The Cleveland FoundationIts Mission and GoalsT he Cleveland Foundation exists to enhance the quality of life for all c itizens of G reater Cleveland by using funds en tru s ted to the Founda­tion s stew ardship by people of various m eans to address com m unity p rob lem s an d opportunities.

S ince its founding in 1914 as the nation’s first com m unity trust, T he Cleveland Foundation h as been characterized by perm anence, stew ardship, flexibility and independence.

P e r m a n e n c e . Most of the Foundation’s a sse ts are m ain ta ined in perpetu ity in ind iv idual tru s t funds held and ad ­m in iste red by tru stee banks. T hrough sou n d financial m an ag em en t and con­tin u a l giving from m any citizens, these funds have increased over the years, enab ling the Foundation to m ain ta in long-term in te rest and involvem ent in the m ajor ph ilan th rop ic needs of the com m unity .S te w a r d s h ip . W hile a substan tia l pro­portion of the Foundation’s funds is u n ­restric ted or restric ted in its use only w ith in b road lim its, m any funds are d irected by th e ir donors toward specific in s titu tio n s or purposes. As a stew ard of these tru sts, th e Foundation seeks first an d forem ost to carry ou t the in ten t and pu rpose of its donors.F l e x i b i l i t y . W ithin its b road charter, a n d sub jec t to restric tions or directions con ta ined in governing in strum en ts, the Foundation h as the flexibility to respond to chang ing needs and cu rren t opportu ­n ities to en hance the quality of life for G reater Clevelanders.I n d e p e n d e n c e . The Foundation is in ­d ep en d en t in its g ran t m aking because it is an au tonom ous organization. At the sam e tim e, its governance reflects broad co m m un ity in te rests th rough an 11- m em b er D istribu tion C om m ittee select­ed for its knowledge of G reater Cleveland an d sensitiv ity to philan th rop ic re­sponsibilities. M em bers of th is Com ­m ittee serve lim ited term s w ithout pay.

O p e r a t in g P h i lo s o p h y .The operating philosophy of the Foun­dation is characterized by a com m itm ent to:

Respect the in ten t and tru s t of its donors;

Work through, or in partnersh ip with, existing organizations in the com m unity to achieve com m on objectives;

Address, where possible, the underly ­ing causes of com m unity problem s;

Tkke p ru d en t risks to advance in ­novative responses and solutions;

Encourage the h ighest s tandards of program quality and perform ance in grantee organizations;

Strive for the h ighest eth ical s tan d ­ards th rough fairness in policies and procedures, full and objective review of all requests for funds, and the avoidance of conflict of interest;

Leverage funds and o ther resources th rough collaboration w ith o ther fund­ing sources;

Support a wide range of com m unity projects and interests;

M aintain a qualified professional staff accessible to the com m unity.

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Table of Contents

M ission an d G o a l s ................................................. lT he C hairperson’s L e t te r .................................3The D irector’s R e p o r t ...........................................4T he Cleveland F o u n d a tio n ................................. 5

Taking the Long V ie w ...................................... 6The Lifeblood of a C ity’s D re a m ....................9T he C om m u n ity ’s Own F oundation . . . 12

1984 G ran t M a k in g ........................................ 15C ultural A ffa irs .................................................16E d u c a tio n .......................................................... 26H e a lth ..................................................................38Social S e rv ic e s ............................................. 48Civic A ffa irs .................................................. 60Special Philanthropic S e rv ic e s ...............70

T h ist Funds, C om bined Funds, N ontrust Funds and Supporting O rganizations . . 75

F inancial R e p o r t .............................................77D istribution C om m ittee, T rustees

Com m ittee and S ta f f ...................................81

R esid en ts o f the 93-year-old E liza B rya n t Center,(Cover photograph) Hough P ast and Future:R esiden ts o f the 93-year-old E liza B rya n t Cen Marie M cK night (standing) a n d R u th Schack w atch EBC's new fa c ility take shape.

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The Chairperson’s Letter

N ineteen Eighty-Four—George Orwell no tw ithstand ing—proved an especially satisfying year for The Cleveland Foun­dation. It was a year th a t saw the realiza­tion of several im portant projects we’d been nu rtu rin g for some years—from the reopening of the m agnificent State T heatre on Playhouse Square to the long- awaited groundbreaking for a new Eliza Bryant Center for the frail elderly in Hough (see cover photograph). Both are described along with several other fasci­nating long-term projects in this year’s A nnual Report.

A total of $16,721,842 in grants was authorized by the Distribution Commit­tee in 1984. These grants are listed in the following pages. I th ink you’ll find th a t The Cleveland Foundation continues to be a broadly responsive funder, pu t­ting its resources—and th a t m eans the tim e and energy of our Distribution Com m ittee and staff, as well as our g ran t m oney—behind a wide spectrum of projects and activities in the areas of health , social services, civic and cultural affairs, education and economic development.

New funds and additions to existing funds held by The Cleveland Foundation totaled $3.4 million in 1984, bringing the m arket value of the Foundation’s com bined assets and those of its seven supporting organizations to $309 million by year’s end. Nineteen Eighty- Five prom ises to be even more gratify­ing. Since the first of the year, the Foun­dation has already been notified th a t it will receive $8 million in new gifts.

In the past 71 years more than 600 separate funds have been established at The Cleveland Foundation. It is this kind of generosity on the part of our donors— the m ajority of whom have left un re­stricted or loosely restricted funds—that m akes it possible for the Foundation to take w hat we like to call “the long view”: planning, choosing and nurtu ring those projects w hich address m ost creatively the changing needs of Greater Cleveland.

W hat is especially encouraging to us is the increasing num ber of donors who are m aking gifts to the Foundation dur­ing their lifetim es—and in th a t regard it

gives me a special pleasure to announce one 1984 gift, a new supporting organi­zation of The Cleveland Foundation, the McDonald Fund. Created by Charles and Deborah McDonald late in 1984, the fund will focus on the growth and rebuilding of small businesses in Cleveland’s inner-city neighborhoods.

We have been doing a lot of thinking over the past year about the ways in which the Foundation can contribute to the continuing recovery of Cleveland. T hat m eans trying to take a fresh look at Cleveland’s greatest needs today. We find fundam ental issues which in­fluence the degree to which program s in all of The Cleveland Foundation’s grant- m aking areas are successful in improv­ing the quality of life in our community. These issues are: the need to develop consensus around key com m on issues; the desire for increased access and par­ticipation on the part of m inorities and women in the full range of the com m u­nity’s institutions and opportunities: and the need to strengthen the organiza­tional 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 Distribution Committee (see pages 12 and 13 of this report). I am pleased to re­port th a t Sally Griswold and Harvey Oppm ann, who have served on the Com­m ittee since 1978 and 1981 respectively, have been reappointed to new terms.

One could not ask for a livelier or more capable group of colleagues. The chal­lenge of the Foundation’s m ission—to enhance the quality of life for all of the citizens of Greater Cleveland—is one well worth our time and effort.

Stanley C. Pace May 16, 1985

The Foundation continues to be a broadly respon­sive funder, putting its re­sources behind a wide spectrum o f projects and activities.

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After several years o f eroding self-confidence, Greater Cleveland f in a lly turned a corner and began to focus on a variety o f strategic investments.

