m m en tary by local academ ic experts w ho have stu d ied th e H olocaust in detail.

“We’ve h ad quite a few req u ests for tap es of th e series,” says WCPN general m an ag er Leonard Will, adding th a t m ore su ch projects are being considered as a resu lt of th e overw helm ingly positive re­ sponse. The m ost recen t A rbitron ra t­ ings indicate th a t th e eight-m onth-old statio n already claim s m ore th a n 70,000 listeners a week—b etter th a n double its first-quarter figures—an d th a t they are listening an average of seven hours a week.

This is especially good news, since WCPN sees its future as a listener-sup­ ported station. A deliberately low-key m em bership appeal begun this J a n u a ry h as already signed up 3,400 subscribers.

The goal for S eptem ber is 5,000, w hich should generate around $150,000 for th e 1985 fiscal year. T he station was lau n ch ed w ith sizable contributions from corporate and other local funders.

Will hopes to have 25,000 loyal duespaying listeners on board by the end of th e third or fourth year of operation, w hich would be in line w ith w hat has been accom plished in other cities.

The Cleveland Foundation p u t its own 1983 contribution in the form of a threeyear $300,000 challenge g ran t to be m atched on a two-for-one b asis—to see w h eth er th e com m unity a t large really w anted a public radio station and would be willing to sup p o rt it. Since then, WCPN h as obtained gifts or pledges from 18 other foundations and 21 cor­ porations totaling $540,765—toward its S eptem ber 1986 goal of $600,000. If the w illingness of listeners to get involved proves as strong, the station will be well on its way to establishing the kind of broad-based su pport it is going to need to survive in the highly com petitive world of broadcasting.

Survey Probes M o tiv a tio n s o f A rts A u diences

T he last few years in th e G reater Cleve­ land area have seen new a rts o rganiza­ tions springing up a n d estab lish ed ones expanding th eir budgets, building or m oving into new or larger facilities, in ­ creasing the n u m b e r of th eir perform ­ ances, an d the scale on w hich they op erate—in a g reat surge of confidence th a t th e au d ien ces an d the p opular su p ­ port for w h at they do will be there. But how big is th e potential audience for the a rts in G reater Cleveland a n d th e s u r­ ro u n d in g region? And, a ssu m in g one could find a way to reach them , would they com e? Do they n eed the arts? How far will they drive, a n d how m u ch will they pay to have th e a rts in th eir lives?

Indeed, w h at is th e m o st effective way to reach them , a n d th e su re st way to engage th eir interest?

Until now, m ost area a rts groups have been shooting in th e dark, as it were, try in g th is or th a t appeal, pushing season su b scrip tio n s or single ticket sales, th en m ini-series over season su b ­ scriptions, u sin g m assive direct mail cam paigns, gim m icks, phone banks.

But the question of w h at m o tiva tes arts co n su m ers h as continued to baffle m ost groups.

Som e answ ers m ay finally be a t h a n d — as a resu lt of an extensive regional arts m ark etin g survey u n d ertak en this past w inter by a pair of New York-based firms a t the b eh est of T he Cleveland Founda­ tion, w hich m ade a g ran t for th is p u r­ pose. (Additional su p p o rt cam e from the New Cleveland C am paign an d Conven­ tion an d Visitors B ureau of G reater Cleveland.) Ziff M arketing, Inc., arts m arketing specialists w hose clients in­ clude th e M etropolitan Opera, and the research firm of Clark, M artire & Barto­ lomeo, Inc., opinion poll experts, con­ ducted extensive telephone interview s betw een November an d February w ith 3,350 G reater Clevelanders on behalf of a consortium of 19 cultural institutions clustered aro u n d U niversity Circle and Playhouse Square. T he results, w hich will be m ade public som etim e in Ju n e, are going to provide new ground on w hich to build audiences.

P relim inary findings indicate th a t not only does a very strong a rts m arket exist in G reater Cleveland, b u t th a t there is also a considerable potential for au d i­ ence growth. And there is som ething very like a m ultiplier effect: th e m ore

people particip ate in various a rt forms, th e g reater th e satisfaction they seem to derive from individual institutions.

One of th e m o st in terestin g p arts of th e survey identifies an d rates th e p a r­ ticu lar k in d s of satisfaction people com e to th e a rts for (e.g., “Feels like a special activity,” “Meet an d see o th er people,” “S park s your im agination,” “Feels like you fit in,” “Is thrillin g or exciting”).

T he degree of “c o n su m e r” satisfaction in su ch reg ard s is th e n m easu red ag ain st th e degree to w hich existing area in sti­ tu tio n s actu ally m eet th ese needs.

A nother p a rt of th e survey looks at th e im p act of childhood experiences on th e form ation of ad u lt cu ltu ral habits, w hile still an o th e r probes th e influence of w h at are called “ad u lt reference groups.” T he facts an d p atte rn s w hich em erge are going to keep a rts ad m in is­ tra to rs an d front offices b u rn in g the m id n ig h t oil for som e tim e to come.

■ Forty th o u sa n d Cleveland school children from 75 different schools are getting a ch an ce to ru b shoulders w ith c u ltu re th is year th a n k s in p art to a three-year $30,000 g ran t from T he Cleve­ land Foundation. T he g ran t was m ade in response to a re q u e st from Gil Brooks, vice p resid en t of U niversity Circle’s C enter for C o m m unity Program s, who pointed o u t th a t p articipation by school children in a rts program s, both in the classroom an d a t cu ltu ral institutions, h as been severely curtailed in recen t years due to restricted educational funds an d th e rising cost of b u s transportation.

In 1982, th e N ational E ndow m ent for R u b b in g n o s e s w ith cu ltu re; C leveland sch o o lch ild ren explore th e w o n d ers o f the A rts h a d initiated a pilot program th e C leveland M u su e m o f Art. aim ed a t en couraging local governm ents an d school system s to m ake a three-year co m m itm en t to u n d erw rite half th e cost of th e new or expanded program s a t cu l­ getting such exposure in 1982 to partici­ pate. Activities range from classes at tural agencies in th e com m unity. With the Cleveland M useum of A rt—w hich th e assistan ce of U niversity Circle, Inc., have the kids draw ing rig h t in the gal­ the Cleveland Public Schools (CPS) de­ leries, learning printm aking or sculp­ signed an expanded program w hich would enable every stu d e n t to be exposed tu re —to attending a Cleveland O rchestra concert or an open rehearsal a t Cleve­ to a t least two different a rt form s be­ tw een 1984 an d 1986. S ixteen local cu l­ land Ballet.

“You cannot actively participate in tu ral in stitu tio n s b ased in th e Circle or Do people need the a rts as a grow nup or even as a young on Playhouse S q u are offered to partici­ the a rts ? How f a r person unless you have had prior expe­ pate, an d financial su p p o rt was pledged w ill they drive, rience,” says Gil Brooks. T he kind of by th e CPS a n d th e Ohio A rts Council. and how m uch intense, hands-on experience these in ­ B ut w h en th e federal m onies were w ill they p a y stitu tio n s are providing, says Brooks, is w ithdraw n, th e program was e n d a n ­ ju s t about the best kind of education to have the arts gered. So T he Cleveland Foundation they could provide. in th eir lives7 an d M artha H olden Je n n in g s F ounda­ tion agreed to su p ply th e m issing piece.

T he program , w hich is ru n by U niversi­ ty Circle, Inc., h as m ade it possible for double th e n u m b e r of children w ho were 23

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Cultural Affairs Grants

C a se W e ste r n R e s e r v e U n iv e r s it y — An E q u ity g u e s t a rtist, re sid e n t a rtis t a n d d e sig n e r for th e 1984 se a so n of th e A ctors C o m p a n y ............... $ 5 ,0 0 0 P u b licatio n of a catalo g on folkw ays a n d folk a rt of C leveland’s b lac k c o m ­ m u n ity a s p a rt of a festival by M ather G a lle r y ........................................ $ 3 ,5 0 0 C lev ela n d B a lle t —M ini-perform ­ a n c es in th e S tate T h e a tre . . $ 8 ,1 9 0 S tage fittings for th e S tate T h e a tre a n d c o stu m e s for a new ballet to B eethoven’s “N inth S y m p h o n y ” $ 7 3 ,0 0 0 C lev ela n d C h ild ren ’s M u s e u m S tart-u p o p eratin g su p p o rt exclusive of fund-raising costs over two years $ 9 0 ,2 5 0 T h e C lev ela n d F o u n d a tio n (Inc.)— C om prehensive a rts m ark e t research survey of Cleveland in stitu tio n s $ 1 2 5 ,0 0 0 G u aran tee of b a n k loan for G reat Lakes S h ak esp eare F e stiv a l. $ 6 5 ,0 0 0 Loan/cash reserve fund . . . . $ 4 0 ,0 0 0 Technical a ssista n c e a n d evaluation p lan n in g for T he Cleveland M odern D ance A sso c ia tio n ....................$ 3 ,0 0 0 Technical a ssista n c e for a n econom ic feasibility s tu d y for F airm ount T h e a tre of th e D e a f ................. $ 5 ,0 0 0 T h e C lev ela n d I n s tit u te o f M u sic — Cleveland Q u a rte t a n d F rien d s $ 5 ,0 0 0 T h e C lev ela n d M odern D an ce A s s o c ia t io n —A udience developm ent for its p re se n te r series in P layhouse S q u are C enter (third y e a r). . $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 T h e C lev ela n d M u seu m o f A r t— C h in a M usic Project sp o n so rsh ip of lec tu re s a n d c o n cert by C entral T radi­ tional O rch estra of Beijing (Peking) $ 2 ,5 0 0 T h e C lev ela n d M u seu m o f N atu ral H is to r y —S a lary for ed u catio n v olunteer c oo rd in ato r an d n o n sa la ry sta rt-u p costs a sso ciated w ith th e Please Touch P r o je c t............ $ 1 9 ,2 5 5 X-ray e q u ip m e n t for th e physical anthropology d e p a rtm e n t . . $ 1 8 ,3 0 0

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T h e C le v e la n d M u sic S c h o o l S e t t le m e n t —'T ransition c o sts a s s o ­ ciated w ith th e e m p lo y m e n t of a new d ir e c to r ......................................$ 3 0 ,9 5 8 C lev ela n d O p era —P ro d u c tio n co sts of in a u g u ra l s e a so n in th e S ta te T h e a tre

$ 120,000 T h e C le v e la n d P la y H o u s e H o u sin g a n d tra n s p o rta tio n for g u e st p lay w rig h ts d u rin g th e 1984-85 s e a s o n ..............................................$ 5 ,1 0 0 S a lary differential a n d m oving ex­ p e n se s for a new m a n a g in g d irector $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 C le v e la n d S t a te U n iv e r s it y —C on­ c e rt su p p o rt for C leveland C h a m b e r S y m p h o n y .................................$ 4 ,3 7 5 S eco n d a n n u a l N orth C oast Folk M usic F e s tiv a l.............................. $ 2 ,6 5 0 E a s t S u b u r b a n C o n c e r ts, Inc., M entor, O h io—T he C leveland O rc h e stra c o n c erts in Lake C ounty

$ 1,000 E d u c a tio n a l T e le v is io n A s s o c ia ­ t io n o f M e tr o p o lita n C lev ela n d , WVIZ-TV—P articip atio n by a rtists a n d a rts o rg an iz atio n s in in s tru c ­ tio n al television series, “Arts-aB ound!” ................................... $ 1 1 ,6 0 0 F in d la y A rea A r ts C ou n cil, F in d lay, O h io—C om m ittee for A rt in Public P laces for w orks of a rt a t F indlay ’s new m u n ic ip a l building* 8 1 5 ,0 0 0 TWo o rc h e stra p erfo rm an ces and asso ciated w orkshops* . . . . $ 20,000 F in d la y C ity S c h o o ls, F indlay, O hio—P la n n in g for renovation and resto ratio n of th e C entral J u n io r High School a u d ito riu m * ...............$ 1 7 ,6 4 0 F in d la y C o lleg e, F in d lay, O hio— "G reat Lake E rie” traveling exhibit* $ 4 ,6 0 0 F o o tp a th D a n ce C om p an y— P rem iere p e rfo rm a n c es in th e Ohio T h e a tre in sp rin g 1985 . . . . $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 T h e H o ld en A r b o r e tu m , M entor, O h io—M eeting of n a tio n a lly recog­ nized sc ie n tists to esta b lish scientific prio rities of th e A rb o retu m . . $ 5 ,0 0 0

G re a t L a k es S h a k e s p e a r e F e s tiv a l— T h o rn to n W ilder p ro d u c tio n s a n d sp ecial m a r k e ti n g .................. $ 110,000

P la y h o u s e S q u a re F o u n d a tio n — B a n n e rs a n d stre e t lig h ts n e a r th e Playhouse S q u are C enter . . . $ 2 ,7 5 0

K aram u H o u s e —Five-year loan a t 8 p e rc e n t in te re s t th ro u g h a g ra n t to T he C leveland F o u n d a tio n (Inc.) w hich is to be converted into g ra n ts for a c a sh reserve fu n d a s th e co m pany e lim in a te s its d e f i c it .......... $ 100,000

T h e I b le d o M u seu m o f A rt, Ib led o , O hio—O perating s u p p o r t ..........$ 5 0 0

1984 a u d i t ................................. $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 S a laries for a b u s in e s s m a n a g e r an d d a ta p ro ce ssin g c le rk over two years $ 4 3 ,3 9 1 K en t S t a te U n iv e r s ity , K en t, O h i o Local p e rfo rm a n c e a n d p ro d u ctio n fu n d of WKSU-FM, a pu b lic radio s ta t io n .............................................$ 5,000 T h e M u sic a l A r ts A s s o c i a t i o n C o m m u n ity M usic P roject involving m e m b e rs of th e b lac k c o m m u n ity w ith T h e C leveland O rc h e stra over two y e a r s .................................$ 2 5 ,0 0 0 Pension s u b sid y for retire d m u sic ia n s of T h e C leveland O rc h e stra . . $ 7 ,4 6 0 Soloists, e x tra m u sic ia n s, com poser/ c o n d u c to r a n d c o m m issio n in g of new w ork a n d p re s e n ta tio n of 2 0 th c e n tu ry m u sic by T h e C leveland O rc h e stra $ 7 5 ,0 0 0 S u s ta in in g F u n d of T h e C leveland O r c h e s t r a ................................... $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 N a tio n a l C o u n c il for t h e Tradi­ tio n a l A r t s —N ational Folk Festival in C u y ah o g a Valley N ational R ecreation A r e a ................................................ $ 5 ,0 0 0 T h e N ew G a lle r y o f C on tem p orary A r t—R obert R a u sc h e n b erg ex h ib i­ tion, T risha Brow n d an ce perform ance a n d p e rfo rm an ce a rt series sponsored by th e C leveland C en ter for C o n tem ­ p o rary A rt a n d T he Cleveland M odern D ance A ssociation . . . $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 N ew O rg a n iz a tio n for th e V isu a l A r ts (NOVA)—C ity W indow s E x h ib i­ tion of 1984 C leveland A rt Festival $ 5 ,0 0 0 O hio A r ts C o u n cil, C olu m b u s, O h io—S c u lp tu re by a n Ohio a rtis t in M arket S q u a re Park in Ohio City

.............................................. $ 20,000 O hio B lu e s S o c ie ty , In c .—Free b lu es co n cert, s u m m e r 1984 .......... $ 1 ,5 0 0 O hio B oych oir, In c.- -Local co n c erts $ 10,000 over 15 m o n th s . . . .

U n iv e r s ity C ircle, In c .—E x p an sio n of a tte n d a n c e by Cleveland Public School ch ild ren a t a rts p ro g ram s in C leveland’s c u ltu ra l in stitu tio n s over th re e y e a r s ..............................$ 3 0 ,0 0 0 T h e Young W om en’s C h r istia n A s s o c ia tio n o f C le v e la n d —S alu te to A frican-A m erican w om en d u rin g B lack H istory W e e k ................. $ 1 ,3 3 0 TOTAL CULTURAL AFFAIRS G RANTS—UNDESIGNATED ............................................. $ 1 ,3 5 0 ,8 4 9

(Following recipients and program s design ated by donor) A sh la n d L ib rary A s s o c ia tio n , A sh la n d , O hio—G eneral su p p o rt ...................................................... $ 2 ,7 6 7 C lev ela n d B a lle t —G eneral su p p o rt ........................................................... $ 1 8 8 T h e C lev ela n d I n s tit u te o f M u s ic G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 5 ,0 6 4 T h e C lev ela n d M u seu m o f A r t G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$ 1 5 ,6 1 2 P u rc h ase of objects of a rt exhibited a t th e May Show in m em o ry of O scar M ichael, J r ......................................$ 5 0 0

K aram u H o u se —G eneral su p p o rt $ 1 1 1 ,6 3 3 L akew ood L ittle T h ea tr e , In c .— G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 4 ,0 7 4 La M esa E sp a n o la —J e ss ie C. Thcker M em orial L e c tu r e .......... $300 T h e M u sica l A r ts A s s o c ia tio n — C hildren’s co n certs by T h e Cleveland O r c h e s tr a ...................................$ 6 ,7 4 3 G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 1 ,0 0 0 G eneral su p p o rt for T he Cleveland O r c h e s tr a ................................ $ 9 0 ,6 3 9 N o r th e r n O hio O pera A s s o c i a t i o n G eneral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 1 8 8 O gleb ay I n s tit u te , W h e e lin g , W est V ir g in ia —C ultu ral a n d e d u catio n al activ ities a t O glebay P ark . $ 1 3 1 ,6 3 4 T h e W e stern R e se r v e H isto r ic a l S o c ie t y —C are of m em o rab ilia of th e First Cleveland Cavalry A s s o c ia tio n ............ $ 6 ,1 7 0 G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 5 ,2 5 2 TOTAL CULTURAL AFFAIRS GRANTS—DESIGNATED ................................................ $ 6 7 6 ,9 1 0 TOTAL CULTURAL AFFAIRS GRANTS—DESIGNATED AND UNDESIGNATED . . . . $ 2 ,0 2 7 ,7 5 9 *G rant re c o m m e n d e d b y F in d la y D istribution C o m m itte e o f th e L. Dale D orney Fund.

T h e C lev ela n d M u seu m o f N atu ral H is to r y —G eneral su p p o rt $ 1 9 8 ,9 1 7 P la n e ta r iu m ................................. $ 3 ,3 7 1 T h e C lev ela n d P la y H o u s e E x p e rim en ta l d ram a tic w ork or s c h o la r s h ip ................................... $ 1 ,7 9 6 G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 7 ,8 8 8 S h a k e sp ea re an a n d classical p ro d u c ­ tio n s for s tu d e n ts a n d tea c h e rs $ 3 ,3 7 1 C le v e la n d P u b lic L ib ra ry — S ervices to s h u t - i n s ............ $ 7 4 ,2 8 6 C le v e la n d Z o o lo g ica l S o c i e t y G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 3 ,4 9 7 T h e G ard en C en ter o f G reater C le v e la n d —G eneral s u p p o r t . . $ 2 5 0 L i b r a r y ...........................................$ 1 ,7 7 0

R o b er t P age S in g e r s a n d O rc h e stra —D evelopm ent of a new professional ch o ra l g ro u p over two y ears ..................................................... $ 3 5 ,0 0 0

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Education

So in late 1983, The Cleveland Foun­ dation initiated a series of m eetings w ith representatives of the Cleveland Public Schools and Youth O pportunities U nlim ited (YOU) to work out the details It h a s been said th a t a good p art of a of a fresh approach to this problem. The c o m m u n ity ’s problem s begin in its WORK-IN’centive Program , as it would schools. If th a t is so, th e n its hopes m u st be called, proposed to identify 30 to 50 begin there, too. A nd th e im provem ent stu d en ts betw een 14 and 16 years of of public school education, in particular, age w hose p attern s of atten d an ce and o u g h t to co m m an d our b est th in k in g of academ ic perform ance had m arked a n d m o st conscientio u s efforts. A ltering th em as potential dropouts. The pro­ a situ atio n w hich is in tu rn influenced gram would provide these stu d en ts by so m any larger social factors is no w ith 8 to 12 hours of work per week in a easy task. B ut if ways of getting at com m unity organization n ear their specific re c u rre n t p roblem s—or of ta p ­ hom es. They could keep their jobs, and ping unexplored reso u rces—can be be guaranteed su m m er em ploym ent found, an d show n to work, w ho knows through YOU’s regular program w h at m ig h t be possible? “Give m e a (another Foundation-backed effort place to stand,” said A rchim edes, “and I w hich had proved highly successful), if will move th e world.” their attendance, grades and attitu d e A pair of projects T he Cleveland Foun­ improved. d ation h a s been n u rtu rin g , in coopera­ Failure to show progress would result tion w ith th e Cleveland Public Schools, in dism issal from th eir jobs and from over th e p ast couple of years have pro­ the program . duced som e very in terestin g resu lts in Parents would be parties to the con­ recen t m o n th s a n d are already providing tract. And all participating stu d en ts prom ising new ground for action. They would also be expected to atten d a are T he Cleveland E d u cation F und and special class five tim es a week w hich so m eth in g called th e WORK-IN’centive com bined two periods of S tar cu rricu ­ Program . And both are stirrin g national lum (work on reading im provem ent), one in tere st am o n g in stitu tio n s grappling period of rem edial help (em phasizing w ith th e plight of u rb a n school system s m ath skills), one period dealing w ith everywhere. skills related to life and career. Jo b s One of th e m o st depressing facts about would be arranged through the existing public seco n d ary edu catio n in A m erican pool of com m unity agencies already co­ cities today is th e dropout rate. Cleve­ operating w ith YOU’s su m m er C om m u­ land, w h ich holds th e grim distinction nity Services Projects. A WORK-IN’ of having th e h ig h e st in Ohio (about 9.4 coordinator would m onitor the stu d e n ts’ percen t a year), is cu rren tly g raduating participation, both in school and on the barely 50 p ercen t of its public school job, and serve as liaison betw een all stu d en ts. In o th er words, every other parties involved in the program , which child w ho sta rte d k in d erg arten in 1973 was launched last fall w ith a $60,000 will have dropped o u t before this Ju n e. g ran t from The Cleveland Foundation Many of th ese young people, if the and an additional $50,000 in funding statistics hold true, will sooner or later from Cuyahoga C ounty Juvenile Court, be in trouble w ith th e law. (Of Cleveland w ith su pport services provided by the y ouths u n d e r 18 arrested in connection Cleveland Public Schools and technical w ith som e so rt of crim inal activity, 80 assistance from the Manpower D em on­ p ercen t are eith er tru a n ts or dropouts.) stration Research Corporation (MDRC), They will have difficulty finding jobs. In a national agency w ith expertise in 1981 th e u n em p lo y m en t rate am ong su ch projects.

Of the original 67 kids adm itted to the black, H ispanic an d w hite high school program , 13 were term inated in October. dropouts was 71 percent, 35 p ercen t (In the next eight weeks only two fol­ and 29 p ercen t respectively. And the lowed.) One boy had cu t school five entire co m m u n ity pays th e bill for that. tim es in the first 45 days of the sem es­ ter. “B ut this sam e boy,” coordinator J u n e C. Tkylor notes, “had been ab sen t som ething like 107 tim es in 180 days th e previous year.” T he average n u m b er of absences per stu d e n t enrolled in the program was 3.6 as com pared w ith 11.5

D r o p o u ts in th e M aking: T h e s a d f a c t is th a t e v e ry o th e r ch ild w h o e n te re d th e C levela n d P ublic S c h o o ls in 1973 w ill h a v e le ft school before th is J u n e .

F ift y p oten tial dropouts were given after school job s and told they could keep them o n ly i f their attendance, grades and attitude improved.

One cla ss fo llo w e d a m aple tree through the year, com paring its grow th an d n u tri­ tio n a l needs w ith th eir own.

S tu d y in g n a tu r e ’s w ays: F irst graders a t A lm ira E le m e n ta ry S chool in sp e c t a n e w b o rn chick.

in the fall of 1983. The im provem ent in grades was less dram atic at first, the average 1984 Grade Point Average of 1.31 clim bing to only 1.74 in the first q u arter of the c u rre n t academ ic year, b u t by the second q u arter it had reached 1.85.

“The parents keep com m enting on how th eir kids have changed. I see it, too,” says Thylor, “in th eir attitude. It’s been good for them . They like the stru ctu re.”

■ At A lm ira Elem entary School on the city ’s w est side, Michele G orius’ class of first graders had a classroom experience th is spring th a t few inner-city children have had. They hatched an incubator full of eggs, while studying concepts like fertilization and gestation period, and com pared th e hatch in g of th eir baby chicks to the way h u m a n infants are born. They wrote stories about w hat it’s like to be inside an egg getting ready to be born. And w hen the blessed events took place, they snapped photographs of th e chicks for th eir scrapbooks, decor­ ated blown eggs, studied cross sections of eggs th a t didn’t reach term and talked about n atu re’s ways.

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This ingenious project w as m ade pos­ sible by so m eth in g called th e Sm all G rants Program of T he Cleveland E du­ cation F und (CEF), an independent com m unity-based organization estab­ lished in 1983 w ith a $50,000 g ran t from T he Cleveland Foundation to help improve the quality of education in the Cleveland Public Schools (CPS). Since th en CEF h as attra cted other national an d local funding for various pilot proj­ ects. The Sm all G rants Program was es­ tablished last fall to encourage creativity in th e classroom by m aking available sm all am o u n ts of m oney—generally u n d er $500—to teachers, principals or p aren t groups w ith a prom ising project.

The kind of good idea th a t too often is denied the light of day for w ant of a few dollars for som e special eq u ip m en t or supplies. The experience of hatching baby chicks cost $270.36.

One h u n d red two su ch projects were funded by CEF’s Sm all G rants Program during this school year. C lasses in English and a rt a t E ast Technical High School collaborated to research, design and install an “E ast 'Ifech Hall of Fam e” featuring well-known grads (and su c ­ cessful role models). In one kindergarten class, pu p p ets were u sed to help nonver­ bal children develop language faster.

A nd a class a t a n o th e r school on the w est side adopted a m aple tree, w hose seasonal ch an g es they followed th ro u g h ­ out th e year, g ath erin g airborne pods, taking m e asu re m e n ts an d com paring the tree’s grow th an d n u tritio n al needs w ith th eir own (see photograph on page five).

O ther prom ising program s launched in recen t m o n th s by CEF, w hich T he Cleve­ land Foundation will be helping sup p o rt over th e n ex t two years w ith an o th er g ran t of $85,000, include: A S u m m e r O rientation P r o g ra m aim ed a t easing th e tra n sitio n from elem en tary to ju n io r high school (which educato rs agree is often th e beginning of the end for uncom fortable, alienated kids, w ho will eventually drop out). Last su m m e r’s two-school pilot effort was felt to be so successful an d so prom ising th a t CPS h a s decided to expand it a t the system ’s own expense to include six ju n io r h ig h s th is sum m er, an d all of the system ’s ju n io r highs in 1986.

A School C om m unity Council Proj­ ect—designed to encourage an d train a greater n u m b e r of p aren ts to assu m e a m ore active advisory role in th e their local schools.

The Cleveland Collaborative for M ath E du catio n —an innovative program being funded in only five cities across the nation by th e Ford Foundation, w hich is m obilizing th e m ath em a tic s resources of industry, professional societies, higher ed u catio n an d governm ent ag en ­ cies to im prove th e quality of m ath educatio n by w orking directly w ith the teachers in grades 8-12.

A TVuant E d u cation S u p p o rt S ystem — a co m p u ter dialing system installed this spring in two area high schools w hich alerts p aren ts to th e fact th a t th eir chil­ dren are n o t in school (and th u s involves the p aren ts in helping solve th e problem).

A bsences a t West Technical High School alone have reportedly dropped from 360400 a day (out of 1,300 stu d en ts) to 260-280. W ith a m ach in e capable of calling 1,000 p a re n ts a day—in three lan g u ag es—th e days of playing hookey are surely n u m b ered .

Teaching Youths How to F in d — an d K eep— a Job

T here’s a sign a t th e e n tran ce to the M inority Youth H elpers building th a t says, “K nock Hard.”

T h a t’s Lesson No. 1 for th is organiza­ tion’s client youngsters: “If you w ant to get in, yo u ’ve got to b an g on th e door.”

MYH is in the business of teaching It does no good teenagers—ju n io r and senior high to send a youngster school students, som e dropouts, m ost of out f o r a job,” says them from welfare fam ilies—how to M arcus Wilson, knock on the doors of the real world.

44w ithout the know­ T hrough testing, through tutorial pro­ ledge he or she gram s in five schools and at its h ead ­ is going to need quarters, and through its basic job readiness and placem ent program , MYH to do the job.” reaches 900 to 1,000 youngsters a year, and works on a continuing basis with about 500 of those.”

MYH operates on an an n u al budget of approxim ately $164,000 a year out of a 10,000-square-foot brick building at 7301 Superior Avenue. The facility had no heating system and no workable plum bing w hen it was given to the organization in 1979. Since then, w ith the help of a $70,000 g ran t from The Cleveland Foundation, MYH has reh a­ bilitated the building, w hich h as class­ room s and open spaces now used for both MYH and neighborhood activities.

W hat m akes MYH special is its totally down-to-earth approach to its self-as­ signed task of helping disadvantaged youth find jobs in a com m unity where the unem ploym ent rate am ong people Work is w h ere you fin d it: A group o f M inority Youth 16 to 19 years old is 50 percent.

H elpers ea rn m o n e y a n d learn In the words of an MYH brochure: a sa la b le sk ill rem o vin g a “If a t this point the client is found to d e a d tree fo r a neighbor. be job ready, (i.e. is achieving a t his/her appropriate com petency level in m ath and English: can fill out an application form properly; is presentable and positively m otivated: and dem onstrates personal and em otional m atu rity and in ­ dividual econom ic responsibility com ­ m ensurate w ith his/her age), he/she will be referred directly to the placem ent com ponent of the program . More often th a n not, however, clients entering the program are deficient in m ore th a n one of these areas. For these youth, an In­ dividualized Em ployability Plan is developed and the client is engaged in job-preparedness training.”

Everyone in a job-oriented program takes a 20-hour Jo b Search and Survival Workshop. For school dropouts, th is is com pleted in a week; youngsters still in school take the w orkshop in a series of S aturday m orning sessions. With 10 to 15 youths in each group, w orkshops deal w ith job-search skills such as w riting resum es and interview ing, w ith job-keeping skills such as job perform ance and interpersonal com m unications, and w ith

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G a in in g firs th a n d experience, 100 teachers tagged butterflies, exam ­ ined the pottery o f Ohio Indian tribes or identified plants.

su ch personal skills as bud g etin g an d m oney m an ag em en t. If tests an d in ter­ views have d em o n strated the need, clients also receive tu to rial work.

M arcus Wilson, founder an d m oving sp irit of MYH, is a dream er, b u t a p rac­ tical dream er.

“It does nobody any good,” he says, “to sen d a youngster out for a job w ithout th e know ledge he or she is going to need to do th e job.” People going to work in fast food outlets, or on shipping docks, need basic arithm etic. Those going into general office work can’t m ake the grade w ithout basic language skills, plus som e m ath.

For each young person w ho com es up sh o rt on th e initial test, a learning plan is developed and a nine-week tutorial cy­ cle is started. At the end com es a re-test.

If th e test is passed, the client either en ters th e job-seeking p hase or is “grad­ u a te d ” from the program . If skills are still n ot up to standard, a new learning plan is developed and a new cycle begun.

Both staff in stru cto rs and volunteer tu to rs are trained through Cleveland S tate U niversity’s tutorial project, w here they learn how to teach basic reading, w riting an d m a th skills, as well as tech n iq u es for helping stu d en ts develop skills in su ch areas as studying, testtaking an d personal tim e m anagem ent.

In addition to job-related tutoring, MYH offers program s in reading, E nglish an d m a th in three public and two private schools. T hese program s are aim ed a t helping youngsters avoid fall­ ing behind in the first place, and efforts are m ade to identify those w ho are developing problem s as early as the six th grade. “If we can catch th em at this level, we can avoid doing rem edial work w ith th em later on,” says Wilson.

A nother segm ent of the MYH pro­ g ram —th e Willing Workers Project—not only helps youth, b u t also elderly resi­ dents of MYH’s Superior-St. Clair neigh­ borhood. “There are all kinds of public assistance program s to help people find places to live, and to help them pay the rent,” says M arcus Wilson, “b u t w hen those hom es need m aintenance there’s nobody around, and lots of elderly folks can’t handle th a t kind of work th e m ­ selves.”

T h a t’s w here Willing Workers come in.

Torn screens, broken windows, peeling p ain t or wallpaper, sagging s ta irs —those are th e m ainstay of W illing Workers.

