Celebrating 100 years

SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION AT 100

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PUBLISHER/EDITORIAL DIRECTOR John Campanelli

100 YEARS

EDITOR Timothy Magaw

For the last century, the foundation has turned passion into purpose

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COURAGEOUS VOICES The foundation hasn’t shied away from taking bold stands

BY THE NUMBERS Crain’s and the foundation teamed up for a community-wide survey

A GLOBAL STORY The foundation’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards put the spotlight on diversity

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ART DIRECTOR Rebecca R. Markovitz PRODUCTION MANAGER Craig Mackey

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ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Nicole Mastrangelo

ACROSS THE COUNTRY The foundation’s influence runs deep nationwide

PRIORITIES LIST Learn more about the foundation’s targeted investments

LOOKING AHEAD In 1920, Leonard Porter Ayres predicted what Cleveland would look like in 2014

THROUGH THE YEARS...

A look at 25 landmark moments in the Cleveland Foundation’s history

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he board and staff of the Cleveland Foundation are delighted to partner with Crain’s as we commemorate the foundation’s centennial year, looking back at our rich history and ahead to a second century of community philanthropy.

For us and for the field that our founder, Frederick Harris Goff, launched with the incorporation of the Cleveland Foundation on Jan. 2, 1914, this year is a time for reflection as our communities adapt to the effects of corporate globalization, technological change and government’s struggles to fund local needs.

Challenges and opportunities like these are prompting serious conversations about the evolution of community philanthropy in the remainder of the 21st century. We are asking ourselves tough questions: How do we partner with government and the private sector, even as we assume some of the roles they once filled and funded? Are there limits to what place-based philanthropy can achieve on its own? How do we engage millennials and diverse audiences?

It is good to contemplate these issues — but this is also a time for celebration. We are at the midpoint of the Cleveland Foundation’s centennial year, and there is much more to come: n Our monthly free gifts to the community will continue through December. n Our 79th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony, honoring literature that contributes to our understanding of cross-cultural inclusion and human diversity, will take place Sept. 11 in the Ohio Theatre. n The Council on Foundations, a national association of grantmaking foundations, will hold its 2014 community foundations conference here in Cleveland, the cradle of the field, in late October.

This giving community sustains a great legacy of generosity, worthy of celebration. Journey back in time on the Cleveland Foundation’s history website, www.clevelandfoundation100. org. Savor the present through our free surprise gifts. Come join the world’s first community foundation as we welcome a new century of impact for all of us.

Ronald B. Richard President and CEO Cleveland Foundation

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t may be impossible to walk a block in Cleveland without encountering the work of the Cleveland Foundation. If you want to be awestruck by the impact of the nation’s first community foundation, head over to www.clevelandfoundation100.org and browse the database of awarded grants. The searchable records go back to only 1988, but they include more than 47,000 gifts to the community.

The range of recipients is staggering: universities, hospitals, social services organizations, cultural institutions, nonprofits, libraries, economic development projects. The effect is easily seen in the physical realm, in bricks, steel, glass and green space. More than 1,000 capital grants have been awarded since the 1950s. The results range from Blossom Music Center, the Rock Hall and the Cleveland Museum of Art to shelters, camp cabins and the renovated cars of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.

Yet the greatest effects have been so much more than the physical. Take the more than $1 billion in grants, multiply it by a generous factor and you may still not get the true economic, educational and cultural benefits to Greater Cleveland. To paraphrase the “give a person a fish and he eats for a day; teach a person to fish and he eats for a lifetime” adage, the foundation has given us fish, taught us to fish, taught us about the fish, showed us how to paint or sculpt the fish, helped us clean the water, kept us healthy enough to fish and so much more.

We in Cleveland often forget that the foundation’s deeds spread much wider than Northeast Ohio. As the first-ever community foundation, it has inspired the world. Today, more than 1,700 community foundations exist worldwide, with tens of billions of dollars in assets.

They look to Cleveland for guidance, best practices and vision.

Crain’s Cleveland Business is honored to have the opportunity to celebrate the Cleveland Foundation’s centennial and help tell its story. We are well aware of the foundation’s substantial effect on local business — and of the generous support so many in the business community have shown in return. “Grateful” only begins to describe our feelings.

A century of purpose has passed. Another one awaits.

John Campanelli Publisher, Crain’s Cleveland Business

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100 YEARS

By Timothy Magaw

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t age 16, around 1872, Katherine Bohm immigrated to the United States, and like thousands of other Germans, she and her mother settled in Cleveland. The smoky city was on the heels of the Industrial Revolution, and thousands of immigrants were pouring into the region.

By virtue of their own determination, Katherine and her mother found work as a cook and a laundress in the homes of some of the city’s most prominent industrialists. One of those industrialists, Samuel Mather, was neighbors with Frederick H. Goff — a trusted local attorney and banker who had the courage and foresight to launch the Cleveland Foundation, the nation’s first community foundation, in 1914.

Goff’s radical vision was to pool the charitable resources of Cleveland’s philanthropists to create a permanent endowment for the betterment of the community. Inspired by Goff’s work, Bohm, who died nearly blind and with one leg, left almost her entire life savings — $6,454, to be exact — to the foundation.

A modest amount, sure, compared to the millions of dollars others have left the foundation. The circumstances surrounding Bohm’s gift were no doubt unique, but her intentions were not. Countless others have also entrusted

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the Cleveland Foundation to put their dollars to work to improve the quality of life in Cleveland — a city rich with history and ripe with promise.

Cleveland Foundation president and CEO Ronald B. Richard likes to say if he had a magnet that could suck up all of the important work the foundation has done over the last 100 years, there wouldn’t be much left. The foundation has played an integral role — also an understated one — in the evolution of Cleveland and many of the important institutions that call the city home.

The foundation, for instance, has played a key role in the evolution of some Cleveland’s hallmark institutions, including Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland, PlayhouseSquare, the Cleveland Metroparks, the city’s public schools and countless others. Still, the foundation isn’t interested in a victory lap.

Indeed, the Cleveland Foundation, whose assets now exceed $2 billion, continues to turn passion into purpose.

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first, there’s something wrong with us,” Richard said.

AN ENDURING LEGACY

By their very nature, community foundations are challenging enterprises. Goff’s lofty aspirations exceeded the foundation’s grasp, and in many ways, that’s still rings true today, according to Robert E. Eckardt, a 32-year veteran of the foundation and its current executive vice president. After all, community foundations are designed to think big. Eckardt said the Cleveland Foundation aims to change trajectories and to put new ideas on the table to solve some of the city’s pressing issues.

“A community foundation allows donors of all sizes to work together on a community they care about,” Eckardt said. “It’s not just the vision of one person like a Ford or a Rockefeller. In a way that’s almost easier, but we represent the broader community, and we need to build consensus. In that sense, we can have an even bigger impact.”

While the Cleveland Foundation is on solid footing today, at one point, there was a very real possibility that it may have to close its doors. About 15 years after its founding, the financial collapse of the late

1920s soured what small endowment the foundation had built.

However, in 1931, a $3 million bequest from Harry Coulby — known as the Czar of the Great Lakes — cushioned the blow of the Great Depression. In fact, it propelled the foundation into the ranks of the country’s five largest community trusts.

But while gifts like Coulby’s are what enable the foundation

“A community foundation allows donors of all sizes to work together on a community they care about.”

– Robert E. Eckardt Executive Vice President to do the groundbreaking work for which it’s known, community leaders chalk up the foundation’s enduring legacy to its strong leadership over the last 100 years. They, of course, point to the foundation’s board, its current CEO in Ronn Richard, but also Steven Minter, who joined the foundation in 1974 and served as its chief executive from 1984 until retiring in 2003.