The Director’s ReportDuring th is past year I sensed a re tu rn of confidence and a renewed civic com m it­m en t to shaping and m anaging th is re­gion’s social and econom ic future. After several years of eroding self-confidence— a condition m ade worse by sagging economic fortunes, declining population and severe hum an services em ergen­cies—G reater Cleveland finally tu rned a corner, and com m unity leaders began to focus on a variety of strategic invest­m ents required to reinvigorate th is re­gional center.

Evidence of rejuvenation is now sud­denly visible throughout Cleveland. Bridges, streets, sewers and water sys­tem s are being repaired. New m arket- rate housing is being built in University Circle, Hough, Central and TYemont as well as in the river front and warehouse district areas. Physical im provem ents are occurring on the lakefront, on Public Square and in the neighborhoods. Busi­ness, labor and university leaders are seeking ways to help local industries reassert their com petitiveness in the global m arketplace.

This year’s Annual Report highlights projects and program s which in m any respects have contributed to th is tu rn ­around. We are gratified to report th a t Foundation grants and program staff assistance were often integral to the success of m any im portan t civic proj­ects, especially those requiring m ulti­year investments.

Nineteen Eighty-Four also proved to be an appropriate tim e to take a fresh look a t the challenges facing G reater Cleveland and to determ ine how The Cleveland Foundation can best respond. Therefore, the D istribution Com m ittee and staff, w ith the assistance of in ­dependent consultants, engaged in an intensive review of com m unity needs and concerns as they related to the Foundation’s curren t grant-m aking priorities. This reassessm ent led us to the creation of a new S tatem ent of Mis­sion which reaffirms the Foundation’s com m itm ent to addressing long-range com m unity problem s and opportunities while honoring the in ten t of its donors.

Although there will be program m atic shifts during the period ahead, the Foundation will continue to rem ain ac­tive in the broad areas of education, health, social services, cu ltu ra l and civic affairs. In addition to its traditional program areas, s tronger em phasis will now be placed on supporting economic developm ent activities w hich increase investm ent and em ploym ent in the com m unity.

As a com m unity trust, The Cleveland Foundation plays different roles which vary according to needs and circum ­stances. We are a responsive funder, supporting constructive and imaginative proposals from a wide range of non­profit and public organizations. Some­tim es we are a catalyst, identifying m a­jo r com m unity issues and initiating ac­tion. In o ther instances, the Foundation serves as a convenor, bringing together disparate parties for dialogue and col­laboration. Finally, we play the role of educator, com m issioning studies and dis­sem inating inform ation related to significant com m unity issues.

None of these roles could be effective­ly executed w ithout the cooperation and active participation of m any in­dividuals and organizations striving to m ake a difference. There is no substi­tu te for innovative ideas, good judg­m ent and bold leadership. Cleveland is fortunate to have its share of each.

It would not be possible for the Foun­dation to be engaged in so m any imme­diate and long-range projects w ithout the astu te policy guidance and counsel of the D istribution Committee, as well as the distinguished professionalism of my colleagues on the staff. I consider it a privilege to be the director of The Cleveland Foundation and to work with such talented persons.

Steven A. Minter M ay 16, 1985

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

A s th e tw ig is bent: A class o f f ir s t graders a t a w est s ide e lem en ta ry school adop ts a m aple tree to s tu d y grow th. (See Education.)(Photograph by David 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 hat m uch seem s certain now. And p art of the reason it is going to happen is th a t the plans have been properly laid, the groundwork done, and all of the pieces put, one by one, into place. As a m atter of fact, the realiza­tion of a downtown inner harbor, though it has gotten the m ost m edia attention, is really only the last piece, albeit a very im portan t and delightful one, of a puz­zle alm ost 10 years in the assembling.

In fact, the lakefront is, in its way, a perfect example of the way real progress is achieved—bit by bit, w ith patience and determ ination, and an openness to opportunity wherever it is found.

The Cleveland Foundation’s involve­m en t w ith the development of Cleve­lan d ’s w aterfront goes back to the mid-1970s and a grant to fund a study of Cleveland’s parks and recreation.One of the recom m endations to come out of th a t study was th a t the City’s lakefront parks be transferred to a political entity like the State of Ohio w hich had the funds to restore the parks and beaches to first-class condi­tion. (Fittingly, it is again Colum bus to w hich the com m unity now looks for funds to break ground for the new inner harbor.) And in 1976 the Foundation worked w ith the Mayor’s Lakefront Task Force to lay the plans for the transfer of Edgewater, Gordon and Wildwood parks to the Ohio D epartm ent of Natural Resources on a long-term lease.

Again the im petus for action was ano ther sm all Cleveland Foundation g ran t w hich enabled five people—in­cluding the head of the Ohio Depart­m en t of N atural Resources—to travel to no rthern Europe in the sum m er of 1979 to look a t w aterfront development in coastal cities. The result was th a t the D epartm ent, w hich had up until then been less th an enthusiastic about tak­ing on the run-down urban parks, was

suddenly excited about the possibilities. The State subsequently poured millions of dollars into reclaim ing Cleveland’s lakefront parks, which since have be­come the m ost heavily used parks in Ohio, attracting in one recent year more th an six million people.

Meanwhile, the Foundation continued to keep the big picture, and the long view, in mind. Between 1981 and 1984, The Cleveland Foundation—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 pur­chase of additional lakefront property to be developed for the use of the com ­munity. 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, more than 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 beach—the first swimm ing beach in years on the east side of Cleveland. (The sand arrives this summ er. And a $1.5 million bike trail running along the lakefront from one end of Cleveland to the other nears completion.)

In 1983 another Foundation grant of $100,000 went to the City for the pur­poses 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 water­front. And, at the Foundation’s request, the mayor appointed a citizens’ advis­ory com m ittee with responsibility for determ ining who should do the study and for overseeing the establishm ent of an independent Lakefront Development Authority which would see th a t the plan was im plem ented.

The study, which was jointly under­taken 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 lake- front area include a world-class

While the debate over downtown's lakefront was heating up, a mile long beach was already being put together.

C lev ela n d ’s P roposed Inner Harbor.- the f in a l p iece in a p u z z le th a t h a s been 10 years in the a sse m b lin g

MICKEY Roonfv? u®a r

Playhouse Square has broken a kind o f invisible mem­brane that has existed fo r years between the east and west sides of the city.

P layh ou se Square com es alive: a p lace w here the en tire c o m m u n ity is m ee tin g

aquarium , a m aritim e m useum , a w inter garden, festival retail and a park, it ad ­dressed the old problem of the w ater’s edge really being too far away from the downtown business district, and ad ­vanced the bold plan of scooping out an inner harbor. Another Foundation grant has been m ade for interim staffing so th a t the Mayor’s Committee can con­tinue to carry the project’s gathering m om entum forward.

The point is th a t Cleveland’s lakefront development not only is going to hap ­pen, it is happening, it has happened. It has taken m any partners working to­gether, years of careful planning, thoughtful studies and a gradual development of consensus around the lakefront as a priority for Cleveland.

The several roles The Cleveland Foun­dation has played over the past decade in this respect—as educator, funder, catalyst, convenor—are typical of the kind of long-range involvement the Foundation takes on with respect to m any ongoing projects felt to be of key im portance to the Greater Cleveland community. Another massive project, into which the Foundation has put more than $6 million since its first

m odest funding of a feasibility study back in 1972, is Playhouse Square. By 1986, w hen all three theaters are up and running, a projected $35 million in consum er spending will be added to the downtown Cleveland economy, and as m any as 1,700 new jobs created.