Youngsters are train ed in building m ain ten an ce an d repair, a n d MYH m akes th eir services available th ro u g h ­ ou t th e neighborhood on a job-by-job basis and a t low cost. T he y o uths develop salable jo b skills a n d earn som e money, an d neighborhood deterioration is slowed.

W ilson’s approach to helping young people is u p b eat a n d positive, an d h e’s m u c h m ore likely to say to a youngster, “We can show you how to help yourself,” th a n to ask, “How can we help you?”

T he o p p o rtu n ity is there, he knows, but th e youngsters have to reach for it. “No way we can h a n d it to them ,” he says.

For th is reason, an d because funds are lim ited, MYH’s program s do not involve subsidies to th e youngsters or to their employers. “Som e of th ese kids th in k if you’re not on th e subsidy you’re no place,” says Wilson, “b u t we don’t think th a t way. We th in k you’ve got to do it yourself.”

Econom ics, Science M ade Real to Grade School C h ild re n

Puppets, street fairs an d th e San Diego Chicken have been m aking inroads into the E ast Cleveland elem entary schools this p ast year, not for fun b u t for the sake of econom ics. P uppets w ith nam es like “S pendin’ S ue” explain to spell­ bound second graders th a t an oppor­ tu n ity cost is the M ichael Jack so n album they have to give up if they have $15 and w ant to go to Cedar Point. Older stu d e n ts learn ab o u t scarcity and trade in a p uppet-m aking exercise, com para­ tive econom ics by staging a Mexican

P u p p e t eco n o m ic s: E a s t C levela n d sch o o l ch il­ d ren learn c o n c ep ts o f sc a rcity a n d o p p o rtu n ity co st fr o m S p e n d in ’ S u e a n d h e r fr ie n d s .

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stre e t fair, or free en terp rise from a film m eet the critical need for teacher tra in ­ starrin g th e fam ous chicken. ing w ith its Science Teacher E n h an ce­ T hese are ju s t a few of th e activities m en t Program (STEP). A ssisted by a suggested in th e econom ics cu rricu lu m $25,000 g ran t from the Foundation, the developed for th e E ast Cleveland M useum focused in STEP’S 1984-85 elem en tary schools as a resu lt of a proj­ pilot year on developing five graduate ect called Intensive DEEP (Developmen­ credit courses. Held at the M useum, tal Econom ic E d ucation Program). This w ith credit offered th rough Cleveland two-year pilot program , now nearing the S tate University, the courses stressed end of its first year, rep resen ts extensive science content and drew on the collaboration betw een th e E ast Cleve­ M useum ’s extensive collections and the land school system an d the Cleveland expertise of its scientists and educators.

C enter for E conom ic E ducation (CCEE).

G aining knowledge as well as firsthand H oused a t J o h n Carroll University, experience, 100 teachers tagged m onarch CCEE w as founded in 1973 by area butterflies, exam ined pottery m ade by educato rs an d b u sin essm en to rem edy the Indians who lived in n o rth east Ohio the absen ce of econom ics from m ost or identified local plants. school cu rricu la. CCEE h a s long offered F uture STEP program s will involve a variety of p ro g ram s—an d involved an teachers even m ore closely in the life of im pressive list of corporate an d labor the M useum as, for example, they work leaders—to expose elem en tary and w ith educators to develop curricula or second ary school teach ers to basic assist archaeologists on digs. The goal, econom ic concepts. explains Laura L. Nichols, the M useum ’s To CCEE’s g rad u ate credit courses, supervisor of education, is “to help teach er w orkshops an d lecture series, teachers feel m ore com fortable w ith u s ­ ing the M useum as a teaching resource.”

Intensive DEEP adds a m ore concen­ As this happens, says Nichols, the oncetrated an d m uch-needed focus on class­ room im plem entation. T he C enter hopes a-year class trip to the M useum becom es no longer ju s t a day away from school, to use th e pilot cu rricu lu m , developed b u t an integral p art of a year-long in ­ w ith th e help of funds from T he Cleve­ volvem ent w ith the sciences. land Foundation, as a m odel for th e M entor schools in th e 1985-86 school year a n d p erh ap s in th e fu tu re for other Rare H e rb a lsfro m Three school sy stem s locally statew ide and A re a C ollections Catalogued nationally.

W hat was know n about the m edicinal Calling to m in d th e trickledow n uses of various plants and herbs in the theory, CCEE’s co-directors, J o h n Soper tim e of Shakespeare? W hat w as the a n ­ an d J u d ith Staley Brenneke, estim ate cient Greek Dioscorides busy learning th a t in its first 10 years, CCEE reached about p lants while Aristotle was stu d y ­ m ore th a n 7,000 teach ers w ho in tu rn ing the anim al kingdom ? And w hat introduced econom ics to 150,000 curious secrets did the seventeenth cen­ students. A nd th e potential long-range im p act of su ch education? A com m unity, tu ry apothecary Kenelm Digby write in a notorious and now very rare book they believe, of “well-inform ed co n ­ about perfum es during his exile from sum ers, w orkers a n d voters.”

England?

Intensive DEEP h as already beg u n on To find the answ ers to these and m any th is course. N oting th e buzz of en ­ sim ilar questions concerning the study th u siasm a t a rec en t teach er workshop, of botany before Linnaeus, scholars and the program ’s schools service coor­ other interested parties need go no fur­ d inator B etty M arcus pointed out, “W hen th e r th a n a group of rem arkable collec­ th a t excitem ent gets tran sferred down to tions housed right here in n o rth east the kids, th a t’s w h a t it’s all about.”

Ohio at the Cleveland Medical Library Association, Holden A rboretum and ■ Like econom ics, th e sciences have also T he G arden C enter of G reater Cleve­ been gettin g in ad eq u ate tre a tm e n t in land. B ut there is no way, sh o rt of ex­ the schools. R ecent natio n al stu d ies am ining h u n d red s of volum es individu­ have show n th a t m any elem en tary and ally, to know for sure w hat is there, even seco n d ary school teach ers have lit­ tle or no specific train in g in the sciences.

And teach ers can ’t teach w h at they don’t know.

T he Cleveland M useum of N atural His­ tory, w hich h as p resen ted educational program s since 1923, is attem p tin g to

W hat did the ancient Greek D ioscorides know about p la n ts that A risto tle didn't?

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L a n d m a rk s in h e r b a l h isto r y : th e six te e n th c e n tu r y G e rm a n p h y s ic ia n a n d b o ta n is t Otto B ru n fe ls' Herbarum Vivae Eicones (foreground) a n d th e 1491 Hortus Sanitatis ("T h e G arden o f H ealth")

In stitu tion s as d ifferent as an a rt m useum and a hunger center, because both are nonprofits, fa ce m any s im ila r considerations.

w hich books are com plete, w hich are m issing a certain chapter, an d w hich d uplicate or am plify the co n ten ts of earlier editions.

So ab o u t three years ago, P atsy Gerstner, chief cu rato r of CMLA’s historical division, suggested to the directors of th e oth er two in stitu tio n s th a t the funds be raised to com m ission a descriptive catalogue of approxim ately 1,000 pre1830 botanical and horticultural books in th e three collections, m an y of w hich once belonged to su ch p rom inent C levelanders as W arren H. Corning, George G ehring M arshall and J a re d Pot­ te r K irtland, a leading n in eteen th cen­ tu ry n a tu ralist and one of the founders of Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s Medical School.

C onsidering the historical im portance of these holdings and the usefulness to m edical an d other scholars of su ch a catalogue, The Cleveland F oundation last D ecem ber contributed a g ran t of $18,600 tow ard the realization of the three-year project. T he catalogue will be published by K ent S tate U niversity Press.

CW RU’s M andel Center W ill Teach Nonprofit M anagem ent

The theory and practice of ru n n in g profitm aking organizations have been the subjects of academ ic inquiry an d rigor­ ous postgraduate training at A m erican universities for decades. The a rt of ru n ­ ning organizations th a t do not exist to m ake a profit has received m uch less attention.

B ut w hen one stops to consider th a t th e nonprofit sector is com posed of several million organizations across the

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co u n try w ith ex p en d itu res of m ore th a n $180 billion an n u ally a n d th a t it rep re ­ sen ts m any of our m o st ch erish ed an d vitally necessary in stitu tio n s —from sym phony o rch estras to sh elters for b a t­ tered w om en—the relative unavailability of academ ic p rep aratio n for th e ru n n in g of su ch organizations becom es a signifi­ c a n t om ission. As governm ent funding of su ch agencies co n tin u es to be cu t back, moreover, effective m an ag em en t a n d utilization of volunteers becom e all the m ore im portant.

S uch concerns led a group of civic leaders an d area funders (including The Cleveland Foundation), first b ro u g h t together in th e fall of 1982 by Cleveland in d u strialist M orton L. M andel, to com ­ m it m ore th a n $2 m illion to an exciting new interdisciplinary program now be­ ing developed a t Case W estern Reserve U niversity (CWRU). T he M andel Center for th e M anagem ent of Nonprofit Or­ ganizations (so n am ed for generous gifts of m ore th a n $1 m illion from the Mandel b rothers and T he P rem ier Foundation) is believed to be one of th e first pro­ gram s, if not th e first, set u p on so a m ­ bitious a scale. Based in CWRU’s post­ g raduate School of Applied Social S ciences (SASS), it also will be drawing on the resources of the Law School and the W eatherhead School of M anagem ent.

“As the concept of th e C enter was developed,” says the new dean of SASS, A rthur J. N aparstek, “it becam e clear th a t no one d e p a rtm e n t or school could adequately deal w ith th e com plex set of problem s confronting nonprofits.” These range all the way from staff/trustee rela­ tionships to property m an ag em en t to m arketing. N aparstek alone h as talked w ith h eads of m ore th a n sixty local agencies an d in stitu tio n s to get a feel for the kinds of needs they have. “Som e are u n iq u e to their p artic u la r field, of course,” he h aste n s to point out. “An art m u seu m obviously is a different sort of operation th a n a h u n g e r center.” But w hat also em erges, says N aparstek, is the m any areas in w hich su ch diverse institutions, because they are both non­ profits, face very sim ilar considerations.

Therefore th e program will draw upon the resources of the three schools in ­ volved, explains the M andel C enter’s new director R ichard P. C hait—an d where necessary bring in outside specialists— to offer courses in su ch subjects as Ac­ counting for Nonprofits, th e Sociology and History of V olunteerism an d Philan­ thropy, H um an Resource M anagem ent, Decision Analysis, F und R aising and

D evelopm ent, P rogram Evaluation and Q uality Control, O perations Research, O rganizational S ystem s Analysis, G overnance an d M arketing. C hait is quick to add th a t th e shape of th e pro­ gram a n d actu al courses to be offered are still in th e developm ental stages, th o u g h he would like to have th e p a r­ ticu lars in place in tim e to open th e doors to th e M andel C en ter’s first class in th e fall of 1986.

Basic program directions have been set. In addition to a g rad u ate program for pred o m in an tly young people looking toward careers in nonprofit organiza­ tions, th e C enter will offer continuing educatio n sem in ars for those already em ployed or serving as volunteers or tru ste e s in th e nonprofit sector, and serious academ ic research related to the full rang e of issu es confronting n o n ­ profits. C hait expects th e C enter to draw stu d en ts, as well as researchers, from aro u n d th e n atio n as th e word gets out.

“N othing like th is is h ap p en in g anyw here else.”

B ut it is th e potential benefits th e ex­ istence of su c h a C enter holds for the vitality of nonprofit organizations in the G reater Cleveland area th a t led The Cleveland F oundation to com m it $500,000 over th e n ex t five years to its developm ent. As it develops, th e Mandel C enter offers th e possibility of being a u n iq u e resource for building th e longrange capability of th e co m m u n ity ’s nonprofit institu tio n s.

Project Videotapes M em oirs o f H o lo cau st Survivors

History, som eone once said, is w h at is rem em bered. T h a t old tru ism was b ro u g h t hom e th is sp rin g as th e m edia rekindled m em o ries of World War II, 40 years after th e liberation of Europe, and V ietnam , 10 years later. In each case the eyes of new g en eratio n s too young to have know n th e sobering realities of those conflicts were opened an d h e arts touched afresh by th e recorded testim onies of those w ho h ad lived th ro u g h those tim es.

H istory was renewed. T he cobwebs of g ath erin g m y th s were sw ept away. And one was rem inded, if one needed re­ m inding, of how precious are th e m e m ­ ories of eyew itnesses to events of great social im port.

T he H olocaust is su ch a n event. And th e conviction th a t firsth an d m em ories of th is com plex a n d en igm atic episode in th e h isto ry of W estern Civilization o u g h t to be preserved for g en eratio n s to com e led T he Cleveland Foundation last

year to m ake a g ran t of $20,000 to the National Council of Jew ish Women/ Cleveland Section (NCJW/CS) to assist w ith its H olocaust Archive Project.

The project was inspired by the reali­ zation th a t Cleveland has a large Holo­ cau st survivor population, estim ated at around 1,000 persons, w hich is dw indl­ ing a t the rate of about 10 percent a year.

NCJW/CS set out a couple of years ago, therefore, to train nearly 300 volunteers to interview a representative selection of area survivors and record th eir personal histories for posterity on videotape. All volunteer interview ers were required to undergo eight hours of training to enable th em to aid and su pport the s u r­ vivors in recounting th eir experiences.

Project co-coordinators Terri Day and Lynn Schm elzer, aided by volunteers, also undertook the H erculean task of getting survivors to com e forward, m ail­ ing hun d red s of questionnaires and m aking hun d red s of phone calls. The Holocaust Archive Project eventually videotaped 137 Cleveland area su r­ vivors, liberators and others who worked to free concentration cam p inm ates.

One su ch survivor is Jaco b H ennenberg, a resident of Beachwood, who was released from W aldenburg, one of the less well-known of the Nazi concentra­ tion cam ps, 40 years ago this m onth. A native of Oswiecim, Poland (later to be know n to the world as Auschwitz), Hennenberg was only 16 w hen, in 1941, he entered the first of seven cam ps. His father and three sisters perished at Auschwitz, along w ith their children.

His story is typical of many, b u t his m em ories of those events, now preserved on videotape, resonate w ith the feelings and personal involvem ent of one h u m an being who survived im m ense suffering.

The chance to record w hat he rem em ­ bers, says Jaco b H ennenberg, m ean t a great deal to him . In fact, m ost of those who were interviewed, according to S chm elzer and Day, have expressed great relief a t having finally told th eir stories.

NCJW/CS produced three copies of each three-hour interview. One was re­ tained by the organization, one was presented to the W estern Reserve H istorical Society and one was sen t to the Video Archive for H olocaust Testi­ m onies a t Yale University. Together they form an invaluable historical record and indelible testam en t to the six million Jew s who died and to the stren g th of those who survived.

E y e w itn e s s to h isto r y : H olocaust su rvivo r Jaco b H en n en b erg o f B ea ch w o o d a d d s h is m e m o rie s to w h a t C ivilization know s.

One was rem inded o f how precious are the m emories o f eyew itnesses to events o f great so cia l import.

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P la n n in g for a w ork in c e n tiv e s a p ­ p ro ac h to d ro p o u t p rev en tio n in th e C leveland P ublic S chools . . . $ 5 ,0 0 0

C ase W e ste r n R e s e r v e U n iv e r s ity —C om pletion of th e H istory D e p a rt­ m e n t’s E ncyclopedia of C leveland H istory over th re e y ears . . . $ 6 0 ,0 0 0 E sta b lish m e n t of th e M andel C enter for N onprofit O rg an izatio n s a t th e School of A pplied Social S cien ces over five y e a r s ..............................$ 5 0 0 ,0 0 0 Global C u rren ts Lecture S eries $ 5 ,0 0 0 O rganization of the E rn e st J. B ohn H ousing an d P lan n in g L ibrary a n d p roduction of a p a m p h le t guide to the collection over two years . . . $ 20,000 C itiz e n s ’ C ou n cil for O hio S c h o o ls — Board of In q u iry on Q uality of E d u c a ­ tion in O h io ................................... $ 5 ,0 0 0 C lev ela n d C en ter for E con om ic E d u c a tio n —Intensive D evelopm ental E conom ic E d u c a tio n P roject (DEEP) in E a st Cleveland Schools over two y e a r s .......................................... $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 C lev ela n d D e v e lo p m e n t F oun da­ tio n (G reater C lev ela n d G row th A ss o c ia tio n )—D evelopm ent of a long-range p lan for electronic d ata processing by th e C enter for Cor­ porate Involvem ent in th e Cleveland Public S c h o o ls ...................... $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 C lev ela n d B oard o f E d u c a t io n C o n tin u ed su p p o rt of e le m en ta ry lawrelated e d u c atio n p rogram of th e Cleveland Public S chools . . $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 E nergy econom ics e d u c atio n in th e Cleveland Public S chools over two y e a r s ................................................$ 6 ,2 8 0 P hase II of th e C leveland Public Schools’ vocational e d u c atio n pro­ gram re v ie w ........................... $ 3 4 ,0 0 0 Tkping of 6 th a n d 7 th grade social stu d ie s textbooks for lea rn in g disabled s tu d e n ts in th e Cleveland Public S c h o o ls ....................................... $ 4 ,0 0 0 You a n d Your Money Fair . . . . $ 1 ,0 5 0

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Youth O p p o r tu n itie s U n lim ite d — Im p lem en tatio n of work incentives ap p ro ach to dropout prevention in the Cleveland Public Schools by th e M an­ power D em onstration R esearch C o rp o ra tio n ..................................$ 7 ,0 0 0 WORK-IN’ Program in th e Cleveland Public S c h o o ls ...................... $ 6 0 ,0 0 0 TOTAL EDUCATION G R A N TS— UNDESIGNATED . . . . $ 1 ,9 8 5 ,8 6 4

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H olocaust Archive P ro je c t. . $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 O b erlin C ollege, O b erlin , O hio— P lan n in g linkages betw een Oberlin College a n d Cleveland-area schools to stre n g th e n in stru ctio n a t th e seco n d ­ ary school level .........................$ 6 ,1 9 5 T h e P r e sb y te r y o f th e W estern R e s e r v e —Glenville U nited Presby­ terian C h u rch ’s Fam ily Learning C enter program (second year) $ 10,000

S o c ie ty for P r e v en tio n o f V io len ce —E valuation of th e Social Skills Train­ ing Program ..............................$ 4 ,3 0 0 U n iv e r s ity C ircle, In c.—C lasses for inner-city school children a t th e Cleveland H ealth E ducation M useum $ 1 0 ,5 0 0 V ocation al In fo rm a tio n Program , In c.—O perating s u p p o r t . . . . $ 5 ,0 0 0 W a rren sv ille H e ig h ts C ity S c h o o ls —C areer A w areness Program at W arrensville S enior H igh School ....................................................S 1 4 .0 0 0

C ase W estern R e se r v e U n iv e r s ity — G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 8 ,4 7 1 G eneral su p p o rt for A delbert College $ 5 ,0 5 1 G eneral su p p o rt for F ranklin T h o m as B ackus Law S c h o o l.................... $ 4 ,1 3 5 G eneral su p p o rt for th e G raduate S c h o o l .................................. $ 1 4 0 ,0 3 6 G eneral su p p o rt for th e School of M ed icin e ............................................ $ 5 0 0 Reference books for th e School of L ibrary S c ie n c e .............................. $ 1 3 3 S u p p o rt of th e Field Biological S tatio n a t S quire Valleevue F arm in th e D e p a rtm en t of Biology . . . . $ 2 6 ,3 3 0 S u p p o rt of social research a t th e School of A pplied Social S ciences . . . . $ 8 4 6 C lev ela n d L u th era n H igh S c h o o l A s s o c ia tio n —G eneral su p p o rt ......................................................... $ 1 ,9 3 8 C lev ela n d S ta te U n i v e r s i t y G eneral s u p p o r t ............................. $ 1 2 6 C o n n e c tic u t C o lleg e, N ew London, C o n n e c tic u t—G eneral su p p o rt $168

K en t S t a t e U n iv e r s ity F o u n d a tio n , K en t, O h io—In itia tio n of th e V irginia H am ilto n L ectu resh ip S eries a t th e S chool of L ib rary S cience . . $ 5 ,0 0 0

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U n ite d N egro C o lleg e F u n d , I n c .— G en eral s u p p o r t ......................... $ 7 ,9 3 3

D yk e C o lle g e —S c h o la rsh ip s u p p o rt ........................................................$ 7 , 2 0 0

U n iv e r s ity S c h o o l G en eral s u p p o r t .............................. $ 1 8 8

F a irm o u n t M o n te s s o r i A s s o c ia t io n —S c h o larsh ip s u p p o rt a t R uffing M ontessori School (East) . . . . $ 2 , 0 0 0

TOTAL EDUCATION G R A N T S DESIGNATED ....................... $ 3 5 1 ,9 6 2 E d u c a tio n a l R e s e a r c h C o u n cil o f A m e r ic a —G eneral s u p p o rt . . . $ 1 2 6 E d u c a tio n a l T e le v isio n A s s o c ia tio n o f M e tr o p o lita n C le v e la n d , WVIZ-TV—G eneral s u p p o r t . . . $ 1 8 8 F en n E d u c a tio n a l F u n d G eneral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 2 1 0

TOTAL EDUCATION G R A N T S DESIGNATED AND UNDESIGNATED . . . . $ 2 , 3 3 7 ,8 2 6

Scholarships

H aw k en S c h o o l G en eral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 9 1 6

B ald w in -W allace C o lle g e — S ch o larsh ip s u p p o r t ...............$ 2 0 ,3 0 0

T h e H ill S c h o o l, P o tts to w n , P en n ­ s y l v a n i a - G e n e r a l su p p o rt . . . $ 1 8 8

B e r e a A rea M o n te s s o r i A s s o c ia tio n —S ch o larsh ip s u p p o r t .............. $ 2,000

H ills d a le C o lleg e, H ills d a le , M ich i­ g a n - G e n e r a l s u p p o r t..........$ 1 2 ,6 3 6

J o h n C arroll U n iv e r s it y — S c h o larsh ip s u p p o r t ............ $ 2 0 ,9 0 0

H iram C o lleg e, H iram , O h i o G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 7 ,0 0 0

C ase W estern R e s e r v e U n iv e r s ity — S ch o larsh ip s u p p o r t ............... $ 1 7 ,4 0 0

K en yon C o lleg e, G am bier, O h i o G eneral su p p o rt ...................... $ 8 ,4 7 1 Lake E rie C o lleg e, P ain e s v ille , O hio —G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 6 7 1 T h e M a ste r s S c h o o l, D ob b s Ferry, N ew York—G eneral su p p o rt . . $ 1 0 0 D a n ie l E. M organ S c h o o l Book aw ards to c h ild r e n ............ $ 2 4 2 O hio W esley a n U n iv e r sity , D elaw are, O hio—G eneral su p p o rt ...................................................... $ 1 ,8 5 4 U n iv e r s ity o f t h e P a c ific, S to c k to n , C a lifo r n ia —G eneral s u p p o r t . . $ 1 6 8 T h e P in e y W oods C o u n try L ife S c h o o l, P in e y W oods, M i s s i s s i p p i G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 7 ,9 3 3 P r in c e to n U n iv e r sity , P r in c e to n , N ew J e r s e y —G eneral s u p p o r t. $ 1 8 8 S t. G eorge’s S c h o o l, N ew p ort, R h od e I s la n d —G eneral su p p o rt $100

S a in t M ary S e m in a r y G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 1 ,6 0 4 S m ith C ollege, N o rth a m p to n , M a s s a c h u s e t ts — G eneral su p p o rt . ................$ 7 6 ,2 2 4

T hree sc h o la rsh ip s for s tu d e n ts from non profit or public o rg an iz atio n s in th e E xecutive MBA p ro g ram a t W eatherhead School of M an ag em en t over two y e a r s .........................$ 4 5 ,0 0 0 T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n (Inc.)— H arriet B. S to rrs F u n d sch o la rsh ip s for s tu d e n ts n o t a tte n d in g Lake Erie or G arfield c o lle g e s ...............$ 3 6 ,0 0 0

T h e H u d so n M o n te s s o r i A s s o c ia ­ tio n , H u d so n , O h io—S c h o larsh ip s u p p o r t ........................................... $ 2,000 Lake E rie C o lleg e, P a in e s v ille , O h io—Lake E rie College/G arfield College s c h o la r s h ip s ................$ 1 2 ,0 0 0 W e stsh o r e M o n te sso r i A s s o c ia ­ t io n —S c h o larsh ip s u p p o rt . . $ 2 ,0 0 0 TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS— UN DESIGN ATED .................. $ 2 7 3 ,1 6 0

(Following recip ien ts a n d p ro g ra m s d e sig n a te d b y donor)

A s h la n d C o lleg e , A sh la n d , O hio— T he H azel M yers S p re n g S ch o larsh ip ....................................................... $ 4 ,4 2 7 Avon Lake U n ite d C hurch o f C h rist, A von Lake, O hio—S c h o larsh ip s for C h ristian w o r k .........................$ 2 ,3 9 6 B ald w in -W allace C o lle g e —T h e Hazel Myers S p ren g S c h o larsh ip . . $ 4 ,4 2 7

S ch o larsh ip s to g ra d u a te s of th e pub lic h ig h school of Elyria, Ohio $ 1 ,2 6 0 T echnical a ssista n c e g ra n t for th e Cleveland H ispanic S ch o larsh ip F und, In c........................................ $ 3 ,0 0 0

J o h n C arroll U n iv e r s ity —J a m e s J. Doyle S c h o la r s h ip ....................$ 1 ,8 2 4

C lev ela n d H isp a n ic S c h o la r sh ip F und, In c .—S c h o larsh ip s an d p ublicity c o s ts ........................... $ 3,000

C ase W estern R e se r v e U n iv e r s ity — T h e Aloy M em orial S ch o larsh ip F und for w o m e n ................................... $ 1 ,1 0 8

C lev ela n d M o n te sso r i A s s o c ia tio n —S ch o larsh ip su p p o rt a t Ruffing M ontessori School (W est). . . .$ 2 ,0 0 0

H arriet Fairfield Coit a n d W illiam H enry Coit S ch o larsh ip s a t Flora S tone M ather C o lle g e ................$ 1 ,3 2 6

C lev ela n d S c h o la r sh ip P rogram s, In c.—O perating s u p p o r t ..........$ 5 0 0 C lev ela n d S t a te U n iv e r s ity — S ch o larsh ip s u p p o r t ............ $ 4 4 ,0 0 0 S c h o larsh ip s to s tu d e n ts from n o n ­ profit or public org an izatio n s in the E xecutive MBA p ro g ram a t th e J a m e s J. N ance College of B u sin ess A dm inis­ tra tio n over two y e a r s ..........$ 4 4 ,4 0 0 C u yahoga C o m m u n ity C o lle g e — S ch o larsh ip s u p p o r t ...............$ 6 ,2 0 0

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T h e M ary F rier M o n te s s o r i S p e c ia l E d u c a tio n S c h o o l—S c h o larsh ip s u p p o r t ........................................... $ 2,000

C a p ita l U n iv e r sity , C olu m b u s, Ohio —T he F red erick R. a n d B e rth a S p rech t M autz S c h o larsh ip F u n d . . . . $ 4 ,0 0 4

For a s tu d e n t of F lora S tone M ather College in foreign s tu d y . . . . $ 2 ,5 1 9 W illiam C u rtis M orton, M aud M orton, K athleen M orton F u n d S ch o larsh ip s $ 1 5 ,1 0 2 Oglebay Fellow ship P rogram in the School of M e d ic in e ............... $ 7 8 ,9 9 4 S ch o larsh ip s in ae ro sp a c e or c o m p u t e r s ............................................$ 7 8 S c h o larsh ip s in F ra n k lin T h o m a s B ackus Law S c h o o l.....................$ 8 ,7 7 3 T h e Hazel Myers S p re n g S c h o larsh ip ......................................................... $ 4 ,4 2 7

In e z a n d H arry C le m e n t A w ard— C leveland P ublic S chools a n n u a l s u p e rin te n d e n t’s a w a r d .............$ 1 ,0 7 0

A da G a te s S te v e n s S c h o la r sh ip — For g ra d u a te s of th e public high school of Elyria, O h i o ............ $ 2 ,7 4 0

T h e C le v e la n d I n s t it u t e o f A r t— C aroline E. Coit F u n d S ch o larsh ip s ..........................................................$ 1 ,4 3 6 Isaac C. Goff F u n d S c h o larsh ip s $ 1 ,8 0 0

C a s e A lu m n i A s s o c ia tio n — C o n tin u atio n of th e a n n u a l em ployer recognition lu n ch e o n for 1984 a n d 1985 ............................$4,000

U n iv e r s ity S c h o o l—T h e J o h n M arshall R aible a n d David G ard n er R aible S ch o larsh ip F u n d ..........$ 8 0 0

Co-op s c h o la r s h ip s ............... $ 10,000

U r su lin e C o lle g e —Lillian H erron Doyle S c h o la r s h ip s ................. $ 1 ,8 2 5

Special hon o rary sch o larsh ip s

T h e C le v e la n d M u sic S c h o o l S e t t l e m e n t —T h e Nellie E. H inds M em orial S c h o la r s h ip s ............. $ 4 ,0 0 0

TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP G R A N T S DESIGNATED .................... $ 3 3 7 ,8 2 9

C harles J. Stilwell S cholarship a t Case In stitu te of T e c h n o lo g y .......... $4,800

H arry C ou lb y S c h o la r s h ip — For P ic k an d s M ather em ployees’ c h i l d r e n ................................... $ 4 6 ,0 0 0

TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP G R A N T S DESIGNATED AND UNDESIGNATED.............. $ 6 1 0 ,9 8 9

C a se W e s te rn R e s e rv e U n iv e r s ity — Co-op s c h o la r s h ip s ............... $ 10,000

D a r tm o u th C o lleg e, H anover, New H a m p sh ir e —T h e J o h n M arshall R aible a n d David G ard n er Raible S c h o larsh ip F u n d ................. $ 1 8 ,7 8 6 H aw k e n S c h o o l—T h e J o h n M arshall Raible a n d David G a rd n e r R aible S c h o larsh ip F u n d ....................$ 3 ,9 9 7 H ills d a le C o lleg e, H ills d a le , M ich i­ g a n —T he J o h n C. McLean S cholarships to d e serv in g s t u d e n t s ..........$ 1 2 ,6 3 6 S h e r m a n J o h n s o n M em orial S c h o la r s h ip —For m ed ical s tu d e n ts from Lake a n d G e a u g a c o u n tie s .....................................................$ 5 6 ,0 0 0 V ir g in ia J o n e s M em o ria l S c h o la r ­ s h ip —For fu rth e rin g th e college e d u c a tio n of a fem ale g ra d u a te of S haw H igh S c h o o l....................$ 3 ,5 0 0 T h e J o n L ew is M em o ria l A w ard— For a C leveland H eights H igh School g ra d u a te to p u rsu e fu rth e r stu d ie s $ 4 ,0 0 0 M acM urray C o lleg e , J a c k s o n v ille , I llin o is —T h e G eorge D. a n d E d ith W. F e a th e rsto n e M em orial F u n d S c h o lar­ sh ip s ............................................. $ 2 ,3 9 6 N orth C en tra l C o lleg e, N a p er v ille , I llin o is —T h e H azel Myers S preng S c h o larsh ip in m em o ry of B ishop S am u el P. S p r e n g ....................$ 4 ,4 2 7

Special Purpose Funds T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n a d ­ m i n i s t e r s tw o s p e c ia l p u r p o s e f u n d s in t h e g e n e r a l a r e a o f e d u c a ­ tio n . T h e F e n n E d u c a tio n a l F u n d (F E F) is d e s ig n e d to p r o m o te a n d a s s i s t in t h e d e v e lo p m e n t o f c o -o p a n d w o r k - s tu d y p r o g r a m s a t i n ­ s t i t u t i o n s o f h i g h e r e d u c a t io n in th e G r e a te r C le v e la n d a re a . F E F h a s b e e n a f u n d o f t h e F o u n d a tio n s in c e 1971.

In 1 9 8 2 th e S ta te w id e P r o g ra m fo r B u s in e s s a n d M a n a g e m e n t E d ­ u c a ti o n (PBM E) w a s e s ta b l is h e d in t h e F o u n d a tio n t h r o u g h th e s u p ­ p o r t o f th e L. D a le D o rn e y F u n d .

T h is p r o g r a m is d e s ig n e d to s tre n g th e n b u s in e s s a n d m a n a g e ­ m e n t e d u c a t io n a t fo u r-y e a r i n ­ s t i t u t i o n s o f h i g h e r le a r n in g t h r o u g h o u t O hio. G r a n ts w e re f ir s t a u th o r i z e d u n d e r t h e p r o g r a m in M a rc h 1 9 8 3 a n d a re a w a r d e d b i e n ­ n ia lly . T h e n e x t s e r i e s o f g r a n t s w ill b e a u th o r i z e d in J u n e 19 8 5 .