Minter was known for deepening the foundation’s involve-

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ment in some of the region’s pressing issues, including housing, health care and, of course, education. He encouraged the board to approve large-scale commitments to move the needle in those areas, and worked to ensure the foundation remained nimble enough to respond to the city’s challenges.

“These issues don’t go away. They take new forms, and people have a different take on them, but they’re enduring issues,” Minter said.

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While the Cleveland Foundation has taken an opportunity to celebrate its centennial, its work hasn’t stopped.

The foundation operates much in the same way it did in those early days. It continues to dole out history-making grants, but perhaps more importantly, it now serves as a convener and wingman in virtually all of the transformative work occurring in Cleveland. That work includes the rebirth of the city’s public schools and the continued integration of University Circle and its surrounding neighborhoods.

“We’ve been asked to fill these

leadership voids or financial or fiscal voids more and more and more, and our leadership has become just as important as our grant dollars,” Richard said.

That leadership role is just one of the reasons why the Cleveland Foundation and its staff are looked at as thought leaders in the community foundation space. Sure, the foundation is often heralded as the nation’s first. However, it’s commitment to taking bold stands on controversial issues has cemented its place in history.

“The best foundations are a product of vision and daring leadership,” said Eleanor Sacks, a well-known researcher of community foundations and visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. “The Cleveland Foundation has been a leader in daring to think big things for Cleveland when Cleveland was really down in the dumps.”

When asked what advice she would give the Cleveland Foundation on its next 100 years, Sacks said, “Just keep doing what you’re doing.”

We congratulate the Cleveland Foundation on its 100th Anniversary and honor the memory of Cleveland attorney and banker Frederick H. Goff.

In 1914, he created an ingenious and simple instrument of philanthropy becoming the first “Community” Foundation.

It has been called “Cleveland’s most important contribution to the great ideas of the world.”

DONOR STORIES HOW & WHY SOME HAVE BECOME INVOLVED

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he Cleveland Foundation’s presenting sponsorship of the Gay Games led this couple to select the foundation as their philanthropic partner. At the end of 2013, Epstein and Levine set up a fund at the foundation that already has given out 10 separate grants, totaling more than $20,000. The couple appreciated the fact they were able to open a fund because, as a gay couple, they are so limited in what they can do together.

In commenting on the foundation, Epstein, a rheumatologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said, “First of all, they understand and are very open and committed to diversity. The idea of being able to work with them and have a donordesignated fund that Gregg and I can direct our contributions to meant a lot to us.”

The couple’s fund is focused on supporting education and the arts, though Epstein and Levine wanted to put the spotlight on the Gay Games.

Levine, a retired energy industry executive, is an active board member for the Gay Games and said, “I was really moved the Cleveland Foundation decided to be the presenting sponsor for the Gay Games.”

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teffee, who owns and operates Craighead Farm in Geauga County, has donated to a variety of organizations through the fund that bears her name at the Cleveland Foundation. Steffee decided to create her own supporting organization because of the Cleveland Foundation’s expertise in philanthropy.

She said she could have created her own foundation, but noted, “Why would I do that? The Cleveland Foundation has all the resources to keep it in order. Everything the foundation does has so much thought behind it.”

Since its creation, Steffee’s fund has made grants to a variety of organizations, but especially those focused on helping children. However, Steffee is particularly proud of the support her fund has given the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. The fund, for instance, helped make possible the zoo’s veterinary hospital, the Sarah Allison Steffee Center for Zoological Medicine, which bears her late daughter’s name. In all, the fund has provided more than $3 million in grants to the zoo.

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ichard Pogue, a senior adviser at Jones Day who has long been active in civic affairs, is a seminal figure in the Cleveland Foundation’s history. He was a board member from 1979-1989 and served as its chairman from 19851989. He and his wife, Patricia, set up a fund at the foundation more than 20 years ago. Richard Pogue described the foundation as “one of the community’s greatest assets.” Much of the Pogues’ philanthropic support for the community is through the foundation and the family’s fund. One of the organizations the Pogues are most proud to support is the Cleveland Institute of Music, which Richard Pogue described as one of Cleveland’s “unheralded gems.” The institute is an independent, international music conservatory located in University Circle. Pogue said, “The Cleveland Institute is very special, but they don’t do a lot of self-promotion.”

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THROUGH THE YEARS...

A LOOK AT 25 OF THE MOST NOTABLE EVENTS IN FOUNDATION HISTORY

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1 1915: REFORMING PUBLIC EDUCATION In its early years, the Cleveland Foundation commissioned a series of fact-finding surveys, with the city’s public schools as a priority area for study. The foundation survey led to sweeping reforms of the outdated, inefficient school system that was struggling to meet the needs of Cleveland’s growing immigrant population.

2 1919: CREATING CLEVELAND METROPARKS A survey of the city’s leisure offerings sparked a call by the Cleveland Foundation to expand public recreational opportunities. This led to the campaign to buy outlying parkland that would become the Cleveland Metroparks.

3 1931: HELPING HAND DURING GREAT DEPRESSION The Welfare Federation was the primary safeguard in Cleveland against the devastating impact of the economic downturn. As the Great Depression’s grip tightened, fundraising became more difficult.

The foundation stepped in and provided emergency allocations that helped the Welfare Federation support the city’s nonprofit welfare organizations. These contributions began in 1931 and continued until after World War II. 4 1954: STARTING DOWNTOWN’S REBIRTH

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Supporting the creation of a system of higher education in Cleveland.

Recognizing the need for renewal of Cleveland’s downtown, the nonprofit Cleveland Development Foundation was created in 1954. The CDF raised $2 million to invest in redevelopment projects. Early-stage operating grants from the Cleveland Foundation helped pave the way for the CDF to begin preparing land for redevelopment.

5 1960: PROMOTING FAIR HOUSING, INTEGRATION

Forging business and higher education collaboration in Northeast Ohio.

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The foundation’s decades-long commitment to supporting fair housing and integration began in 1960 with grants to the Ludlow and Moreland neighborhood associations, which were working to integrate the areas bordering Cleveland and Shaker Heights. In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr., who rallied for integrated housing, ­visited Cleveland.

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6 1963: BRIDGING FUNDING GAP FOR TRI-C Legislation authorizing the creation of community colleges provided for public funding of their operation, but neglected to allocate funding for predevelopment. The Cleveland Foundation stepped into the breach, underwriting the planning for Cuyahoga Community College to meet the community’s need for advanced vocational and technical education.

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In an effort to help solve the city’s socioeconomic problems, the Cleveland Foundation awarded grants directly to the administration of Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, the country’s first African-American mayor. This break in philanthropic tradition ushered in a new era of public-private partnerships.

8 1971: BACKING CWRU TRANSFORMATION The Cleveland Foundation awarded its first $1 million grant to support Case Western Reserve University’s transformation into a modern research university.

9 1973: SAVING PLAYHOUSESQUARE The foundation provided grants to save theaters in PlayhouseSquare from being demolished to create parking lots. Over the years, additional grants from the foundation allowed for the restoration and renovation of the PlayhouseSquare complex and the creation of the Theater District.

10 1975: REKINDLING CIVIC PRIDE The Cleveland Foundation brought famed city planner Lawrence Halprin to Cleveland to perform an “urban diagnosis.” Halprin’s conclusion that Cleveland had a bright future boosted the spirits of Cleveland’s civic and business leaders.

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COURAGEOUS VOICES When others shied away, the Cleveland Foundation took bold stands

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n the 1970s, violent protests erupted in Boston and Cincinnati after the cities were ordered to desegregate their schools.

In Boston’s case, the struggle lasted for more than a decade, and it ultimately led to demographic upheaval in the schools, with far fewer students enrolled in the public school system as many white families sent their children to private institutions.

The same bloody scenario could have been in the cards for the Cleveland schools were it not for the courageous leadership of the Cleveland Foundation. Indeed, the foundation’s quest for peaceful desegregation is just one of the many courageous stands the foundation has taken over the years.