But another, hidden benefit of the recovery of Playhouse Square is already being felt. It has broken a kind of invisi­ble m em brane th a t has existed for years between the east and west sides of the city. (After moving its annual concert series from the Heights downtown to the Ohio Theater, for example, the Cleveland Modern Dance Association prom ptly tripled its subscribers—40 percent of which were now coming, for the first time, from the west side, and another 10 percent up 1-77 from Akron!) T hanks to Playhouse Square, downtown is once again becom ing the place where the entire com m unity meets. And that is exciting.

Because part of taking the long view about Cleveland is beginning to th ink in regional term s—in everything from perinatal health care to recreation. It is time, in other words, th a t we stopped thinking sim ply about rebuilding Cleve­land, and started th inking in term s of building a Greater Cleveland.

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.supported by..."__________The lifeblood of a city’s dream

The Cleveland Foundation has been the beneficiary of m any gifts over the past 71 years, and its grant m aking is depen­den t upon the income it receives from over 600 separate funds th a t have been left to its stewardship.

Gifts to the Foundation may be m ade in a variety of ways. Many donors choose to .make wholly unrestricted gifts, en­tru sting the D istribution Committee of The Cleveland Foundation to decide how these funds can best be utilized. U nrestricted gifts provide im portant flexibility th a t enables the Foundation to respond effectively to ever-changing com m unity needs. A donor may also direct gifts or bequests to broad areas of concern or even to specific institutions. Gifts m ay be m ade during the donor’s lifetime or established in a will. The donor m ay select any nam e for a fund— for example, as a m em orial to a loved one—and th is fund nam e will accom ­pany all g ran t paym ents.

There are four basic ways in which donors may contribute to The Cleveland Foundation:

Individual Trust Fund

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

Supporting Organization

a m eans whereby a family or private foundation may create a separate fund within The Cleveland Foundation. The supporting organization m aintains both a separate grant-m aking identity and the direct involvement of the donor while enjoying public charity status and the professional staff services of The Cleveland Foundation.

Donor-Advised Fund

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

Nontrust Contribution

a donation m ade to The Foundation in any am ount by individuals, corpora­tions and other institutions to be used in its entirety over a relatively limited 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 Greater Cleveland community. On the following pages are the stories of two families and some of the program s m ade possible by their generosity.

The Cleveland Foundation is a flexible resource able to serve both the philan­thropic goals o f donors and the evolving needs of the community.

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The young returning soldier and his fiancee were going to be part o f the bustling industrial city's fu ture—in more ways than they then knew.

Out of a City’s Past, a City’s Future.Progress was in the air of Cleveland in th a t spring of 1919 following the A rm is­tice th a t ended the G reat War. And Jo h n Short, who re tu rned to civilian life th a t March, a 28-year-old battalion sergeant major, and his young fiancee, LaVerne Maskell of Lakewood, were going to be part of the bustling industrial c ity ’s future. They were m arried the following sum m er, and w ithin a few years Jo h n was building a prom ising career in sales with the Cleveland Knife and Forge Company.

He had the personality for it, friends agree: a natural curiosity about people and a wide variety of subjects. One long­tim e colleague, Karl Bruch, recalls th a t Jo h n Short had a quick wit and an en ­gaging way of talking. Short stayed with the com pany through m ergers with Hill Clutch Machine and Foundry in the early Thirties and Acme M achinery in 1940, moving up to sales m anager. Soon the nation was at war again, and Short was handling all the paperwork con­nected with the stepped-up war produc­tion as the thriving new Hill Acme Company turned out such exotic item s as surface grinders, abrasive belt polishers, alligator shears and upset forging m achines (which shaped artil­lery shells between two iron jaws).

The m achine tool industry prospered in those years, and so did Jo h n and LaVerne Short. And they determ ined, at some point after Jo h n ’s retirem ent in the mid-1950s, to repay the com m unity th a t had given them the m eans of a good life. W hen Jo h n Short died in 1973, a year following his wife’s death, his will bequeathed their entire estate, then am ounting to a little over $1 million (and now worth alm ost twice that), to The Cleveland Foundation— with the stipulation th a t the fund’s in ­come be used by the Foundation’s Distribution Com m ittee for the ad ­vancem ent of medical science, the assistance of young m en or women in procuring a m edical education, and the im provem ent of hospitals or health institutions.

The decision to have the Jo h n and LaVerne Short Memorial Fund be fo­cused on the field of health care has allowed it to be used in recent years for a num ber of highly innovative projects.

In 1974, a $132,000 leadership grant from the Short Fund w ent to the Medical School of Case W estern Reserve University to increase its m inority s tu ­den t enrollm ent. Five years later, in 1979—following a study which revealed th a t 25 percent of all persons now com­ing to psychiatric clinics for help were teenagers—a $225,000 g ran t to CWRU’s D epartm ent of Psychiatry helped make possible the developm ent of an exciting program offering a range of m ental health services to troubled children and adolescents.

A $40,000 gran t in 1982 helped create special ou tpatien t services for the vic­tim s of spinal cord injuries a t Cleveland M etropolitan General Hospital. Another grant m ade the following year enabled the Westlake H ealth C am pus Associa­tion develop a novel concept th a t brings together an integrated core of health and hum an services.

A grant m ade only last Septem ber is helping to fund an im portan t study looking a t the rehabilitation of elderly patien ts a t the Cleveland Clinic. In this collaborative effort, the Clinic provides m edical m anagem ent of the patients and M argaret W agner House delivers re­habilitation and nursing services. A series of grants m ade in 1983 and 1985 to the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland has allowed a vital and heavi­ly used facility, which had nearly been swam ped by its own success, to restruc­ture on a sounder organizational and financial basis.

Jo h n and LaVerne S hort’s willingness to en tru st The Cleveland Foundation with broad grant-m aking discretion within their field of in terest has allowed the Foundation to respond to im portant and changing health care needs.

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One Woman’s Gift: The History of a Fund.To the custom s officers who greeted her at Ellis Island som etim e in the early 1870s, she was ju s t one more hungry and anxious face in the latest wave of G erm an im m igrants. Katherine Bohm was only sixteen, in the tow of her wary-eyed m other. She would carry her few possessions in a battered paper suitcase as they moved from place to place th roughout the teem ing neighbor­hoods of Cleveland.

The fact th a t the Bohms were m em ­bers of the largest group of im m igrants in the city gave them no advantages. Frau Bohm and her daughter found work as a cook and a laundress in the hom es of som e of Cleveland’s m ost p rom inent industrialists: Fred Beckwith, Ralph King and Sam uel Mather.

A frequent guest a t the M athers’ im ­posing residence in those days was a banker nam ed Frederick H. Goff, who was m aking m any speeches around the city on the subject of som ething he called a com m unity trust. This novel concept was no doubt discussed and de­bated over m any a dinner. And when Sam uel M ather died, the com m unity could not have been very surprised at the generous sum of money he left to the newly formed Cleveland Foundation, G offs dream realized. But no one was prepared for the news in 1936 that Goff s dream had equally inspired an 80-year-old, Germ an-speaking laundress nam ed K atherine Bohm to leave her en­tire life savings of $6,500 to The Cleveland Foundation.