T h e F enn E d u c a tio n a l F u n d (FEF)

O hio W e sle y a n U n iv e r s ity , D e la ­ w are, O h io —T h e H azel M yers S p ren g S c h o la r s h ip .................................$ 4 ,4 2 7

B ald w in -W allace C o lle g e — S ch o larsh ip s for s tu d e n ts enrolled in th e “field ex perience” (work-study) p r o g r a m ................................... $ 10,000

P u rd u e U n iv e r s ity , L a fa y e tte , In d ia n a —T he J o h n C. McLean S cholar­ sh ip s in e n g in e e r in g ............ $ 3 1 ,5 8 4

Special h o n o rary sch o larsh ip s

T h e M iriam K e r r u ish S ta g e S c h o la r s h ip —For S h a k e r H eights H igh S chool g r a d u a t e s ..........$ 7 ,0 0 0

$ 4 ,8 0 0 J o h n C arroll U n iv e r s ity —Co-op s c h o la r s h ip s ........................... $ 10,000 S pecial h o n o rary sch o larsh ip s $ 5 ,0 0 0

1984 M idwest Cooperative E ducation A ssociation C onference . . $2,000

$ 15,000

C le v e la n d A re a C itiz e n s L e a g u e fo r N u rs in g —Co-op scholarships $ 10,000

T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n (Inc.)— 1985 o p erating b u d g e t of T he Fenn E ducational F u n d ................. $ 19,939 C le v e la n d S t a t e U n i v e r s i ty —Co-op s c h o la r s h ip s ........................... $ 10,000 Special h o n o rary sch o larsh ip s

$ 18,400 C u y a h o g a C o m m u n ity C o lle g e — Nelson G. Peck M em orial S ch o larsh ip A w ard ................. $300 D y k e C o lle g e —Im p le m e n ta tio n of stra te g ies for s tre n g th e n in g coopera­ tive ed u catio n p rogram . . . . $ 10,000 N o tre D a m e C o lleg e o f O h io —Co-op s c h o la r s h ip s ........................... $ 10,000 U r s u lin e C o lle g e —N ursing s c h o la r s h ip s ........................... $ 10,000 TOTAL FEF GRANTS . . . $ 164,239

S ta t e w id e P r o g r a m f o r B u s in e s s a n d M a n a g e m e n t E d u c a tio n (PBM E) T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n , In c .— C o n tin u atio n of th e Statew ide P ro­ gram for B u sin ess a n d M an agem ent E d u catio n (PBME) a n d im p le m e n ta ­ tion of th e 1984-85 p ro g ram over two y e a r s ............... $45,000 TOTAL PBME G RANTS . . $45,00 0 TOTAL SPECIAL PURPO SE FUNDS G R A N T S .............................$209,239 TOTAL EDUCATION G RANTS— EDUCATION PROGRAMS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND SPECIAL PURPO SE FUNDS COMBINED ............................ $ 3 ,158,054 *G rant re c o m m e n d e d by F indlay D istrib u tio n C o m m itte e o f the L. D ale D orney Fund.

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Health W hen A braham Lincoln’s funeral tra in rolled into Cleveland in the early m o rn ­ ing rain on April 28, 1865, 130 years ago this spring, one of th e m o u rn e rs in the stu n n e d an d sad d en ed crowd of 100,000 w ho tu rn e d o u t to pay th eir last re ­ spects, w ith all probability, was a 38year-old form er slave n am ed Eliza S im ­ m ons Bryant. She h ad been freed by her m aster along w ith h er m o th er an d two b rothers in 1858, th e year of th e Lincoln-Douglas deb ates an d a full year b e­ fore J o h n Brown led his fam ous raid on H arper’s Ferry. T he fam ily h ad left the plan tatio n in N orth C arolina w ith th eir papers cosigned by ten influential citizens, in cluding th e governor, and travelled n o rth to Cleveland.

Eliza’s b ro th e r J o h n h ad died of p n e u ­ m onia co n tracted while m arch in g in a parade d u rin g Lincoln’s 1860 cam paign for th e presidency. B ut th e family, g rate­ ful for th e new life they had found in Ohio, co n tin u ed to open th eir hom e to other newly freed blacks who stream ed n o rth in th e years following th e E m anci­ pation P roclam ation of 1863, offering th em tem p o rary sh elter an d su sten an ce until they could find jo b s an d begin to m ake th e ir own way.

In 1893 Eliza, w hose own m o th er was now in h er eighties, discovered th a t none of th e hom es for th e aged of th a t day would ad m it blacks. She gathered a group of stro n g black w om en an d founded th e Cleveland Hom e for Aged Colored People—one of th e first black ph ilanth ro p ies in th e country. It was in ­ corporated in 1896 a n d still serves the com m u n ity of w h at is now th e HoughNorwood section of Cleveland. Zealous fund-raising efforts a n d th e generosity of m any citizens both black an d w hite (such as a $700 m atch in g g ran t from J o h n D. Rockefeller in 1902) m ade possible th e p u rch ase an d operation of a series of progressively larger hom es.

Since 1967, th e facility, w hich was renam ed th e Eliza B ryant C enter (EBC) in 1960, h as occupied a room y one-tim e m ansion a t 1380 A ddison Road n ear S uperior Avenue an d E ast 71st S treet

C are for t h e W h o le P erson : Iren e B arb er e n jo y s p e t th e ra p y a t H ough's E liza B ry a n t Center.

w hich was vacated by the Dorcas Home for Invalid W omen following the Hough riots of the previous sum m er.

A 47-bed facility, EBC offers its resi­ d ents su ch health services as eye care, podiatry, m edical consultation, p h a rm a ­ cy, dental care and dietary counseling rig h t on the p rem ises—along w ith phy­ sical fitness sessions, art, m usic and m ovem ent/dance sessions, films, holi­ day en tertain m en ts and religious ser­ vices, garden and pet therapy, and o u t­ ings. R esidents are also given oppor­ tu n ities to interact w ith—and contribute to—the outside world through such ac­ tivities as registering and voting in elec­ tions, m aking scrapbooks for young p a­ tients at Rainbow Babies and C hildrens Hospital, doing volunteer clerical work for charitable fund drives and partici­ pating in the Home and Flower Show and Golden Age Hobby Show. Even som e of the form er w hite residents of the Dorcas Invalid Home returned, m aking Eliza B ryant an integrated facility (though it still prim arily serves low-income older black women).

“One of the things th a t helps create a real sense of family here,” says Rev. Robert I. Miller, EBC’s executive direc­ tor, “is the continuity of the staff, 18 of w hom have been w ith Eliza B ryant for m ore th a n ten years.” E rm a Andrews, a 30-year veteran, presides over the great cast iron pots and pans in the kitch en — w here she worked for 12 years w hen the aging m ansion was the Dorcas Home. T he kitchen, built in 1928, is referred to as “the new w ing” —the original house dating from 1892, and the first addition from 1908. And the wear and tear of all those years is becom ing a real problem. Repairs are growing m ore costly and m ore difficult to make.

The huge an tiq u ated boiler in the cellar is full of stop-leak (the last p lu m b er prescribed oatm eal) and the hot w ater system is leaking badly. And every tim e the furnace goes out, the whole system m u st be drained. W hen the pipes in the sprinkler system on the third floor b u rst last w inter from the cold, beds had to be pulled into the hallways and parlor. For th a t m atter, the rear w ing is difficult to h eat in the best of circum stances, given the loca­ tion of the furnace. And so on.

By the late Seventies, it had already becom e obvious to Eliza B ryant’s Board of Trustees th a t the old building would

In 1983 an ex-slave named E liz a B ryant, whose m other was in her eighties, discovered none o f the homes fo r the aged adm itted blacks. So she fo u n d ed one.

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A n ew h o m e for th e se c o n d c e n tu r y : A n e x p a n d e d E liza B r y a n t C en ter ta kes s h a p e n e x t door to th e p r e s e n t 94-year-old fa c ility .

“The idea is to fo cu s not on illn e s s care but on the h ea lth y aspects o f older people’s lives,” exp lain s EB C 's M a y Wykle.

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soon be u nable to m eet the code require­ m en ts for n u rsin g hom es. T he alte rn a ­ tives were m assive renovation, m oving or building an entirely new facility. A g ran t from The Cleveland Foundation enabled EBC to und ertake a detailed stu d y of its options. T he conclusion: th a t it m ade th e m ost sen se—in term s of the future an d of th e expanding needs an d oppor­ tu n ities of the p resen t—to pursue the th ird course.

In th e fall of 1981, the Foundation helped lau n ch the capital cam paign w ith a pledge of $750,000. Of this am o u n t $400,000 cam e from the Forest City Hospital Foundation F und of The Cleveland Foundation on the recom ­ m end atio n of the F u n d ’s Advisory Com ­ m ittee. By th e spring of last year, a p ­ proxim ately $2.3 million had been raised (including the Foundation’s grant), w ith an o th er $2.2 expected from federal an d city governm ent sources, an d ground was broken for th e new fa­ cility on th e six-and-one-half acres im ­ m ediately to the so u th of the old building.

The new $5.5 million Eliza Bryant C enter will open its doors som etim e this sum m er. (An additional $25,000 g ran t was authorized by the Foundation last year to help EBC reach its goal before its certificate of need expired.) Along

w ith new pipes an d w iring an d a so­ phisticated secu rity system , it will have room for 100 b ed s—m ore th a n double the capacity of th e p resen t C enter—as well as m odern gam e a n d crafts rooms, a greenhouse (for hortitherapy) and a covered portico, all u n d e r one roof circl­ ing an interior courtyard w hich can even be used for picnics in good w eather. “T he idea is to focus not on ill­ ness care b u t on the healthy aspects of older people’s lives,” explains May Wykle, a nationally recognized au th o ri­ ty on geriatric care an d a m em ber of the faculty a t th e F rances Payne Bolton School of N ursing who both chairs the C enter’s n u rsin g com m ittee and serves on its board. “T he biggest problem our residents tend to have is not physical ill­ ness b u t depression.

“If you can co u n teract th at, you can slow down th eir deterioration. Older persons need special dietary care— m aking sure they are getting enough calcium an d fluids—an d help learning to sleep w ithout the aid of pills, b u t they also need stim ulation,” says Wykle. “T h a t’s why we have discussion groups—as well as exercise classes—and m ultiple opportunities for th em to use th eir talents, skills a n d th eir ability to learn new things, w hich is still very m uch alive in older people. T his em ­ phasis on the whole person will be ex­ panded in ou r new facility w ith the a d ­ dition, we hope, of additional profes­ sional n u rsin g staff.”

“It’s im p o rta n t th a t good quality n u rsin g care be available in th is p a rt of the city, rig h t here in th e neighbor­ hood,” says EBC’s director Rev. Bob Miller. “To be poor, black an d old is to be a t a trem en d o u s disadvantage in this society.” W hat Eliza B ryant provides is an intim ate, protective settin g in w hich the frail elderly can co n tin u e to live and grow as h u m a n beings. T he new Eliza B ryant C enter will offer som eth in g else, too: a m u ltip u rp o se senior cen ter w hich will be open to o th er seniors in th e neighborhood as well as to th e resi­ dents. Here seniors will be encouraged to engage in su ch health y activities as group rem iniscence, socialization (espe­ cially im p o rta n t to th e house-bound) and open discussion of fears, health questions an d o th er m atters.

Phase two of w h at is developing into a sm all geriatric village, still in th e p la n ­ ning stage, will be a nearby elderly a p a rtm e n t com plex of 220 u n its w here seniors still able to live in d ep en d en t lives can be close en o u g h to use Eliza B ryant’s services a n d m ingle w ith the residents w hile m ain tain in g th eir own apartm en ts.

An excellent exam ple of intelligent, long-range planning, Eliza B ryant Vil­ lage will becom e one of th e cornerstones in the recovery of H ough—a m assive com m u n ity redevelopm ent project th a t represen ts over $375 m illion in capital investm en t—w hich is now u n d e r way (see Civic Affairs). B ut th e m ost im por­ ta n t co n trib u tio n it will m ake, as Eliza S im m ons B ryant knew, will be in the lives of th e elderly citizens who call it home.

T he cases tu rn e d up in a stu d y fi­ nanced by The Cleveland Foundation w hich dem onstrated th a t prescription follow-up w ith elderly persons, sim ple as it seem s, is all too rare, and th a t m any physicians, not to m ention the persons for w hom they prescribe m edi­ cation, aren’t aware of the need for it.

The stu d y was proposed and carried o ut by the G reater Cleveland Poison Control Center, w hich is operated jo in t­ ly by Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s School of Medicine and University Hos­ pitals. The hypothesis was that, because of possible changes in body chem istry, the effect of m edicine on persons 65 and older m ay not be the sam e as it is on younger people, and th a t it is not so easily predictable. A furth er supposi­ tion was th a t older individuals, in p ar­ ticular, are likely to be taking m ultiple m edications, th a t they are ap t to be see­ ing, and getting prescriptions from, m ore th a n one physician, and th a t there is a strong chance they are also taking over-the-counter rem edies of one sort or another.

If all these things are true, said the people at the Poison Control Center, there m u st be a n u m b er of elderly per­ sons around w hose m edical problem s are being caused by m edicine.

In 1983, w ith a $23,600 g ran t from The Cleveland Foundation, the C enter initiated two surveys at University Hospitals, to be followed by a third in the com m unity, to test its theories.

A stud y showed that prescription follow -up with eld erly persons is rare , and that m any p h y sicia n s aren't even aware o f the need fo r it.

W ith Seniors the Cure Is Som etim es the Problem

An elderly person is ad m itted to a h o s­ pital w ith in tern al bleeding. It quickly develops th a t she h a s high blood p res­ sure, takes m edicine for it, an d th a t the dosage h a s recently been changed.

Stop th e m edicine. T h a t’s w h a t’s causing th e problem .

A nother senior is ad m itted w ith per­ sisten t n a u se a a n d gross trem bling of the hands, an d soon develops cardiac arryth m ia. She h a s a h istory of severe cardiovascular disease an d several severe p u lm o n ary diseases. A m ong other things, she takes m edicine for asthm a.

Stop th e m edicine. T h a t’s w h a t’s causing th e problem .

Cases like these, w hich are real, stem from th e fact th a t w ith elderly persons the effect of m any routinely u sed m edi­ cations is unpredictable.

M ed icin a l m isc h ie f: B eca u se o f c h a n g e s in body c h e m is tr y d u rin g th e aging process, m e d ic in e s m a y effect p e rso n s over 65 differently.

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lb A serious ear in fection in a c h ild whose growth clo ck is sayin g it's time to be learning to ta lk can m ean lifelong speech problem s.

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T he hospital stu d ies involved research into th e records of 100 persons w ho had been treated an d released, a n d a stu d y by pharm acologists of th e com binations of d ru g s prescribed for persons th en in th e hospital and an a tte m p t to forecast possible interactions. (In th e first, 16 percen t of th e individuals studied showed adverse dru g reactions, w ith 4 p ercen t being life-threatening.) To con­ d u ct th e th ird study, th e C enter reached out w ith an offer to com m unity organi­ zations serving the elderly: We’ll com e an d talk to your people ab o u t m edicine, they said, if they’ll let us survey th em in retu rn .

Of 212 individuals who agreed to p a r­ ticipate, 193 com pleted exhaustive questionnaires in one-on-one interview s w ith Poison Control C enter personnel.

The questionnaire so u g h t inform ation on race, age, sex an d general health level of th e respondents, while explor­ ing such questions as “How m any physi­ cians do you see?”, an d “Do you sleep well, an d how m any pillows do you u se?”

The surveys identified 276 prescribed m edications being used by respondents.

W hile no a ttem p t was m ade to evaluate th e m edical tre a tm e n t prescribed, an elaborate com puter stu d y was m ade of th e effectiveness of various prescrip­ tions and differences in individual re­ sponses to the sam e m edicines, of in ­ teractions am ong m edicines often p re­ scribed in com binations, and of in terac­ tions betw een som e prescription drugs an d frequently used over-the-counter rem edies.

Conclusion: Because older individuals react in different and unpredictable ways to m edication, and because they m ay be receiving m edication from several different sources, health care professionals need to m onitor these p er­ sons m ore carefully th a n is the usu al practice.

A two-year $105,000 Cleveland Foun­ dation gran t was authorized last Sep­ tem ber to finance an educational pro­ gram for com m unity physicians featu r­ ing a self-education packet designed by th e Poison Control Center. The built-in feedback will be incorporated in su b se­ q u en t publications of the stu d ies’ find­ ings, w hich will help spread aw areness of th e special problem s of prescribing drugs for the elderly am ong other physicians and health organizations around the country.

M etro H o sp ita l Team Takes on O titis M ed ia

Until recently, infections of th e m iddle ear in young child ren were reg ard ed by p aren ts an d doctors as one of th e in es­ capable h azard s of young childhood.

E araches are com m on, an d fortunately they u su ally go away, b u t su ch infections can p resen t serious problem s. In som e children they h ap p en often. In som e cases th ere is tem p o rary deafness. If th is h ap p en s w hen th e ch ild ’s growth clock is saying it’s tim e to be learning to talk, lifelong speech difficulties can re­ sult; m uddled h earin g cau ses m uddled talk. And in som e children, it tu rn s out, the h earin g problem isn’t tem porary.

In the d e p a rtm e n t of pediatrics at Cleveland M etropolitan G eneral Hospi­ tal, w here a nationally recognized clinic h as been developed for tre a tm e n t of oti­ tis m e d ia (th a t’s Latin for m iddle ear trouble), professionals began looking som e tim e ago for ways to prevent re ­ cu rrin g infections.

O rdinary vaccination doesn’t work.

O rdinary vaccination stim u lates the body to produce and store antibodies w hich can p u t down a p artic u la r infec­ tion before it h as a chance to take hold.

B ut in very young children, the system for producing antibodies h a sn ’t been tu rn e d on yet, so vaccination is not effective.

On the other hand, ad u lts who have received p n eu m o n ia shots have a plenti­ ful supply of th e antibodies needed to fight otitis m edia.

M etropolitan G eneral staff m em bers, who also h ap p en to be faculty m em bers a t Case Reserve Reserve U niversity School of Medicine, talked w ith friendly colleagues a t the M assachusetts Public H ealth Biological Laboratories, w hich in som e m atters, including this one, works w ith the D ana-Farber C ancer Institute of H arvard University.

The doctors a t M etropolitan G eneral w anted to inject infection-prone children w ith bacterial polysaccharide im m une globulin (BPIG), a g am m a globulin refined from th e blood of ad u lts who have received pneum onia shots. M assachusetts Public H ealth had a supply of BPIG w hich they were will­ ing to contribute to the experim ent. But M etropolitan G eneral needed profession­ al, clerical and statistical help to set up a research program to find o u t if the globulin injections did, in fact, work.

The N ational In stitu tes of H ealth (NIH) responded positively to a g ran t application from M etropolitan G eneral

O titis s tr ik e s : In very y o u n g ch ild ren , th e s y s te m fo r p ro d u cin g a n tib o d ies h a sn 't been tu rn e d on yet, so o rd in a ry v a c c in a tio n is n o t effective a g a in s t ear infections.

b u t provided no funding, an d it was felt here th a t a prior pilot study, d e m o n stra t­ ing feasibility, would help.

In O ctober 1983 T he Cleveland Foun­ dation m ade a six-m onth g ran t of $34,337 to get th e project started. Com ­ ing ju s t in tim e for th e w inter cold sea­ son, the g ran t provided w herew ithal for a pilot study.

A pediatric n u rse p ractitio n er an d a senior research a ssista n t set to work u n d er th e direction of staff p ed iatri­ cians. A statistical c o n su ltan t was b rought in to en su re th a t d ata would be collected an d p resen ted in valid form.

G am m a globulin was shipped in from M assachusetts, a n d th e prelim inary stu d y was quickly u n d er way.

R esults?

B ecause of th e n a tu re of th e disease, and because a reasonable statistical base is needed, even p relim inary find­ ings won’t be available u n til som e tim e this sum m er.

B ut NIH w asn’t looking for answ ers to the m edical qu estio n s ju s t yet. W hat was needed w as a d em o n stratio n th a t staff could be assem bled, th a t seru m would be available an d th a t th e n u m b er of children b ro u g h t in for tre a tm e n t would be sufficient to provide a statistical base.

T hose th in g s h ad been successfully d em onstrated by last spring, an d NIH h as now m ade a g ran t of $416,660, plus provision for ad m inistrativ e costs, to finance a three-year study.

T he Cleveland F oundation’s tim ely provision of seed m oney in 1983 has gotten a p rom ising stu d y off to a r u n ­ ning start.

County Gets Support f o r Life Support

N either sudden illness nor the technol­ ogy for dealing w ith it h as the slightest regard for political boundaries, b u t a m ­ bulance service, w hich is becom ing an extrem ely high technology function, is provided in G reater Cleveland by cities, towns, the county—all political entities, all w ith political boundaries.

A stu d y funded jointly by the Cuya­ hoga C ounty Board of Com m issioners and The Cleveland Foundation two years ago docum ented the fact th a t highly de­ veloped am bulance service (Advanced Life Support, or ALS) was available in only 20 of the co u n ty ’s 62 m unicipalities and to only 30 percent of its population.

The City of Cleveland w anted to provide ALS on its Em ergency Medical Service vehicles. The county com m issioners felt it should be available to everyone, countywide. But there were obstacles other th a n the obvious one: cost.

ALS involves radio com m unication b e­ tw een am bulance and hospital em er­ gency room; m onitoring devices aboard the am bulance tra n sm it a p a tie n t’s vital signs to the hospital. Hospital person­ nel, in tu rn , read the signs and radio back in stru ctio n s to the am bulance crew for m edication or other tre atm e n t and prepare for the p a tie n t’s arrival.

H ig h ly developed am bulance service was ava ila b le in o n ly 20 o f the co u n ty ’s 62 m u n icip a litie s and to o n ly 30 percent o f its population.

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B ut radio ch an n els m u st be kept clear so one is always available w hen needed.

A m bulance personnel m u st be trained.

And a g reat deal of expensive hardw are is needed.

Following p attern s recom m ended by th e study, county an d city have forged ahead. An E m ergency Medical Service Board h as been established. A countywide radio system is being im ple­ m ented. Nine E m ergency Medical S er­ vice Regions have been established.

The cou n ty com m issioners have agreed to provide $1.5 m illion to com m unities for essential equipm ent. And already ALS is available in 35 com m unities and to 72 p ercen t of the county population.

As p a rt of its broad em ergency m edi­ cal service assistance program to com ­ m unities, an d w ith a $25,500 g ran t from The Cleveland Foundation, the county will begin sponsoring param edical train in g for am bulance personnel in Septem ber. The m edics, m ostly fire­ fighters in their com m unities, will receive 600 hours of train in g over a 10-m onth period a t hospitals an d com ­ m u n ity colleges.

The goal, w hich is com ing visibly closer, is to have Advanced Life S upport service available to everyone in the county.

ALS in a ctio n : S p ecia l m o n ito rin g d evices a board th is W estlake Fire D e p a rtm e n t a m b u la n c e tr a n s m it a p a tie n t’s vita l s ig n s to th e h o sp ita l— w h ic h radios back in s tr u c tio n s .

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G ra n t Renews M ed S c h o o l ' s D epartm ent o f F in a l T ru th

T he series of large g ran ts T he Cleve­ land F oundation h as m ad e to th e M edical School of Case W estern Re­ serve U niversity since 1981 for th e re ­ vitalization of th e basic sciences is a good exam ple of how th e F oundation —an d the school, u n d e r th e leadership of D ean R ichard E. B e h rm an —have been tak in g the long view in m atters of m edical research. “We were a t a critical ju n c tu re w h en I ap p ro ach ed th e Foun­ dation in 1981, w ith th e h ead s of several key d ep a rtm e n ts eith er having recently left or being a b o u t to retire,” says B ehrm an. G etting th e rig h t people, he argued, would be crucial to positioning th e school on th e cu ttin g edge of research th ro u g h th e end of th e century. “If we’d lost th is chance, we would never have been able to re­ trieve ou r position a n d stay com petitive on a national level for th e big grants. It was as sim ple as th at.”

Tim e h as proved him right. A $500,000 Cleveland F oundation grant in 1981 to revitalize the D ep artm en t of M icrobiology (since transform ed into the D epartm ent of M olecular Biology and Microbiology), an d an o th er of $550,000 in 1983 to do th e sam e with A natom y (now th e D ep artm en t of De­ velopm ental G enetics an d Anatomy) have enabled CWRU to a ttra c t som e of th e m ost im pressive tale n t in the country, as was reported in these pages last year—along w ith su b stan tial new g ran t m oneys from su ch sources as the National In stitu tes of H ealth. (Total outside funding for research and tra in ­ ing for the D epartm ent of M olecular Biology has, for exam ple, increased from $800,000 in 1980, th e last year before the Basic Sciences revitalization program began, to $2.2 m illion for the cu rren t year.) And the school’s clinical dep artm en ts are projecting $5 m illion m ore in g ran ts for next year, a windfall Dean B ehrm an attrib u te s largely to th eir connections w ith m ajor research projects u n d er way in the basic sciences.

The Foundation’s g ran ts having proved so successful as seed money, a third g ran t of $500,000 over th ree years was approved last S eptem ber to help w ith the revitalization of th e D ep artm en t of Pathology.

Pathology, being th e d e p a rtm e n t in a hospital th a t exam ines diseased tissue, gets involved in a broad range of m edi­ cal problem s, c u ttin g across nearly all of the other departm ents, from ped ia­ trics to gynecology. “It is th e depart-

m e n t of final tru th ,” says B ehrm an.

“And in a m edical school it plays a cross-cu ttin g role am o n g th e basic sciences.”

Pathology, for exam ple, h as in recent years been learn in g som e very in ter­ esting th in g s ab o u t th e im m u n e system an d its involvem ent in such different conditions as can cer an d diabetes. And accu m u latin g evidence suggests th a t th e developm ent of som e physical problem s, su ch as arthritis, m ay actu ally be cau sed by a person’s im m une system tu rn in g aro u n d and attack in g his or h e r own body. Learn­ ing how to control th is com plex and m ysterious m ech an ism is vital to the co n tinuin g advance of m edicine. “In doing kidney an d h e a rt tran sp lan ts, the tra n sp la n tin g is n ot th e tricky part,” says B ehrm an, “it’s figuring out how to su p p ress th e n a tu ra l tendency of the body’s im m u n e system to reject the foreign body.” So th e new investi­ gators CWRU is b ringing into its De­ p a rtm e n t of Pathology will be w orking not only w ith a surgical im p lan t team a t U niversity H ospitals—b u t also w ith CWRU’s D ep artm en t of Pharm acology w here o th er research ers are try in g to discover how to activate th e cells in the body w hich en g u lf an d digest in ­ tru d ers su ch as bacteria.

Over in Anatomy, still o th er investiga­ tors are b u sy try in g to decipher the chem ical m essag es tra n sm itted betw een nerve cells—a n o th e r area of research th a t will be of in tere st to th e patholo­ gists. “People w ho u n d e rsta n d how su ch m ech an ism s work will be in a position to apply th a t know ledge in clinical situ ­ ations,” says B ehrm an. T he pathologists, in other words, becom e th e tran slato rs of basic science advances into practical applications.

T he m u ltip lier effect of g ra n t m oney sp en t on a clu ster of basic sciences d ep artm en ts o perating in su ch a m ilieu of cooperation is obvious. “T he ability of our D ep artm en t of In tern al M edicine to get a g ra n t to stu d y AIDS, for exam ­ ple, h as a lot to do w ith our ability to dem o n strate th a t investigators in other d ep artm en ts are w orking on relevant pieces,” says B ehrm an. “And th e faculty talen t you have assem b led a ttra cts other research ers eager to work in th a t m ilieu—as well as b ette r stu d e n ts who w ant to do re se a rc h —w hich in tu rn ac­ celerates your productivity.”

■ T he co n n ectio n betw een ch an g es in th e b rain ’s c h em istry a n d shifts in m ood—w hich w ith som e people m ean s going from m an ic excitem ent to black

depression—is an o th er area th a t has fascinated m edical science in recent years. In fact, there is increasing evidence th a t schizophrenia, m any form s of paranoia and som e affective conditions have a biochem ical basis.

Som e of the m ost prom ising work in this area h as been done by Dr. H erbert Meltzer of the University of Chicago, perh ap s the leading figure in the field of biological psychiatry in the country.

And this sum m er, w ith the help of a two-year $243,270 g ran t m ade last D ecem ber by T he Cleveland Foundation, The leading fig u re Meltzer will be m oving his entire pro­ in b iological ject to Cleveland’s University Hospitals. p sy ch ia try is M eltzer and his team will also be m oving h is entire bringing w ith them about $700,000 in project to University research grants (including three from H o sp ita ls, thanks the National Institute of M ental Health) to a Cleveland and alm ost a third of a million dollars worth of equipm ent. Not to m ention n a ­ Foundation grant. tional attention.

There is no question, adm its Dr. L. Douglas Lenkoski, chief of staff at Uni­ versity H ospitals and director of its De­ p artm e n t of Psychiatry, th a t the exciting things going on these days betw een the hospital and CWRU’s m edical school played a role in luring Meltzer here.

“He’s very im pressed w ith w h at’s h ap ­ pening a t UH, the possibilities of col­ laborating w ith the D epartm ent of Pharm acology a t CWRU w here he’ll have a jo in t appointm ent, the renovation of labs in progress, the confluence of talent, the research u n d er way,” explains Lenkoski. And the presence of highly sophisticated technology—such as CAT (Com puted Axial Tomography) and PET (Positron Em ission Tbmography) scan ­ n e rs—at UH is a further attraction.

Meltzer, who will be com ing to UH as the newly established Douglas D. Bond Professor of Psychiatry, will be testing som e new anti-depressant drugs, am ong other things, and trying to find w hat Lenkoski calls a “biological m ark er” for different types of depression, even the suicidal im pulse—w hich would be a m ajor breakthrough for psychiatry. Ac­ cording to Lenkoski, a n u m b er of other em in en t researchers now working at other in stitu tio n s around the country, on hearing th a t the University of Chi­ cago team is com ing to Cleveland, have indicated th eir own interest in moving here. “T his is clearly going to be an ex­ citing place to be in the next few years,” says Lenkoski.

T h a t’s w hat taking the long view is all about.