In 1973, the NAACP filed a federal lawsuit alleging the Cleveland school board had deliberately segregated the city’s schools. It was a volatile issue, and many leaders in the community were taken aback by the progressive stance of the Cleveland Foundation. Then Cleveland Foundation director Homer Wadsworth characterized the issue as “pressing on the public’s nervous system.”

“We wanted to make sure Cleveland didn’t have the same problems that occurred in Boston,” said retired Cleveland Foundation CEO Steven Minter, who was a program officer at the time. “We had to convince the community that we needed to educate ourselves and prepare ourselves. That took a lot of courage by the foundation’s board and Homer Wadsworth.”

Under Wadsworth’s leadership, in 1975, the foundation launched a civic study group that looked at similar scenarios in other districts and ultimately concluded that courtordered desegregation would be the lawsuit’s inevitable outcome. As such, the foundation pumped more than $1 million into a communitywide awareness campaign that promoted peaceful desegregation.

When court-ordered busing began in 1979, the city avoided the

“There are things you do at a certain time that feel like you’re jumping off a platform.”

– Steven Minter, retired Cleveland Foundation CEO destructive violence that plagued other cities.

“There are things that seem like they were awfully courageous and awfully bold at the time you’re doing them, but a couple years later, you often ask yourself, ‘What was so bold about that?’” Minter said.

“There are things you do at a certain time that feel like you’re jumping off a platform.”

IT’S IN THE DNA

From the beginning, the Cleveland Foundation aspired to be more than a check-cutting business for donors.

By contrast, the New York Community Trust was launched as a way to serve as a vehicle for donors who wanted their funds dispersed in certain ways.

Frederick H. Goff, the Cleveland Foundation’s founder, envisioned an organization that would think

big and not be content with the status quo or as Cleveland Foundation CEO Ronald B. Richard noted in a City Club speech last year, “We have often stepped outside of philanthropy’s ‘safe space.’ ” In 1986, for example, the Cleveland Foundation was one of the first foundations in the nation to make a grant to address the emerging HIV/ AIDS crisis. The grant came at a time when the disease was misunderstood as only impacting the gay community.

Moreover, those with the disease, particularly in America’s heartland, were highly stigmatized and many even lost their jobs, according to Robert E. Eckardt, who led the initiative for the Cleveland Foundation as its program officer for health.

“A lot of institutions in this town were telling us to stay away from that issue,” said Eckardt, now the foundation’s executive vice president.

Today, the foundation’s support of the gay community is as strong as ever. Last spring, the foundation announced it would be the lead sponsor for the 2014 Gay Games, which will be held in August in Cleveland.

“Our support of the Gay Games is not about an athletic competition,” Richard said. “It’s really our way of trying to say Ohio is open and desirous of having creative people — gay or straight — in our community.”

The foundation also offered startup grants for the Rape Crisis Center — an effort that, sure, seems like a no brainer today, but rape and domestic violence were “impolite” topics to talk about in those days, according to Eckardt.

Also, the foundation supported the launch of the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland in 1970. At the time, many in the community balked at supporting free medical care for a population they perceived

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tions who said, ‘Leave us alone. We know what we’re doing.’ ” Many of the Cleveland Foundation’s bold moves have been in the education arena.

During his tenure as the foundation’s head, for example, Minter and Dave Bergholz, then head of the George Gund Foundation, chaired a nonpartisan study commission that led voters to sign off on mayoral control of the city’s public schools.

Susan Lajoie Egan, the executive vice president and associate director under Minter, described the commission as a “high-risk, high-profile set of discussions that really moved education and educational system in a new direction.”

In 2012, Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson unveiled the city’s plan for transforming its struggling public school system. The dynamic plan, which was endorsed strongly by Cleveland schools chief Eric Gordon, was developed by a broad group of stakeholders, including both the Cleveland and Gund foundations. The transformation plan was so dramatic it required lawmaker approval since it required changes to Ohio law that only would apply

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to be made up of mostly drug users.

The Cleveland Foundation, of course, hasn’t shied away from intervening in sticky situations. In the early 1990s, for one, the foundation looked to settle the rift and encourage collaboration among rivaling University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic. The foundation ultimately convened a panel of prominent medical administrators and corporate executives that would recommend ways the Clinic, UH and Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine could collaborate.

That effort ultimately led to some collaboration, though the rivalry between the Clinic and UH remains strong as ever. In 1995, the medical school, which had been exclusively tied to UH, launched a joint venture with the Cleveland Clinic to create a center of excellence in structural biology.

“That was very controversial.

People in town said everyone knows there’s an issue here, but no one was willing to step in and deal with it,” Eckardt said. “The foundation was willing to step in. We got beat up pretty badly by some of the institu-

In 1986, the Cleveland Foundation made a grant to address the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis. Robert E. Eckardt, pictured, led the initiative for the Cleveland Foundation as its program officer for health. in Cleveland. With the Cleveland Foundation’s backing, Jackson and Gordon also successfully pushed through a four-year, 15-mill levy in a school district plagued with foreclosures and high poverty levels.

“It’s easy to look to the Cleveland

Foundation and say they have deep pockets, and because of that, they matter,” Gordon said. “But the bigger picture for me is that they are a thought partner and instigator of transformation and change. That’s great for the city.”

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Cleveland... and beyond

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t was the early 1900s, and Cleveland’s rapid population growth demanded the invention of social services faster than the way they were gradually developed on the East Coast.

Nineteenth century Cleveland also was home to significant Catholic and Jewish populations, making the Protestant way of organizing funds to support charitable activities less appropriate here, according to David C. Hammack, who wrote a book on the history of U.S. foundations titled “A Versatile American Institution” that published early last year.

So, the local chamber of commerce convened a committee on benevolent organizations to discuss the need to give to all kinds of charitable purposes regardless of religious differences.

The city’s collective efforts would give rise in 1914 to a first for the nation: a community foundation.

Others soon followed, including community foundations in Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Buffalo, N.Y., all founded within five years of the Cleveland Foundation.

“It worked in Cleveland because it fit the moment, and it fit the situation in the city,” said Hammack, the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University.

“It’s not just a question of being first,” Hammack added of the Cleveland Foundation. “It was a question of doing what they did really well and maintaining that reputation over a long period of time.”

Today, there are some 1,700 community foundations worldwide.

The foundation’s influence within the community foundation movement is evident.

According to Hammack, several times when congressional hearings on foundations were held over the decades, a representative of the Cleve-

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land Foundation testified about what foundations could accomplish.

Present-day, just this February, the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida and the Northwest Area Foundation visited to learn more about Cleveland’s Greater University Circle Initiative, which the Cleveland Foundation helped launch to strengthen low-income neighborhoods around University Circle’s large institutions. The Florida group convened a roundtable in Jacksonville where a team from Cleveland presented in March.

zation after he joined Case Western Reserve in the early 1980s.

“I just observed that they were constantly answering questions from people at other community foundations,” Hammack said.

“Cleveland was large and had a reputation for knowing how to do things. I think that’s a tradition that starts with Goff and that they maintained.”

Frederick H. Goff, an attorney and a banker, is recognized as the Cleveland Foundation’s founder. As president of Cleveland Trust Co., he

“From the very beginning, Frederick Goff had a vision of foundations helping each other and learning from each other.”

– Ronald B. Richard, president & CEO of the Cleveland Foundation Also modeling wealth-building initiatives after the local initiative is the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, which visited in 2010 and plans to launch its first business — the Atlanta Lettuce Project — early next year.

The Cleveland Foundation cited several more examples of community foundations turning to Cleveland’s for insight, including the Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s reaching out five or six years ago to learn more about its program-related investments, which basically are long-term, lowinterest loans. Cleveland made its first in 1982.

“From the very beginning, Frederick Goff had a vision of foundations helping each other and learning from each other,” said Ronald B. Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation.