It was “in m any ways, the m ost rem arkable gift yet m ade to the Foun­dation,” said the Foundation’s then chairm an Malcolm L. McBride. Kather­ine Bohm had been alm ost completely blind w hen she died, ju s t a few days before her eightieth birthday, as a result of inoperable cataracts. She had lost a leg to diabetes, bu t had kept her values of independence and self-sufficiency.She rarely spen t m oney on herself. Her gift to the Foundation was free of any strings: it was to be used, in any way the Foundation saw fit, to improve the quality of life in her adopted community.

In 1941 the K atherine Bohm Fund began to m ake its own im portant con­tributions. The first g ran t ever m ade by The Cleveland Foundation in Katherine Bohm ’s nam e went, touchingly, to The Cleveland Society for the Blind, to buy

Katherine Bohm was almost totally blind when she died at eighty, and she had lost a leg to diabetes, but she had a contribution yet to make to her chosen community.

Illustra tions by Bruce Sereta

artificial eyes and glasses for those who could not afford them. Katherine Bohm’s gift was also responsible for the training of volunteer leaders to work with inner- city Girl Scout troops. The Fund gave a scholarship to a paralyzed boy who wanted 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 Post- War Planning Council of Greater Cleve­land, which was beginning to look at the new challenges that would come with peace. Over the years th a t followed, grants from the Katherine Bohm Fund would go to such diverse enterprises as The Garden Center of Greater Cleve­land, The Visiting Nurses Association, the Welfare Federation Committee on Alcoholics, the Council on H um an Rela­tions and a study of Cleveland’s nursing homes. One year the Fund provided for the publication and distribution of a booklet on “How to Participate in Cleveland Government.” And in 1983, when a million dollars’ worth of free groceries were distributed to the hungry in the wake of a superm arket court settlem ent, it was Katherine Bohm’s generosity which paid for the the cost of overseeing th a t work.

Though she has been gone for nearly half a century, the raw-skinned hand of this quiet washerwom an is still present working am ong the citizens of Greater Cleveland. Six thousand five hundred 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

A ndrea C oaxum

H ank G oodm an

The Cleveland Foundation is governed by an 11-person D istribution Committee. Its m em bers, who set policy and allocate fund incom e and principal, are chosen for their knowledge of the com m unity. Five are appointed by the TYustees Com­m ittee, com prised of the chief executive officers of the Foundation’s trustee banks. Five are appointed by public offi­cials, and together select a six th person w ith a background in philanthropy. All serve w ithout pay, norm ally for a five- year term , and for a m axim um 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 ppoin ted 1978 by the Trustees C om m ittee; reappointed 1982Stanley C. Pace is vice chairm an of the board of TRW,Inc., and chairm an of the National Association of M anu­facturers. A m em ber of United Way Services' Board of Trustees since 1975, he chaired the 1984 G reater Cleve­land cam paign. He was honored the sam e year by the National Conference of C hristians and Jew s as the recipi­ent of its National H um an Relations Award for his work in com batting discrim ination and prejudice. He is a director of National City Corporation and Consolidated Natural Gas Company and a m em ber of the Executive Com m ittee and past chairm an of the G reater Cleveland Roundtable. Residence: Shaker Heights.

S ta n Pace

A n d r e a T a y lo r C o a x u mA ppo in ted 1984 by the C h ie f Ju d g e , U.S. D istrict Court, N orthern D istric t o f OhioA ndrea lily lor Coaxum is p residen t of Coastal C om m uni­cations, a Cleveland m arketing and com m unications firm. She is also im m ediate past p residen t of A Better Chance, Inc., a nationwide program w hich seeks out tal­ented m inority students, and vice presiden t of United Way Services. She is a trustee of Hawken School, and has served on the national constitu tion com m ittee of the YWCA, of w hich she is past p residen t (Cleveland area), as well as the Cleveland Bar A ssociation's Tksk Force on Crime. She is a form er trustee of the Women’s Law Fund. Residence: Cleveland Heights.

J o h n J. D w y e rA pp o in ted 1984 by the P residen t o f the Federa­tion fo r C o m m u n ity P lann ingJo h n J. Dwyer is a vice chairm an of the board and a director of Oglebay Norton Com pany and a partner in the law firm of T hom pson, Hine and Flory. He is chairm an of The Cleveland Education Fund and im m ediate past chairm an of the G reater Cleveland Growth Association, as well as a director of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, Acme-Cleveland Corporation, AmeriTrust Corporation and The Higbee Company. He is a trustee of University Hospitals, the Musical A rts Association, Play­house Square Foundation, th e G reater Cleveland Round­table and Notre Dame College. Residence: Shaker Heights.

H e n r y J. G o o d m a nA ppo in ted 1982 by the C o m m ittee o f Five D istribution C o m m ittee M em bersH enry J. G oodm an is presiden t of H. Goodman, Inc. He also is p resident of the Jew ish C om m unity Federation of Cleveland and serves on th e Executive Comm ittee of the Council of Jew ish Federations (National). He pursues a special in terest in health issues as secretary of the Greater Cleveland Hospital Association, vice chairm an of the G reater Cleveland Voluntary H ealth Planning Associa­tion and a m em ber of the Civic Advisory Board of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He also serves on the Cleve­land C ultural Resources S tudy Com m ittee and the Water­front Steering Commitee. Residence: Shaker Heights.

L in d s a y J o r d a n M o r g e n th a le rA ppo in ted 1984 by the Trustees C om m itteeLindsay Jo rd an M orgenthaler is a well-known civic leader who has organized several of Cleveland's most successful benefits. She is a t p resen t a trustee of Play­house Square Foundation, Case W estern Reserve Univer­sity, Leadership Cleveland and Cleveland Ballet, She is also a longtim e trustee of P ittsburgh 's Carnegie Mellon University, where she curren tly chairs the President's Circle, and WVIZ-TV, for w hich she headed up two highly successful auctions. She is a past p resident of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, w here she has served as a trustee for 21 years. Residence: Lakewood.

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D a v id G. H ill.A pp o in ted 1977 by the C h ie f Justice , C ourt o f A ppea ls, 8 th Jud ic ia l D istrict o f Ohio; reap­p o in ted 1981.David G. Hill is a partner in the law firm of Bartunek, Garofoli and Hill, and president of David Gordon Hill & Associates, Inc., a m anagem ent consultant firm which works w ith m inority business enterprises. He is chair­m an of the board of Operation Alert, vice president of the board of United Way Services, and serves on the execu­tive com m ittee of the G reater Cleveland Roundtable as well as on the S tate Jo b TVaining Coordinating Council. His extensive background in health and higher educa­tion includes a term as vice president of the Ohio Board of Regents. Residence: Cleveland.

R ic h a r d W. P o g u eA ppo in ted 1979 by the Trustees Com m ittee; reappoin ted 1983R ichard W. Pogue is national m anaging partner of the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue. He also serves as a director of C hubb Industries Limited, Ameri'frust Company, AmeriTVust Corporation and Ohio Bell Tele­phone Company. He is chairm an of the board of Cleve­land Ballet and a trustee of University Circle, Inc., the Center for H um an Services and the G reater Cleveland Roundtable, where he chairs the Labor-M anagement Forum. He also chaired the Foundation’s Advisory Panel on the Rand Corporation project regarding economic de­velopm ent in G reater Cleveland. Residence: Shaker Heights.