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Health Grants

A m e r ic a n H ea r t A s s o c ia tio n , N o r th e a s t O hio A ffilia te , In c .— E v alu atio n of th e “Body Pow er” P ro­ g ram for sc h o o lc h ild ren . . . $ 20,000

C le v e la n d U rb an A r e a H e a l t h E d u c a tio n C e n te r —1984-85 H e a lth C areers a n d H e a lth O pportunities p r o g r a m .....................................$ 1 8 ,5 0 0

A m e r ic a n R ed C ross, G re a ter C le v e la n d C h a p te r —C h u rc h a n d C o m m u n ity H ealth A dvocacy P r o g r a m ................................... $ 2 9 ,2 5 0

C u yah oga C o u n ty B oard o f C om ­ m is s io n e r s —A ssistan ce to u p g ra d e p a ra m ed ic s k il l s ...................... $ 2 5 , 5 0 0

E liza B ryan t C en ter—C onstruction of a 100-bed n u rsin g facility . . $ 2 5 , 0 0 0 C ase W estern R e se r v e U n iv e r s ity — E valuation of th e D octor of N ursing p rogram a t th e F ran ces Payne Bolton School of N ursing over two years $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 Infant developm ent a s se s s m e n t in u rb a n black fam ilies a t th e School of M e d ic in e ........................................$ 4 ,7 7 3 Revitalization of th e D e p a rtm en t of Pathology a t the School of M edicine over th ree y e a r s ................. $ 5 0 0 ,0 0 0 S tu d y to correlate h e a rin g deficits a n d tooth e n a m e l defects a t th e School of D e n tis try ..................................... $ 1 2 ,0 0 0 C en tral S c h o o l o f P r a c tic a l N u rsin g, In c.—Salary, stip e n d an d su p erv isio n costs of hom e n u rsin g p r o g r a m ...................................$ 2 3 ,3 0 0 T h e C lev ela n d C lin ic F o u n d a tio n M ultiple sclerosis rese a rc h . $ 3 7 ,0 0 0 S tu d y of sh o rt-term reh ab ilitatio n of elderly p a tie n ts ...................... $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n (Inc.)— E valuation a n d review of g ra n t to T he Cleveland Clinic F ou n d atio n for a s tu d y of sh o rt-term reh a b ilita tio n of elderly p a ti e n ts ......................... $ 2,000 E valuation of g ra n t to C ase W estern Reserve U niversity for revitalization of th e D e p a rtm e n t of Pathology a t th e School of M e d ic in e ................. $ 5 ,0 0 0 E v aluation of th e h e a lth clinic e s ta b ­ lished th ro u g h th e C leveland S tu d e n t H ealth P rogram a t E a st High School $ 2 ,5 0 0 Involvem ent by th e ap p ro p riate accred itin g ag ency in th e evaluation of C ase W estern Reserve U niversity’s D octor of N ursing p ro g ram a t th e F ran ces Payne Bolton School of N u r s in g ........................................$ 1 ,5 0 0 S taff su p p o rt for th e A dvisory Council on T h e Free M edical Clinic of G reater C le v e la n d ............... $ 9 ,0 0 0 C lev ela n d S tu d e n t H e a lth Program —C o n tin u atio n of p la n n in g for a clinic a t E a st High S c h o o l ...............$ 4 ,9 0 0 E sta b lish m e n t of a h e a lth clinic a t E a st High S c h o o l ................. $ 6 0 ,0 0 0

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C u yah oga C o u n ty H o sp ita l Foun­ d a tio n , In c .—A rt th e ra p is t for p ed i­ a tric m en ta l h e a lth p a tie n ts in th e Division of C hild M ental H ealth at C leveland M etropolitan G eneral H o s p ita l.........................................$ 1 1 ,0 0 0 In itiatio n of p re p a y m e n t in th e Cleve­ lan d M etropolitan G eneral H ospital c lin ic s ............................................ $ 3 4 ,1 2 5 O titis m ed ia prevention rese a rc h project in th e D e p a rtm e n t of Pediatrics a t C leveland M etropolitan G eneral H ospital (second y e a r) .............. $ 3 0 ,5 8 1 F e d e r a tio n for C o m m u n ity P la n ­ n in g —R esearch on c o n s u m e rs ’ views on th e M edicaid sy ste m . . . $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 T h e F ree M e d ic a l C lin ic o f G reater C le v e la n d —T ran sitio n al fu n d in g for th e d ay tim e m ed ical clinic . $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 G rea ter C le v e la n d H igh B lood P r e s su r e C o a litio n , In c .—E v alu a­ tion a n d re fin e m e n t of th e c o m p u te r tra c k in g sy stem for h y p erten siv es $ 20,000 E x p a n sio n of th e c o m p u te r tra c k in g sy stem for h y p e rte n siv e s . . $ 3 3 ,9 6 4 H o sp ic e o f H a n co ck C ou n ty, F in d ­ lay, O h io—S ta rt-u p fu n d in g over 18 m o n th s * ................................... $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 T h e I n te r n a tio n a l C e n te r for A r ti­ f ic ia l O rgans an d T r a n sp la n ta tio n —A rchival w ork on th e C e n te r’s c o lle c tio n ................................ $ 20,000 P la n n e d P a r e n th o o d o f C lev ela n d , In c .—Im p le m e n ta tio n of efficiency im p ro v em en ts in clinics . . . $ 1 2 ,5 0 0 S ta rt-u p su p p o rt for a d d itio n a l staff for Lakewood c lin ic ............... $ 3 7 ,7 5 0 P r e te r m C le v e la n d , In c .—R educed and/or deferred fees for in d ig e n t clients over th re e y e a r s ...................... $ 8 1 ,0 0 0 U n iv e r s ity H o s p ita ls o f C lev ela n d —G reater C leveland Poison C ontrol C e n te r’s e d u c a tio n a l p ro g ra m for ph y sician s reg a rd in g d ru g s a n d th e elderly over two y ears . . . . $ 1 0 5 ,0 0 0 S ta rt-u p su p p o rt for a c e n te r on bio­ logical p sy c h ia try over two years $ 2 4 3 ,2 7 0 TOTAL HEALTH G RANTS— UNDESIGNATED . . . . $ 1 ,6 0 4 ,4 1 3

(Following recipients and program s design ated by donor) A m e r ic a n C a n cer S o c ie ty , C u yah oga C o u n ty U n it—G eneral s u p p o r t ......................................$ 7 7 ,5 9 3 R esearch or an y o th e r p u rp o se .....................................................$ 1 5 ,8 7 1 A m e r ic a n H ea r t A s s o c ia tio n , N o r th e a s t O hio A ffilia te , In c .— G eneral s u p p o r t .................... $ 7 7 ,5 9 3 R esearch or any o th e r p u rp o se .................................................... $ 1 5 ,8 7 1 A r th r itis F ou n d a tio n , N o r th e a ste r n O hio C h a p te r —G eneral su p p o rt ............................................................$ 9 1 7 B e lle v u e H o sp ita l, B e lle v u e , O hio —G eneral s u p p o r t....................$ 3 ,6 3 2 C ase W e ste r n R e s e r v e U n iv e r s ity for t h e S c h o o l o f M e d ic in e —B reast C ancer R esearch P r o j e c t ..........$ 2 5 0 C ancer re se a rc h . . . .

$ 1 6 ,2 4 7

M edical re se a rc h a n d g en eral su p p o rt $ 7 6 ,0 1 9 O u tp a tie n t clinic for d isp e n sa ry .................................................... $ 4 5 ,4 4 2 R esearch in d ise a se s of th e eye $ 3 0 ,2 0 4

F a irv iew G en er a l H o s p ita l— E q u ip m e n t..............................$ 6 3 ,4 5 6

U n iv e r s ity H o sp ita ls o f C le v e la n d — C onference t r a v e l ....................$ 2 ,5 4 2

General s u p p o r t...................... $ 9 ,9 8 9

G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$ 1 2 ,1 2 5

Christiana Perren Soyer bed . . . $ 8 2 0

G eneral su p p o rt for Lakeside H ospital $ 5 0 7 ,9 6 7

G race H o s p ita l—Equipm ent .................................................... $ 3 1 ,7 2 7 H e a lth H ill H o sp ita l for C h ild ren — General s u p p o r t...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4 H igh lan d V iew H o sp ita l—Employees’ Christm as f u n d .........................$ 1 ,1 2 0 H oly F am ily C an cer H om e—General s u p p o r t........................................$ 1 ,6 0 4 H uron R oad H o sp ita l—General su p p o rt........................................$ 8 ,8 2 9 J e w is h C o m m u n ity F ed era tio n o f C le v e la n d —Research or any other purpose ............... ....................$ 1 5 ,8 7 1

H enry L. Sanford M em orial bed $ 1 ,3 2 6 Urological or vascu lar research $ 6 2 ,9 2 9 TOTAL HEALTH G R A N T S DESIGNATED .............. $ 1 ,2 9 5 ,5 5 6 TOTAL HEALTH GRANTS—DESIG­ NATED AND UNDESIGNATED ........................................... $ 2 ,8 9 9 ,9 6 9

*C rant re c o m m e n d e d by F indlay D istrib u tio n C o m m itte e o f the L. Dale D orney Fund.

Lakew ood H o sp ita l—General su p p o rt........................................$ 2 ,8 8 9 Lakew ood H o sp ita l F ou n d ation , In c .—General support . . . . $ 7 3 ,2 0 0 L u th eran M ed ical C e n te r — Conference tra v el..........

$404

Nurse a w a rd ..............................$ 2 ,7 9 8

C lev ela n d C lin ic —R esearch in d is­ e ases of th e e y e .......................$ 1 5 ,1 0 2

L u th e r a n M ed ical C e n te r F ou n d a­ t io n —General support . . . . $ 2 5 ,2 6 0

T h e C le v e la n d C lin ic F o u n d a t io n G eneral s u p p o r t .................... $ 2 3 ,1 5 2

N o r th e r n O hio Lung A s s o c ia t i o n General s u p p o r t...................... $ 1 ,7 6 5

C lev ela n d H e a lth E d u c a tio n M u seu m —G eneral s u p p o rt . $ 2 ,9 2 1

R ain b ow B a b ie s & C h ild ren s H o s p ita l—Equipm ent or supplies ...................................................... $ 1 ,3 2 7

C u yah oga C o u n ty H o sp ita l Foun­ d a tio n , I n c .—C leveland M etropolitan G eneral H ospital N urse Award . $ 8 7 0

General s u p p o r t...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

S a in t A n n F o u n d a tio n —General su p p o r t....................................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

D e a c o n e s s H o sp ita l o f C l e v e la n d G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

S a in t J o h n H o sp ita l—General su p p o rt..................................... $ 1 3 ,7 0 0

T h e D e a c o n e s s S o c ie t y —G eneral s u p p o rt of D eaco n ess H ospital of C le v e la n d ................................... $ 2 ,8 8 9

S a in t Luke’s H o sp ita l—General su p p o rt............................................ $ 4 2 1

E ly r ia M em o ria l H o s p ita l— W illiam H. G ates b e d ............ $ 1 ,3 0 0

G eneral su p p o rt for the m ate rn ity h o s p ita l....................................... $ 6 ,7 6 4

S t. V in c e n t C h a rity H o sp ita l— Aid for alcoholics and indigent sick ........................................................... $ 9 9 7 General s u p p o r t...................... $ 6 ,0 6 3 Elizabeth Boersig Soyer bed

$820

S a m a r ita n H o sp ita l, A sh la n d , O hio —Memorial room m aintained in m em ory of Mr. and Mrs. A.N. Myers $ 1 1 ,0 6 7 S h r in e r s H o sp ita ls for C rip p led C h ild ren , Tam pa, F lo r id a —General su p p o rt........................................$ 7 ,9 3 3

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Social Services As th o u sa n d s of fam ilies in n o rth ern Ohio can testify, being unem ployed can be a tra u m a tic experience, even for people w ith estab lish ed skills an d good work records.

Consider, then, th e plight of people for w hom jo b lessn ess is only one of the problem s. In an econom y w here the level of jo b lessn ess persists a t 7 to 10 percen t—or a good deal h ig h er if one counts th e so-called “disco u rag ed ” unem ployed w ho have given up looking for a jo b —w h at do you do if you need work an d you are blind or deaf? You have an arm or a leg m issing? You are m entally retard ed or have been released recently from a m en tal institu tio n ? You speak an d u n d e rsta n d no English? You are a paraplegic?

T he Cleveland F oundation is helping organizations w hich are helping people in straits like these. T h eir program s pro­ vide a challenging an d in terestin g alter­ native to state-su p p o rted welfare, and w hat is being accom plished is rem ark ­ able. One su ch organization is Voca­ tional G uidance an d R ehabilitation Services (VGRS), w hich h as been h elp ­ ing people since 1890 w hen it began life as the S u n b eam Circle, founded to help crippled children.

VGRS h a s an im pressive h ead q u arters building in th e depressing E. 55th S treet neighborhood so u th of C hester Avenue.

Inside is a factory, staffed w ith h a n d i­ capped individuals w ho m an u factu re clothing—adaptive clothing, it’s called— for people w ith physical problem s.

Working a t fast, heavy in d u strial sewing m achines, they produce sh irts and blouses w ith Velcro closures in stead of b u tto n s for th o se w hose h a n d s don’t work well or are m issing; sm ocks and trousers w ith large, low pockets for people confined to w heelchairs; g ar­ m en ts w ith large arm holes for people stiffened by arth ritis. Elsew here in the building are a word processing facility, a place w here d o cu m en ts are m icrofilm ed (a co n tract service for outside clients), a woodworking shop, a soldering shop, long tables for assem b ly of electronic devices or w iring harnesses.

W om an W orking: E llen V a n d e rw y st (left), a clerical in stru c to r w ith V ocational G u id a n ce a n d R e h a b ilita tio n S e rv ic e 's “S k ills A va ila b le P rogram fo r im p a ire d p e rso n s, tea ch es c o m p u te r e s e to a trainee.

T his is b u t one of VGRS’s activities; 20 handicapped people work in the sewing shop and 85 m ore in the general con­ tra c t division. Sears, Roebuck and J.C. Penney have bought adaptive clothing from VGRS since 1980, and m any local busin esses have not only used the con­ tra c t services b u t have hired “alu m n i” of the organization’s sheltered workshops.

In 1984, sales of goods and services totaled about $2 million.

“We could do more,” VGRS told the Foundation, “if we could sell m ore pro­ ducts and services,” and so, w ith a grant of $27,280 from The Cleveland F ounda­ tion, plus an o th er from The Sherw ick Fund, one of the Foundation’s supporting organizations, VGRS early this year hired The workshop a sales engineer. The goal is to bring in m akes sh irts with $325,000 in new work in 1985, to m ake Velcro closures the sales position self-supporting and th u s self-perpetuating, to provide shel­ instead o f buttons tered em ploym ent for 35 additional fo r those whose people and to bring in enough new work hands don't work so 600 m ore disadvantaged people can be well, trousers w ith show n how to get and hold jobs in the large, low pockets world outside. fo r fo lk s in On the other side of town, on the near wheelchairs. west side, VGRS is in the process of opening a whole new facility w ith the help of an o th er g ran t from The Cleve­ land Foundation.

Initiative for establishing the west side facility cam e from the state, w hich was concerned because no vocational serv­ ice was offered in th a t area. With a state grant, m oney from the federal govern­ m en t and the City of Cleveland, plus a prom ise of fees from the state for serv­ ices to be rendered, VGRS raised 73 per­ cent of the $545,477 required for the first y ear’s operation. M atching private funds were needed and The Cleveland Foundation is providing $146,584 over three years. The young west side facility, as a result, is taking its first steps this sum m er.

A nother such organization w hich The Cleveland Foundation has supported for som e tim e is Dial Industries, Inc., an agency providing sheltered w orkplaces and training facilities, prim arily for m entally ill and retarded persons. The m ost recent Dial program to be given Foundation funding is a p rin t shop started two years ago th is sum m er. The shop, u n d er the supervision of a forem an who had worked for a large m agazine publishing house, now serves nine clients

N early 90,000 ch ildren in C u y a ­ hoga County are cu rren tly in need o f day care. B ut existin g centers provide o n ly about 18,000 spaces.

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an d could h an d le three m ore w ith p res­ en t eq u ip m ent. S ituated in a m odest in ­ d u strial p ark on Corbin Drive, the shop h an d les the printing needs of m any of its neighbors an d also has long-term p rin t­ ing co n tracts w ith the state.

H aving provided $66,150 in 1983 to get th e p rin t shop started, T he Cleveland F oundation last year granted an o th er $27,750, w hich should see the operation th ro u g h to a point w here it can be e n ­ tirely su stain ed by o th er sources. To date, four persons have com pleted train in g in th e p rin t shop and have gone on to “o u t­ side” em ploym ent in a com petitive world where, prior to th eir experience a t Dial, th eir ch an ces for finding work would have been slim indeed.

Finally, out in Wickliffe, an o th er kind of em ploym ent assistance organization is receiving help from T he Cleveland Foundation. Catholic C areer Services (CCS), w hich serves clients in eastern Cuyahoga, G eauga and Lake counties, is a parish-based program staffed by an ex­ ecutive director, a secretary and 60 volunteers. U nem ploym ent in the area was ru n n in g a t m ore th a n 13 percent w hen th e service was started, and the rate h as not dropped as fast there as it h as o th er places in n o rth ern Ohio. B ut CCS is m aking a difference in som e people’s lives.

Residents of the area, w h eth er C atho­ lic or not, can go to CCS for job evalua­ tion an d counseling, for referral to em ployers who have posted job orders an d to join an u n u su al “job finding club,” w hich sponsors em ploym ent sem in ars an d talks on how to prepare resu m es an d provides a m u tu al sup p o rt group for people w ith em ploym ent prob­ lems. CCS volunteers provide general of­ fice help, interview job seekers, file infor­ m ation on th eir skills, and do ad m in is­ trative work. Interviewers, by the way, receive 14 hours of training from Jo sep h P. Latona, Jr., the agency’s executive di­ rector. On a shoestring budget, to w hich The Cleveland Foundation has co n tri­ buted $15,000, CCS is providing a su p ­ port service for 60 to 100 people a m onth.

The real gift, though, is an opportunity to gain the kind of self-respect and satis­ faction of self-sufficiency th a t com es w ith w orking for a living. G rant m oney can’t buy th a t kind of dignity, but, a t places like Vocational G uidance R ehabilitation Services, Dial Industries and Catholic Career Services, it is helping to give dis­ advantaged G reater Clevelanders a chance. And th a t’s all they ask.

E x p lo rin g New A p pro ach es to C h ild D a y Care

E m ploym ent can b rin g a w hole new set of problem s for single p a re n ts or fam ilies in w hich both p aren ts w ork outside the hom e. Single w orking fath ers w ho su d ­ denly find them selves faced w ith the re­ sponsibility of a rran g in g for younger children to be taken care of after school are discovering w h a t m o th e rs w ho work outside th e hom e have know n for a long tim e: good child care is h ard to find.

Every w orking m o th er h a s h er own fru stratin g story a b o u t day care. One tells of th e extra h o u rs a n d m iles it adds to h er day, a n o th e r of the sitters she’s gone th ro u g h or th e crises th a t have arisen w hen h e r sitte r called in sick.

O thers m ay ad m it th e y ’ve left th eir chil­ dren in less th a n satisfactory hom es or centers or even, on occasion, to fend for them selves. Som e m o th ers aren ’t work­ ing b ecause th e cost of d ecen t day care, even w hen it is available, is prohibitive.

And yet, th e n u m b e r of w orking m o th ers h as risen dram atically, from 12 percen t of w om en w ith children below th e age of six in 1950 to fully 50 percent in 1983. And in 1984, 64 p ercen t of the w om en w ith school-age children were reported working, up from 39 percent in 1960. B ut th e n u m b e r of available day care slots h as n o t kept pace. T he Chil­ dren’s Defense F und estim ates th a t near­ ly 90,000 children in C uyahoga County are cu rren tly in need of day care. But existing centers provide only about 18,000 spaces.

The availability, cost an d quality of child day care are clearly concerns w hich cry out for co m m u n ity action.

And, even m ore im portantly, for a u n i­ fied, coordinated, w ell-planned a p ­ proach. For th ese reasons, T he Cleveland F oundation—w hich had been receiving a growing n u m b er of req u ests to fund individual day care projects—elected in D ecem ber 1983 to lend its backing, in th e form of a $20,000 grant, to a Com ­ m u n ity Day Care P lanning Project (CDCPP) u n d ertak en by th e Federation for C om m unity P lanning w ith the back­ ing of the C uyahoga C ounty D epartm ent of H um an Services, U nited Way Services and The George G und Foundation.

This im p o rtan t effort a t consensusbuilding around a key co m m u n ity issue cam e up w ith a n u m b er of recom m enda­ tions, one of w hich was the esta b lish ­ m en t of a child day care im provem ent fund from a variety of public a n d private funding sources. T he fund would be used to stim ulate innovative a rra n g e ­ m ents w hich would improve day care

“W hat would a tru ly comprehen­ sive data system on this subject look l i k e ” asks Carole E lliso n , “and who ought to be m ain tain in g it?"

C o n v en ien t c h ild care: S tu d e n t/m o th e r B e tty K ing looks in on her d a u g h te r K risty b etw e en cla sse s a t C u y a h o g a C o m m u n ity College.

services in a cost-effective m an n er; im ­ prove th e quality of care; an d provide an objective d ata base, th ro u g h a cost study, from w hich difficult child care cost decisions can be m ade.

Last Septem ber, playing a double role of convenor/educator, T he Cleveland Foundation, w ith th e cooperation of The George G und Foundation, th e F ounda­ tion Advisory Council of th e Jew ish C om m unity Federation, hosted an in ­ form ational lu n ch eo n for th e rep resen ­ tatives of 20 foundations an d corpora­ tions a t w hich a know ledgeable panel of experts were invited to speak. And, w ith a g ran t of $150,000 approved a t th a t m o n th ’s q u arterly m eetin g of The Cleveland Foundation’s D istribution Com m ittee, th e F oundation also becam e one of th e m ajor co n trib u to rs to the new C om m unity Day Care Fund. The TVeu-Mart Fund, a su p p o rtin g organiza­ tion of T he Cleveland Foundation, is also a contributor.

The C om m unity Day Care Fund, w hich is being ad m in istered by the Federation for C o m m unity Planning, will be su p p o rtin g several prom ising m odel projects w hich have been chosen from am o n g 72 proposals generated by an initial appeal to som e 1,500 providers of child care. T he ideas include after­ school care for young school-age chil­ dren on th e school prem ises, a day care program b ased a t a public library, an d a netw ork linking up hom e-care providers —in a k ind of satellite day care su p p o rt sy stem —w ith a nearby cen ter w hich could su p p ly co n su ltin g aid, training, back-up care or even eq uipm ent. O ther

ideas to be tested out include a capital im provem ents loan fund and a countywide scholarship program to assist fam ilies in need of child care who ca n ­ not afford it.

The C om m unity Day Care Planning Project will also be assessing and docum enting over the next two years the quality and cost of care available at a sam ple of 62 different facilities in order to provide funding and referral agencies w ith b etter data on w hich to base decisions. “The challenge,” says project director Carole Ellison, “is figur­ ing out w hat sort of d ata we need to do m eaningful long-term planning. Several agencies now have pieces of it. But w hat would a truly com prehensive data system on this subject look like, and who ought to be m aintaining it? ” And while it is about this work, CDCPP will be offering consulting ser­ vices to those centers w hose care could be upgraded or w hose operations could be ru n m ore cost-effectively. “The idea behind all this is really a sim ple one,” says Ellison, “how to get the m ost—and the b est—care for the least am o u n t of money.” Part of the answer, she stresses, lies in finding out w hat works. The other p a rt lies in developing strategies for bringing existing resources together in an effective way.

T he last of CDCPP’s tasks, therefore, will be to recom m end a stru ctu re and m odel for the ongoing collaboration of public and private institutions. Clearly, a good sta rt has already been made.

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Funders, policy m akers and day care providers are joining forces—th a n k s to a key consensus-building project—to de­ velop more, b etter and less expensive day care. T he resu lts can only m ean fewer h ead ach es an d h eartach es for w orking w om en an d a growing n u m b er of single fathers, an d equally im p o rtan t benefits for th e co m m u n ity ’s children.

Saving K id s Through the B u d d y System

Steiner's idea was to m atch grade school kid s id en tified as having problem s w ith teens fro m their own neigh­ borhoods who are good role models.

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“As th e tw ig is bent, so grows the tree,” Oscar Steiner, founder of the Big B uddy/ Little B uddy program , responds w hen asked w h at inspired his lifelong interest in children. He recalls th a t his father once m ade him tw ist a pliable twig in a circle. “W hen we w ent back som e m o n th s later it was growing th a t way, and, w hen we tried to undo it, we broke it. It was no longer flexible. Young chil­ dren are flexible, th ey ’re plastic.” And that, he explains, is w hat led him to create, alm ost 13 years ago, a special program aim ed a t preadolescents who lack strong role m odels or the firm, car­ ing h an d of an older bro th er or sister to keep th em m oving on the straig h t and narrow.

S teiner was only a young college senior him self w hen he founded the Cleveland ch ap ter of the Jew ish Big B rothers (JBB) in 1918. (It was Oscar Steiner, too, who established JB B ’s interdenom inational counterpart, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, in Cleveland a few years later.) And one would have thought th a t th a t was enough of a contribution for one lifetime. But in 1972, after several decades of sparking num ero u s other philanthropic projects an d ru n n in g a successful business, he found him self th inking again about a program w hich would su p p lem en t Big B rothers’ wellknow n work w ith adolescents w ho have already had a b ru sh w ith juvenile court.

And Big B uddy/L ittle Buddy was born.

S tein er’s idea was to m atch grade school children identified as having be­ havioral or family problem s w ith teen­ agers from their own neighborhoods who are positive role models. The point, ex­ plains Steiner, is to intercept these chil­ dren before they get into m ore serious trouble.

From the window of his office over­ looking Public Square, you can look down O ntario S treet to the Ju stic e Center, a co n stan t rem inder of the cost of crime. Taxpayers, says Steiner, spend

One on one: B ig B u d d y T h m a ra Moore g ive s L ittle B u d d y Larzell S c o tt s o m e p o in te rs on the g a m e o f life.

a t least $25,000 to keep one prisoner there a year. If his program prevents only 10 p ercen t of th e nearly 400 Little B ud­ dies cu rren tly enrolled from ending up in jail, it will have saved a m illion dollars.

A bargain, he m aintains, in re tu rn for the investm ent of a b o u t $160,000 to p u t those 400 kids together w ith Big Buddies.

T he Cleveland F oundation agreed, an d invested $15,000 in D ecem ber 1983—a n d a n o th e r $70,000 over the n ext two years to su p p o rt the program ’s expansion into the Cleveland public school system . Teens of both sexes join Big B uddy clubs in the high schools, and grade school teach ers refer potential Little B uddies to the program ’s field representatives. E ach pairing requires careful recru itm en t, m onitoring and contact w ith th e p aren ts of both the Big and Little Buddy.

The schools have proved an effective way of reaching kids. T he n u m b er of pairings tripled betw een 1983 an d 1984.

Big B uddies bring th eir Little Buddies to program w ide events, su ch as a per­ form ance of T h e N utcracker ballet or a Cavaliers gam e, or to th e bowling or skating parties sponsored by th e clubs.

But one-on-one activities are th e h eart of the program . J o h n Hay stu d e n ts speak of shopping, trip s to th e library, playing cards or checkers, shooting b askets on a corner playground, flying k ites—and especially of heart-to-heart talks w ith th eir Little Buddies.

Som e refer candidly to pro b lem s—a Little B uddy who ru n s away or steals or has been uprooted from a hom e. B ut

S teiner s claim , “T he older children are easily challenged into accepting resp o n ­ sibility,” seem s to be borne out. New club m em b ers clam or to be paired.

One su ch older s tu d e n t su m s up the appeal of th e program to th e teen s who get involved: “I w ant to give a Little B ud­ dy a chan ce I d idn’t have.”

B rea k in g the C ycle o f D om estic Violence

F ran k ’s h ad a bad day a t work, so he stops a t th e b ar for a quick one. W hen he gets hom e, he ju s t w ants to eat, have an o th er beer, an d w atch TV. B ut as soon as he walks in th e door, his wife asks, “W here were you? W hat took you so long?” He th in k s to him self. “She never gives m e a break, doesn’t tru s t me, thinks I’m out ru n n in g around.” His chest tightens, his h e a rt pounds, he breaks into a sw eat an d tension m o u n ts until it explodes in violence once again.

It’s a way of life for too m any—28 p er­ cent of all m arried couples according to a pioneering stu d y done in 1985. B ut it’s one vicious circle th a t doesn’t have to be unbroken. T h a t’s th e conviction th a t has sustained Edw ard C ham berlain and David Larsen in th e four years th ey ’ve ru n a su p p o rt group for m en w ho b atter their partners. A program since 1984 of Parents A nonym ous of N ortheast Ohio, the project is now know n as RAISE (Re­ solve Abuse: Instill Self-Esteem). And its track record is sufficiently im pressive, th a t last year a two-year Foundation grant of $39,155 was m ade to RAISE to enable it to increase th e n u m b e r of per­ sons it can handle.

RAISE seeks, like sim ilar program s in St. Louis an d Boston, to break th e cycle of violence. It is directed a t m en referred by w om en’s shelters, m unicipal courts or h u m an service agencies. Professionally led peer su p p o rt groups teach strategies for nonviolence over a 12-week period.

The m en m u st first com e to see, an d to acknowledge, says David Larsen, th a t “violence is a decision one m akes.” They learn to heed th e physical sen satio n s th a t precede th eir violence—th e sweat, the poun d in g an d th e tig h ten in g —an d to defuse th e fam iliar tim e bomb, before it explodes, w ith stan d a rd relaxation tec h ­ niques.

RAISE em p h asizes th e relationship betw een thin k in g , feeling an d acting. Ir­ rational thin k in g , su c h as F ra n k ’s a s ­ su m p tio n s a b o u t h is wife’s suspicions, leads to irratio n al acts. If th e m en can learn to im agine rational, positive re­ sponses to situ atio n s th a t typically end in violence, RAISE coordinators explain,

“V io len ce is a d e c isio n ” : lea rn in g to d e fu se th e fa m ilia r tim e b o m b before it explodes.

they can use those strategies the next tim e the situations actually do arise.

It takes a lot of hard work to analyze one’s self so thoroughly and to tu rn one’s thinking around so en tirely But for the 130 m en who com pleted all 12 weeks of the program betw een 1981 and 1984, the results were well w orth it. Less th an 5 percent of those m en have returned to batterin g th eir loved ones.

Lake C ounty Y Ex p a n d s to Serve Health-M inded

Several years ago cynics were predicting th a t the new jogging craze would prove only a passing fad, and th a t A m ericans would soon tire of th eir two-tone Adidas and m atching sweats, setting the alarm clock for six and m eeting two friends on the corner for a bracing trot in the early d a w n ... and settle back into th eir over­ stuffed chairs w ith a can of beer and a hero sandw ich, growing old gracefully.

B ut ru n n e rs still dash by during the downtown lunch hour, and health clubs and corporate cinder tracks are thriving.

A concern w ith fitness seem s to be here to stay.

In Lake County, one of the fastest grow­ ing areas in G reater Cleveland, an esti­ m ated 20,000 m en and women are duespaying m em bers of the YMCA. In fact, use of the Y’s several facilities h as grown so steadily over the last decade or so th a t its board decided th a t the Lake County Y’s Central B ranch in Painesville would

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G et dow n: w o rk in g o a t a t th e L ake C o u n ty Y

have to expand to keep up w ith the tim es an d th e increasing dem and. By J u n e of 1984 alm ost $4.3 m illion had been raised toward a $6.6 m illion capital cam paign. To help th is w orthw hile proj­ ect a tta in its goal, T he Cleveland F oun­ dation pledged a contribution of $100,000 w hich, it is hoped, will leverage th e raising of an o th er $1 m illion from a select group of founda­ tions, corporations and individuals.

The expanded Painesville b ran ch will include an exercise/activities concourse featuring a three-lane running/jogging track, a 24-by-30-foot instructional sw im m ing pool w ith shallow depth for use in teach ing and physical reh ab ilita­ tion; sep arate locker an d shower room facilities for w om en and girls, expansion of th e w om en’s fitness center, and the addition of a new m en’s fitness center.

And w ith th e new physical facilities will com e such new and diverse program s as older ad u lt recreation groups, familyoriented sports, after-school child care, corporate health en h an cem en t program s, ad u lt fitness testing an d counseling, and classes exam ining all the com ponents of w ellness from n u tritio n to m otivation.

Agencies Get M anagem ent Help fro m the Pros

“L a s t year we decided it was time to start d ealing w ith this concept o f being a m odel program ,” says Kavelac, “but we had no idea how to do that.”

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M arita Kavalec used to call th e Youth M ediation Services Program “th e bestkept secret on Cleveland’s n ear west side.” And it was a great frustration to her. In stitu ted nearly four years ago as a cen ter w here trained com m unity volun­ teers can help w hen young people ru n afoul of th eir schools, families, neigh­ bors or local m erchants, the program had been in tended from the o u tset to serve as a m odel for other com m unities seeking to establish th eir own a lte rn a ­ tives to the juvenile court system .

“It took u s a couple of years to p u t it together,” says Kavalec, the cen ter’s director. “And last year we decided it was tim e to sta rt dealing w ith th is con­ cept of being a m odel program , b u t we had no idea how to do th a t—how to m arket th e concept, how to approach, sell an d price our services, and deal w ith any groups th a t m ight have in terest in replication.” And even w hen they did get calls, adm its Kavelac, “We were really at a loss as to how to protect the product th a t we have here. There was sort of a conflict: It’s p art of our m ission to

sp read th e word a b o u t m e d i a io n , b u t we also w ant to m ake su re th a t o th ers do it right, an d we don’t w an t to g et ripped off. B ut we had practically zero dollars, an d we knew no one w ith th a t expertise.

Kavelac found th e a n s w e r in U nited Way Service’s M a n a g e m e n t A ssistance P rogram (MAP), a co n su ltin g service de­ signed to help im prove th e m an ag em en t of nonprofit o rganizations dealing in h u m a n services to th e com m unity.

W ithin a few weeks, U nited Way staff m em b ers a n d volunteers h ad helped the M ediation S ervices Program to m ore clearly define its n eed s and, m ore im ­ portant, h ad found two volunteers from a large local acco u n tin g firm w ho were w illing to sh are th eir expertise in m ar­ keting. As a result, Youth M ediation Services is now w orking o u t th e final details of a plan th a t will enable it to spread th e word effectively and effi­ ciently—w ith o u t sap p in g precious staff tim e an d s c a n t resources. “They were really skilled, really helpful,” Kavalec says of the volunteers. “A fringe benefit was th a t it was real refreshing to work w ith new, energetic people w ho had a different perspective on things.”