Hammack says he saw firsthand the way other community foundations lean on the local organi-

saw how people would leave money in trusts for certain purposes, but how that money couldn’t be put to other uses if and when those identified purposes ceased to be relevant, such as when an ailment was cured, Richard said.

“Kind of a Johnny Appleseed figure who wanted this vision to spread,” Goff traveled to other cities and helped them set up community funds, Richard said.

It’s no coincidence that the annual conference during which community foundations share best practices is scheduled in Cleveland, said Vikki Spruill, president and CEO of the Council on Foundations, the trade association representing about 1,700 foundations of all types.

“We thought, why not come back (to Cleveland) and celebrate the past 100 years, and look forward,” Spruill said.

“It’s a great symbolic moment for the field.”

FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

FOUNDED IN 1915 TOTAL ASSETS (as of June 30, 2013, when its last fiscal year ended): $896.2 million GRANTS: $97.7 million CONTRIBUTIONS: $131.7 million

FOUNDED IN 1958 TOTAL ASSETS (as of Dec. 31, 2013, when its last fiscal year ended): $1.3 billion GRANTS: $178 million CONTRIBUTIONS: $287 million

A NEW SORT OF POLICY: When Paul Grogan became the Boston Foundation’s president and CEO in 2001, the organization took a more forward approach toward civic advocacy, convening people and research around issues the community faced. One example: The foundation funded research that revealed the “shockingly low” percentage of Boston Public Schools students who enrolled in college and earned a degree within seven years. That led to the creation of Success Boston.

A TURNING POINT FOR ITS POOL: In 1996, the foundation received its first large discretionary gift of $40 million from a woman.

Most of its grants remain donor-directed, but the endowment created with that $40 million generates roughly $2 million a year in unrestricted money. The Foundation for the Carolinas has a larger percentage of corporate accounts than most community foundations. In some cases, companies have moved their entire foundations under its administration.

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A 1929 BEQUEST AND SUMMER CAMP: A man named Walter Boutell contributed $210,000 establishing an endowment to provide for (in the vernacular of the time) “worthy poor children … without discrimination as to race, color, or religious inclination.” His endowment lives on, and the foundation uses it to send low-income children each year to summer camp, where they’ve canoed down the Mississippi River, grown their own food and more.

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FOUNDED IN 1915 TOTAL ASSETS (as of March 31, 2014, when its last fiscal year ended): $735 million GRANTS: $46.6 million CONTRIBUTIONS: $99.9 million

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A FUNDER IN THE FIGHT: In 1996, the foundation — which is one of a few statewide community foundations — received $9 million to establish the Oliver J. and Dorothy Penniman Hubbard Fund. The foundation’s Substance Use Disorders Portfolio totals more than $40 million today and generates $2.5 million a year in grants to support substance use prevention and treatment efforts in the state. In 2012, it committed $12 million over the next decade toward substance use prevention.

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FOUNDED IN 1962 TOTAL ASSETS (as of Dec. 31, 2013, when its last fiscal year ended): $600 million GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS: $32 million CONTRIBUTIONS: $51 million

THROUGH THE YEARS...

A LOOK AT 25 OF THE MOST NOTABLE EVENTS IN FOUNDATION HISTORY

11 1975: KEEPING PEACE DURING DESEGREGATION After the federal courts ruled that Cleveland’s public schools must desegregate, the foundation committed more than $1 million to a three-year educational campaign to prepare residents for courtordered busing. This controversial undertaking helped to prevent the type of violence that erupted in Boston when busing began there.

12 1979: EMERGING FROM DEFAULT The Cleveland Foundation played a critical role in helping the city stabilize its finances after Cleveland became the first American city since the Great Depression to default on its financial obligations.

When asked by new mayor George Voinovich to support the creation of the Operations Improvement Task Force, the foundation approved a $150,000 grant. Loaned business executives then went to work assessing city operations and making recommendations. The Voinovich administration put into action almost 75% of the task force’s recommendations. By the end of the year, the city balanced its budget.

13 1983: FIGHTING AIDS The Cleveland Foundation was an early and constant combatant in the battle against AIDS in Cuyahoga County. In 1983, the foundation urged the city’s health commissioner to educate high-risk populations. Then, in 1986, the foundation awarded a $67,000 grant for a public awareness campaign. The foundation’s continued support of preventative education and health care helped to stem the disease’s spread in Greater Cleveland. The effort was spearheaded by program officer for health Robert E. Eckardt, who is now the foundation’s executive vice president.

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14 1984: LAUNCHING NORTH COAST HARBOR Thanks to a foundation-backed master redevelopment plan for the lakefront at the East Ninth Street pier, North Coast Harbor was created. With the foundation’s support, the Greater Cleveland Growth Association began the process and handed the baton to the North Coast Development Corporation. Today, North Coast Harbor is home to attractions such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Great Lakes Science Center and welcomes more than a million visitors to the city’s shoreline annually.

15 1986: HELPING HOUGH The foundation awarded grants to build Lexington Village, the first market-rate rental property built in the Hough neighborhood in 50 years. Hough had been in steady decline since riots scarred the eastside neighborhood in 1966. Lexington Village sparked new development in Hough, which continues at a slow pace today.

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THROUGH THE YEARS...

A LOOK AT 25 OF THE MOST NOTABLE EVENTS IN FOUNDATION HISTORY

16 1988: NEIGHBORHOOD REDEVELOPMENT The foundation pushed for the creation of Neighborhood Progress Inc., an umbrella coordinating and planning organization that has provided Cleveland’s community development organizations with needed funds and assistance to build and rehab homes and commercial spaces, as well as improve cultural and recreational offerings.

17 1991: ADVANCING BIOTECHNOLOGY The foundation formed the Study Commission on Medical Research and Education, which promoted the economic potential of biotechnology as an industry for Northeast Ohio. More than two decades later, the biotechnology sector was thriving and, by 2013, local biomedical companies raised more than $200 million in venture capital.

18 1997: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ARTS, CULTURE In response to a Cleveland Foundation commission’s warning that the region’s arts and cultural organizations were troubled, the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture was formed. CPAC developed a strategic plan to help stabilize the area’s cultural assets, and in 2006, Cuyahoga County voters approved a funding plan for arts organizations and programs. So far, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the agency that administers the public funds, has distributed more than $112 million.

19 1998: STRENGTHENING ARTS VITALITY

As the 21st century approached, the foundation changed its arts grantmaking strategy to help arts organizations best prepare themselves for the future. Through initiatives that helped arts organizations improve their financial positions and attract new audiences, the foundation has committed almost $200 million to strengthen the region’s arts and cultural assets.

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20 1999: INVESTING IN YOUNG CHILDREN Recognizing how critically important the years from birth to age 5 are for a child’s development, the foundation teamed with Cuyahoga County to launch an early childhood development initiative that became the public-private partnership Invest in Children. The program provides enhanced services to young children and their families.

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hen he helped create the Cleveland Foundation in 1914, Frederick H. Goff announced plans to commission “a great social and economic survey of Cleveland, to uncover the causes of poverty and crime and point out the cure.”

Using the results of that initial survey — and others that followed soon after — the foundation was able to raise awareness of the most pressing issues facing a growing city and create a strategy for the most efficient and effective ways to fund solutions to those problems.

Now, 100 years later, Crain’s Cleveland Business is honored to help the Cleveland Foundation with its next community survey.

We asked our audience — Northeast Ohio’s leaders, business professionals and community members — for their thoughts on education, the economy, downtown and much more in the next century.

More than 650 people participated, and the results were encouraging.

Our readers report that, for example, the

Cleveland Metropolitan School District is improving. They also believe that the continued resurgence of the city’s historic neighborhoods is among the most exciting developments in Cleveland over the last few years. They expect arts and culture will play a critical role in Cleveland’s future.