T h o m a s V.H. V a ilA p p o in ted 1976 by the M ayor o f C leveland; reap­po in ted 1981T hom as V.H. Vail is publisher and editor of The Plain Dealer. He cu rren tly serves as a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs and the C om m ittee for Econom ic Development, a national non­partisan group of businesspersons and educators. He was recently appointed by President Reagan to the Com m is­sion on Private Sector Initiatives. He is a recipient of the Ohio Newspaper Association’s Governor's Award, as well as honorary degrees from Kenyon College, Wilberforce University and Cleveland S tate University. Residence: H unting Valley.

R o y H. H o ld tA ppoin ted 1982 by the Trustees C om m itteeRoy H. Holdt is chairm an of the board and chief execu­tive officer of White Consolidated Industries. He was nam ed 1985 Business Executive of the Year by the Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland. Besides serving as a director of AmeriTrust Company, Cleveland Electric Illum inating Company, Midland-Ross Corporation and LTV Corporation, he is a trustee of such diverse in s titu ­tions as Dyke College, Fairview General Hospital, the G reater Cleveland Roundtable and Playhouse Square Foundation. He holds the Croix de Guerre with Bronze S tar from the French Government. Residence: Lakewood.

S a l l y K . G r is w o ldA ppoin ted 1978 by the Trustees C om m ittee; reappointed 1985Sally Kenny Griswold is a trustee of John Carroll Univer­sity (of w hich she is past president of the board), the Benjam in Rose Institute and the Federation for Com m u­nity Planning, as well as an active m em ber (and past co­chair) of the Federation’s Commission for Social Con­cerns. Pursuing a longtim e special interest in health and aging, she is currently active on the Women's Council of the Golden Age Centers of G reater Cleveland and the Ad­visory Committee of the Regional Perinatal Network at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine. She is also a director of The Ohio Motorists Association. Residence: Shaker Heights.

H a r v e y G. O p p m a n nA ppoin ted 1981 by the Presiding Judge, Probate C ourt o f C uyahoga County; reappointed 1985.Harvey G. O ppm ann is president of O ppm ann Properties and the owner/developer of various real estate projects w hich include the rehabilitation and rem odeling of The Arcade and Nicholson Tferminal. He is chairm an of the board of the Cleveland Institute of Art, a trustee of Haw- ken School and form er chairm an of the Ohio Building Authority, in w hich connection he was largely in s tru ­m ental in locating and com pleting construction of $300 million in state office buildings. He also serves on the boards of the Ju n io r Olympics and Hillcrest Hospital. Residence: G ates Mills.

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For many o f the Foundation's grantees through out four decades, Dorothy Ruth simply was The Cleveland Foundation.

The m em bers of the D istribution Com­m ittee convene in a series of m eetings four tim es a year—usually March, June, Septem ber and Decem ber—to award grants. Because The Cleveland Founda­tion is a co m m u n ity trust, its grant m aking is restric ted—except w here a donor has directed the Foundation to support a particu lar agency in ano ther geographical location—to the Greater Cleveland area, w ith prim ary em phasis on Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.

Who Can Receive Grants?

The Cleveland Foundation m akes grants prim arily to tax-exem pt private agencies (which the Internal Revenue Service has classified as 501(c)(3) organizations) and som etim es to governm ental agencies. No grants are m ade to individuals.

The Foundation is looking for innova­tive program s th a t address problem s to be solved, or opportunities to be seized, in the Greater 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, which discusses all of these points in more detail, as well as the com ponents of a good proposal and the procedure for subm itting (at least three

A Remarkable Woman RememberedA com m unity foundation, first and last, is people. And the staff of The Cleveland Foundation has been blessed over the years by the presence of some rem ark­able individuals whose contributions to the Greater Cleveland com m unity will be felt for m any years to come. One such person was Dorothy Ruth Graham , better known to generations of college studen 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 Ruth was a constant presence for more than 40 years at the Foundation, working alongside four of the Founda­tion’s seven directors, and proved an in­valuable consultant, even after her re­tirem ent in 1968 at the age of 73, to the next two directors. Indeed, her title of assistan t to the director did not reflect the full scope of her responsibilities.

For m any of the Foundation’s grantees throughout those years, Dorothy Ruth simply w as The Cleveland Foundation.

m onths before the m eeting a t w hich it is to be considered), is available by w riting to the Foundation or stopping by the of­fices. (The Cleveland Foundation, 1400 H anna Building, Cleveland, Ohio 44115)

What Is the Process?Each proposal subm itted (which m ust include a detailed budget) is assigned to a program officer according to the gener­al subject area into which it falls. A prom ­ising one will undergo a com prehensive review, drawing on the varied experience of the staff and D istribution Committee m em bers and occasionally on outside experts in the field.

After m eeting w ith representatives of the organization subm itting the propo­sal, and frequently working w ith them to sharpen it up, the program officer and the Foundation’s director write a staff evaluation w hich is carefully examined by the appropriate Subcom m ittee of the D istribution Com m ittee prior to the quarterly m eeting of the full Committee. The Com m ittee as a whole decides, in the light of the Subcom m ittee’s recom ­m endations and staff com m ents, w hether to fund or decline the proposal.

She reviewed all g rant proposals, made follow-up phone calls, sen t the letters notifying grantees of their awards, and personally processed each of the h u n ­dreds of scholarships given to deserving s tuden ts over four decades, contacting the colleges, w riting to the students and m aking sure they had received their checks.

But perhaps the m ost rem arkable th ing Dorothy R uth G raham (who m ar­ried late in life) ever did was to set up a tru s t fund with The Cleveland Founda­tion in 1972. She started the Dorothy and Helen R uth Fund (to honor, in part, her m other’s memory) w ith $1,000. And every year thereafter, until her death, contributed between $700 and $1,000 m ore out of her m odest pension. And w hen in 1983 the D istribution Commit­tee voted her a cost-of-living increase of $600, she signed th a t over to the fund as well. The Foundation, wrote Dorothy Ruth, had “better use for i t” than she did.

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The Cleveland Foundation 1984 Grant Makinglbtal Grants Authorized— $16,721,842

*A dm inistrative exp en ses in 1984 represented 9.7% o f total gran ts au thorized by T he C leveland Foundation.

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Cultural Affairs.It was noted in the en tertainm ent pages of new spapers from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to San Diego, California; in Opera New s and Variety; in United Airlines’ M ainliner Magazine, even in the staid colum ns of Forbes. Colum nist Earl Wilson, w riting in the New York Post, hailed it as the debut of “Cleve­land ’s super-rival to our Lincoln Center and W ashington’s JFK C en ter... .ex­pected to help establish the Great Lakes city as a m ajor show business v en u e ...

All were referring to the long-awaited grand reopening of the splendidly reno­vated S tate Theatre, the flagship facility of Cleveland’s Playhouse Square Center, on J u n e 9, 1984—ju s t in tim e to play host to the touring M etropolitan Opera for one of the grandest weeks in any­body’s memory. As a perform ance facil­ity, all agree, the m agnificent State ranks w ith the country’s finest—from its glittering m ultitiered chandelier, the sym bol of the old th ea te r’s 1920s opu­lence, to its b rand new $7-million stage- house, w hich features one of the largest stages in the world (65 feet deep and 10 stories high), state-of-the-art lighting and sound equipm ent and a 50-by-72-foot resilient dance floor.