M ention MAP to a leader of any sm all nonprofit agency in G reater Cleveland an d ch an ces are you’ll receive a n equally en th u siastic response. Now in its third year of operation, th e project m atches volunteers from corporations, agencies an d educational in stitu tio n s w ith orga­ nizations, ranging from th e Cleveland H earing an d Speech C enter to th e Wel­ fare R ights O rganization, th a t need m anagerial an d technical help. Since its inception, MAP h as provided assistance to som e 70 agencies—h alf of w hich are not m em bers of U nited Way, an d m any of w hich receive direct g ran ts from The Cleveland Foundation. MAP h as devel­ oped a cadre of 77 volunteer consultants w ith su ch specialties as fiscal m anage­ m ent, organizational developm ent and m an ag em en t inform ation system s.

Agencies w hich can afford to do so are asked to pay a nom inal fee, an d all p ar­ ticip an ts work u n d e r co n tracts—“ju st as if you bro u g h t in Peat M arwick or McKinsey or any o th er professional con­ sultant,” says Irv Lauber, who, as associate director of U nited Way S er­ vices, oversees the program .

Recognizing th e im portance of devel­ oping the organizational skills an d in ­ ternal capability of g ran tees so th a t they can handle th eir own problem s and b etter serve th eir constituencies, The

was expanded to include Cleveland Heights, and in November a project coor­ dinator was brought on to ru n a series of w orkshops for the C onnection m em bers focusing on su ch m atters as housing available to the seniors in the area, the provision of services, A lzheim er’s Dis­ ease and related disorders, and crisishandling. The participants were intro­ duced to the resources and personnel of the B enjam in Rose Institute, and en ­ couraged to utilize them .

T his M arch an o th er series of sem inars presented a t Plym outh C hurch in Shaker H eights dealt w ith the Challenge of the Aging Family. And in April a day-long w orkshop for senior volunteers was spon­ sored by BRI. “The intent,” explains Dr. Mario Tonti, associate director for com ­ m u n ity and family services, “was to give volunteers added tools to enhance their m inistry of serving older persons. We hope the resu lt is th a t individual churches will be energized to m ore crea­ Senior Connection Focuses on tively develop th eir own program s, and Heights E ld e r ly th a t the Senior C onnection will be the The B enjam in Rose Institute, w hich has im petus for continued interfaith been serving th e elderly of Cleveland cooperation in joint program s.” since th e early years of th e century, has In the works, says Tonti, as a direct re­ been w orking over th e p ast few years to su lt of m o nths of working w ith individu­ realize two special goals. T he first was al churches, are two prom ising projects. the involvem ent of inform al care pro­ The First U nitarian C hurch is form ing a viders—su ch as families, neighbors and board of directors who will be charged ch u rch es—in th e care of th e elderly. The w ith developing a Share-a-Hom e for neighborhood seniors—an exciting con­ second was bringing services to the neighborhoods in w hich elderly persons cept on w hich BRI staff will continue to act as consultants. And, in response to live by estab lish in g neighborhood growing concern about the isolation of centers. “u n c h u rch ed ” seniors, the Cleveland One su ch satellite facility was e sta b ­ H eights Office on Aging is developing a lished in 1981 on S h ak er S quare w ith year-long program of dinners to be given the help of a $135,222 g ran t from The by three neighboring churches which Cleveland F oundation an d an o th er will be available to all seniors in their $181,500 g ran t th e following year. Two area regardless of chu rch affiliation. sm aller additional g ran ts of $16,000 in 1983 an d $17,500 in 1984 have funded a Tonti is hopeful th a t this program will be replicated by other churches and neigh­ strategic o u treach effort aim ed a t tra in ­ borhoods in the Heights area. ing and netw orking—or co nnecting in ­ From the Foundation’s point of view, form ally to one a n o th e r for purp o ses of BRI’s Senior C onnection project is a good m u tu al su p p o rt an d cooperation—a exam ple of how a relatively few dollars n u m b er of social organizations an d can have a far-reaching im pact by bring­ sm aller agencies serving th e elderly in ing together a netw ork of previously u n ­ the S haker S quare area, su ch as Meals connected resources and developing a on W heels, th e Jew ish Fam ily Service Association a n d th e S h ak er Senior Adult kind of synergism . And if things work properly, the resulting netw ork begins to Office. T he resu lt is “T he Senior Con­ nection,” a council m ade up of volunteers take on a life of its own. T h at seem s to be w hat is happening in the case of The from several neighborhood groups.

Senior Connection.

B enjam in Rose h as also been w orking with nearby c h u rch es on increasing th eir co m m itm en t to th e elderly and, w here c h u rch e s already have special program s, helping im prove th e effec­ tiveness of volunteers w orking w ith seniors. In 1984 th e o u treach project

Cleveland F oundation h as invested $226,000 in MAP since 1980, including a $100,000 g ran t for 1984-85.

Most frequently req u ested is assis­ tance w ith fund raising, says United Way’s Lauber, so th e program h as begun to offer group “cram co u rses” for fu n d ­ raising neophytes w ho are n ot yet able to benefit from th e m ore typical one-onone consultations. B ut often, L auber’s “diagnostician s” have found, th e ag en ­ cies’ need for new m oney can be eased through m ore efficient m an ag em en t practices. And, as A nita S m ith, director of W omen Together, notes, “It’s having th a t objective person looking a t us th a t’s so valuable. We couldn’t possibly have afforded to pay a con su ltan t. We m ight have been able to find som eone to vol­ u n teer to do it, b u t we couldn’t even af­ ford the tim e an d resources to look for someone.”

The Senior Connection is a good exam ple o f how a few dollars can have a big im pact by bringing together a network o f fo rm e rly uncon­ nected resources.

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A lc o h o lis m S e r v ic e s o f C le v e la n d , In c .—S tu d y to d e te rm in e th e feasi­ bility of e sta b lish in g a flex-tim e day tre a tm e n t p ro g ra m for alcoholism $ 3 2 ,3 3 0

Social Services Grants

A m e r ic a n R ed C ross, G re a ter C le v e ­ la n d C h a p te r —H ispanic o u tre a c h p r o g r a m ...................................$ 2 3 ,0 0 0 H ousing relo catio n pro g ram

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A n ti-D e fa m a tio n L eagu e o f B ’n a i B ’r ith , N ew York, N ew York—Gift from th e H alle F u n d ...............$ 2 ,5 0 0 B e e c h B rook —E x p a n sio n of th e S p a u ld in g for C hild ren A doption P r o g r a m ...................................$ 2 5 ,1 0 0 B e tte r w a y , In c .—S ta rt-u p s u p p o rt for a ho m e for a d o le sc en t girls . . $ 5 ,0 0 0 B e t t y J a n e M em o ria l R e h a b ilita ­ tio n C en ter, T iffin , O h io—E sta b ­ lish m e n t of a satellite office to provide vocational reh a b ilita tio n serv ices in Findlay, Ohio, over th re e years* $ 4 5 ,0 0 0 B oy S c o u ts o f A m e r ic a , G rea ter C le v e la n d C o u n cil No. 4 4 0 — In-School S c o u tin g P rogram in e le m e n ta ry s c h o o ls .................. $ 1 7 ,8 6 0 Local p a rtic ip a tio n in th e N ational E xploring C o n fe re n c e ................$ 2 ,5 0 0 B oy S c o u ts o f A m e r ic a , N o r th e a s t O hio C o u n cil, P a in e s v ille , O h i o O perating s u p p o r t .......................... $ 5 0 0

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C itiz e n s O p p o sin g D ru g/A lcoh ol A b u se, F in d la y , O h io —C o m m u n ity In terv en tio n W orkshop rela te d to a d ru g a n d alcohol in te rv en tio n /p rev e n ­ tio n program * ......................... $ 20,000 C ity C lub F orum F o u n d a tio n , In c .— S e n io r c itizen a tte n d a n c e a t th e w eekly fo ru m s e r i e s ................... $ 4 ,6 2 0 T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n (Inc.)— Living a t H om e p ro g ra m of th e C om ­ m o n w ealth F u n d over tw o y ears $200,000

T echnical a s sis ta n c e for g ra n t to th e F ed eratio n for C o m m u n ity P la n n in g for C hild Day C are P la n n in g P ro ject’s Day C are Im p ro v e m e n t F u n d S 5 .0 0 0 T echnical a s sis ta n c e to T h e Teen F a th er P r o g r a m ............................$ 5 ,0 0 0 C le v e la n d H ea r in g a n d S p e e c h C e n te r —E s ta b lis h m e n t of a c e n te r for ch ro n ic c o m m u n ic a tio n d isorders $ 4 7 ,5 0 0 T h e C le v e la n d S o c ie t y for th e B lin d —E x p a n sio n of staff in preschool p ro g ra m over two y e a r s ............. $ 9 ,0 9 0 M a n ag e m en t in fo rm a tio n service co­ o rd in a to r to develop a m a n a g e m e n t in fo rm a tio n a n d p ro g ra m evaluation sy stem over two y e a r s ..............$ 3 5 ,3 8 5 O p eratin g s u p p o r t ............... $ 3 2 ,2 5 0

B o y s’ C lu b s o f C le v e la n d , In c .— C apital c a m p a ig n a n d o p e ra tin g s u p ­ po rt for new w est side club over two y e a r s ........................................... $ 1 7 5 ,0 0 0

C o m m u n ity A c tio n C o m m issio n , F in d lay, O h io —H an co ck S enior T ra n sp o rtatio n Program * . . . $ 4 ,0 0 0

C en ter for H um an R e la tio n s — E stab lish m e n t of th e C enter for H u m a n R elations over two years .................................................. $ 3 0 ,0 0 0

C o m m u n ity In fo rm a tio n /V o lu n teer A c tio n C e n te r (CIVAC)—Develop­ m e n t of a c o m m u n ity w id e d a ta base sy stem over th re e y ears . . . $ 1 1 7 ,1 9 3

C h ild C o n se r v a tio n C ou n cil o f G reater C le v e la n d —E x p an sio n of Big B uddy/Little B uddy Program (second a n d th ird years) . . . $ 7 0 ,0 0 0

C o u n cil G a r d e n s—R em odeling an d fu rn ish in g of th e k itc h e n a re a . $ 1 6 ,0 0 0

C h ild G u id an ce C e n te r —M erger of T he E leanor G erson School (form erly T he School on M agnolia a n d Parkview T h e rap e u tic Preschool) w ith th e Child G uidance C enter (third year) $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 C h ild ren ’s D e fe n s e Fund, W ash in g­ to n , D.C.—E stab lish m e n t of an Ohio office for th e C hildren’s D efense F und (third a n d fourth years) . . . $ 100,000

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T h e C h ish o lm D evelopm ent a n d evaluation of a vo catio n al p ro g ra m for alcoholics over tw o y ears $ 4 9 ,6 8 8

C o u n cil on H a za r d o u s M a te r ia ls — H azard o u s m a te ria ls in fo rm a tio n and e d u c a tio n c e n t e r ....................$ 3 0 ,0 0 0 T h e C o u n cil on H u m an R e la tio n s — U nited N ations Day lu n c h e o n w ith the form er c h a n ce llo r of W est G erm any, H elm u t S c h m id t .......................$ 2 ,5 0 0

C o u n cil o f In te r n a tio n a l Pro­ g r a m s —E x p a n sio n of C leveland In­ te rn a tio n a l V olunteer O rg a n iz a tio n s’ c o o rd in a tin g fu n ctio n a n d activ ities for low -incom e m in o rity youth $ 2 0 ,3 2 5 T h irtie th A n n iversary C onference

$ 10,000 T h e C o v en try Y outh C e n te r — E x p an sio n of c e n t e r ............ $ 2 8 ,0 0 0 C u yah oga C o u n ty B oard o f C o m m is s io n e r s —Youth S ervices C oordinating C o uncil’s s u m m e r yo u th p r o g r a m ..........................$ 8 5 ,0 0 0 C u yah oga C o u n ty W elfare D e p a r t­ m e n t—C rippled a n d h a n d ic a p p e d ch ild ren ’s f u n d .............................$ 8,000 “G ive-A -C hristm as” p ro g ra m th ro u g h th e S pecial O p p o rtu n ity a n d Service F u n d ................................................$ 5 ,5 0 0 D e lta S ig m a T h e ta S o r o r ity , Inc., G reater C le v e la n d C h a p te r — S u m m it II—a conference related to issu es for b lac k single m o th e rs $ 1 ,2 5 0 D ial I n d u s tr ie s , I n c .—Im p le m e n ta ­ tion of a p rin tsh o p tra in in g a n d sheltered w ork c e n te r (second a n d th ird y e a r s ) ..............................$ 2 7 ,7 5 0 D io c e se o f C le v e la n d (C ath olic)— E stab lish m e n t of a co n su lta tio n c e n te r ........................................$ 4 0 ,0 0 0 D ivorce E q u ity, In c .—C o m m u n ity divorce ed u c atio n program . $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 Far W est C e n te r —A dditional s u p ­ port for c o n stru c tio n of a new facility .................................................... $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 F ed era tio n o f C a th o lic C o m m u n ity S e r v ic e s —R esearch co rrelatio n s and d ata analysis o b tain ed from sen io r citizen s’ q u e s tio n n a ir e .......... $ 2,000 F e d e r a tio n for C o m m u n ity P la n ­ n in g —A d m in istra tio n of th e c h a ri­ table p o rtio n of th e su p e rm a rk e t s e ttle ­ m e n t (third y e a r ) ...................... $ 6 ,0 5 3 Child Day C are P la n n in g P ro ject’s Day Care Im p ro v em en t F u n d . . $ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0 D evelopm ent of a long-range p lan for the C itizens M ental H ealth A ssem bly .................................................... $ 1 3 ,8 0 0 Survey of pu b lic a ttitu d e s a b o u t h u m a n service p ro g ra m s . $ 5 ,0 0 0 Training, c o o rd in a tin g a n d case m a n a g e m e n t a ssis ta n c e for a sp e c ts of th e Intrafam ily S ex u al A buse Project (second y e a r) ............................$ 4 8 ,8 2 0

T h e G o ld en A ge C e n te r s o f G rea ter C le v e la n d —M utual A ssistance N et­ w ork over two y e a r s ...............$ 6 5 ,5 2 0 G re a ter C le v e la n d N eig h b o rh o o d C e n te r s A s s o c ia t io n —Interagency project for h igh-risk y o u th operated by th e E a st E n d N eighborhood H ouse $ 1 9 ,0 0 0 G roup H om es, In c., F in d lay, O h i o C hild care staff in a hom e for em o tio n ­ ally d istu rb e d boys (second year)* . ............................'....................... $ 5 ,7 8 5 H an cock C o u n ty B oard o f M en tal R e ta r d a tio n , F in d lay, O hio—Devel­ o p m e n t of a class for low -functioning, m u lti-h a n d ic a p p e d m en ta lly retard ed a n d developm entally disabled a d u lts in B lan ch ard Valley A dult Center* $ 4 5 ,0 0 0 H aram bee: S e r v ic e s to B lack F a m ilie s —TVaining of prospective adoptive p a re n ts over 16 m o n th s $ 3 2 ,2 2 2 I n s t it u t e for C h ild A d v o c a c y C hild advocacy a n d child welfare system m on ito rin g activities over two y e a r s ............................................ $ 7 5 ,0 0 0 J e w is h F am ily S e r v ic e A s s o c ia ­ t io n —C oordinated services for alcoholics a n d th e ir fam ilies over two y e a r s ....................................... $ 1 1 1 ,6 7 0

P a r e n ts A n o n y m o u s o f N o r th ­ e a s te r n Ohio, In c .—RAISE (Resolve A buse: Instill Self-Esteem ) p rogram for m en involved in dom estic violence over two y e a r s .........................$ 3 9 ,1 5 5 P la n n e d P aren th ood o f N o r th w e st Ohio, Inc., Tbledo, O hio—Coordi­ n a te d countyw ide o u tre a ch program in H ancock C o u n ty * ............... $ 1 1 ,5 9 2 P rod igal Youth an d F am ily S e r v ic e s —Diversion program for teenage shoplifters (second year) .... $ 4 ,5 0 0 T h e B e n ja m in R ose I n s t it u t e — A ctivities to increase public aw areness of adaptive aid s for th e elderly $ 5 ,0 0 0 O perating s u p p o r t ...............$ 3 2 ,2 5 0 T raining an d netw orking social o rganizations serving th e elderly in th e S h ak er S quare/S haker H eights/ Cleveland H eights a re a . . . . $ 1 7 ,5 0 0 S t. M ary M agd alen e C hurch, W illow ick , O hio—E x pansion of C atholic C areer S ervices’ parish -b ased em ploy­ m e n t p r o g ra m .........................$ 1 5 ,0 0 0 T he S o c ie ty for C rip p led C h ildren o f C uyahoga C ounty, In c.—C apital cam paign over two years . . $ 100,000 A m a sa S to n e H ou se, I n c . O perating su p p o rt ...............$ 3 2 ,2 5 0

J e w is h V o ca tio n a l S e r v ic e —PRO C leveland (Prom oting Relevant Op­ tio n s in Cleveland) program (third y e a r ) ............................................ $ 5 0 ,0 0 0

S u n s h in e C h ild ren ’s D e v e lo p m e n t Fund, M aum ee, O hio—O perating s u p p o r t ....................................... $ 1,000

J u d s o n P ark—Renovation of J u d s o n M a n o r..........................................$ 7 5 ,0 0 0

T he Teen F ath er P rogram —S tart-u p a n d operatin g su p p o rt . . . . $ 3 0 ,0 0 0

Lake E rie G irl S c o u t C o u n cil— O perating s u p p o r t ......................... $ 5 0 0

U n ite d C erebral P a lsy A s s o c ia ­ tio n , Inc., o f C u yahoga C o u n ty — N eeds survey a n d m a n a g e m e n t a s se s s ­ m e n t for T he Society for C rippled C hildren of C uyahoga County, Inc., a n d th e U nited C erebral Palsy A ssocia­ tion, In c........................................ $ 1 5 ,0 0 0

L ittle S is t e r s o f th e Poor— M odernization of St. M ary a n d J o s e p h h o m e for th e aged poor . . . $ 100,000 M a ry crest S c h o o l—S tart-u p funds for a resid en tial aftercare program for older ad o lescen t g irls .............. $ 1 3 ,1 2 5 M axim u m In d e p e n d e n t L ivin g A s s o c ia tio n —D irector for new h o u s ­ ing fa c ility .................................... $ 4 ,5 0 0 S tart-u p su p p o rt for a p a rtm e n t b u ild ­ ing for th e h a n d ic a p p e d . . . $ 20,000 OASIS, In c .—S ta rt-u p su p p o rt for dow ntow n sen io r c e n te r . . $ 1 3 ,5 0 0

U n ite d Way o f C o llier C ou nty, N a p les, F lo r id a —O perating su p p o rt $500 U n ite d Way o f G rea ter Toledo, Tbledo, O hio—O perating su p p o rt $500 U n ite d Way o f Lake C ou n ty, Inc., P a in e s v ille , O hio—O perating s u p p o r t ..............................................$ 5 0 0

O hio S ta te U n iv e r s ity D e v e lo p ­ m e n t Fun d, C olu m b u s, O hio—C uya­ h o g a C ou n ty E xten sio n S ervice’s C on­ s u m e r Inform ation on H ealth Care b o o k l e t s ...................................$ 2 2 ,1 7 5 57

(Following recip ien ts a n d p ro g ra m s d e sig n a te d b y donor)

T h e C h u rch H o m e — G en eral s u p p o r t .............

A lc o h o lis m S e r v ic e s o f C le v e la n d , In c .—General s u p p o r t.................... $ 4 4

T h e C h u rch o f t h e Savicrar, U n ite d M e th o d is t—G en eral s u p p o rt . . S 4 .4 2 7

A m e r ic a n B ib le S o c ie ty , N ew York, N ew York—General support . . $ 5 5 1 V o c a tio n a l G u id a n c e a n d R e h a b ili­ t a tio n S e r v ic e s —E s ta b lis h m e n t of a c o m p re h en siv e v o catio n al re h a b ilita ­ tio n c e n te r o n th e n e a r w est side over th re e y e a r s ..............................$ 1 4 6 ,5 8 4 S ales e n g i n e e r ......................... $ 2 7 ,2 8 0 W est S id e C o m m u n ity H o u se — A pp lian ces a n d rep a irs a sso ciated w ith a g roup h o m e ....................$ 4 ,5 0 0 W est S id e C o m m u n ity M en tal H e a lth C e n te r —In itiatio n of a V olunteer Involvem ent P rogram over two y e a r s ................................... $ 7 0 ,4 4 9 T h e Young M en’s C h r is tia n A s s o c ia ­ tio n o f C le v e la n d —‘S h o es for K ids” pro ject (second y e a r ) ................. $ 8,000

,6 ,0 6 3

C h u rch o f t h e W e ste r n R e s e r v e G en eral s u p p o r t .................... $ 1 1 ,0 0 0

A m e r ic a n R ed C ross, G rea ter C le v e la n d C h a p te r —General su p p o r t.......................................... $ 2 ,8 6 0

C le v e la n d C h r is tia n H om e, I n c . G en eral s u p p o r t .......................$ 2 ,3 9 6

B eech B r o o k General s u p p o r t....................$ 4 9 ,0 3 0

C ity o f C lev ela n d , D ir e cto r o f P u b lic S a f e t y —P revention of d elin q u en cy a m o n g b o y s ................................... $ 5 1 6

B e lle fa ir e /J e w ish C h ild ren ’s B u reau —General su p p o rt...................... $ 6 ,2 8 9 B ig B r o th e r s/B ig S is t e r s o f G rea ter C le v e la n d —General support for the Big Brothers P rogram ..........$ 1 0 ,7 7 6

T h e C le v e la n d P s y c h o a n a ly tic S o c ie t y F o u n d a t io n G en eral s u p p o r t .............................. $ 3 0 R e search a n d a p p lic a tio n of p sy ch o an a ly sis a n d s u p p o rt projects $ 5 3 ,3 5 5

Boy S c o u ts o f A m e r ic a , G rea ter C le v e la n d C ou n cil No. 4 4 0 General s u p p o r t...............................$ 1 2 6

T h e C le v e la n d S o c ie t y for t h e B lind —G en eral s u p p o r t ............... $ 1 9 0 ,1 9 2

B o y s’ C lu b s o f C le v e la n d , In c .— General s u p p o r t...............................$ 9 1 6

R esearch or an y o th e r p u rp o se .......................$ 1 5 ,8 7 1

T h e Young M en’s C h r istia n A s s o c i­ a tio n o f Lake C ou n ty, P a in e s v ille , O h io—C apital c a m p a ig n over th re e y e a r s ......................................... $ 100,000

E liz a B ry a n t C e n t e r General s u p p o r t....................$ 1 6 ,2 6 8

O p eratin g s u p p o r t ......................$ 1 ,0 0 0

C a th o lic C h a r itie s C o rp o ra tio n — Benefit of aged p e r so n s.............$ 3 ,0 0 0

T h e Young W om en’s C h r istia n A s s o c ia tio n o f C le v e la n d —Project R edirection for teen-age m o th e rs ...................................................... $ 9 9 ,3 5 4

Benefit of Parm adale-St. Anthony Youth Services V illage............... $ 8 ,6 6 8

E a s t E nd N e ig h b o rh o o d H o u s e G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

CEDU F o u n d a tio n , In c., L agu na N ig u e l, C a lif o r n ia General s u p p o r t...................... $ 2 ,7 1 7

F a irm o u n t P r e s b y te r ia n C h u r c h G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 1 ,8 4 3

S tu d y of financial o p tio n s related to long-term p la n n in g ................... $ 5 ,0 0 0 TOTAL SOCIAL SERVICES GRANTS—UNDESIGNATED ........................................... $ 3 ,0 8 3 ,4 2 5

C e n te r for H u m an S e r v ic e s — General su p p o r t........................... $ 2 2 6

C u yah oga C o u n ty W elfare D ep a rt­ m e n t - S p e c i a l clien t n e e d s . . . $ 4 2 2

F ed eration for C o m m u n ity P lanning —G en eral s u p p o r t ....................$ 3 ,4 3 6

General support for the C ounseling D iv is io n ...................................$ 3 4 ,1 4 0

G eneral su p p o rt for th e C o m m u n ity In form ation/V olunteer A ction C enter (CIVAC)........................................ $ 2 ,6 6 4

General support for the Day Nursery Association of Cleveland . . . . $ 3 ,7 9 4

G eneral s u p p o rt for n e e d y a n d deserv­ ing fam ilies a n d c h il d r e n ..........$ 9 0 6

General support for the H om em akerHealth Aide D iv isio n ...............$ 2 ,0 0 0

T h e F ir s t C o n g r e g a tio n a l Church o f S o n o m a , S o n o m a , C a lif o r n ia G eneral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 1 2 6

C h ild C o n se r v a tio n C o u n cil o f G rea ter C le v e la n d —Big Buddy/Little Buddy p r o g r a m ....................$ 2 9 ,9 4 4 C h ild G u id a n ce C e n t e r Operating s u p p o r t...................... $ 3 0 2 T h e C h ild ren ’s A id S o c ie t y — General su p p o r t........................... $ 4 2 3

T h e F ir s t U n ite d M e th o d is t C h urch , A sh la n d , O h io—G eneral s u p p o r t ........................................ $ 5 ,5 3 3 G o o d w ill I n d u s tr ie s o f G reater C le v e la n d —G eneral s u p p o r t . . $ 9 2 6

General support for the Industrial H o m e ............... $ 6 0 ,5 9 8

G rea ter C le v e la n d N eig h b o rh o o d C e n te r s A s s o c ia tio n —G eneral s u p p o r t ......................................$ 10,547

C h ild ren ’s S e r v ic e s — General su p p o rt........................... $ 6 3 8

T h e H eb rew F ree Loan A s s o c ia tio n —G eneral s u p p o r t .................... $ 1,000

C h r ist E p isc o p a l C h u r c h General s u p p o r t...................... $ 1 ,1 2 3

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V olunteer braille tra n s c rib e rs ....................................................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

H e ig h ts B la u g r u n d L odge No. 1 1 5 2 B ’n a i B ’r it h —General support $ 1 ,6 0 4

S t. A n d rew s U n ite d M e th o d is t C h urch , F in d lay, O h io—General su p p o rt............................................... $120

T h e V is itin g N u rse A s s o c ia tio n o f C le v e la n d G eneral s u p p o r t ......................... $ 3 ,2 9 4

T h e H iram H o u s e General s u p p o r t ...........................$ 1 ,4 4 2

S t. D o m in ic ’s P a r i s h General s u p p o r t...................... $ 4 ,0 1 0

E liza J e n n in g s H o m e— E q u ip m e n t.............................. $ 3 1 ,7 2 7

V o ca tio n a l G u id a n ce an d R e h a b ili­ t a tio n S e r v ic e s —A ssistance to need y c lients of S u n b e a m School . . $ 1 ,0 0 0

S t. J o h n L u th era n C h u r c h General s u p p o r t ...................... $ 1 ,9 3 8

General s u p p o r t.................... $ 1 8 ,7 9 7 J e w is h C o m m u n ity F e d e r a tio n o f C le v e la n d —General support .................................................... $ 1 3 ,0 5 7 J o n e s H om e o f C h ild ren ’s S e r v ic e s —Capital im provem ent in building and e q u ip m e n t...................... $ 3 1 ,7 2 7 General s u p p o r t....................$ 2 0 ,1 2 3 Lakew ood C h r is tia n C h u r c h General s u p p o r t.......................... $ 1 ,3 5 8 T he H a ttie L arlh am F o u n d a tio n , Inc., M an tu a, O h io—General su p p o rt........................................... $ 7 ,9 3 3

S t. M artin ’s E p isc o p a l C h u r c h General s u p p o r t.............................. $ 1 2 6 S t. P a u l’s E p isc o p a l C hurch, C le v e la n d H e ig h ts, O hio—General s u p p o r t.......................................... $ 1 ,2 5 0 T h e S a lv a tio n A r m y General s u p p o r t.......................$ 2 2 ,3 6 1

G eneral su p p o rt for Lakewood B ranch ...................................................... $ 7 ,9 3 3 G eneral su p p o rt for W est Side B ranch $ 1 5 ,8 6 4

T h e S h a k er O ne H u n d red , In c .— General s u p p o r t......................... $ 2 ,3 1 6

L u th eran W elfare F u n d General support .......................... $ 1 ,9 3 8

S is t e r s o f N otre D am e, C hardon, O hio—Physical education program for the Julie Billiart School . . . $ 1 2 ,0 4 2

The M u scu la r D is e a s e S o c ie t y o f N o r th e a s te r n O h io—General s u p p o r t .............................................. $ 2 5 0 O hio P r e s b y te r ia n H om es, C olu m ­ b u s, O hio—General support for Breckenridge V illa g e ..................$ 1 ,0 0 0 Our L ad y o f t h e W aysid e, In co rp o ra ted , A von, O h io—General su p p o rt...........................................$ 4 ,0 7 4 P a r m a d a le -S t. A n th o n y Youth S e r v ic e s V i l l a g e Operating su p p o rt....... $ 1 2 ,7 3 1 P la n n e d P a r e n th o o d o f C le v e la n d , In c .—General su p p o rt.$ 1 1 ,4 4 6 T he B e n ja m in R o se I n s t i t u t e General s u p p o r t...........$ 1 6 ,4 7 9

T h e Young M en’s C h ristia n A sso ­ c ia tio n , A sh la n d , O h io G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 2 ,7 6 7

T h e S c o t t is h R ite B e n e v o le n t F o u n d a tio n , L e x in g to n , M a ssa ­ c h u s e t t s —General support . . . $ 1 2 6

T he L u th eran H om e for th e A g e d General s u p p o r t...................... $ 9 ,8 8 6

T he M o n tefio re H o m e General s u p p o r t...................... $ 6 ,0 6 3

W est S id e D e u ts c h e r F rau en V erein , T h e A lte n h e im —G eneral s u p p o r t ..................................... $ 2 0 ,2 5 1

T h e Young M en’s C h r istia n A s s o ­ c ia tio n o f C le v e la n d G eneral su p p o rt ....................$ 1 1 ,2 3 9

S h a k er H e ig h ts Lodge No. 4 5 FOP A s s o c ia t e s —General support $ 2 ,3 1 6

M issio n a r y S e r v a n ts o f t h e M ost H oly T rin ity, S ilv e r S p r in g , M ary­ la n d -G e n e r a l s u p p o r t.............$ 4 ,0 1 0

G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 3 ,8 2 7

T h e S a lv a tio n Arm y, A sh la n d , Ohio —General su p p o rt...................... $ 2 ,7 6 7

L ittle S is te r s o f th e P o o r Operating su p p o rt.......................$ 2 ,3 2 8

M arycrest S c h o o l General s u p p o r t...................... $ 6 ,0 6 3

A ssistance to needy of S u n b e a m School g rad u a tin g class . . . . $ 1 ,0 0 0

T h e S o c ie t y for C rip p led C h ild ren o f C u yah oga C ou nty, In c .— E q u ip m e n t.................................$ 3 1 ,7 2 7 General s u p p o r t.......................$ 1 4 ,7 0 5 S o c ie ty o f S t. V in c e n t de P a u l Operating su p p o r t......................... $ 6 0 6

T h e Young W om en’s C h r istia n A s s o c ia tio n o f C le v e la n d —G eneral s u p p o r t .......................................... $ 9 5 3 G eneral su p p o rt for Lakewood B ranch ...................................................... $ 7 ,9 3 3 TOTAL SOCIAL SERVICES GRANTS—DESIGNATED ............................................. $ 1 ,2 6 2 ,0 6 9 TOTAL SOCIAL SERVICES GRANTS—DESIGNATED AND UNDESIGNATED. . . . $ 4 ,3 4 5 ,4 9 4 *G rant re c o m m e n d e d b y F in d la y D istribution C o m m itte e o f th e L. D ale D orney Fund.