Asked to describe Cleveland’s next 100 years in one word, they struck a cautiously optimistic tone, using phrases such as “hopeful,”“challenging,”“exciting,”“opportunity” and “promising.”

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PRIORITIZING

FOR A GREATER PURPOSE The foundation aims to ‘move the needle’

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bout two-thirds of the Cleveland Foundation’s flexible grant dollars support what the foundation and its board of directors believe are long-term solutions to some of the region’s most pressing issues: funding for the arts and human services, public education reform, the revitalization of the city’s neighborhoods, economic development and protecting the environment.

“These are a few defined areas where the foundation really thinks there’s an opportunity, for the lack of a better word, to move the needle,” said Robert E. Eckardt, the foundation’s executive vice president.

That strategy aligns well with the original vision of Frederick H. Goff — the foundation’s standard bearer — of pooling Cleveland philan-

thropists’ charitable resources into a permanent endowment for the betterment of the city.

Shortly after the foundation’s birth, Goff launched what he described as “a great social and economic survey of Cleveland, to uncover the causes of poverty and crime and point out the cure.” The survey put the spotlight on the problems facing the community and served as a blueprint for the foundation’s grantmaking.

“There was this aspiration from the beginning to do big and important things rather than be a check-cutting business for donors,” said Eckardt, who oversees the foundation’s grantmaking efforts. “That separates us from some of our colleague foundations.”

The foundation, of course, has a strong history of responsive grantmaking. Nonprofits often look to the foundation for funding to test new ideas or prop up their finances. However, the

foundation’s tradition of proactive grantmaking is how the foundation cemented its reputation as a transformative community leader.

“By defining a few areas, it helps bring clarity to work of the staff and board around really trying to drive some change on some important issues,” Eckardt said.

James A. Ratner, chairman of the foundation’s board of directors, said one of the Cleveland Foundation’s strengths over the last century has been its willingness to take a long-term view of society’s ills. Often, “social change is at best slow change,” Ratner said.

Over the last century, the foundation has kept Goff’s tradition alive, regularly checking the pulse of the community and adjusting its priorities based on the community’s needs.

Here is just a sampling of the impressive work the foundation has supported over the years.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Since its inception, the Cleveland Foundation has played a vital role in elevating the economic well-being of the entire region. Over the last 10 years, the foundation has taken a more pointed approach toward encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation in the Cleveland area. The foundation has also worked to promote high-growth industry clusters — information technology and health care, for instance — and advocated for better connecting Cleveland with the global economy.

KEY INVESTMENTS HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT:

EVEN THE LITTLE GUYS:

The foundation played a key role in the development of the Health-Tech Corridor, an effort aimed at providing affordable office space to burgeoning biotechnology companies that want to be near Cleveland’s research powerhouses in University Circle. The project began in 2009 thanks to a $50,000 grant from the foundation to study how to attract biotech companies to the area.

In July 2012, the Cleveland Foundation brought the Economic and Community Development Institute, a Columbusbased micro-lender, to Cleveland. The organization supports smaller businesses — many of which are owned by minorities or females, who traditionally have had difficulty accessing capital.

ENABLING AN ECOSYSTEM:

Over the last decade, the foundation has provided more than $50 million in funding to local nonprofits focused on fostering innovation and supporting entrepreneurs. Those organizations include BioEnterprise, JumpStart, Magnet, Wire-Net and Global Cleveland.

BUILDING A WORK FORCE:

In 2010, the foundation partnered with University Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, KeyBank and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation to launch NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology. The center provides vocational training based on the hiring needs of local institutions as well as after-school programs. www.CrainsCleveland.com

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EDUCATION

Shortly after its launch, the Cleveland Foundation commissioned a survey of the city’s public schools that would be used as a roadmap to overhaul Cleveland’s troubled educational system. A century later, the foundation remains committed to improving the city’s schools and preparing students to succeed in a still-fragile economy. The foundation’s education initiative is centered on three areas: transforming public education, boosting access to post-secondary education and lobbying for strong education policies on the state level.

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KEY INVESTMENTS CLEVELAND’S PLAN:

The Cleveland Foundation helped draft the landmark blueprint to overhaul the city’s troubled public school system by growing the number of high-performing charter and public schools and closing failing schools in the city.

In 2012, the foundation backed a levy that is expected to help take this portfolio school concept to scale across the district.

COLLEGE BOUND:

The foundation in 2011 helped launch the Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland. The effort, led by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, is a coalition of civic leaders, educators, and college and university presidents committed to developing a plan to increase the number of people attending and graduating from college.

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TRAIN THOSE DOCS:

In 2012, the Cleveland Foundation committed $10 million — the largest grant in its history at the time — to Case Western Reserve University to support construction of a new medical education building. The building was poised to be built on the site of the former Mt. Sinai hospital, but in June 2013, Case Western Reserve announced it had struck a deal to build the facility near the Cleveland Clinic’s iconic Sydell & Arnold Miller Family Pavilion on Euclid Avenue.

AN EDUCATIONAL POWERHOUSE:

The foundation in 1924 funded a study that determined that Western Reserve University and the Case School of Applied Science should merge to become an educational powerhouse in the Midwest. It took the two institutions more than 40 years to heed that advice and become Case Western Reserve University. As a sign of support, the foundation in 1971 awarded the new partners its first $1 million grant.

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This event is offered in partnership with the 2014 Gay Games presented by the Cleveland Foundation.

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NEIGHBORHOODS

A city is only as strong as its neighborhoods, so the Cleveland Foundation has taken what it describes as a “holistic approach” to neighborhood development. Desirable housing, strong schools, plentiful retail and employment opportunities are just a few of the pillars of a strong neighborhood. Over the years, the Cleveland Foundation has worked with countless businesses, nonprofits, community development groups and academic institutions to reinvigorate many of Cleveland’s struggling neighborhoods.

KEY INVESTMENTS PRIMING THE PUMP:

ON THE UP AND UP:

In 2010, the foundation awarded a $4.5 million grant to Neighborhood Progress Inc. to support its work with community development corporations. The work targeted Cleveland neighborhoods identified as having strong prospects for growth. Those neighborhoods were Buckeye, Central, Detroit-Shoreway, Glenville, Fairfax, North Collinwood, Ohio City, Slavic Village and Tremont.

The foundation in 2005 launched an initiative to band together Greater University Circle’s cultural, medical and educational institutions all in the spirit of improving the neighborhoods surrounding the area. To date, the most visible accomplishment is Uptown, a mixed-use development set in motion by a $1 million foundation grant.

GRASSROOTS EFFORTS:

TURNAROUND IN HOUGH:

In the early 1980s, the foundation helped finance Lexington Village, a market-rate rental property, in the Hough neighborhood on Cleveland’s East Side. The effort ignited a wave of development in an area marred by riots in 1966.

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The Cleveland Foundation in 2003 launched Neighborhood Connections, a grassroots community-building program that awards small grants of less than $5,000 to fund citizen-led development projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland. Since its launch, the group has awarded more than 1,800 grants.

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN SERVICES

Cleveland’s future rests on the success of its young people. As such, the Cleveland Foundation created a series of sweeping programs focused on early childhood (birth to 5 years old) and youth development (kindergarten through graduation). The foundation’s donors also have a strong passion for helping Northeast Ohio’s young people. Earlier this year, the Erwin & Katherine Geis Charitable Foundation gave $1.7 million to the foundation to support programs for Cleveland-area youth and to provide scholarships.

KEY INVESTMENTS INSPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE:

THE GREATEST INVESTMENT:

The Cleveland Foundation in 2006 identified youth development as one of its priorities, and soon thereafter helped launched MyCom — an effort designed to connect young people with experiences and caring adults.

The foundation provided $2.5 million in grants to support the launch of MyCom in 2009 and helped secure $4.1 million from other funders, including Cuyahoga County.