The im pressive theater was pu t to the test in the m onths th a t followed, with everything from visiting sym phony or­chestras to Broadway shows. The critics cheered. And the people cam e—9,102 of them during one of the w inter’s worst bouts of sub-zero w eather to pack the 3,150-seat facility three nights running for the Alvin Ailey A m erican Dance Theater, and 96,044 of them to see Yul B rynner in The King a n d I and Anthony Q uinn in Zorba. Between Ju n e 1984 and Ju n e 1985 (the S tate’s first full year of operation), a projected 650,000 per­sons will have attended shows a t the Playhouse Square Center—m ore people, Playhouse Square Foundation president Larry Wilker is fond of saying, than went to Browns’ gam es last year. (The num ber is expected to ju m p to 850,000 a year by 1986, w hen the com pletely restored

Palace joins the State and 1,000-seat Ohio Theatre on a full-time basis, bring­ing the total num ber of seats in the com ­plex to 7,000, a few more than are found in W ashington’s Kennedy Center.)

A significant num ber of ticket buyers, box office records show, are com ing from surrounding counties, even from as far away as Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York State. This is heartening news. It has been, in part, the belief th a t Play­house Square Center could become a m a­jor regional arts and entertainm ent facility, bringing increased consum er dollars and jobs into the city, th a t has led The Cleveland Foundation to take a leadership role in moving this im portant project forward. Over the past decade the Foundation has m ade grants totaling approximately $2 million to the Play­house Square Foundation, the entity es­tablished in 1973 to renovate and oper­ate the three historic theaters as well as to do economic and development p lan­ning for the area. The Cleveland Foun­dation also has invested $3.8 million in the purchase of the adjacent Bulkley Complex and additional funding for planning and land acquisition in the so- called Superblock.

Another m ajor reason for The Cleve­land Foundation’s decision a decade ago to support the reclam ation of the th e­aters was its conviction th a t several of Cleveland’s professional performing arts groups ought to have a perm anent home and proper facilities in which to achieve their full potential. In 1978, Cleveland Opera was performing in a jun ior high school auditorium . And the then two- year-old Cleveland Ballet was dancing to recorded m usic in the 1,500-seat H anna Theatre. Both officially becam e resident com panies of the renovated State T he­atre beginning w ith the 1984-85 sea­son—ju s t as Great Lakes Theater Festi­val and the Cleveland Modern Dance Association series, Ohio Ballet and Ohio Cham ber O rchestra are now ensconced in the Ohio—and both had highly suc­cessful seasons a t the box office.

A Cleveland Foundation grant of $120,000 to Cleveland Opera helped underw rite three festive productions— Jo h an n S trauss’ ever popular Die Flederm aus, a delightful Wild West ver­sion of Donizetti’s The Elixir o f Love, and a full-blown staging of Verdi’s Aida, com plete with camels, a real elephant and the first use in the Midwest of supertitles, which enabled the audience

T rium phal E ntry; C leveland O pera’s lavish p ro d u c tio n o f Verdi’s A id a —co m ple te w ith su p e r title s—w a s the h igh p o in t o f the residen t c o m p a n y 's f i r s t sea so n in the lovingly restored S ta te T hea tre . (Photograph by R obertH ensleigh)

By June 650,000 people w ill have attended shows at Playhouse Square in 1984-85 —more than went to Browns* games.

R ecap tu red glory: P layhouse Square 's S ta te T hea tre jo in s 1920s opu lence w ith state-of- the- a rt technology.

“What a wonderful opportunity you are providing fo r business people in the middle o f the day. I came away buoyed, refreshed and humming

to follow the Italian w ithout burying the ir noses in librettos. The larger facili­ty enabled the nine-year-old profes­sional com pany to employ a m uch grander set and larger p it orchestra th an in e ither of its previous homes.The results, w hich played to a num ber of sold-out houses, prom pted Opera N ew s to pronounce the S tate “a first- rate hom e for full-scale opera.”

A $73,000 Foundation gran t to Cleveland Ballet, along w ith $39,000 left over from a previous grant, w ent for special stage fittings (scrims, backdrop, acoustically muffled floor) and the costum es for a new full-length ballet choreographed by Dennis N ahat to Beethoven’s N inth S ym p h o n y . The am ­bitious work, which utilized no t only the entire 38-m em ber com pany b u t an enlarged Ohio Cham ber O rchestra and a chorus of 60 voices, had its world prem iere a t the S tate Theatre in November before a full house.

Other Cleveland Foundation grants helped underw rite the cost of a series featuring four internationally known orchestras and two internationally known dance com panies (Alvin Ailey and Mazowsze), as well as special down­town concerts by The Cleveland O rches­tra. And a $20,000 grant for continued audience developm ent went to the Cleve­land Modern Dance Association, which brought the Nikolais Dance Company and the Murray Louis troupe—w ith the Dave Brubeck Q uartet—to the State.

The first heyday of Playhouse Square is rem em bered for having brought to Cleveland such great perform ers as Fred Astaire, Fanny Brice, Jac k Benny and Harry Houdini. H istorians of the future will surely note th a t the second heyday of Playhouse Square began in earnest in the sum m er of 1984.

■ “I have ju s t returned to the office from an absolutely delightful lunchim e, where I was am ong the large audience treated to the superb Mozart program you prepared for the ‘Showtime a t High Noon’ series at the Ohio Theatre,” be­gins a letter from one downtown Cleve­land office worker to Lucille Gruber, director of cultural arts a t Cuyahoga Com m unity College (TH-C). “W hat a wonderful opportunity yo are providing for business people to take in such ou t­

standing events in the m iddle of ‘the daily g rind’!” it continues. “I cam e away buoyed, refreshed and h u m m in g — ”

The program in question was one of a series of free lunch tim e events a t the Ohio produced by TVi-C and G ruber dur­ing the 1984-85 season w ith underw rit­ing in the for of a 1982 g ran 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 and TWo, a m ulti-art-form look at the court of France’s Louis XIV, a special lecture-dem onstration by m em bers of the Alvin Ailey A m erican Dance Theater and the lighthearted pairing of “Jazz Beats and Baroque S u ite s”) The appreci­ative noon-hour crowds som etim es num bered as m any as 600 persons.

A nother lunch-hour experim ent launched w ith a g ran t from the Founda­tion involved a Cleveland Ballet mini-per­form ance (repeated a t 5:45 for the after­work crowd) in the State, as a way of in­troducing CB to new audiences. Still ano ther g ran t enabled the Footpath dancers, a Cleveland-based m odern dance troupe, to m ake its debut a t the Ohio th is spring. The evening included the world prem iere of a dance choreo­graphed by Footpath’s Alice Rubinstein to m usic by Pulitzer Prize-winning com­poser Charles W uorinen, who was pre­sen t for the occasion.

Diverse Arts Offerings Spice a Winning Year

G reater Clevelanders enjoyed an u n ­usual array of cultural opportunities during the 1984-85 season, in part as a resu lt of Cleveland Foundation grants. Playwright A rthur Miller was brought to the Cleveland Play House in October for the prem iere of the newly revised ver­sion of his play The Archbishop’s Ceil­ing, a provocative and highly articulate work which looks a t the lives of a group of w riters in a sm all com m unist-bloc country somewhere in eastern Europe. The sam e gran t also brought to Cleve­land two o ther au thors whose work was being produced a t the Play House: C ather­ine M uschamp, whose The W aiting Room is one of five new plays by th is au thor w hich are under option or in negotiation for Broadway or London’s West End; and Kenneth Ludwig, who had com pleted a new version of his play D ram atic License, first produced in 1983 a t the Am erican Stage Festival in Milford, New H am p­shire. These two plays were p art of the Play House’s adventuresom e Brooks Theatre Series, w hich has been fostered by earlier Cleveland Foundation grants.