S ta r r C o m m on w ealth for B oys, A lb io n , M ic h ig a n General s u p p o r t ......................... $ 1 ,3 6 9 A m a sa S to n e H ou se, I n c . General s u p p o r t......................... $ 6 ,0 6 3 T h e T h ree-C orner-R ound Pack O u tfit, In c .—General support for the cam ping p ro g ra m ....................$ 1 1 ,3 0 6 T r in ity C a t h e d r a lGeneral s u p p o r t......................... $ 1 ,5 7 9 U n ite d A p p e a l o f A sh la n d C ou nty, O hio, In c., A sh la n d , O hio—General su p p o r t.......................................... $ 2 ,7 6 7 U n ite d Way S e r v ic e s — General su p p o r t....................$ 3 0 8 ,8 7 1

R ose-M ary C e n t e r General s u p p o r t..........................$ 2 ,3 3 3 59

Civic Affairs

m odel for how creative com m unities can deal w ith m assive problem s su ch as lack of d ecent housing and loss of u rb an population, w hich plague A m erica’s older cities. Som e 28 separate funding T hough th e day was blu stery an d cold, entities, including local and national a large crowd h ad gathered in th e vacant foundations, area businesses and a m a ­ lot at th e corner of E ast 79 th an d Lex­ jo r banking institution, joined w ith a ington for th e ground breaking. And if a nationally know n developer and a re­ few snow flakes were in th e air on th a t spected neighborhood-based housing D ecem ber 4th, good feelings an d o pti­ developm ent organization, H ough’s m ism concerning th e fu tu re of Cleveland Fam icos Foundation, to m ake Lexington and its neighborhoods were in th e air, Village a reality. It was the w illingness too. The excitem ent aro u n d th e ground of these organizations to m ake low-inbreaking for th e $13.3 m illion P hase terest m oney available to the project One of Lexington Village, a bold experi­ w hich will m ake it possible for working m en t in u rb a n housing, was increased fam ilies earning a m oderate to low-mod­ w hen som eone noted th a t it h ad been erate incom e to ren t these ap artm en ts at this very stree t co rn er back in 1966 for $285-$360 a m onth. th a t the notorious H ough riot h ad The City itself, having given Lexington flared, effectively sealing th e neighbor­ Village its sup p o rt alm ost from the start, hood’s doom even as it gave painful voice lined up $5.6 m illion in public monies. to years of u n assu ag ed frustration.

T he Cleveland Foundation, playing the In the years th a t followed, H ough had role of broker th ro u g h o u t the alm ost lost 65 p ercen t of its population. Mer­ two years it took to p u t the com plicated chants h ad closed up an d left, too. And project together, lined up nearly two the rem aining ho u sin g stock in th e g u t­ dozen other funding partners, and itself ted area h ad been allowed to deteriorate m ade a precedent-setting $800,000 loweven further. No wonder, then, th a t the in terest loan to Fam icos as well as con­ various public figures w ho addressed trib u ted m any h u n d red s of staff hours the shivering crowd on th a t chilly, b u t an d an estim ated $50,000 in legal fees. oddly sunny, noon h o u r were calling “It was in p a rt the im portance of this Lexington Village an im p o rtan t m ile­ project as a m odel for addressing large stone in Cleveland’s atte m p ts to revital­ u rb an problem s,” said Stanley C. Pace, ize its in n er city. Indeed th is am bitious chairperson of the Foundation’s D istri­ project h ad a sym bolic significance bution Com m ittee, in connection w ith w hich w ent far beyond its m ean in g for th e ground breaking, “th a t m ade it such the im m ediate n eighborhood—th o u g h a high priority for us. It seem ed highly th a t was considerable. appropriate th a t we, as Cleveland’s The projected 6 0 6 -unit com plex com ­ c o m m u n ity foundation, should take the bines th e principles of tough m an ag e ­ lead in m oving such a worthwhile m ent an d m inority particip atio n w ith u n d ertak in g forward.” affordable tow nhouse ap artm en ts. It National funders, su ch as the Ford will provide attractiv e hom es in close F oundation and Local Initiatives Support proxim ity to su ch high-em ploym ent C orporation (LISC), w hich also m ade areas as U niversity Circle an d th e Cleve­ su b stan tial contributions, will be w atch­ land Clinic Com plex w hile reclaim ing ing th e progress of Lexington Village. five city blocks in one of Cleveland’s Som e of th e com ponents w hich m ake the m ost devastated areas. Lexington Village project an interesting one are the involve­ will not be subsidized housing, b u t th e m en t of neighborhood and m inority first m arket-rate ren tal stock to be built persons in th e creation an d m an ag em en t in H ough in 50 years. of th e com plex—two areas in w hich the Lexington Village is im p o rta n t in developer, M cCormack, Baron & Associ­ an o th er respect: It m ark s a d ram atic ates, Inc., has an excellent perform ance new level of cooperation betw een th e record—and the ongoing involvem ent of public an d private sectors an d offers a Fam icos—w hich has a im pressive track record of its own in rehabilitated housing in H ough—in everything from the care­ ful screening of prospective residents to the enforcem ent of a strict set of s ta n d ­ ards concerning resident behavior and the upkeep of property.

H o u sin g for t h e P eo p le, by th e P eop le. T h e

Lexington V illage com bines the p rin cip le s o f tough m anagem ent and m in o rity p a rticip a ­ tion w ith the f ir s t m arket-rate ap art­ ments b u ilt in Hough in 20 years.

resid en ts o f L a k e v ie w Terrace g e t o rganized.

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T he B rea k th ro u g h , P h a se One: a n a rc h ite c t’s re n d erin g o f L exin g to n Village

“The f ir s t thing we d id was stand ard ­ ize the window sizes,” s ays BEU 's Leon Hogg. “Do you know how m any windows there are in 16 bu ild in g s7 ft

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Lakeview. As a resu lt they have em barked on th e process of learn in g w h at they will need to know to a ssu m e control of the operation. O rganized u n d e r building captains, th e resid en ts have acted out confrontations w ith o th er residents con­ cerning drin k in g in th e halls, leaving garbage aro u n d th e g ro u n d s an d failing to keep th eir children u n d e r control. And they have m et w ith experienced consul­ ta n ts su ch as B erth a Gilkey, th e dynam ic p resid en t of th e te n a n t m an ag em en t corporation th a t m ore th a n a decade ago transform ed St. Louis’ C ochran Gardens, th e n w ritten off as a public housing ju n g le th a t could be im proved only w ith a w recking ball, into a nationally recog­ nized m odel for public housing.

Today th e C ochran G ardens residents ■ Cleveland Foundation grants also w ent to su p p o rt o ther inner-city housing initi­ ru n th eir own day-care cen ters for work­ ing p aren ts an d a catering com pany deli­ atives in 1984. T he principle of resident vering m eals to th e elderly, w hile new involvem ent in the im provem ent of public h o using led to a $43,000 g ran t to u n its co n tin u e to be b uilt a n d older ones renovated—all of th ese activities employ­ the Lakeview Tferrace R esident Council (CNA, Inc.) to develop a te n a n t m an ag e­ ing te n a n ts them selves and funneling profits back into th e estate to finance m en t program , a training process th a t fu rth er im provem ents. Sim ilar results could eventually lead to the residents taking over the m an ag em en t of the 830- could be realized here, say th e residents of Lakeview Terrace, if they are given a u n it estate from the C uyahoga M etro­ chance to take control of th eir own politan H ousing A uthority (CMHA). destiny.

T he resid ents of the 50-year-old com ­ O ther F oundation g ran ts last year went plex of 44 three-story walk-up a p a rt­ to help u n derw rite th e adm inistrative m en ts on Cleveland’s n ear w est side (see costs of a n u m b er of o rganizations w hich photograph on page 60) are convinced are busy reh ab ilitatin g an d w eatherizing th a t te n a n t m an ag em en t is the b est way the existing housing stock in older sec­ to deal w ith th e deplorable conditions a t tions of th e city, including th e UnionMiles C om m unity Coalition, th e BroadT hese very factors have proven crucial to th e su ccess of rehabilitated housing efforts in St. Louis. T here is every reason to believe they will also work w ith new h ousing in Cleveland. And if the first 183 u n its of Lexington Village, w hich should be ready for occupancy by next year, can succeed, m ore new h o u sin g — n ot to m ention nearby com m ercial re­ developm ent—will not be far behind for a section of the city th a t is already show ing encouraging signs of recovery.

TWenty years after the infam ous Hough riots, a new day m ay be daw ning for one of th e city ’s oldest and m ost sadly neglected neighborhoods, w hich could light the way for others.

way Area H ousing Coalition, an d New Cleveland-6, Inc., a neighborhood d e­ velopm ent organization serving Fairfax (the Cedar-Q uincy area betw een E ast 79th an d E ast 105th streets). G rants also w ent to th e H ousing Advocates, Inc., a countyw ide organization dedicated to “increasing h o u sin g o p p o rtu n ities an d prom oting safe, d ecen t an d reasonablecost housing for low- an d m oderate-income families,” an d th e Cleveland Ten­ an ts O rganization, a group charged w ith developing, reco m m en d in g an d im ple­ m enting constructive ch an g es in th e way the M unicipal H ousing C ourt operates.

A nother grantee, th e Black Econom ic Union (BEU), h a s already rehabilitated nearly 800 a p a rtm e n t u n its in H ough in ­ cluding th e 313-unit V anguard A part­ m ents on C hester Avenue. BEU, w hich was founded in 1966 following th e Hough riots, co n tin u es to inspect, repair and m anage all of th ese buildings through its affiliate, H allm ark M anage­ m ent Associates, Inc. This sum m er, w ith th e help of a Foun­ dation grant, th e finishing to u ch es axe being p u t on C hester Village, a clu ster of eight buildings ju s t n o rth of C hester at E. 90th Street, co n tain in g 84 suites. “We w ant to create a little p ark across th e way,” says BEU p resid en t Leon R. Hogg, “so the kids will have som ew here to play other th a n th e halls.” O ther hard-won BEU wisdom: “T he first th in g we did w hen we took over th e V anguard in 1972 was to stan d ard ize th e window sizes so we could keep sp ares in storage. Do you know how m any w indow s th ere axe in 16 buildings? Oh, an d we’ve learn ed to p u t lots of m oney into th e k itch en s an d bathroom s,” says Hogg. “Your biggest problem w ith older b u ildings is leaks and w ater dam age.”

The new est F oundation g ra n t is also helping BEU move toward acq u irin g Fairm o u n t Village, a group of 22 three-bedroom tow nhouses h alf a block n o rth of C hester Village. “If you can reh ab enough b u ildings w ithin a single area, you have ch an g ed m ore th a n so m ebody’s ap artm en t,” explains Leon Hogg, “you’ve begun to ch an g e th e en tire env iro n m en t in w hich people live.”

b etter balance th e racial com position of each area.

Last year, the three com m unities, w orking in cooperation w ith th eir school districts, created the E ast S u b u rb an Council for Open C om m unities (ESCOC) —a m ajor effort to extend the policy of integration th ro u g h o u t the eastern end of C uyahoga C ounty and to stim ulate open housing in a m an n er th a t results in m ore racially integrated neighbor­ hoods and schools. A two-year $124,000 g ran t from the Foundation h as helped w ith th is effort.

ESCOC’s activities will include a m ar­ keting cam paign aim ed not only a t pros­ pective hom e buyers b u t also a t realtors w ith access to m inority fam ilies who are looking to buy a hom e in a new area; a residential location service w hich will provide inform ation to prospective hom e buyers ab o u t schools, shopping, recrea­ tion and hom e financing opportunities in the eastern suburbs; and various types of financial aid to prospective buyers to help reduce interest on m o rt­ gages or to m ake dow npaym ents.

“Realtors are showing a new sensitivity th a t was not found in the past,” says Dr. W inston Ritchie, ESCOC’s executive di­ rector. “Now they feel th a t anyone has the rig h t to live wherever they can afford to.” ESCOC h as also been prom ised the cooperation of all the school su p erin ten ­ dents it h as approached, says Ritchie, w ho have said they “are willing to work hard to educate those in their school system s (regarding integration).” It will take time, he concedes, b u t he is op­ tim istic for the future.

ESCOC's activities w ill include a m arketing cam ­ p a ig n aim ed not o n ly a t prospective home buyers but also at realtors w ith access to m inorities.

E S C O C H elps M in o ritie s Integrate E a s te rn Suburbs

The H eights co m m u n itie s—Cleveland, S haker an d U niversity—have m ade sp e­ cial efforts over th e p ast two decades to insure th a t th eir co m m u n ities an d school districts are racially integrated. They have developed o u tre ach p ro g ram s and special in centives to a ttra c t resid en ts to

A n e v e n in g a t h o m e in th e su b u rb s: In teg ra tio n g e ts s o m e help. (Photograph b y R icardo B arrett)

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S ch o o l b e lls a t C ity Hall: re ta in in g good p e o p le in ste a d o f h irin g n e w o n e s

M anagem ent Techniques Taught at C ity H a ll

The C ity's effort is based on the prem ise that m an­ agers s k ille d in hum an relations and p a rticip a to ry m anagem ent tech­ niques w ill bring out the best in their subordinates.

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For those w ho have never quite gotten used to being p u t on “hold” for in term i­ nable waits, a telephone call to Cleveland’s City Hall these days can be a p leasan t surprise. Many of the C ity’s workers have been trained in telephone e tiq u ette— an d it shows. A n icety perhaps, b u t it’s p art of a broader, m ore thoroughgoing effort to b etter the operation of the C ity’s governm ent by im proving the capability of th e people ru n n in g it. By all accounts, th e staff training program h as borne out th a t theory.

Suggested in 1979 by Mayor George V. Voinovich’s O perations Im provem ent Tksk Force, the staff developm ent pro­ gram h as received $226,000 in grants from T he Cleveland Foundation since 1982 as p a rt of the Foundation’s com ­ m itm en t to help build the capability of key public in stitu tio n s to function m ore effectively. To date, about 2,000 of the C ity’s 8,500 em ployees have participated in classes, m ost ta u g h t by colleagues who have been specially trained in the a rt of instruction. In fact, the program h as been so successful th a t the City has converted u n u sed space in City Hall into p erm an en t classroom s and expects to

assu m e full financial responsibility in 1985 for the program , now budgeted at roughly $300,000 p er year.

T he C ity’s effort h as operated from the o u tset on th e prem ise th a t m anagers skilled in h u m a n relations an d partici­ patory m an ag em en t techniques will bring o u t th e b est in th eir subordinates. Spe­ cial executive re treats an d nine-week m an ag em en t courses cam e first, followed by shorter, m ore technical courses and sem in ars aim ed a t sh arp en in g the per­ form ance of career civil servants who m ake up the b u lk of th e C ity’s work force.

T he program also has provided a m eans for the City to benefit from train in g ex­ pertise found in local b u sin esses and in­ stitu tio n s of h ig h er education. Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s D epart­ m en t of O rganizational Behavior was re­ tained to aid in th e initial plan n in g of the program . O ther local resources have also been utilized: representatives of Ohio Bell, for exam ple, have ta u g h t classes in telephone etiq u ette an d procedures. And in a project th a t Karl B onutti, a Cleve­ land S tate U niversity econom ist who directs the train in g program , hopes will becom e a prototype for o th er d ep art­ m en ts at City Hall, C uyahoga C om m u­ nity College (TH-C) is cooperating with the City to offer an associate degree pro­ gram for building inspectors. T he cu rri­ culum stresses both theoretical ground-

ing in arch itectu re an d surveying, as well as hands-on training; it includes a m ix­ ture of courses th a t Tri-C already offers and those designed expressly for the City’s needs. Inspectors m ay increase their salaries by taking courses, and graduates are eligible for prom otion to supervisory jobs.

Som e program benefits are less tan g i­ ble. Lawrence Bicking, th e C ity’s direc­ tor of parks, recreation an d properties, notes th a t em ployees seem to enjoy the break from th e ro utine (efforts are m ade to include people from several different d epartm en ts in each class) an d are eager to share th eir new knowledge. “I’d ra th er spend m oney on tra in in g th e people we already have th a n on hirin g m ore people,” says Bicking. “It’s th e b est in ­ vestm ent we can m ake.”

Aggressive M ed ia C am paign Works to Reduce Crim e

At a tim e w hen m any elem en ts in the com m unity are throw ing u p th eir h an d s at the d au n tin g problem of crim e, the Cleveland Bar A ssociation is taking a hard look a t society’s efforts to handle the crim e problem an d helping to plan some highly aggressive program s aim ed at im proving those efforts.

In 1981, Louis Paisley, th e A ssociation’s president, appointed a Tksk Force on Violent Crim e to be chaired by Ju d g e Burt W. Griffin of C om m on Pleas Court.

Today, th e Tksk Force h a s th ree program s up and ru n n in g , w ith o thers being planned. One h as already established itself so well th a t th e state is p lan n in g to take it over an d expand it to cover all of Ohio. T h at effort is a m edia cam paign aim ed a t cu ttin g down th e use of h a n d ­ guns in robberies.

Begun in 1983, a t th e s ta rt of th e C hristm as shopping season, it is c en ­ tered around a pictu re of a pistol an d th e slogan, “Use It To Rob an d You Rob Your­ self. M andatory 8 Years Prison.” Partly financed w ith a g ran t from T he Cleveland Foundation, th is m essage w as displayed on 70 billboards aro u n d C uyahoga County, on posters an d in p rin t adver­ tisem ents, an d incorporated in a series of radio an d television com m ercials w hich were aired d u rin g a two-week blitz.

“T he resu lts have been very satisfac­ tory,” says Ju d g e Griffin. “D uring the tim e th e cam p aig n h a s ru n , th ere has been a 25 p ercen t red u ctio n in gu n rob­ beries an d com m ercial robberies.”

“Obviously,” he continues, “not all of th a t can be a ttrib u te d to o u r cam paign, b u t we have anecdotal evidence th a t suggests we have been effective.” P rison­

ers an d probationers, for example, have been heard reacting to the cam paign, he reports.

In addition to th e h an d g u n project, Foundation su p p o rt h as been m ade available for other, m ore general, Tksk Force activities, su ch as the creation of the first auxiliary police u n it to work in a public housing project.

“We knew,” says Ju d g e Griffin, “th a t police auxiliary u n its were doing good work, b u t m ost of them were in som e of our ‘b e tte r’ neighborhoods, w here it’s easier to get volunteer participation. We w anted to try one in a high-crim e area.”

King-Kennedy, on W oodland Avenue near E ast 55th Street, qualified. One felony a day was being reported there. So a group of residents was recruited and trained.

F unctioning u n d er the supervision of th e city police, the auxiliary police are uniform ed and have police radios, b u t they are unarm ed. They patrol in cars and on foot.

Since the King-Kennedy u n it was cre­ ated in late 1984, the n u m b er of reported felonies h as plum m eted to a new low of three a year, and the Cleveland Police D epartm ent is now planning to establish auxiliary u n its at other public housing projects.

“D u rin g the time the cam paign has run,” says Judge G riffin , “there has been a 25 percent reduction in gun robberies and com­ m ercial robberies.”

Mandatory 8 yews prison.

THE TASK FORCE ON VIOLENT CRIME

The poster that talked business. There was

evidence it was effective.

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A th ird program was beg u n a t A lexan­ d er H am ilton J u n io r High School. Using school faculty an d staff, police, p ro b a­ tion officers an d other Ju v en ile C ourt personnel, th e Ik sk Force se t o u t to identify hard-core d elinquents a t the school.

“T hese kids th o u g h t our whole system w as a fraud,” Ju d g e Griffin says. “J u v e ­ nile C ourt was a joke—they say people b e at th e system there all th e tim e.”

H aving identified ab o u t 35 h ard cases, th e Tksk Force set o u t to show th em the system could work. Police drop by the school tw ice a week; probation officers m eet an d work w ith kids on probation there; p aren ts have been contacted and now atten d m eetings w here experts speak on p arenting techniques and how to cope. S tatistics on successes have been h ard to com e by, b u t school people, Ju v en ile C ourt and outside social ag en ­ cy officials are im pressed enough th a t sim ilar program s are being started a t six o th er ju n io r high schools.

B u ild in g E ffic ie n c y into C rim in a l Ju stice

Police were issu ­ ing 300,000 tickets a ye a r—and few er th an 100,000 were being p a id w ithout expensive and tim e-consum ing follow-up.

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C hanges in th e way the ju stice system operates do n o t h ap p en overnight. They often require careful planning, rigorous testin g an d close cooperation am ong the system ’s key com ponents.

A co n tinuing jo in t effort on the p a rt of th e Cleveland Police D epartm ent, the Clerk of M unicipal C ourts and th e Police Prosecutor, has recently been show ing tangible results in term s of increasing revenue th ro u g h b etter collection of fines, saving m oney th ro u g h m ore efficient use of police personnel, and enhancing th e civil rights of m inor offenders—not th ro u g h foregoing th eir p u n ish m en t, b u t th ro u g h reducing u n n ecessary process­ ing in th e handling of th eir cases.

TWo m ajor program s have been tested an d are being im plem ented by the three agencies involved. T hese are a new sys­ tem for h andling follow-up of delinquent traffic offenders and a program w hich perm its police districts to release m inor offenders who can n o t m ake bail, rath er th a n shipping th em to the Ju stic e C enter for fu rth er detention.

S h o t in th e dark: A C le ve la n d p o lice officer le a ve s a ticket on a c itiz e n ’s w in d sh ie ld .

T he d elin q u en t traffic offenders pro­ gram began w ith th e realization there had to be a b etter way: police were issu­ ing 300,000 tickets a year—an d fewer th a n 100,000 were being paid w ithout expensive an d tim e-consum ing w arrant processing a n d follow-up by police. In a m onitored test, 2,861 notices were sent, 508 were retu rn ed because of bad ad ­ dresses an d 1,067 cases were cleared. In m onetary term s, $39,389 was collected, w hich breaks down to $36.92 p er case cleared or $13.77 per notice sent.

Cleveland h as six police districts, all b u t one (downtown) w ith its own limited lock-up facilities. P risoners were held here u n til they could m ake bail, or until they could be taken to th e Ju stic e Center for arraignm ent. In som e cases, m ostly on w eekends or holidays w hen court was closed, a defendant m ig h t be held for 12 to 24 hours or even longer. More often, police took the offenders to th e Ju stice C enter w here they were detained. Each tran sp o rtatio n ru n tied up two police of-

ficers an d one police car, an d involved a good deal of p ap er work. Police records for 1984 showed th a t 61 p ercen t of the prisoners held a t local statio n houses were eventually transferred downtown.

The Cleveland Police D epartm ent, u nder a Foundation grant, worked w ith the Clerk of Courts, th e Police Prosecutor and the C incinnati In stitu te of Ju stic e to develop a statio n house release program u n d er w hich persons charged w ith som e m inor m isd em ean o rs an d traffic offenses could be released on a u th o rity of police at the local station. (The C incinnati In­ stitute of Ju stic e is a nonprofit co n su lt­ ing firm w hich helps local governm ents improve their crim inal ju stice procedures.

The Institu te also assisted w ith th e de­ velopm ent of th e traffic-ticket program .)

A three-m onth stu d y conducted before the program was finally adopted showed that, of 6,638 p ersons arrested, 3,745 could be considered for early release, and 1,025 were actually let go. Of those released, 82 p ercen t m ade th eir court appearances as prom ised, an d w arrants were issued for those who did not. (The rate of co u rt ap p earan ces m atch ed th a t of offenders for w hom bail h ad been posted.) Savings in police personnel hours alone were estim ated a t ab o u t $70,000 a year.

The underly in g th em e of th ese efforts has been im proving efficiency in th e crim inal ju stice system . T he long-range program th e F oundation is su p p o rtin g has been highly encouraging in two respects: initiative for specific efforts h as come from th e agencies involved, ra th er th an from external sources; an d there seem s to be a new realization th a t cooperation am ong various elem ents of the ju stice system is a crucial ingredient in im proving operations not only of the system as a whole b u t also of individual agencies.

provem ent program for C arnegie Avenue, consisting of v acant lot beautification, high-im pact landscaping in plots it calls cityside gardens, tree planting an d gen­ eral clean-up. As of early spring this year, there were six cityside gardens along C arnegie Avenue from O ntario to E ast 4 6 th Street, and two m ore were in the works, one of w hich would extend the area to Fairhill Boulevard.

Featuring neatly m ulched shru b b ery an d plots w here flowers bloom, som e cityside gardens are on city-owned prop­ erty, som e on land th a t is privately held.

Each garden has a corporate sponsor, w hich pays the cost of installation and m aintenance; CLEAN-LAND finds the sites, does the planning and provides the labor—and thereby han g s a tale.

As of the end of 1984, 4,929 hours of labor h ad been provided by nonviolent crim inal offenders who, u n d er an inno­ vative Com m on Pleas C ourt program funded in p a rt by a two-year, $45,000 g ran t from T he Cleveland Foundation, were paying th eir debts to society in ways m ore useful th a n sitting in jail.

An offender who can n o t pay a fine or who is given conditional probation m ay find him - or herself working w ith spade and trowel along Carnegie Avenue or the RTA right-of-way u n d er supervision of CLEAN-LAND and the court. If the of­ fender is working off a fine, CLEANLAND credits his or her account a t the m inim um wage rate. O ther offenders are assigned to perform a stated n u m b er of h o u rs’ work in public service. CLEANLAND estim ates th a t at the end of 1984, it had received $16,512 in labor, calculated a t the m inim um wage—all of it going into planting gardens and trees, cleaning up trash and painting fences.

“By the end of 1984, we had painted 3,900 feet of chain link fence,” reports Ju liu s Zsako, executive director of CLEAN-LAND. “T his year, we’ll m ake it an even mile.”

B y the end o f 1984, 4,929 hours o f lab or had been provided by non­ violent c rim in a l offenders under an innovative program .

■ W ith quite a different goal in m ind, and using a totally different approach, another Cleveland Foundation grantee, CLEAN-LAND, OHIO, h a s been exploring a new way of tu rn in g crim e to the co m m u n ity ’s benefit.

CLEAN-LAND engages in beautifica­ tion projects th ro u g h o u t th e city. Am ong its m ajor u n d e rtak in g s is a visual im ­

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B lack Econom ic U nion o f O hio— H o using developm ent a c tiv itie s in th e H ough a re a of C leveland (second y e a r ) .......................................... $ 3 5 ,0 0 0

Civic A ffairs G rants

Broadway A rea H ou sin g C o a litio n — H ousing reh a b ilita tio n p ro g ram in th e N orth Broadw ay a re a (second year) $ 1 8 ,0 0 0 Broadway D evelop m en t Corpora­ tio n —Facade renovation pro g ram jo in tly a d m in iste re d by th e B roadw ay D evelopm ent C orporation a n d T h e Slavic Village A ssociation (second y e a r ) .......................................... $ 2 0 ,9 5 7 The C leveland Bar C haritable and E d u cation al F und—A ctivities of th e Tksk Force on Violent C rim e $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 C ity o f C levelan d —D e p a rtm e n t of Parks, R ecreation a n d P ro p e rtie s’ reh a b ilita tio n a n d pro m o tio n of Rockefeller Park G reen h o u se a n d Talking G arden for th e Blind . $ 2 ,5 0 0 D esign, developm ent a n d gen eral co n cep t p h a s e s of th e “Civic Vision,” a cityw ide p la n n in g effort over 18 m o n th s ................................... $ 100,000 E x p an sio n of th e no cost/low cost en erg y savings pro g ram of th e Office of C o n su m e r Affairs (second year) $ 1 7 ,0 0 0 S u p p le m e n t in T he P lain D ealer e n ­ titled “C leveland’s Civic Vision: A B lu ep rin t for D evelopm ent” . $ 5 ,0 0 0 C leveland D evelop m en t Founda­ tio n (Greater C leveland Growth A sso cia tio n ) —C leveland’s p a rtic ip a ­ tio n in a m ulti-city u rb a n in fra stru c ­ tu re p ro g ram sp o n so red by T h e U rban In stitu te a n d S p rin g Hill C en ter (third y e a r ) .......................................... $ 10,000 C om pletion of th e im p lem en tatio n p h a se of th e G reater Cleveland G row th A ssociation’s C o m m u n ity C apital In­ v e stm e n t S tra te g y ................. $ 6 0 ,0 0 0 The C leveland Foundation (Inc.)— E valuation of C leveland S ta te U niver­ s ity ’s C enter for N eighborhood Devel­ o p m en t H ousing R esearch a n d Policy Project of th e College of U rban Affairs, T he U rban C e n t e r ....................$ 5 ,0 0 0 M onitoring of th e City of C leveland’s Integrated Safety System (second y e a r ) ............................................ $ 7 ,0 0 0 P la n n in g a ssista n c e to th e Ohio D e p a rtm e n t of N atural R esources for th e E uclid B each u n it of Cleveland Lakefront S tate P a r k ...............$ 5 ,0 0 0 T echnical a ssista n c e for th e M.Y.H. C lub C orporation p rogram to ad d re ss its long-term o rg an izatio n a n d fu n d ­ ing n e e d s ...................................$ 5 ,0 0 0

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C levelan d H isto ric W a re . tSe D is tr ic t D ev elo p m en t C orp ora­ tio n —D evelopm ent of th e w a re h o u se d istric t over two y e a rs $ 20,000 C leveland M u n icipal C ourt, O ffice o f C lerk o f C ou rts —C o m p letio n of special p ro ject c o n d u c te d by th e Clerk of C ourts, th e D ivision of Police a n d th e Office of th e P ro se c u to r to im prove a rre s t p ro c e d u re s a n d th e p ro ce ss for se rv in g w a rra n ts for traffic a n d p a rk ­ ing v io latio n s ......................... $ 1 0 ,9 8 7 C reatio n of a sp ecial o p e ra tio n s p la n ­ n in g u n it over two y ears . . $ 120,000 C leveland R ecyclin g C e n t e r P artial o p e ra tin g s u p p o rt . . $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 C leveland S ta te U n iv e r s it y O p eratin g s u p p o rt for th e C en ter for N eighborhood D evelopm ent over two y e a r s ........................................... $ 1 3 0 ,0 0 0 C leveland T enants O r g a n iz a tio n F irst p h a se of a n a n a ly sis of th e Cleve­ lan d H ousing C o u rt D ivision of th e C leveland M unicipal C o u rt . $ 1 3 ,5 3 6

C leveland W aterfront C o a litio n E x p an d ed staff a n d o th e r o p eratin g e x p e n d itu re s ...............................$ 1 8 ,7 5 0 Slide show of th e new developm ent p lan for C leveland’s lakefront in con­ ju n c tio n w ith th e M ayor’s W aterfront S te erin g C o m m itte e ................... $ 7 ,5 0 0 CNA, In corp orated —A ssistan ce to T h e Lakeview T errace R esid en t C oun­ cil in e sta b lish in g a te n a n t m a n a g e ­ m e n t p ro g ra m a t Lakeview Terrace 8 4 3 ,0 0 0 C ollier C ounty C onservancy, N aples, F lorid a —O p eratin g su p p o rt $200

C om m unity Inform ation/V olun­ te e r A ction C en ter (CIVAC)— E sta b lish m e n t a n d o p e ra tio n of a c o m m u n ity service se n te n c in g pro­ g ram for C u y ah o g a C o u n ty m u n icip al co u rts over 18 m o n th s . . . $ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0 C uyahoga C om m unity C ollege— M inority e n tre p re n e u r tra in in g $ 3 ,5 0 0 Cuyahoga M etropolitan H ousing A u th o rity —S u m m e r y o u th e m p lo y m e n t.............................. $ 4 ,9 6 3 Cuyahoga V alley C om m u n ities C ouncil, In c.—C u y ah o g a Valley E ntrancew ay P roject over 18 m o n th s $ 7 ,5 0 0

D etroit Shorew ay C om m unity D evelop m en t O rganization — Legal f e e s ................................... $ 2 ,0 0 0 D iocese of C leveland (Catholic)— The C om m ission on C atholic C om ­ m u n ity A ction’s m in o rity voter e d u c a ­ tion project ................................ $ 4 ,1 0 0 E ast Suburban C ouncil for Open C om m u n ities—New p ro g ra m s for open h o u sin g over two years $ 1 2 4 ,0 0 0 Euclid C om m unity C oncern s— C o m m u n ity im p ro v em en t efforts (third y e a r ) .............................. $ 1 3 ,0 0 0 The Findlay/H ancock C ounty Com­ m u n ity D evelopm en t R esearch Foundation—R evitalization plan for the dow ntow n a re a of Findlay* $ 8 1 ,0 0 0 Forest Hill Parkway A rea C ouncil— N eighborhood P reservation Project (third y e a r ) ................................ $ 9 ,0 0 0 Greater C leveland E cology A sso c ia ­ tio n —E x p a n sio n of leaf c o m p o stin g program over two y ears . . . . $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 Greater C leveland N eighborhood C enters A sso c ia tio n —P roject S.H.A.R.E. a t M urtis H. Tkylor MultiServices C en ter (second year) ..................................................$ 1 3 ,5 0 0 Greater C leveland R o u n d ta b le— L abor/m anagem ent se m in a r $ 1 2 ,5 0 0 Hancock Park D istr ic t, Findlay, Ohio—Im provem ent a n d m a n a g e m e n t plan for S h a n k Lake N atu re Preserve* $800 “Sm okey th e B e a r” c o stu m e a n d ed u catio n al m a te r ia ls * ............... $ 4 8 0 The H ousing A dvocates, In c.—P ro­ m otion of new a n d c o n serv a tio n of ex­ isting h o u sin g in C u y ah o g a C o u n ty (second y e a r) ........................... $ 2 5 ,0 0 0

L incoln I n stitu te o f Land Policy, Inc., C am bridge, M a ssa c h u se tts— C leveland Land D ata S y stem Project (third y e a r ) .............................. $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 M.Y.H. Club C orporation—Program su p p lies a n d salaries for th e director a n d ad m in istrativ e a ssista n t $ 4 5 ,0 0 0 M inority E conom ic D evelopm ent C ouncil—Technical a ssista n c e to sm all m inority-ow ned b u sin e sse s (second y e a r).............................. $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 N ation al N eighbors —Cleveland M etropolitan S trateg y G roup over 13 m o n th s ........................................... $ 4 ,0 0 0 N ational Urban Fellows, Inc., New York, New York—U nderw riting costs of two N ational U rban Fellows in C le v e la n d ................................ $ 2 4 ,1 0 7 New C leveland-6, Inc. —C ontinued su p p o rt of neighborhood developm ent activ ities in the Fairfax area $ 3 4 ,0 6 6 The Old Brooklyn C om m unity D evelop m en t Corporation— P rogram m an a g e r for the Broadvue T h e a te r C o m m u n ity C enter facility over two y e a r s .........................$ 4 5 ,8 1 5 P rivate In d u stry Council of C leveland and Cuyahoga C ounty— O perating su p p o rt for first-year p r o g r a m ...................................$ 6 2 ,0 0 0 P ub lic/P rivate V entures, P h ilad elp h ia, P en n sylvan ia— Cleveland a re a in te rn s in C o m m unity E conom ic D evelopm ent Program sponsored by the D evelopm ent TYaining I n s titu te ..............................$ 1 8 ,1 0 0 V entures in C om m u n ity Im provem ent p rogram in Cleveland to tra in young people in co n stru c tio n tra d e s over two y e a r s ............... $ 5 0 ,0 0 0

Union-M iles D evelopm ent C orporation—H ousing reh ab ilitatio n p r o g r a m ..................................... $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 Sm all Private O w ner A b an d o n m en t Project (second y e a r) ................. $ 4 ,0 0 0

U n iv ersity Circle, Inc.— E sta b lish m e n t of system for collecting a n d co m p o stin g leaves in U niversity C ir c le ...........................................$ 2 0 ,0 0 0

The Urban League o f G reater C leveland, In c.—P rogram to in ­ crease m in o rity em p lo y m en t in safety careers (Project PRIMES) (third year) ....................................................$ 2 4 ,4 7 5 Youth O p p ortu n ities U n lim ited — S u m m e r Youth E m p lo y m en t P rogram (second a n d th ird years) . . $ 3 5 0 ,0 0 0

TOTAL CIVIC AFFAIRS GRANTS— UNDESIGNATED . . . . $ 2 ,2 8 2 ,3 6 6 (Following recipients and program s design ated by donor) G reater C leveland N eighborhood C enters A sso cia tio n —G eneral s u p p o r t .......................................... $200 The Women’s C ity Club o f C leve­ la n d —E d u catio n al lec tu re s . . . $ 3 6 5 TOTAL CIVIC AFFAIRS G R A N T S DESIGNATED ........................... $ 5 6 5 TOTAL CIVIC AFFAIRS G R A N T S DESIGNATED AND UNDESIG­ NATED ........................... $ 2 ,2 8 2 ,9 3 1 *G rant re c o m m e n d e d b y F indlay D istribution C o m m itte e o f th e L. D ale D orney Fund.