The bulk of the foundation’s work in the youth development arena is through Invest in Children, a communitywide partnership launched in 1999. The program is aimed at mobilizing resources and energy to ensure the well-being of young children in Cuyahoga County.

The foundation provided a $3.5 million startup grant for the effort and took the lead in raising the rest of the $10 million needed to sustain the program during its first three years.

DEEP ROOTS:

The foundation’s commitment to young people runs deep. In 1941, the foundation helped launch and support the operations of the Adoption Service Bureau — the first standalone agency in the country to assist with adoptions. The bureau’s innovative design became recognized nationally. Moreover, in 1942, the foundation and the Welfare Federation of Cleveland helped support an effort to locate or develop day care for preschool children of working mothers whose husbands were involved with World War II. www.CrainsCleveland.com

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ARTS & CULTURE

Cleveland boasts one of the strongest arts communities in the country, and the Cleveland Foundation has been intent on keeping it that way. The foundation’s grant dollars haven’t only supported Cleveland’s powerhouse institutions like the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Museum of Art, but also burgeoning artists and smaller arts groups throughout the region.

The foundation also launched a residency program that brings artists from all over the world to Cleveland.

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KEY INVESTMENTS THE RIGHT TUNE:

Last spring, the foundation awarded the Cleveland Orchestra a $10 million grant to support its ongoing efforts to cultivate new and broader audiences. The grant was the foundation’s largest to an arts organization. At the time, foundation executive vice president Robert E. Eckardt told Crain’s, “They are an important part of Cleveland’s brand, and it’s difficult to imagine Cleveland without a world-class orchestra.”

THINKING AHEAD:

In 2011, the foundation began awarding grants — risk capital, if you will — to several cash-strapped nonprofits as part of its new Engaging the Future initiative. The idea was to allow arts organizations to experiment with audience-engagement efforts they otherwise couldn’t have afforded. Late last year, the foundation started doling out even larger grants to the projects that showed the most potential. Programs that have benefited include Cleveland Public Theatre and DANCECleveland.

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP:

The foundation has played a key role in developing arts-friendly public policy over the years. The foundation, for instance, helped launch the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture and worked tirelessly in 2007 for the passage of a Cuyahoga County-wide tax that generates funding for local arts organizations.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION:

Since 1981, the Cleveland Foundation and its donors have provided almost $2 million in support for the Cleveland International Film Festival. As part its centennial celebration, the foundation offered free admission to select screenings at the 2014 film festival. The foundation’s gift led to the busiest Monday in the film festival’s history.

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REVITALIZING UNIVERSITY CIRCLE

University Circle is home to a handful of world-renowned arts, education and medical institutions, though for years an invisible barrier of sorts seemingly cut off the cultural center from the surrounding neighborhoods. In 2005, the Cleveland Foundation took the first steps in tearing down that barrier by launching a partnership with University Circle’s anchor institutions, local nonprofits, community groups, the city of Cleveland and others. The partnership would be known as the Greater University Circle Initiative. www.chsc.org

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KEY INVESTMENTS FOR THE GREATER GOOD:

The Cleveland Foundation helped launch Evergreen Cooperatives, a network of worker-owned, neighborhood businesses that provide services to University Circle’s anchor institutions and, perhaps most importantly, jobs for residents of Greater University Circle.

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LIVE, WORK & PLAY HERE:

The Cleveland Foundation was one of the founding partners of Greater Circle Living — an effort that offers financial help to anchor institution employees who buy, rent or rehab property in the Greater University Circle area. The program is targeted at employees from University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Judson retirement community and the Cleveland Clinic.

NEW LIFE:

The most visible accomplishment of the Greater University Circle Initiative is Uptown, a mixed-use development that was set in motion by a $1 million grant from the foundation. As part of the district’s overhaul, the foundation provided $1.6 million in funding to the Museum of Contemporary Art to relocate to the area. The foundation also provided funding to the Cleveland Institute of Art to consolidate its facilities in the revamped district.

ENGAGED LIVING:

The foundation supported the launch of a community engagement program, which includes the publication of a free newspaper — Neighborhood Voice — written by residents of the Greater University Circle neighborhoods. The newspaper and its website are also supported by Living Cities and the Knight Foundation.

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The Cleveland Foundation strongly believes Greater Cleveland can become a leader in the advanced energy industry, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done plenty of work in that arena to make that dream a reality. In addition, the foundation supports a number of the conservation efforts throughout Greater Cleveland, including the Cleveland Metroparks and Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Foundation funding, for example, helped the Trust for Public Land secure 30,000 acres of land for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

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KEY INVESTMENTS GET ENERGIZED:

In 2010, with about $700,000 in funding from the Cleveland Foundation, the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation, or LEEDCo, launched to develop a prototype wind turbine project that would be built on Lake Erie.

In 2012, the project was one of seven to receive U.S. Department of Energy funding. This spring, the project failed to win a $47 million federal grant that would’ve jumpstarted the long-running project, although the project’s supporters say it still has a chance.

GOING GREEN:

The Cleveland Foundation has funded a handful of research projects that determined that Northeast Ohio has plenty to gain from a green economy. For one, a foundationcommissioned study by the Electric Power Research Institute concluded that with a substantial increase in the use of electrically powered vehicles across the country, Northeast Ohio potentially could gain more than 10,000 new jobs.

SAVING WITH SOLAR:

As part of its Evergreen Cooperatives, the foundation helped launch Evergreen Energy Solutions, a clean energy and weatherization company that installs and maintains solar generators on the roofs of the city’s largest health and education buildings. The co-op recently was heralded by President Barack Obama.

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SPEAKING SUSTAINABLY:

The foundation provided early-stage support to the Cleveland Green Building Coalition, which was formed in 1999 by the environmental studies program at Oberlin College.

The coalition was launched as a way to educate the community about the benefits of green building. The coalition is now a chapter of the United States Building Council.

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he winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards have shed light on issues of racism and diversity for decades, but that doesn’t mean the mission has stagnated.

When the award was established by Cleveland philanthropist and poet Edith Anisfield Wolf in 1935, that conversation was dominated by issues facing the black and Jewish communities, said Karen R. Long, manager of the awards and the book editor at The Plain Dealer for nearly seven years. As time went on, the focus has grown to include the viewpoints of a wide variety of racial, ethnic, religious and gender identities.

“The sensibility really has expanded and kept pace,” Long said.

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all, equality and social justice are the main tenants of the organization, according to Ronald B. Richard, the foundation’s president and CEO. The Saturday Review, a magazine that has since ceased publication, originally administered the award. When Wolf passed away in 1963, the foundation took full custody of the fund and the administration of the prizes, as per Wolf’s will. And it has grown drastically in subsequent years, especially since author and educator Henry Louis Gates Jr. became the jury chair in 1996.

Prior to Gates joining the jury, the AnisfieldWolf book awards didn’t have an event associated with it. Long said Gates — a Harvard professor, editor and author — was asked to speak to a small crowd the year he took over the jury chair.

The following year, she said the foundation decided it was time to “amplify the conversation beyond attaching a sticker” and former

cial justice

award manager Mary Louise Hahn put in the work to establish a formal ceremony.

Gates emcees the event — Richard said he’s “brilliant” in that role — introducing the writers and commenting upon their work. And the writers themselves often read from their work or speak to the crowd.

“We all read these books in solitude, but there’s something about coalescing around them that’s greater than the sum of the parts,” Long said.

A POINT OF PRIDE

The first check-writing ceremony in 1997 was held at the Cleveland Public Library. Typically, the fiction and nonfiction categories each have $10,000 to split among winners, though that amount can vary. Lifetime achievement award winners receive $5,000.

By 2002, the event had outgrown the library and moved to the Cleveland Play House. In

2010, the 75th anniversary, it relocated to Severance Hall and transferred to its current home of PlayhouseSquare in 2011. Prior to the actual ceremony, awardees take part in smaller, more intimate readings or events around town.