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Triple v ision ; A nderson /B row n/R auschenberg 's “S e t a n d R ese t" brings p o st-m odern dance to C leveland.

O ther g rants b rought the Central Tra­ditional O rchestra of Beijing to the Cleve­land M useum of Art for a special concert and sponsored a series of free concerts in various public places (such as the zoo) by the Ohio Blues Society, and the Na­tional Folk Festival held last sum m er in the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area near Blossom Music Center. Yet ano ther gran t w ent to help underw rite the second season of the new Robert Page Singers, a professional choral group w hich gave several concerts a t Lakewood’s Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, one of them featuring a world prem iere of a new work by the critically acclaim ed art song com poser Richard Hundley com ­m issioned by the Robert Page Singers.

But perhaps the m ost u n u su a l—and provocative—collaboration funded last year by The Cleveland Foundation (along w ith o ther partners including the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endow­m en t for the Arts) was a fall series called New Dance/New Vision jo in tly under­taken by the Contem porary Art Center of Cleveland (formerly the New Gallery) and the Cleveland Modern Dance Asso­ciation. Four evenings of an interdiscipli­nary na tu re featured a lecture by Village Voice dance critic Deborah Jow itt, a per­form ance by the TVisha Brown Dance Com pany of New York, a program of h is­toric perform ing arts film excerpts and

live perform ances of New Dance Ohio. One of the Brown dances, “Set and Reset,’ ’ brought together three of the biggest nam es in contem porary dance, visual and perform ance art: composer/singer Laurie Anderson, Brown herself as chore­ographer and artist Robert Rauschenberg, who created the costum es and spectacu­lar set. The result, which was prom ptly pronounced the city’s first “post-modern” dance concert, was presented a t the State Theatre.

Concurrent with the series, the Center hung a docum entary exhibit, “Rauschen­berg Performance,” which included rep­resentative pieces from Rauschenberg’s work in the theater done over the past three decades.

New Maestro Mounts an Ambitious Season

Christoph von Dohnanyi’s first season as the new m usic director of The Cleve­land Orchestra was as exhilarating an inaugural year as anyone could have wished. The subscription series was m arked by fresh and innovative pro­gram m ing, daring juxtapositions of the old and new, the familiar and the unfa­miliar, and a general level of excitem ent

“Set and Reset” brought together three o f the biggest names in contem­porary dance, visual and per­formance art.

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Dohnanyi had undertaken a number o f special projects clearly designed to place his stamp on the Orchestra's artistic programming.

th a t did not let up until the final burst of applause died away a t the season’s last concert th is May.

And, judg ing by the fact th a t the su b ­scription series was 95 percent su b ­scribed, w ith m any concerts Standing- Room-Only, the new m aestro had s truck the right chord w ith northern Ohio con- cert-goers. Dohnanyi had undertaken a num ber of special projects clearly de­signed to place his stam p on the artistic program m ing of the O rchestra. They in ­cluded: the scheduling of im portan t bu t rarely played works of the orchestra repertoire; the com m issioning and per­form ance of new works by A m erican composers; a collaboration w ith another m ajor Cleveland arts organization; and an invitation to a leading com poser of our tim e not only to conduct the Orches­tra in some of his own works, bu t also to offer his perspective on the classic repertoire.

The first took the form of the U.S. or­chestral premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s stirring oratorio, Jacob’s Ladder (an am bitious piece requiring eight soloists, a 12-part m ixed chorus and four off­stage taped orchestras), which was re­peated in New York’s Carnegie Hall to enthusiastic reviews. Pulitzer Prize- w inning com poser Charles W uorinen, com m issioned to write a new work for the Orchestra, responded with a piece he entitled (perhaps with a bit of wry geographical hum or) Movers and Shakers; while the celebrated G erm an com poser Hans Werner Henze artfully juxtaposed the alm ost wistful strains of

D ohnanyi on th e podium : bold program m ing coupled w ith inspired m u sic-m a kin g

Mozart’s final piano concerto w ith the U.S. prem iere of h is own bru ta l and deeply m oving Seventh Sym phony. And the season concluded w ith a w arm ly re­ceived perform ance of S trav insky’s an i­m al fable, Renard, w ittily choreo­graphed by Cleveland Ballet artistic director Dennis N ahat and realized by four CB dancers. (R enard was repeated a t New York’s Avery F isher Hall.)

A $75,000 gran t from The Cleveland Foundation helped underw rite the cost of these several special projects, the re­su lts of w hich m et w ith considerable acclaim both in Cleveland and on tour, casting reflected glory back on the O rchestra’s hometown. In Septem ber 1983, the Foundation had authorized a g ran t of up to $100,000 to help under­write the cost of videotaping Dohnanyi’s inaugural concert w ith the Orchestra, featuring guest soloist Itzhak Perlm an in the Berg Violin Concerto, and pro­ducing 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 and shown national­ly on PBS this April.

City's B lack Folk Artists Introduced to Public

“I’ve been m aking th ings all my life,” says Peggy Davenport. “Nobody taught m e how to do it. I’d ju s t watch them and I’d learn.” Davenport could be speaking for alm ost any one of the artists whose work was displayed in a fascinating ex­hibition entitled Black Folk Art in Cleve­land: “Tradition, Transition and Adapta­tion” last April a t Case W estern Reserve University’s M ather Gallery. This show, coordinated by Nancy Dickenson (for­m erly of M ather Gallery) and folklorist Gladys-Marie Fry of the University of Maryland, gave Davenport and other Cleveland area folk artists a chance to be recognized for their varied, beautiful and inventive work.

Like m ost of the show’s o ther artists, Davenport has had no formal training. Now 83, she worked as a vaudeville singer and dancer in Oklahom a until she cam e to Cleveland in 1929. Even while working full tim e she nurtu red her hobby of m aking a rt out of found objects. “W hen I was 17 or 18, I’d travel w ith shows and after the show, I’d go up to my room and m ake things. I’d make som ething out of no th ing—all kinds of th ings out of popsicle sticks or bottle caps or th ings I found.” Her work in the folk art show included an ornate woven

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Rev. A lb ert W agner and th e Parting o f th eR ed Sea: W h a t se e m e d to h a ve been lost has co m e to p a ss.

basket m ade out of bottle caps and wire. She says, “I learned all these th ings w hen I was a child and I never did forget.”

Needleworker J.D. H arm on learned his craft m uch the sam e way. “My m other would be teaching my sister how to sew w hen I was about seven or eight. My sister and I were real close—you know how kids a re—and whatever she’d be doing, I’d be doing, too.” Harmon, now 78, kept up w ith his needlework and has developed m any of his own stitches. He says, “Some m en th ink it’s sissy work, w hat I do, bu t I don’t feel th a t way about it. I ju s t feel like I’m doing crafts.I like to teach sewing w hen I can.” For the show he crocheted an im posing five- by-seven-foot Am erican flag in three colors.

“I had always w anted to paint since I was five years old, b u t there was nothing, not even an old piece of cardboard to work on,” recalls the Reverend Albert Wagner, who takes his subjects from the Bible and black A m erican history. “But I couldn’t be bitter w ith anyone because w hat seem ed to have been lost has all come to pass a t its proper time.”