Rapid Recovery, Inc., DBA Cleanland, Ohio —C arnegie Avenue visual im prov em ent program . . . . $ 20,000

The Inner C ity R enew al S o c ie ty — Ju v e n ile O ffenders In te rv en tio n N et­ work ...........................................$ 2 5 ,0 0 0

J ew ish C om m un ity C en ter of C leveland—E s ta b lis h m e n t of th e Je w ish C o m m u n ity C e n te r Beachwood C om plex .......................$ 7 0 ,0 0 0 League o f W omen V oters o f C leveland E d u cation a l Fund, In c.— P rogram on y o u th a n d th e election system over two y e a r s .......... $ 4 5 ,0 3 0

R esource—Women: The U ntapped R esource —P u b licatio n s a n d pro­ g ram s asso ciated w ith th e Dual C areer P r o je c t.............................. $ 5 ,0 0 0 Trem ont W est D evelopm ent C orporation—S taff for econom ic developm ent of TYemont W est com ­ $ 20,000 m ercial a re a s ..........

TVust for P u b lic Land, S an Fran­ cisco, C aliforn ia—'Ibw ard th e p u r ­ c h a se of 27.93 acres of E uclid B each p ro p erty for th e C leveland L akefront S ta te P a r k .............................. $ 1 2 5 ,0 0 0

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S p ecial Philanthropic S erv ices T he funds expended for special p h ilan ­ thropic service go prim arily for the oper­ atin g costs of T he Cleveland Foundation an d a wide variety of services for the benefit of th e philanthropic com m u n ity th ro u g h o u t N ortheast Ohio. T he latter includes services to o th er charitable in ­ stitu tio n s w hich do not em ploy staff or have lim ited staff. The services include evaluation of g ran t proposals and m onitoring grants as well as convening m eetings to deal w ith issues of com m on concern to the p articipating foundations.

Forty Years o f L eadersh ip: T h e K n ig h t F o u n d a tio n ’s C.C. G ibson (left) roasts H om er W a dsw o rth a t th e Ohio F oun­ d a tio n s Conference.

(P hotograph bu R ob ert Muller)

■ In November, the Foundation hosted the te n th an n u al Ohio F oundations Con­ ference, supplying (besides a financial contribution) staff su p p o rt and office space for th e conference coordinator and helping w ith the arran g em en ts for the two-day g athering of representatives from com m unity, private an d corporate foundations around the state. T his y ear’s conference, built around the th em e “Revitalizing th e Civic Vision: th e Role of Philanthropy,” was the largest an d m ost successful ever, draw ­ ing som e 230 participants. TWelve dif­ ferent sessions were offered in all, cover­ ing su ch topics as “E ducation for a C hanging B usiness E nvironm ent” and “H elping Donees Help Them selves: S tretch in g the G rant Dollars,” w ith The Cleveland Foundation providing six of th e speakers or panelists. R ichard W. Lyman, president of T he Rockefeller F oundation and chairperson of T he In­ d ep en d en t Sector, gave the keynote ad ­ dress, an d retired Cleveland Foundation director H om er C. W adsworth shared his observations on “A Decade of P hilan­ thropy in Ohio,” in a special plenary ses­ sion honoring the form er director for his nearly four decades of inspired leader­ ship in the philanthropic sector.

■ The Cleveland Foundation continued to su p p o rt th e regional library an d field office of th e Foundation C enter of New York. T he library is nam ed in honor of Kent H. Sm ith, a form er Cleveland Foun­ dation D istribution C om m ittee m em ber.

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T he tw o-person staff in clu d es a profes­ sional librarian w ith expertise in foun­ dation m atters who co n d u cts o rie n ta ­ tion sessions in th e u se of th e lib rary s resources.

T he library h o u ses m ateria ls relating to the gran t-m ak in g process, including a n n u a l reports of natio n al foundations, Internal Revenue Service re tu rn s of foundations in Ohio a n d neighboring states, a n d inform ation on federal and state governm ent funding.

In 1984, a record 2,700 visitors from the Cleveland area, o th er p a rts of Ohio an d the M idwest u sed th e library. Of these, 673 atte n d e d th e 124 orientation sessions stru c tu re d to teach g ran t seekers how to use th e lib rary ’s resources m ore effectively.

G r a n ts

The C leveland F oundation (Inc.)— Anisfield-W olf a w a r d s .......................... $ 2 9 ,0 0 0 D em o g rap h ic a n d o rg an iz atio n al profile of Lake a n d G e a u g a c o u n tie s .................... $ 5 ,0 0 0 D evelopm ent of a n overall m issio n a n d s tra te g y for T he C leveland F o u n d a tio n ...............................................................$ 2 2 5 ,0 0 0 E x p e n se s in c u rre d in p re p a ra tio n of a g re e m e n ts a n d d o c u m e n ts for th e Lexington Village P r o je c t.........................................$ 5 0 ,0 0 0 O hio F o u n d a tio n s C onference: P artial s u p p o rt for th e y ears 1984-1986. . . .$ 5 ,0 0 0 O p eratin g b u d g e t of T he C leveland F o u n d a tio n (Inc.) for th e y e a r 1985 .......................................................... $ 1 ,6 4 0 ,2 7 5

C ouncil on F ou n d ation s, Inc., W ashington, D. C.—P rofessional develop­ m e n t a c tiv itie s related to fo u n d atio n tru ste e s over two y e a r s .........................................$ 1 5 ,0 0 0 The Foundation C enter, New York, New York—O p eratin g s u p p o rt for th e F oundation C e n te r-C lev e la n d for th e y e a r 1985 $ 3 8 ,3 6 0 T O T A L ........................................... $ 2 ,0 0 7 ,6 3 5

Trust Funds, Com bined Funds, N ontrust Funds and Supporting O rganizations

C o n str u c tiv e a lte r n a tiv e to ja il: N o n vio len t o ffen d ers do tim e on C arnegie A v e n u e u n d e r a n in n o v a tiv e p ro g ra m (See Civic Affairs.)

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Trust Funds A wide variety of donors, w anting to benefit th eir co m m u n ity for years to come, have established th e following tru s t funds. T hese fund s are n am ed for th eir donors, by th e donor for a m em orial or, in som e instances, for th e recipient organization w hich they enrich.

Rob Roy A lexander F und T he Aloy M em orial S ch o larsh ip F u n d T he Dr. David A lsb ach er F u n d for M edical R esearch T h e G eorge a n d May M argaret Angell "IYust Anisfield-Wolf Fu n d C h arles Rieley A rm ington F und W alter C. a n d Lucy I. A stru p F und No. 1 W alter C. a n d Lucy I. A stru p F u n d No. 2 Sophie A u erbach Fund* T he F rederic M. an d Nettie E. B ackus M em orial Fu n d W alter C. an d Fannie W hite B aker F und Lilian H a n n a B aldw in F u n d Mabel R. B atem an M em orial F und W arner M. B atem an M em orial F u n d C ornelia W. B eardslee F und J a m e s C. B eardslee F und Louis D. B eau m o n t F und M ary B erry m an Fu n d Ida B eznoska F und Big B rothers of G reater Cleveland Fund T he Dr. H am ilton Fisk Biggar Fund George Davis Bivin Fu n d T he M artin E. a n d Evelyn K. Blum F u n d Tom L.E. Blum a n d M artin E. B lum Fund K atherine B ohm F und R oberta H olden Bole Fund T he George H. Boyd Fund* Alva Bradley II Fund G ertru d e H. B ritton, K atharine H. Perkins F und Fannie Brown M em orial F und George F. B uehler M em orial Fu n d T he H arry F. a n d E d n a J. B u rm ester C haritable R em ain d er U n itru st No. 1 T h o m as B u rn h am M em orial T rust K atherine W ard B urrell Fu n d T he M artha B. C arlisle M em orial F und T he Alfred J . C arp en ter M emorial F und T he C entral High School E nd o w m en t F und T he Fred H. C hapin M em orial F und T he F ran k J. an d Nellie L. C happie Fund* George W. C hisholm F und J.E .G . C lark TYust Marie O denkirk C lark F und T he E lsa C laus M em orial Fu n d No. 2 Cleveland F oundation C om bined F u n d s T he Cleveland F oundation Special F und No. 3 Cleveland: NOW! F und Cleveland R ecreational A rts Fu n d Caroline E. Coit F und A.E. Convers Fund* H arry Coulby F u n d No. 2 H arry Coulby F und No. 4 Ja c o b D. Cox Fund S. H oughton Cox F und H enry G. D alton F und T he Howard an d E dith Dingle Fund Edw in A. a n d J u lia G reene Dodd F und No. 1 Edw in A. an d J u lia G reene Dodd F u n d No. 2

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L. Dale D orney F und T he M ary a n d W allace D u n can F u n d T he W illiam C. a n d A gnes M. D u n n F und Alice M cH ardy Dye Fund T he E m erald N ecklace Fund Ada C. E m erson Fund* H enry A. E verett THist H om er E verett F und Mary McGraw E verett Fund T he Irene E w ing Thast C harles Dudley F arnsw orth F und T he G eorge D. a n d E dith W. F eath ersto n e M em orial Fund Dr. F ran k C arl Felix a n d Flora W ebster Felix Fund T he Fenn E du catio n al F u n d s (5) F irst Cleveland Cavalry-Norton M em orial Fund W illiam C. F ischer a n d Lillye T. Fischer M emorial Fund* Fisher F und E rw in L. F isher a n d Fanny M. F isher M em orial F und E dw ard C. Flanigon F und Forest C ity H ospital F oundation F u n d C onstance C. Frackelton F u n d No. 1 C onstance C. Frackelton F u n d No. 6 C onstance C. Frackelton Fund No. 7 C onstance C. Frackelton Fund No. 8 T he Fannie P itcairn Frackelton a n d David W. Frackelton Fund R obert J. Frackelton F und T he George F reem an C h arity F und Frederic H. G ates Fund T he W illiam F. a n d A nna Law rence G ibbons Fund* W illiam A. Giffhorn F und Frederick H arris Goff Fund F rederick H. a n d F rances S ou th w o rth Goff Fund* Isaac C. Goff Fund* E dw in R. Goldfield F und Lillian F. Goldfield Fund M arie Louise G ollan F und Dr. Isadore J. G oodm an and R uth G oodm an M em orial Fund J u liu s E. G oodm an Fund T he George C. an d M arion S. G ordon Fund R obert B. G randin Fund T he E ugene S. Halle M emorial Fund T he H ortense B. Halle a n d J a y M. Halle Fund D orothea W right H am ilton F und E dw in T. a n d M ary E. H am ilton Fund T he Lynn J. an d Eva D. H am m ond M em orial Fund* Leonard C. H anna, Jr. Cleveland F oundation Special P urpose Fund Leonard C. H anna, Jr. C om m unity D evelopm ent F u n d s (5) Leonard C. H anna, Jr. F und for C om m u n ity C hest Leonard C. H anna, Jr. F und for U nited Appeal W illiam S titt H annon F und Perry G. H arrison an d Virginia C. H arrison M em orial F und T he Kate H an n a Harvey M em orial F unds No. 1 an d 2 Melville H. Haskell, M ary H. H unter, G ertru d e H. B ritton, K atharine H. Perkins F u n d s No. 1 an d 2 George Halle Hays F und K aufm an Hays M em orial F und T he Louise W. an d Irving K. Heller F und Mildred Shelby H eller M emorial F und T he William Myron Heller M emorial Fund T he H inds M emorial Fund* T he H iram H ouse F und

T h e Ja c o b H irten stein F u n d H. Morley a n d E lizab eth N ew berry H itchcock F u n d M ildred E. H om m el a n d A rth u r G. H om m el M em orial Fund C e n tu re e n a S. H o tch k iss F u n d M artin Huge, M arth a M. Huge, T h eodore L. H uge a n d R ein h ard t E. H uge M em orial F und J o h n H u n tin g to n B enevolent F u n d T he A. W. H u rlb u t F u n d T h e N orm a W itt J a c k s o n F u n d S h e rm a n J o h n s o n M em orial F u n d C aroline B onnell J o n e s F u n d J a m e s S. J o r d a n F u n d A drian D. Joyce F und T h e F rederick W. a n d H e n ry e tt S locum J u d d F und H enryett S. J u d d F u n d T he G ertru d e Pfeiffer K ahn F und Isaac T heodore K ahn F u n d Tillie A. Kaley a n d W arren R. Kaley M em orial Fund K aram u H ouse T h ist C larence A. K irk h am M em orial F u n d J o h n R. K istner F und T he O tto a n d Lena Konigslow M em orial Fund* Elroy J . a n d F y n ette H. K ulas Fund* T he A rth u r A. L ederer a n d R u th Lawrence Lederer F u n d M artha M. L inden F u n d R obert M. L inney F und S u e L. Little F u n d Vida C. Logan F u n d E lizabeth T. L ohm iller F u n d G ustave Lorber a n d F rieda B rum l Lorber M em orial F und Ella L. Low m an F u n d H enry M. L ucas Fund C lem ens W. L undoff a n d H ilda T. Lundoff Fund F ra n k J. L ynch Fund* Nellie Lynch F u n d T h ere sa Mae M acNab F u n d T he M aude F. M ajerick F u n d Leone R. Bowe M arco F und Alice Keith M ather F u n d T he S am u el M ather a n d Flora S tone M ather M em orial F und H arriet E. M cBride F und T h e Lewis A. a n d E llen E. M cCreary M em orial F u n d T he J o h n A. a n d M ildred T. M cGean F und T he G eorge W. a n d S ara h M cGuire Fund D onald W. M cIntyre Fund T he K atherine B. M cK itterick F u n d T he J o h n C. McLean M em orial F u n d T he T h o m a s a n d M ary McMyler M em orial Fund T he A lbert Younglove M eriam a n d K athryn A. M eriam Fund Alice B u tts M etcalf F und S a ra h S te rn M ichael F und H elen G ibbs Mills M em orial F und Victor Mills Fu nd A nna B. M inzer F und C ornelia S. Moore Fund* T he Mr. a n d Mrs. J a y P. Moore M emorial F und W illiam C urtis M orton, M aud M orton, K athleen M orton F und E. F reem an M ould F u n d J a n e C. Mould F und Tbm Neal F und

B lanche E. Norvell Fund* H arry Norvell F u n d T he C rispin a n d K ate O glebay Trusl Clarence A. O lsen T h jst Mary King O sborn F und William P. P alm er F und T he Dr. C harles B. P arker M em orial Fund* The Jo se p h K. a n d Amy S h e p a rd Patterson M emorial F und Linda J. Peirce M em orial F u n d D ouglas Perkins F und G race M. Pew F und W alter D. Price F und William H. Price F und The J. A m brose a n d Je s s ie W heeler Purcell M emorial Fund* T he C harles G reif Raible an d C ath erin e Rogers Raible F und The J o h n R. Raible F u n d Clay L. a n d F lorence R annells Reely F und The R etreat M em orial F und C harles L. R ich m an F u n d N athan G. R ichm an F und Alice M. Rockefeller F und Charles F. Ruby F und William A. R uehl an d M ary R uehl Memorial F und The Mary Coit S anford M em orial Fu n d Mary Coit Sanford F und Dr. H enry A. a n d M ary J. S ch lin k Memorial Fu n d William C. Scofield M em orial Fu n d Charles W. an d Lucille Sellers M em orial Fund William K. S elm an M em orial F u n d Frank S. S heets a n d A lberta G. S h eets Memorial F und Frank E. S h ep ard so n F un d The H enry A. S h erw in a n d F ran ces M. Sherw in Fund* The H enry A. S h erw in a n d F ran ces M. Sherw in M em orial F u n d No. 1* The Henry A. S h erw in a n d F ran ces M. S herw in M em orial F u n d No. 2* The J o h n an d LaVerne S h o rt M em orial Fund The A.H. a n d J u lia W. S h u n k F u n d The T hom as a n d A n n a Sidlo F u n d Kent H. S m ith F und The Nellie B. Snavely F u n d A.L. Som ers F und William J. S o u th w o rth F u n d William P. S o u th w o rth a n d Louisa Southw orth F und Dr. George P. Soyer F u n d The J o h n C. a n d E lizabeth F. Sparrow M emorial F u n d Marion R. S p ellm an F und Jo se p h in e L. S p e rry F u nd The George B. S p ren g a n d H azel Myers Spreng M em orial F u n d The Hazel Myers S p ren g F u n d in m em o ry of h e r paren ts, Mr. a n d Mrs. A.N. Myers The Dorothy a n d O scar H. S te in e r F und for th e C onservation of A bused C hildren Frederick C. S terlin g S eco n d T estam en tary Thist* Avery L. S te rn e r F u n d Ada G ates Stevens M em orial F u n d C atherine E. Stew art, M arth a A. Stew art, Ju d ith H. S tew art a n d J e a n n e tte S tew art M emorial F u n d Jessie Stew art F u n d C harles L. a n d M arion H. S to n e F u n d H arriet B. S to rrs F und Leonard F. Stowe F u n d The A lm a M. a n d H arry R. Tem pleton M emorial F u n d

H en rietta Tteufel M em orial F und T h e J o h n H. T h o m as Fund A m os B urt a n d J e a n n e L. T h o m p so n F und M aude S. Tbmlin M em orial Fund M abelle G. an d Finton L. Tbrrence F und J a m e s H. TUrner Fund T he E dw ard a n d E sth e r T. Thttle M em orial F und C harles F. Uhl F und R ufus M. U llm an Fund J o h n F. an d Mary G. Wahl M em orial F und Je s s ie M acDonald W alker M em orial F und T h e J o h n M ason W alter an d J e a n n e M. W alter M em orial F und No. 1 T h e J o h n M ason W alter a n d J e a n n e M. W alter M em orial Fund No. 2 M abel B reckenridge W ason F und A M abel B reckenridge W ason F und B* George B. a n d E d ith S. W heeler T hist E dw ard Loder W hittem ore Fund H enry E. a n d E thel L. W iddell Fund T he J o h n E d m u n d W illiam s Fund Tferesa J a n e W illiam s M em orial F und A rth u r P. an d E lizabeth M. W illiam son F und T he G eorge H., C harles E., a n d S am uel D enny W ilson M em orial F und E d ith Anisfield Wolf F und T he B enjam in a n d R osem ary Wolpaw M em orial Fund D avid C. W right M em orial F und E d ith W right M em orial F und T h e W ulf S isters M em orial F und *PARTIAL BENEFITS FUNDS p rovide p a y m e n ts o f a n n u itie s to certain in d iv id u a ls p rior to p a y m e n t o f in co m e to th e F oundation. W ith three exceptions.

T h e C leveland F oun d a tio n w ill u ltim a te ly receive th e en tire n e t in co m e fr o m th e se fu n d s . T h e p rin cip a l a m o u n ts o f th e se fu n d s are carried a s a sse ts o f T h e C leveland F oundation.

A d d itio n s to E x is tin g F u n d s C harles Rieley A rm ington F u n d was in creased by a gift of $ 3 6 ,0 0 0 to in ­ com e from th e E lizabeth Rieley A rm ­ ington C haritab le T hist.

Mabel R. B atem an M em orial F und was in creased by a d istrib u tio n of $12,140 from th e Mabel R. B atem an Estate.

T he M artin E. a n d Evelyn K. Blum F u n d w as in creased by a d istrib u tio n of $346,120 from th e M artin E. Blum Estate.

Cleveland: NOW! F u n d w as increased by a d istrib u tio n of $670 from Cleveland: NOW! C leveland R ecreational A rts F und was in creased by a gift of $2,000 from K urt L. S eelb ach a n d $100 from th e R aym ond J o h n W ean Foundation.

E dw in A. a n d J u lia G reene Dodd F u n d No. 2 w as in creased by a d istrib u tio n of $100 from th e Edw in A. Dodd E state.

L. Dale D orney F u n d w as in creased by $14,688 th ro u g h an in su ra n c e distrib u tio n .

T he E m erald N ecklace F u n d w as in ­ creased by gifts of $10 from A nony­ m o u s a n d $200 from th e Stouffer Cor­ p oration Fund.

T h e Irene Ew ing T h ist w as in creased by a d istrib u tio n of $28,518 from th e Irene E w ing E state.

Trust Funds Growth

T he Fenn E du catio n al F u n d w as in ­ creased by gifts of $15,000 from T he A utom obile D ealers’ E d u catio n al A ssistance Foundation, $430 from T he H arry F. a n d E d n a J. B u rm este r C h aritable R em ain d er U n itru st No. 1 a n d $10 from Mr. a n d Mrs. F ran cis J. M cDonough.

In 1984 the carrying value of new funds and additions to existing funds recorded by The Cleveland Foundation totaled $1,852,484.

Forest City H ospital F ou n d atio n F u n d w as in creased by a gift of $53,000 from th e Forest City H ospital Foundation.

N e w T r u s t F u n d s R e c e iv e d : WILLIAM P. SOUTHWORTH AND LOUISA SOUTHWORTH FUND Donor: O tis S. S o u th w o rth a n d G eorgiana Lee S o u th w o rth T rusts Carrying Value: $ 6 94,303 M arket Value 12/31/84: $ 8 82,368 Use of Income: U n restricted c h a rita b le p u rp o se s THE EDWARD AND ESTHER T. TU TTLE MEMORIAL FUND Donor: E sth e r Tbttle Peyton E state Carrying Value: $92,146 M arket Value 12/31/84: $91,696 Use of Income: R estricted to m en tally reta rd e d p erso n s in th e G reater C leveland A rea

T he H ortense B. Halle a n d J a y M. Halle F u n d w as in creased by a d istrib u tio n of $507,218 from th e H ortense B. Halle Estate.

D onald W. M cIntyre F u n d w as in ­ creased by $ 4 5 ,9 3 9 th ro u g h a d istri­ b u tio n from th e D onald W. M cIntyre E state.

T h e D orothy a n d O scar H. S tein er F u n d for th e C onservation of A bused C hildren w as in cre ase d by a gift of $500 from O scar H. Steiner.

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C h a rle s L. a n d M arion H. S to n e F u n d w as in c re a se d by a d istrib u tio n of $20 from th e C h a rle s L. S to n e E state.

T h e W ulf S iste rs M em orial F u n d w as in c re a se d by a d istrib u tio n of $3,372 from th e A u g u sta M. W ulf E state.

Com bined Funds C om bined F unds were created w ithin T he Cleveland Foundation in 1943 to provide a m ean s th ro u g h w hich gifts of any size could be m ade an d p u t to work m ore efficiently. Several th o u san d donors have contributed to Com ­ bined F unds since th eir creation.

Gifts to a Com bined F und retain th eir separate identity as m em ori­ als b u t are com m ingled for invest­ m e n t purposes, thereby providing a large block of capital for m ore efficient investm ent m an ag em en t and greater incom e potential.

Gifts to a Com bined F und may be m ade in the nam e of an indi­ vidual or as m em orials. There is no restriction as to size, an d ad d i­ tions m ay be m ade a t any time.

Donors are encouraged to m ake th eir gifts available for u n re stric t­ ed charitable purposes, since this enables th e Foundation to be flex­ ible in m eeting changing co m m u ­ nity needs an d problem s. If a donor w ishes to express a prefer­ ence as to how th e incom e from the gift should be spent, it is su g ­ gested th a t one of th e general Cleveland Foundation gran t cate­ gories—Civic Affairs, C ultural Affairs, Education, H ealth, Social Services or Econom ic Develop­ m e n t—be specified.

M orris A bram s F und Academ y of M edicine, H ealth E ducation F o undation Fund R hoda L. Affelder F und A lcoholism Services of Cleveland, Inc. W ickham H. A ldrich Fund E unice Westfall Allen M emorial S am u el Westfall Allen M emorial Lydia May A m es F und R aleigh F. A ndrie M em orial F und M arguerite E. A nselm M emorial K atherine B. A rundel F und Leonard P. Ayres M emorial

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R u th a n d E lm er B abin F und A.D. B aldw in M em orial F und R obert K. Beck M em orial Fund T he B eckenbach S ch o larsh ip M em orial Fund H attie E. B ingham F u n d B eulah H olden Bluim M em orial A rth u r B lythin M em orial R obert B lythin M em orial E rn e st J. B ohn M em orial Fund Helen R. Bowler F und Nap. H. Boynton M em orial F u n d Alva Bradley M em orial B righam B ritton Fund M arie H. Brown F und C harles F. B u escher M emorial T h o m as B u rn h a m M em orial F und E lizabeth A. B urton M em orial E d m u n d S. B usch F und R obert H. B usch S cholarship F u n d C arm ela Cafarelli Fund M arian M. C am eron F u n d E d n a L. a n d G ustav W. C arlson F oundation M emorial F und Leyton E. C arter M em orial Fund Mary C ath erin e C arter F und George S. Case F und Isabel D. C h am berlin Fred H. C hapin M em orial T he Adele C orning C hisholm M emorial Fund G arn e tta B. C h risten so n a n d LeRoy W. C hristen so n F und Mr. a n d Mrs. H arold T. C lark F u n d Inez a n d H arry C lem ent Award F und Cleveland Conference for E d u catio n al C ooperation F und Cleveland G uidance C enter E n dow m ent F und Cleveland H eights High School S cholarship F und T he Cleveland F oundation Special F und No. 4 Cleveland P sychoanalytic Society Fund T he Cleveland Sorosis Fund Cleveland War M emorial A rth u r Cobb M emorial A rth u r Cobb, Jr. M emorial Florence H aney Cobb M em orial Louise B. Cobb M emorial Mary Gaylord Cobb M em orial Mavis Cobb M emorial Percy Wells Cobb M emorial R alph W. Cobb, Jr. M emorial Dr. H arold N. Cole M emorial Cole N ational Corp. F und Law rence E. C onnelly M emorial J u d g e Alva R. C orlett M em orial M ary B. C ouch Fund Ja c o b D. Cox, Jr. M emorial T he Eileen H. C ram er a n d M arvin H. C ram er F und Willis B. C rane M emorial Dr. W ilbur S. Crowell M emorial M arianne N orth C u m m er M emorial G lenn A. C utler M emorial N athan L. D auby M emorial Mary E. Dee M em orial F und Carl D ittm ar M emorial M agdalene Pahler D onahey F und A nna J. D orm an a n d Pliny O. D orm an M em orial F und L. Dale D orney M emorial Fund J a m e s J. Doyle a n d Lillian H erron Doyle S cholarship F und R obert J. Drake M emorial C harles A. Driffield M emorial F und B ruce S. D w ynn M em orial Fund K ristian E ilertsen Fund

Irene C. a n d Karl E m m e rlin g S c h o la rsh ip F und C h arles F arran F u n d A rth u r H. F eher F und W illiam S. a n d F red a M. Fell M em orial F und Herold a n d C lara Fellinger C h a rita b le Fund Sidney B. Fink M em orial K athleen H olland Forbes M usic F u n d Percy R. a n d B eatrice R o u n d Forbes M em orial F u n d F ran ces B. a n d G eorge W. Ford M em orial Fund G ladys J. a n d H om er D. Foster F u n d H arriet R. Fowler F u n d K a ty ru th S triek e r Fraley M em orial A nnie A. F rance F u n d H erm ine F rankel M em orial I.F. F reiberger F und Mrs. I.F. F reiberger M em orial W inifred Fryer M em orial F und Frederic C. F ulton F u n d Doclie G allag h er M em orial F und F lorence I. G a rre tt M em orial F ra n k S. G ibson M em orial F und E llen G ard n e r G ilm ore M em orial F ran ces S o u th w o rth Goff M em orial R obert B. G ran d in M em orial J a m e s L. G reene M em orial Bell Greve M em orial F u n d R obert Hays G ries M em orial C arolyn K. G ro ssm an F u n d Isador G ro ssm an M em orial F und Marc J. G ro ssm an F und M axine Y. H ab erm an F u n d Je ssie Haig M em orial F lorence H am ilton M em orial L eonard C. H anna, Jr. Cleveland Play H ouse Fund T he L eonard C. H anna, Jr. Special F u n d J a n e t H arley M em orial F u n d Mr. a n d Mrs. Roy G. H arley F u n d H. S tu a rt H arrison M em orial F und Mrs. W ard H arrison M em orial F.H. H aserot F u n d H om er H. H atch Fund Lewis Howard H ayden a n d Lulu May H ayden F und Nora Hays F u n d Iva L. Herl F und T h e Clifford B. H ershik M em orial F und T he S ieg m u n d a n d B erth a B. Herzog E n d o w m en t F u n d H ighland View H ospital E m ployees' F und A lbert M. Higley M em orial M ary G. Higley F und R euben W. H itchcock F und M ary Louise H obson M em orial F und Mr. a n d Mrs. A rth u r S. H olden Fund C ora Millet H olden M em orial G uerdon S. H olden M em orial H elen M. H olland M em orial Dr. J o h n W. Holloway M em orial Fund J o h n W. Holt M em orial Mrs. J o h n H. Hord M em orial A.R. H orr F u n d J o se p h C. H ostetler M em orial G ilbert W. H u m phrey M em orial F und The In term u seu m C onservation Association E n d ow m ent F und Mrs. Ray Irvin M em orial Earle L. J o h n s o n a n d W alter Saw telle Doan a n d Ella P. D oan M em orial F und J. K im ball J o h n s o n M em orial F u n d T he J. K im ball J o h n s o n M em orial F und