This year’s event will be Sept. 11 in the Ohio Theatre. A reception will be held in the State Theatre lobby. Tickets are free with reservations, which open up in mid-July.

Richard said the space has room for 1,000 attendees, but if there were hundreds on the wait list, the foundation would look for a bigger space in 2015.

The jury — which is made up of five distinguished writers, historians and academics in Gates, Joyce Carol Oates, Simon Schama, Rita Dove and Steven Pinker — does a lot of work leading up to the event.

Long said nominations come from publishers, authors and members of the jury. The jurors spend time deliberating hundreds of books via email, and they push back on each other’s choices.

“The proof is that they find really good books,” she said.

The award is well-known in the literary world, Richard said, and Cleveland’s part in it is something the community should take pride in. It would be hard to argue with that statement, as the award’s place in history can’t be denied: It counts notable individuals like Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King Jr. and Langston Hughes

among its winners.

But Richard said the award and the event should be even better known. He sees a lot of academics in the crowd, and the African-American community is usually well represented.

But he wants to see more doctors, more lawyers and more corporate business people of all ethnicities at the ceremony — the message is important for everyone, he said. And it’s a message that’s been getting more inclusive as time goes on.

“It’s truly going more global as the world gets more global,” Richard said.

THIS YEAR’S WINNERS

Caribbean novelist George Lamming, one of this year’s lifetime achievement honorees, reached a high mark in “identity literature” with “In the Castle of My Skin,” Long said. She also praised the important landscaping writing of this year’s other lifetime achievement honoree, Guyanese writer Wilson Harris.

The award also honors up-and-coming authors, such as one of this year’s awardees for fiction, Anthony Marra. Marra’s first book, “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” is told through a variety of points of view and set in Chechnya.

The other fiction winner, Adrian Matejka’s book of poems, “The Big Smoke,” looks at the racism boxer Jack Johnson faced in the early 1900s.

Finally, this year’s nonfiction winner, Ari Shavit for “My Promised Land,” takes what Long called

NOTABLE PAST WINNERS NADINE GORDIMER “A Sport of Nature”

LANGSTON HUGHES “Simple Takes a Wife”

WOLE SOYINKA “Ake: The Years of Childhood”

LOUISE ERDRICH “The Plague of Doves”

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story” TONI MORRISON “Beloved”

JUNOT DÍAZ “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” JOHN HERSEY “The Wall” AYAAN HIRSI ALI “Infidel”

a controversial but important look at the IsraeliArab conflict.

Long said she thinks there are a few factors that make the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards unique in the literary world: its history and its jury.

But there’s also a sense of adventure to the award, Long said, asking who wouldn’t want to be there when the next Toni Morrison — also an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner — was discovered?

“It’s still doing work and furthering the conversation,” she said.

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THE AINSFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS: LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

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EDITH ANISFIELD WOLF

(1889-1963)

The Cleveland poet and philanthropist established the book prizes in 1935, in honor of her father and her husband. She was devoted to social justice and used literature to explore racial prejudice and to celebrate human diversity.

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hairing the jury for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is one of the singular pleasures of my life. The thought that a poet — a white, female poet — had the foresight to endow a prize to honor excellence and diversity, at the height of the Great Depression, is something of a miracle, isn’t it?

People in Cleveland should be proud of this miracle. Provocative writing about cultural identity has been rare in this country, so that makes it even more remarkable that in 1935 — 20 years before the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education — Edith Anisfield Wolf acted on her strong sense of social justice to create this book prize.

Today it is humbling to thumb through the names of previous winners, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and Gunnar Mrydal, and five Nobel laureates: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nadine Gordimer, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott.

These are the creative voices that remind us of our shared humanity.

Through the auspices of this prize, they are linked in a formidable roster that grows to be more global, more expansive and more challenging with each decade. So Samantha Power investigates the politics of genocide and Andrew Solomon writes about transgender children and Mohsin Hamid reminds us of the wages of suspicion in a post 9-11 world. These writers join Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of the Great Migration and Annette Gordon-Reed’s landmark investigation of the Hemings branch of Thomas Jefferson’s family tree.

This is quite a heritage. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards makes visible and concrete the scholarship and creativity that feed our ongoing conversation about identity, diversity and race — an intellectual history that touches the lives of everyone reading this newspaper. Readers can explore that history and track its future through the website www.anisfield-wolf. org. And every September, Clevelanders are invited to gather to hear the authors read from their works and speak from their hearts. This year, the ceremony unfurls at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Ohio Theatre in PlayhouseSquare. Who wouldn’t want to be in the room when the next Toni Morrison is discovered?

Finding these books requires excellence in itself, and I have been exceptionally fortunate to serve on the jury alongside four internationally known writers and scholars: Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, Steven Pinker and Simon Schama.

None of this would exist, let alone flourish, without the judicious management of the Cleveland Foundation, which has shepherded these prizes since 1964. A keen commitment to diversity — and the wellbeing of all folk — is a central tenant of the foundation. The cultivation of these prizes is evidence.

When it comes to the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the Cleveland Foundation’s patience and acuity found its embodiment in Mary Louise Hahn, who for 19 years oversaw these prizes. She guided them into their modern format, and created from scratch the culminating annual celebration that has become a literary capstone. In 2012, Mary Louise helped pick her estimable successor, the literary journalist Karen Long. The prize is in good hands.

The same year, my friend, the biographer and Stanford scholar Arnold Rampersad, won his Lifetime Achievement Award. He asked, “What on earth makes 1,000 people show up in Cleveland every year for hard books?”

The answer: Edith Anisfield Wolf and her legacy, interpreted each year by the jury, and safeguarded by the Cleveland Foundation into a new millennium.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards jury Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

THROUGH THE YEARS...

A LOOK AT 25 OF THE MOST NOTABLE EVENTS IN FOUNDATION HISTORY

21 2001: EMBRACING AGING Ten years before the oldest Baby Boomers turned 65, the foundation began focusing on the approaching wave of aging but active adults.

In 2003, it launched Successful Aging, an initiative to involve older Clevelanders in volunteering, learning and working. A decade later, the foundation announced its commitment to creating an “encore careers” program, which would allow seniors to apply their experience to public service as a “second career.”

22 2002: PLANTING GRASSROOTS INVOLVEMENT Neighborhood Connections, the foundation’s small-grants and community-building program, began as a way to capitalize on Cleveland’s neighborhood redevelopment. Through the program, grassroots groups and everyday people are encouraged to bring ideas to improve their neighborhoods. To date, Neighborhood Connections has awarded 1,800 grants totaling $6.5 million in Cleveland’s neighborhoods.

23 2002: EMPHASIZING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT The foundation’s commitment to job and business creation began in 1985 when it designated economic development as a priority grantmaking area. It sharpened its focus in 2002 when the foundation hired a senior fellow for economic development. Since then, the foundation has awarded more than $85 million to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, attract new business, compete globally and develop new industry clusters in Northeast Ohio.

One hundred years and counting.

KeyBank is the proud Presenting Sponsor of the Cleveland Foundation’s Centennial Meeting. We congratulate the Cleveland Foundation’s 100 years of service to our community. They’ve helped to enrich our lives and make Cleveland a better place to live, work, and raise a family. KeyBank also is proud of our 100-year relationship with the Foundation. We’ve been there from the beginning, managing its trusts and supporting the Foundation’s mission, and wish them another century of success.

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24 2003: EXPANDING THE CIRCLE The foundation in 2003 asked the CEOs of Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic to think bigger about collaborating for the betterment of University Circle. They were challenged to think beyond its boundaries to include its surrounding neighborhoods. The effort led to the creation in 2006 of the Greater University Circle Initiative.

25 2012: TRANSFORMING CLEVELAND’S SCHOOLS In 2006, the Cleveland Foundation partnered with the Gund Foundation and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to create a handful of new, high-performing schools with a focus on innovation and excellence. These portfolio schools provided the strategy for Mayor Frank Jackson’s “Cleveland Plan” for transforming the city’s schools, introduced in 2012. In the fall of 2012, Cleveland voters approved the Cleveland school district’s first operating levy in 16 years. In total, the Cleveland Foundation devoted more than $4 million to the transformation plan. www.CrainsCleveland.com

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WE CELEBRATE TONIGHT THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION.

A VISION FOR 2014

THE YEAR IS 2014 AND WE LOOK BACKWARD OVER THE SPAN OF A CENTURY TO THE YEAR 1914 WHEN THE FOUNDATION CAME INTO EXISTENCE...

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COL. LEONARD PORTER AYRES SEPTEMBER 29, 1920

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nd so started a Sept. 29, 1920, address from Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, who was charged nearly a century ago with making a presentation during the 25th anniversary celebration of the Cleveland Trust Company.

The colonel had been asked to imagine himself as speaking in the year 2014, reviewing the first 100 years of the Cleveland Foundation, for which the Cleveland Trust Company was a trustee. Ayres, a nationally known educator, economist and statistician at the time, served as vice president and chief economist of the Cleveland Trust bank for 26 years, according to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.

He also apparently was a man of incredible insight, based on his forward-looking assessment of the Cleveland Foundation’s eventual impact — a speech given only six years after its founding.

From the setup of the foundation to the importance of the lakefront, Ayres touched point by point on many of the same issues that remain of top importance to the foundation today, predicting how the organization would impact the region’s future.

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THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

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Commitment to

CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

HOW AYRES’ PREDICTIONS PLAYED OUT ON SOCIAL SERVICES:

ON NEIGHBORHOODS:

“… Before the first quarter of a century had elapsed it was generally realized throughout America that the President of the Cleveland Trust Company had made the most important single contribution of his generation to the art of wise giving and that the community foundation had become a most potent influence to turn the minds of men from an absorption that is selfish to a service that is social. ….”

Children and youth are a strong focus today for the foundation, as are social causes in general.

A recent commitment has been to the Encore initiative, an effort aimed at providing opportunities for those 50 years old and older to apply their experiences and passions into a second career of sorts aimed at solving some of the region’s social woes.

As part of the effort, the foundation awarded

ON ARTS & CULTURE: “… Music was fostered and the advantages of the Art Museum were carried to the people, as those of the Public Library have long been made available, through a system of branches. The historical records of the community were carefully conserved through the efforts of the Foundation. ...”

The foundation’s past and current initiatives in the area of arts and culture have ranged from ones that promote audience engagement to those that support arts-related public policy. Its Creative Fusion program, for example, offers residencies to international artists at Cleveland-area institutions such as Spaces, Verb Ballets and Zygote Press.

Other recent grants have included those to the Cleveland Public Library for the expansion of its learning centers, as well as support to Dancing Wheels, Ingenuity Cleveland and the Cleveland Public Theatre.

Also notable this year, the Cleveland International Film Festival logged its busiest Monday in history with the help of free admissions courtesy of the Cleveland Foundation. According to the festival, 7,885 people attended on Monday, March 24 — an 82% increase over Monday’s attendance in 2013.

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$526,000 to Greater Cleveland Volunteers to expand the local AARP Experience Corps intergenerational tutoring program, which focuses on improving young students’ literacy skills.

The foundation also awarded $245,000 to Business Volunteers Unlimited to attract a greater number of older volunteers and to explore the launch of a fellowship program that could provide paid opportunities.

ON EDUCATION: “… Relatively early in its existence the Foundation was instrumental in following up the education and recreation surveys, which it had conducted as its first enterprises, until the city became famous as the home of the most progressive school system in the land. As the culmination of this it ultimately brought about the unification of the city’s higher institutions of learning into a great and harmonious University of Cleveland. …”

While there is not yet a unified University of Cleveland, per se, the foundation still long has been committed to education initiatives in Cleveland.

For one, the foundation is an active advocate of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s transformation plan, and it is a partner with the George Gund Foundation, school district and others to create “portfolio schools.”

This year, the foundation’s board approved grants totaling nearly $1.4 million to support new school development and postsecondary preparation. Grants included $785,000 to College Now Greater Cleveland Inc.’s Post Secondary Access Initiative; and $372,750 to the Cleveland school district to support the Cleveland Digital Arts High School and the Bard Early College High School.

“ … As the intellectual and educational centers of the city became well established and able to carry themselves forward, the trustees found themselves confronted with the problems of increased revenues and changed public needs. At this juncture they began to turn their attention to the unlimited improvement of the city itself as a place to live in. By means of gathering information, molding public opinion, giving conditional grants and steadfastly carrying on researches they grappled with first one and then another of the city’s problems. …”.

Ayres went on to specifically speak of the foundation’s role in “the fight against the smoke evil” and other efforts to clean up the community, the transition to bury trolley wires and advance “durable pavements on every street in the city” and the reclamation of the city’s lakefront and promotion of the park system.

And — “as the culmination of the first century of endeavor,” according to Ayres — the foundation would secure an agreement and move forward with plans for a new Union Station.

Fast forward nearly a century later, and Cleveland has Tower City Center with its rapid transit stop and a foundation that is broadly committed to the health and prosperity of its neighborhoods through programs such as the Greater University Circle Initiative and Neighborhood Connections, a small grants and grassroots community-building program created in 2003.

Grants to a variety of organizations such as Neighborhood Progress and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance further promote the foundation’s commitment to, as Ayres stated years ago, “first one and then another of the city’s problems.”

AS THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION CELEBRATES ITS 100TH YEAR, AYRES FINAL THOUGHTS STILL RING TRUE TODAY:

AS WE LOOK BACK TONIGHT OVER ITS CENTURY OF ATTAINMENT OUR THOUGHTS TURN TO THE AUTHOR OF IT ALL, THE PRESIDENT OF THE CLEVELAND TRUST COMPANY, WHO ORGANIZED THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION IN 1914.

HE WORKED FOR THOSE WHOM HE NEVER SAW AND NEVER COULD SEE IN THE HOPE THAT HE MIGHT AID IN MAKING THE LIVES OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS BRIGHT. HE TOILED IN ADVANCE AND BUILT FOR THE FUTURE. HE CUT THE TRAIL THAT PROGRESSIVE HUMANITY HAS BROADENED INTO A HIGH ROAD.

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for our opportunity to create unlimited opportunities.

Congratulations to The Cleveland Foundation on 100 years.

In 1983, The Cleveland Foundation helped launch Youth Opportunities Unlimited and our first summer youth employment program. Together, we connected 1,000 teens to their first summer job.

Since then, we have: s 3ERVED MORE THAN YOUTH s $ISTRIBUTED OVER MILLION IN in wages s "ROADENED OUR SERVICES THROUGH employment and internship, entrepreneurship, and graduation impact programs

The Cleveland Foundation continues to support Y.O.U.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s year-round and summer employment programs, which help match thousands of teenagers to meaningful summer work experiences across Cuyahoga County.

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For a century of giving: We thank you a hundred times over.

University Hospitals would like to congratulate the Cleveland Foundation on their 100th anniversary – and thank them for helping us shape the future of health care in our community.

With over $60 million in support, the Cleveland Foundation has been instrumental in UH expansion projects that bring new services and programs to our community. Including the creation of the UH Institute for Health Care Quality & Innovation, the establishment of a maternal-fetal medicine program at UH MacDonald Women’s Hospital and the expansion of the minimally invasive surgery program at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.

Thanks to the Cleveland Foundation and our many other generous supporters, we can continue to reach new milestones in nationally recognized care – for many more years to come.

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