J a m e s K. Jo h n s o n , Jr. M em orial Fund Minerva B. J o h n s o n M em orial Fund Virginia K. J o h n s o n M em orial F und Florence J o n e s M em orial T he T h o m as Hoyt J o n e s Fam ily Fund The Virginia J o n e s M em orial F und Mr. an d Mrs. S idney D. J o s e p h s F und Albert B. a n d S ara P. Kern M em orial F und Jo se p h E. Kewley M em orial F und Orrin F. K ilm er F und D.D. Kimmel M em orial F und Quay H. Kinzig M em orial T hom as M. Kirby M em orial Dr. E m m an u el K laus M em orial F und Sam uel B. K night F und The Philip E. an d B erth a Hawley Knowlton Fund Estelle C. Koch M em orial S ch o larsh ip Fund Richard H. Kohn F und Sam uel E. K ram er Law S ch o larsh ip F und George H. L apham Fu n d Mr. an d Mrs. R obert S. L ath am F u n d Dr. and Mrs. R obert H. L echner F u n d M argaret Irene Leslie F u n d Mrs. Howell Leuck F und The J o n Lewis F und Daniel W. Loeser F u n d Meta M. Long F und The C halm er F. Lutz F und The William Fred M ackay a n d C ora Carlisle Mackay M em orial F u n d A nna Mary Magee M em orial F u n d George A. an d M ary E. M arten F u n d Mrs. E.O. M arting M em orial The Frederick R. a n d B e rth a S p e c h t M autz Scholarship F und Erm a L. Mawer F u n d Malcolm L. McBride a n d J o h n H arris McBride II M em orial F u n d Thom as M cCauslen M em orial Dr. Ja n e Power M cCollough F und Mrs. E.P. M cCullagh M em orial Em m a E. M cDonald F u n d Heber M cFarland F u n d Hilda J. McGee F und Gladys M. M cIntyre M em orial F u n d W. Brewster M cK enna F u n d Anna C urtiss M cN utt M em orial Medusa Fund Charles E. M eink M em orial William J. M ericka M em orial The G race E. M eyette F u n d H erm an R. a n d E sth e r S. Miller M em orial Fund Francis C harlto n Mills, J r. F u n d E m m a B. M inch F u n d Jo h n A. M itchell a n d B lanche G. M itchell Fund H arry F. M iter M em orial Helen Moore F u n d Daniel E. M organ M em orial Fu n d Mary M acBain M otch F u n d Ray E. M unn F u n d J o h n P. M urphy M em orial C hristoph er B ruce N arten M em orial The N ational City B an k F u n d H arlan H. Newell M em orial Harold M. N ichols F u n d Je ssie Roe N orth a n d G eorge M ahan N orth M emorial F u n d Jo h n F. O berlin a n d J o h n C. O berlin Fu n d Ohio N ut a n d Bolt C o m pany F u n d The Ohio S co ttish G am es E n d o w m en t F und Jo h n G. a n d May Lockwood Oliver M emorial F und William J . O’Neill M em orial F u n d E thelw yne W alton O sb o rn M em orial

Erla S c h la th e r Parker Fund C harles J. an d M arian E. Paterson F und B lanche B. Payer F und C aroline Brown P resco tt M em orial F und Mary D u n h am P rescott M em orial T he G eorge J o h n P u tz a n d M argaret P utz M em orial Fund T h e Fred O. an d Lucille M. Q uick F und O m ar S. R anney M em orial G race P. Rawson F und L eonard R. R ench Fund M arie R ich ard so n M em orial F und M inerva P. Ridley F und E d n a A. R ink Fund O rra M. R isberg M em orial G e rtru d e M. R obertson M emorial H elen D. R obinson Fund C larence A. Roode M em orial E lizabeth Becker R orabeck F und Edw ard L. Rosenfeld an d B ertha M. Rosenfeld F und Dr. A.T. Roskos Fund D orothy a n d H elen R u th Fund St. B a rn ab a s G uild for N ursing Fund Mrs. R aym ond T. Saw yer M em orial Oliver H. S c h aa f F und C ornelius G. Scheid M em orial F und T h e R obert N. Schw artz F und for R etarded C hildren Alice D uty Seagrave Foreign S tu d y Fund K urt L. a n d Lela H. Seelbach W arner Seely Fund A rth u r H. Seibig Fund Mrs. Louis B. S eltzer M emorial T h e A rth u r an d Agnes Severson M emorial F u nd A n n ette S. S h agren M em orial G lenn M. a n d E lsa V. Shaw Fund N ina S h errer F und J a m e s Nelson S herw in Fund T h e J o h n a n d F rances W. S herw in F und C ornelia A dam s S h iras M em orial Dr. T h o m as S h u p e M em orial Fund S am u el S ilbert F und David G. Skall M em orial Mr. a n d Mrs. Paul T. Skove F und Jo se p h in e R. a n d Edw ard W. Sloan, Jr. Fu nd Social Work S cholarship Fund Society for C rippled C hildren—'TYis S peaker M em orial F und Society N ational B ank F und M eade A. S pen cer M em orial V irginia S priggs Fund T h e M iriam K erruish S tage Fund Belle Bierce S tair M em orial F rederick S. S tam b erg er M em orial Nellie Steele Stew art M em orial T h e C harles J. Stilwell S cholarship Fund R alph P. S to d d ard M em orial F und E sth e r H. a n d B.F. S toner M em orial Fund V ernon Stouffer M em orial Fund M ortim er I. S tra u ss a n d Helen E. S tra u ss a n d B lanche New M em orial Fund T h e Ignatz a n d B erta S u n sh in e Fund J o s e p h T. Sw eeny M emorial C h arles F arrand Taplin a n d Elsie H. Taplin Fu nd C.F. Tkplin F und Je s s ie Loyd Tkrr M em orial E lizabeth B ebout Tkylor M emorial M ary J. Tew ksbury Fund Allison J o h n T h o m p so n M em orial Fund C h ester A. T h o m p so n Fund M argaret H ayden T h o m p so n F und S a ra h R. T h o m p so n F und

H om er F. Tielke F und M aud K erruish Tbwson M em orial Je ssie C. TUcker M em orial F und T he C harles F. Uhl a n d Carl F. Uhl M em orial Fund Leo W. U lm er Fund C h ristian a n d S ophia Vick M em orial F und M alcolm B. Vilas M emorial Philip R. a n d M ary S. W ard M em orial F und C ornelia B lakem ore W arner M em orial F und Helen B. W arner F und Stanley H. W atson M emorial F ran k W alter Weide F und T he H arry H. an d Stella B. Weiss M emorial Fund Caroline Briggs Welch M emorial B urt W enger F und Leroy A. W estm an Fund S. B urns a n d S im onne H. W eston F und L ucius J. a n d Je n n ie C. W heeler M emorial F und Elliott H. W hitlock M emorial Mary C. W hitney F und T he M arian L. a n d E d n a A. W hitsey Fund R.N. a n d H.R. W iesenberger F und Lewis B. W illiam s M emorial W hiting W illiam s F und A rth u r P. an d E lizabeth M. W illiam son F und J a m e s D. W illiam son F und R u th Ely W illiam son F und M arjorie A. W inbigler M em orial J o h n W. W oodburn M em orial Nelle P. W oodworth Fund D orothy Young Wykoff M em orial Leward C. Wykoff M emorial Frederick W illiam York Fund Dr. Edw ard A. Yurick F und H erbert E. a n d E leanor M. Z dara M emorial Fund Ray J. Zook an d A m elia T. Zook F und

Combined Funds Growth In 1984 the carrying value of new funds and additions to existing funds totaled $368,580.

N e w F u n d s R e c e iv e d : BRUCE S. DWYNN MEMORIAL FUND, $5,000 Donor: R obert B. S trother, Jr. Use o f Income: U n restricted c h aritab le p u rp o se s DOCLIE GALLAGHER MEMORIAL FUND, $200 Donor: Mary E. a n d Lee R. Forker an d H elen S. a n d C h arles E. G allagher Use of Income: U n restricted c h a rita b le p u rp o se s J. KIMBALL JOHNSON MEMORIAL FUND, $89,443 Donor: J a m e s K im ball J o h n s o n E state Use o f Incom e: U n restricted c h a rita b le p u rp o se s

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DR. JA N E POWER McCOLLOUGH FUND, $19,601 Donor: Dr. J a n e Power M cCollough E state Use o f Incom e: R estricted to rese a rc h or aid in c o m b a tin g tu b e rc u lo sis a n d o th e r c h e st d iseases ROY J. ZOOK AND AMELIA T. ZOOK FUND, $ 4 6 ,4 8 8 Donor: Roy J. Zook a n d A m elia T. Zook Use o f Incom e: R estricted to a ssis ta n c e of im poverished a n d u n d e rp riv ileg e d ch ild ren

A d d itio n s to E x is tin g F u n d s ROBERT K. BECK MEMORIAL FUND, $ 1,000 Donor: Mrs. R obert K. Beck THOMAS BURNHAM MEMORIAL FUND, $7,082 Donor: M arie Louise G ollan-W inston P. B urton F u n d THE INTERMUSEUM CONSERVA­ TION ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FUND, $88,000 Donor: M ary M allery Davis, F lint In­ s titu te of Arts, T he GAR F oundation, K night F oundation, T he J e s s e Philips F o u n d atio n a n d T he W hiting F o undation TH E JON LEWIS FUND, $25 Donor: J u d ith B. a n d J a c k K aufm an THE FREDERICK R. AND BERTHA SPECH T MAUTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND. $6,000 Donor: Dr. Frederick R. M autz BURT W ENGER FUND, $105,721 Donor: B u rt W enger E state DR. EDWARD A. YURICK FUND, $20 Donor: Dr. E dw ard A. Yurick

Nontrust Funds The Cleveland Foundation also holds gifts not im m ediately estab ­ lished as trusts, or w hich are to be distributed over a specified period of time. These funds are nam ed either for th eir donor or for th e recipient organization they benefit. In those instances where the donor prefers to re­ m ain anonym ous, the fund is ac­ cepted as a special fund of The Cleveland Foundation.

A m erican F oundation F und A ssociated G rocery M anufacturers R epresentatives Fund

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T he S u m n e r C a n a ry L ectu resh ip Fund T he C leveland F o u n d atio n S pecial F u n d No. 1 T he C leveland F o u n d atio n S pecial F u n d No. 2 J a m e s E. a n d Isabelle E. D u n lap F u n d M ary P. a n d E dw ard M. Foley F u n d S am u el B. K night T tu st F u n d R obert R. a n d A nn B. Lucas F u n d S h a k e r H eights D ram a F u n d N o n tr u s t F u n d s G r o w th In 1984 th e c a rry in g value of new a c c o u n ts a n d a d d itio n s to ex istin g a c c o u n ts totaled $155,750.

N ew F u n d s R e c e iv e d : THE SUMNER CANARY LECTURE­ SHIP FUND, $10,550 Use o f Incom e: R estricted to lectu res or o th e r p re se n ta tio n s by o u tsta n d in g sch o lars of n a tio n a l re p u ta tio n in law, econom ics, political science, sociology or governm ent SAMUEL B. KNIGHT TRUST FUND, $30,000 Use o f Income: T he Legal Aid S ociety of Cleveland A d d itio n s to E x is tin g F u n ds: A m erican F ou n d atio n F und, $200 T he Cleveland F ou n d atio n Special F u n d No. 2, $115,000

Supporting Organizations Seven su p p o rtin g org an izatio n s were affiliated w ith T h e C leveland F o u n d a ­ tion in 1984. T h ese org an izatio n s have co m m itted th e ir a sse ts to th e benefit a n d c h a rita b le p u rp o se s of the F oundation a n d are classified u n d e r section 509(a)(3) of th e In te r­ nal R evenue Code. E ach su p p o rtin g org an izatio n reta in s a se p ara te id e n ti­ ty, en ab lin g its founders to m a in ta in an active in te re st in p h ila n th ro p y d u rin g th e ir lifetim es, w hile enjoying th e public c h a rity s ta tu s a n d staff services of T he C leveland F oundation.

T he first su p p o rtin g org an izatio n of T he C leveland F o u n d atio n w as created in 1973 by J o h n a n d F ran ces W ick Sherw in. In th a t year, after 20 years of o peration as a fam ily foundation, T h e S h e r w ic k Fund becam e th e

first private fo u n d atio n in th e c o u n ­ try to g ain affiliation w ith a c o m m u ­ n ity tru s t. T h e tru s te e s of T h e S h e r­ w ick F u n d approve g ra n ts for a v a rie ­ ty of ed u c atio n a l, h e a lth , social se rv ­ ice a n d c u ltu ra l a rts p ro g ra m s. In 1984, six g ra n ts w ere app ro v ed to ta l­ ing $60,500.

T h e G o o d rich S o c ia l S e t t l e m e n t w as also a priv ate fo u n d a tio n p rio r to its affiliation in 1979 w ith T h e Cleve­ lan d F o u n d atio n . G ra n ts approved by th e tru s te e s of th is F u n d benefit, b u t a re n o t lim ited to, T h e G oodrichG a n n e t N eigh b o rh o o d C e n te r a n d th e Bell N eigh b o rh o o d C enter. E ig h t g ra n ts to ta lin g $ 4 0 ,5 7 5 w ere a u th o r­ ized in 1984.

T h e five re m a in in g s u p p o rtin g or­ g a n iz a tio n s b e c a m e affiliated w ith th e F o u n d a tio n w ith o u t p rio r p h ila n ­ th ro p ic s tru c tu re . T h e E liz a b e th a n d E lle r y S e d g w ic k F u n d w as c re a te d by th e S ed g w ick s in 1978. In 1984 th e F u n d b en efited g e n e ra l c h a ri­ tab le a c tiv itie s in th e C leveland a re a w ith 12 g ra n ts to ta lin g $74,230.

T h e A lto n F. a n d C arrie S. D a v is F un d, cre a te d in 1979, s u p p o rte d n in e o rg a n iz a tio n s d u rin g 1984 for a va rie ty of c u ltu ra l a n d c h a rita b le a c ­ tivities. G ra n t aw ards to ta le d $20,000.

A n o th e r so u rc e of p h ila n th ro p ic dol­ lars for th e C leveland a re a is T h e W olp ert Fun d, c re a te d in 1980 by S a m u e l a n d R oslyn W olpert. Fifty-two g ra n ts w ere approved in 1984, provid­ ing $71,100 for civic, social services, c u ltu ra l a n d e d u c a tio n a l program s.

T h e first s u p p o rtin g o rg an iz atio n in th e c o u n try to beco m e affiliated w ith b o th a c o m m u n ity fo u n d a tio n a n d a n o th e r c h a rity w as T h e Treu-M art F und. E sta b lish e d in 1980 by E liza­ b e th M. a n d th e late W illiam C. TVeuhaft, T he T teu-M art F u n d is a s u p ­ p o rtin g o rg an iz atio n of b o th T he C leveland F o u n d atio n a n d T he Je w ­ ish C o m m u n ity F ed eratio n of Cleve­ lan d . In 1984 th e tru s te e s of th e F u n d approved 10 g ra n ts for diverse c h a rita b le a c tiv itie s in th e C leveland area.

In late D ecem b er 1984 T h e M cD onald F u n d , c re a te d by C harles a n d D eborah M cDonald, b e c am e th e new est su p p o rtin g o rg an iz atio n of T h e C leveland F o u ndation. T he M cDonald F u n d ex p ects to focus its g ra n t-m a k in g a c tiv itie s p rim a rily on s tre n g th e n in g sm all b u s in e s s e s in C leveland’s in n er-city neigh b o rh o o d s.

D etailed listin g s of th e 1984 g ra n ts of T he S h erw ick F u n d , T h e TVeu-Mart F u n d a n d T he W olpert F u n d m ay be found in b ien n ia l re p o rts p u b lish e d se p ara te ly a n d available a t T h e Cleve­ lan d F oundation.

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Balance Sheets T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n

D ecem ber 31

1983

1984

A s s e ts $

C a s h ...................................................................

C ertificates of d e p o s it...................................

S h o rt-term i n v e s tm e n ts ..............................

S e c u ritie s—Note D: U.S. g o v ernm ent o b lig a tio n s .................

B onds ............................................................

C om m on a n d preferred sto ck s ............

C om m on tru s t f u n d s ................................

158,217 1 ,650,000 2 3 ,9 9 2 ,5 1 8

3 1 ,8 2 9 ,6 7 2 3 9 ,8 9 8 ,2 2 9 8 7 ,9 2 0 ,8 6 6 3 2 .6 2 4 ,3 0 5 1 9 2 ,2 7 3 ,0 7 2 6 ,5 5 8 ,4 6 7 9 1 6 ,8 8 4 $ 2 2 5 ,5 4 9 ,1 5 8

O th er in v e stm e n ts—Note D ......................

O th er a s s e t s ....................................................

L ia b il it i e s a n d F u n d B a la n c e s A ccounts payable an d accru ed ex p en ses F und balances: R estricted for c h aritab le p u rp o ses . . . .

U nrestricted for o p erating p u rp o se s . .

$

166,060 1 ,4 5 0 ,0 0 0 1 5 ,4 7 1 ,7 5 7

2 5 ,8 1 5 ,4 9 1 3 9 ,8 6 9 ,8 3 7 9 0 ,1 3 5 ,0 2 4 3 1 ,7 0 7 ,8 7 5 187,52 8 ,2 2 7 5 ,5 6 9 ,3 7 2 4 3 7 ,8 8 8 $ 2 1 0 ,6 2 3 ,3 0 4

4 0 7 ,2 0 3

2 6 5 ,2 0 3

2 2 4 ,1 7 2 ,8 8 1 9 6 9 ,0 7 4 2 2 5 ,1 4 1 ,9 5 5 $ 2 2 5 ,5 4 9 ,1 5 8

2 0 9 ,6 6 1 ,4 4 6 6 9 6 ,6 5 5 2 1 0 ,3 5 8 ,1 0 1 $ 2 1 0 ,6 2 3 ,3 0 4

$

See notes to financial statements.

Statements of Revenue, Expenses and Changes in Fund Balances T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n

Received from d o n o r s .............................................

Net gain from sale of a s s e t s ................................

D iv id e n d s ...................................................................

I n te r e s t........................................................................

C om m on tru s t fund i n c o m e ................................

Partial benefit in co m e—Note B ...........................

D istribution of estate i n c o m e ..............................

O ther ..........................................................................

T otal R e v e n u e ............................................................

E xpen ses A uthorized by tru s te e banks: T rustees’ f e e s .........................................................

O ther tru s t e x p e n s e s ..........................................

Paym ents u n d e r g ra n ts a u th o rized by T he Cleveland F oundation C om m ittee or th e D istribution C om m ittee for ch aritab le p u r p o s e s .............................................

A dm inistrative expenses: S a la r ie s ......................................................

Em ployee b e n e fits .....................................

O ccupancy a n d office e x p e n s e s ......................

Professional a n d co n su ltin g fees a n d staff ex p en ses ..............................

O ther T otal E x p e n s e s ..................................

E xcess o f R evenue over E xpen ses

...

F u n d b a la n c e s a t b e g in n in g o f y e a r F u n d b a la n c e s a t e n d o f y e a r

See notes to financial statements.

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Year Ended December 31 1983 3 ,3 6 8 ,9 9 3 $ 6 ,8 9 3 ,7 8 8 1 0 ,1 12,905 7 ,7 2 9 ,2 3 3 5 ,2 2 8 ,8 5 6 4 ,8 9 6 ,7 7 5 6 ,0 7 7 ,9 4 9 5 ,0 7 3 ,9 4 3 2 ,5 3 5 ,7 2 8 2 ,3 1 7 ,4 6 2 5 ,0 6 0 ,4 3 1 5 ,0 0 1 ,4 1 5 5 8 6 ,9 7 5 4 0 6 ,0 8 8 5 3 4 ,7 7 6 3 4 1 ,5 1 2 1984

R evenue $

3 3 ,5 0 6 ,6 1 3

3 2 ,6 6 0 ,2 1 6

9 9 9 ,5 6 2 8 5,322

9 3 2 ,5 7 8 4 5 ,8 5 4

16,021,968

18,774,045

8 6 0 ,4 7 7 170.196 317.801

8 2 1 ,6 3 6 194,263 2 1 1 .6 7 3

189,278 78,1 5 5

174,868 78,4 0 6

1 8 ,7 2 2 ,7 5 9 1 4 ,7 8 3 ,8 5 4

2 1 ,2 3 3 ,3 2 3 1 1 ,4 2 6 ,8 9 3

2 1 0 ,3 5 8 ,1 0 1

1 9 8 ,9 3 1 ,2 0 8

$ 2 2 5 ,1 4 1 ,9 5 5

$ 2 1 0 ,3 5 8 ,1 0 1

Notes to Financial Statements The Cleveland Foundation December 31, 1984

N o te A —T h e financial s ta te m e n ts inclu d e th e a c c o u n ts of T he C leveland F ou n d atio n (“c h a rita b le co rp o ratio n ”), T h e Cleveland F o u n d atio n (“c o m m u n ity t r u s t ”) a n d th eir affiliated su p p o rtin g o rganizations. T he a g ­ gregate fund b a la n c e s of th e su p p o rtin g o r­ g a n iz a tio n s are $ 7 ,8 4 5 ,7 8 2 a n d $6,860,180 a t D ecem ber 31, 1984 a n d 1983, resp e c ­ tively T he su p p o rtin g o rg an iz atio n s were e sta b lish e d u n d e r th e provisions of S ection 509(a)(3) of th e In te rn al R evenue Code.

T h e C leveland F ou n d atio n is responsible for e x p e n d itu re s of th e su p p o rtin g o rg an i­ za tio n s for specific c h a rita b le purposes.

In tero rg an izatio n al tra n s a c tio n s a n d a c ­ c o u n ts have b e e n elim inated.

T he financial s ta te m e n ts are n o t in te n d e d to p re s e n t financial position an d re su lts of o p e ra tio n s in conform ity w ith generally ac ce p ted a c c o u n tin g p rin cip les on th e a c ­ cru al m ethod; rath er, it c o n tin u e s to be th e

F ou n d atio n ’s c o n sisten t policy to prep are its financial s ta te m e n ts p rim arily on th e accep tab le a c co u n tin g m eth o d of c a sh re ­ ceipts a n d d isb u rse m e n ts by w h ich c e rtain revenue a n d th e related a sse ts are recog­ nized w h en received ra th e r th a n w h en e a rn e d a n d c ertain ex p en ses are recog­ nized w hen paid ra th e r th a n w h en the obligation is in cu rred .

S e c u ritie s a n d o th e r in v estm en ts are m a in ta in e d by tru ste e b a n k s in various tru s t fu n d s a n d are carried generally a t cost or a m o u n ts d e te rm in e d by e sta te s at th e tim e of b eq u est.

C ertain tru sts, e sta b lish e d for th e benefit of T he Cleveland F oundation (“co m m u n ity tr u s t ”), have b een excluded from th e a c ­ co m p an y in g sta te m e n ts u n til su c h tim e as they have b een form ally tra n sfe rre d to T he C leveland F oundation.

N o te B —P artial benefit fu n d s generally provide, each in v arying a m o u n ts, for pay­ m e n t of a n n u itie s to c e rtain individuals, tru s te e s ’ fees a n d o th e r ex p en ses of th e tru sts, p rio r to p a y m e n t of th e b alan ce of th e incom e to T he C leveland F o undation (“c o m m u n ity tr u s t ”). T he total carry in g v alues of p a rtial benefit fu n d s are included

in th e a cco m p an y in g s ta te m e n ts since T he C leveland F o u n d atio n (“c o m m u n ity tr u s t”) u ltim a tely will receive th e e n tire incom e of s u c h funds. In b o th 1984 a n d 1983 T he C leveland F o u n d atio n (“co m m u n ity tr u s t”) received ap p ro x im ately 80% a n d 84% , resp ectiv ely of th e ag gregate incom e of th e various p a rtial benefit funds.

T h e c a rry in g value of p a rtial benefit fu n d s is a s follows: D ecem ber 31

A m eriT V ust.............................................

N ational City B a n k ..............................

C en tral N ational B an k of Cleveland

1984 5 0 ,1 3 9 ,2 2 5 5 ,7 8 9 ,4 4 8 1,481,777 $ 5 7 ,4 1 0 ,4 5 0

1983 5 1 ,0 3 4 ,6 7 3 5 ,514,591 1,392,722 $ 5 7 ,9 4 1 ,9 8 6

N o te C—T h e C leveland F ou n d atio n h a s un- a n d $11,030,000 a t D ecem ber 31, 1984 p aid g ra n t c o m m itm e n ts of $9 ,7 0 9 ,0 0 0 a n d 1983, respectively.

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N o te D —A pproxim ate m a rk e t v alu es for se c u ritie s a n d o th e r in v estm e n ts of th e

c h a rita b le co rp o ratio n , th e c o m m u n ity tru s t a n d th e s u p p o rtin g o rg a n iz a tio n s are: D ecem b er 31

U.S. g o v ern m en t o b ligations . .

B onds .............................................

C om m on a n d preferred stocks C om m on tru s t fu n d s ...............

O th er in v estm e n ts ....................

Report of Ernst & W hinney I n d e p e n d e n t A u d ito r s

1983 $ 2 6 ,1 0 6 ,2 1 4 3 2 ,4 1 1 ,8 7 1 1 8 1 ,7 8 0 ,5 8 2 3 7 ,4 4 1 ,8 6 2 2 7 7 ,7 4 0 ,5 2 9 5 ,6 4 1 ,7 9 9 $ 2 8 3 ,3 8 2 ,3 2 8

Since app ro x im ate m ark e t v alu atio n s a s of D ecem ber 31, 1984 a n d 1983 for o th e r in ­ v estm en ts w ith a c a rry in g value of $4,691,207 an d $4,811,795, respectively,

w ere n o t read ily o b tain ab le, th e c a rry in g value of s u c h o th e r in v e stm e n ts h a s been in clu d e d a s th e a p p ro x im ate m a rk e t value.

N o te E —T he Cleveland F oundation h a s an in su red pension plan for certain em ployees.

Pension expense for 1984 a n d 1983 w as

$ 9 4 ,5 0 0 a n d $98,900, respectively. All co n ­ trib u tio n s u n d e r th e p lan are fu n d ed a n d vest w ith em ployees a s m ade.

N o te F —T he In tern al Revenue S ervice h a s ruled th a t th e c o m m u n ity tru st, th e c h a ri­ table corporation a n d each of th e ir s u p ­ p orting organizations qualify u n d e r S ec­

tion 501(c)(3) of th e In te rn al R evenue Code an d are, therefore, n o t su b je c t to ta x u n d e r p re s e n t in co m e tax laws.

T he Cleveland Foundation D istribution C om m ittee and Trustee B anks o f The Cleveland Foundation Cleveland, Ohio

policy to p rep are its financial sta te m e n ts p rim a rily on th e ac ce p tab le a c c o u n tin g m eth o d of c a sh receip ts a n d d isb u rse ­ m e n ts by w h ich c e rta in revenue a n d the related a sse ts are recognized w h en received ra th e r th a n w h e n e a rn e d a n d c e rta in ex­ p e n ses are recognized w h en paid ra th e r th a n w h e n th e obligation is in cu rred .

In o u r opinion, th e financial s ta te m e n ts referred to above p re s e n t fairly th e fin a n ­ cial position, a risin g p rim a rily from ca sh tra n sa ctio n s, of T h e C leveland F oundation a s of D ecem ber 31, 1984 a n d 1983, a n d th e c h a n g e s in its fu n d b a la n c e s for the years th e n ended, on th e b a sis of a c c o u n t­ ing d escrib ed above, w h ich h a s been a p ­ plied on a c o n siste n t basis.

We have exam ined th e b alan ce sheets, a ris ­ ing prim arily from cash tran sactio n s, of T he Cleveland Foundation a s of D ecem ber 31, 1984 an d 1983, an d th e related sta te m e n ts of revenue, expenses a n d c h an g es in fund b alan ces for the years th e n ended. O ur ex­ am in a tio n s were m ade in accordance w ith generally accepted a u d itin g sta n d a rd s and, acco rd in g ly included su c h tests of th e a c ­ co u n tin g records a n d su c h o th er a u d itin g procedures as we considered n ecessary in the circum stances.

T he accom panying financial sta te m e n ts are n o t intended to p rese n t financial posi­ tion an d resu lts of op eratio n s in conform i­ ty w ith generally accepted acco u n tin g principles on th e accru al m ethod; rather, it co n tin u es to be the F oundation’s c o n sisten t

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1984 $ 3 2 ,9 3 4 ,8 3 5 3 3 ,7 4 5 ,1 3 1 17 1 ,8 6 8 ,4 8 9 3 6 ,9 4 0 ,2 5 2 2 7 5 ,4 8 8 ,7 0 7 6 ,5 3 2 ,0 0 7 $ 2 8 2 ,0 2 0 ,7 1 4

Cleveland, Ohio A pril 10, 1985

D is tr ib u tio n C o m m itte e

S ta ff

Jo h n G. Joyce

Stanley C. Pace

Steven A. M inter

Gloria J. Kish J e a n A. Lang

C hairp erso n

A ndrea Tkylor Coaxum J o h n J. Dwyer H enry J. G oodm an Sally K. Griswold David G. Hill Roy H. Holdt Lindsay Jo rd a n M orgenthaler Harvey G. O ppm ann R ichard W. Pogue T hom as V.H. Vail T r u s te e s C o m m itte e

J e rry V. J a rre tt C om m ittee C hairperson A m e riT ru st C o m p a n y

Ralph W. Abelt BANK ONE, CLEVELAND, NA

Wilson M. Brown, Jr. C entral N a tio n a l B a n k

Robert W. Van Auken (until J a n u a r y 31, 1985)

William J. W illiams (as of F eb ru ary 1, 1985) T h e H u n tin g to n B a n k o f N o rth e a st Ohio

Ju lie n L. McCall (until April 30, 1985)

Edward B. B randon (as of May 1, 1985) N a tion a l C ity B a n k

Gordon E. Heffern (until D ecem ber 31, 1984)

Robert W. Gillespie (as of J a n u a r y 1, 1985) S o ciety N atio n a l B a n k

D irector

Muriel H. Jo n es A dm inistrative A ssistant

Cathy L. C rabtree Special A ssistant

Patricia J a n s e n Doyle Program Officer, C u ltural Affairs

D ennis J. Dooley C o m m unity R elations Officer & D irector of P ublications

A m ber Lee Morris A dm inistrative S ecretary

J u d ith C. Fredrichs A dm inistrative S ecretary (resigned J a n u a r y 1985)

Robert E. E ckardt Program Officer, H ealth

Ja y Tklbot P rogram Officer, Civic Affairs (appointed A ugust 1984)

Karen L. M astney A dm inistrative S ecretary

S u san N. Lajoie Program Officer, E ducation

C harlotte A. Carr P rogram A ssociate (N ational U rban Fellow, P rim ary & S econdary Education)

H an n a H. B artlett C o n su ltan t (Statewide Program for B usiness an d M anagem ent E d u cation & G ran tm ak ers Forum )

C arm en T. Rizzo A dm inistrative S ecretary

Ja m e s B. H ym an Program Officer, E d u catio n (resigned A ugust 1984)

Kay M. Meier A dm inistrative S ecretary (resigned S ep tem b er 1984)

Carol G. S im onetti Program Officer, Social Services

Paula C. A nderson Program A ssociate (Director, T he Cleveland E d ucation Fund)

J u n e I. Howland

M anager, Financial Services

A ccountants

E dna M. Deal A ccount Clerk

Ja n ic e M. C utright M anager, G ran t Services

Alicia M. Ciliberto A ssistant M anager, G ran t Services

B arbara A nderson D arlene M. Downs Rose Marie Ley Staff A ssistants

M artha A. B urchaski Staff A ssistant/R eceptionist

Jo sep h W. H uston Staff Intern

Michael L. H inders S taff A ssistant (resigned D ecem ber 1984)

Malvin E. Bank T h o m p so n , H ine a n d Flory G eneral C ounsel

1984 A n n u al R eport

D ennis J. Dooley E ditor/Principal W riter

E pstein and A ssociates D esign a n d P rincipal Photography

Cathy L. C rabtree A drienne E. Koppenhaver E ditorial A ssociates

J a n e t M. C arpenter Alicia M. Ciliberto J an ic e M. C utright D arlene M. Downs Gloria J. Kish J e a n A. Lang A m ber Lee Morris E ditorial A ssistants

M argaret M. Caldwell M argaret Lynch J o h n G. M earns M artha S outhgate Carolyn W iggins W riters

A dm inistrative S ecretary

Mary Louise H ahn S pecial Projects Officer

Lois E. Weber A dm inistrative A ssistant

Michael J. Hoffm ann A dm inistrative Officer

J a n e t M. C arpenter A dm inistrative A ssistant

T h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n

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