The work of the 12 artists (six women and six men) displayed in the show rep­resents a wide diversity of craft and m e­dium , from m etalw orking to dollmaking to woodcarving. Despite the differences in their creations, these artists have sev­eral elem ents in com m on—a powerful urge to create, a deep religious faith, a lack of form al tra in ing and an aware­ness, conscious or not, of the tension betw een being black and being an Amer­ican. Their a rt is intensely personal. Dollmaker Marcella Welch nam es all

her dolls and refuses to sell those she feels especially close to. She says, “Each doll has a personality. They’re like an extension of myself.”

Only recently has the im portance and artistic m erit of contem porary black folk art been recognized. The desire to pre­serve th is work was one of the chief m o­tivating factors behind the M ather show and catalog (which was produced with the help of a $3,500 grant from The Cleveland Foundation). Folklorist Fry worked for three m onths with black clergy and com m unity groups to find local artists. She had been warned by other folklorists th a t she wouldn’t find any true folk artists in Cleveland. She found so m any th a t she was forced to lim it the num ber of participants in the show. Black Folk Art in Cleveland opened a t a four-day-long celebration of black folk art th a t included dance, m usic and a reading by acclaim ed author Ishmael Reed.

“We wanted to find naive artists who showed a transition from a rural heritage to an urban heritage,” says Jan e Tesso, who helped coordinate the show. The Black Folk Art show was em inently suc­cessful in doing that, but, in addition to that, adds Tesso, “It was good to see the two cultures coming together. The area around Case tends to be dom inated by white interests, and, especially because Cleveland is predom inantly black, it was tim e we [CWRU] worked with the black com m unity in Cleveland. The show gave us a chance to do that.”

W agner’s “A m erican Y esterday”: an a rt o fthe people

Dollmalcer Marcella Walsh names a ll her dolls and refuses to sell those she feels especially close to. “They're like an extension of myself.”

Public Radio Wins Its Way into Cleveland's Heart

Last Septem ber 8th, after a nearly six- year absence, public radio returned to Cleveland. But w ith a difference. The new station, WCPN (90.3 FM), bears little sim ilarity to any previous incarnation.A sophisticated mix of news, talk, jazz and public affairs provides an alternative m edia resource th a t has been m issing from the local scene for far too long.

With their fresh and distinctive redefi­nition of w hat is news, Morning Edition and All Things Considered, the justly popular syndicated m orning and even­ing drive-time potpourris produced by National Public Radio (NPR), have already become a m uch-appreciated part of the aural landscape. And some

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The most recent Arbitron ratings indicate that the eight-month-old station already claims more than 70,000 listeners.

of the locally originated program m ing, as well, is m aking an im portan t contri­bution to the G reater Cleveland com ­m u n ity The m ost strik ing exam ple of the latter, and 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. Entitled Lest We Forget: R e m e m ­bering the H olocaust—a C leveland Per­spective, the series jux taposed the painful rem iniscences of area survivors of the Nazi death cam ps w ith insightful com m entary by local academ ic experts who have studied the Holocaust in detail.

“We’ve had quite a few requests for tapes of the series,” says WCPN general m anager Leonard Will, adding th a t more such projects are being considered as a resu lt of the overwhelmingly positive re­sponse. The m ost recent Arbitron ra t­ings indicate th a t the eight-month-old station already claim s more than 70,000 listeners a week—better than double its first-quarter figures—and 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-sup­ported station. A deliberately low-key m em bership appeal begun this Jan u ary has already signed up 3,400 subscribers. The goal for Septem ber is 5,000, which should generate around $150,000 for the 1985 fiscal year. The station was launched w ith sizable contributions from corporate and other local funders. Will hopes to have 25,000 loyal dues- paying listeners on board by the end of the third or fourth year of operation, which would be in line with w hat has been accom plished in other cities.

The Cleveland Foundation pu t its own 1983 contribution in the form of a three- year $300,000 challenge grant to be m atched on a two-for-one basis—to see w hether the com m unity a t large really wanted a public radio station and would be willing to support it. Since then, WCPN has obtained gifts or pledges from 18 other foundations and 21 cor­porations totaling $540,765—toward its Septem ber 1986 goal of $600,000. If the willingness of listeners to get involved proves as strong, the station will be well on its way to establishing the kind of broad-based support it is going to need to survive in the highly competitive world of broadcasting.

Survey Probes Motivations o f Arts Audiences

The last few years in the G reater Cleve­land area have seen new arts organiza­tions springing up and established ones expanding their budgets, building or moving into new or larger facilities, in ­creasing the num ber of their perform ­ances, and the scale on w hich they operate—in a great surge of confidence th a t the audiences and the popular sup ­port for w hat they do will be there. But how big is the potential audience for the arts in Greater Cleveland and the su r­rounding region? And, assum ing one could find a way to reach them , would they come? Do they need the arts? How far will they drive, and how m uch will they pay to have the arts in their lives? Indeed, w hat is the m ost effective way to reach them , and the su rest way to engage their interest?

Until now, m ost area arts groups have been shooting in the dark, as it were, try ing th is or th a t appeal, pushing season subscrip tions or single ticket sales, then m ini-series over season sub­scriptions, using m assive direct mail cam paigns, gimmicks, phone banks.But the question of w hat m otivates arts consum ers has continued to baffle most groups.

Some answ ers m ay finally be a t hand— as a result of an extensive regional arts m arketing survey undertaken this past w inter by a pair of New York-based firms a t the behest of The Cleveland Founda­tion, which m ade a g ran t for th is pur­pose. (Additional support cam e from the New Cleveland Cam paign and Conven­tion and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland.) Ziff Marketing, Inc., arts m arketing specialists whose clients in­clude the M etropolitan Opera, and the research firm of Clark, Martire & Barto­lomeo, Inc., opinion poll experts, con­ducted extensive telephone interviews between November and February with 3,350 G reater Clevelanders on behalf of a consortium of 19 cultural institutions clustered around University Circle and Playhouse Square. The results, which will be m ade public som etim e in June, are going to provide new ground on which to build audiences.

Prelim inary findings indicate th a t not only does a very strong arts m arket exist in Greater Cleveland, bu t th a t there is also a considerable potential for aud i­ence growth. And there is som ething very like a m ultiplier effect: the more

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people participate in various art forms, the greater the satisfaction they seem to derive from individual institutions.

One of the m ost in teresting parts of the survey identifies and rates the par­ticu lar k inds of satisfaction people come to the arts for (e.g., “Feels like a special activity,” “Meet and see other people,” “Sparks your im agination,” “Feels like you fit in,” “Is thrilling or exciting”).The degree of “consum er” satisfaction in such regards is then m easured against the degree to w hich existing area insti­tu tions actually m eet these needs.

A nother part of the survey looks at the im pact of childhood experiences on the form ation of adu lt cultural habits, while still ano ther probes the influence of w hat are called “adult reference groups.” The facts and patterns which em erge are going to keep arts adm inis­tra to rs and front offices burn ing the m idnight oil for some tim e to come.

■ Forty thousand Cleveland school children from 75 different schools are getting a chance to rub shoulders with cu lture th is year thanks in part to a three-year $30,000 grant from The Cleve­land Foundation. The grant was m ade in response to a request from Gil Brooks, vice president of University Circle’s C enter for C om m unity Programs, who pointed ou t th a t participation by school children in a rts program s, both in the classroom and a t cultural institutions, has been severely curtailed in recent years due to restricted educational funds and the rising cost of bus transportation.

In 1982, the National Endow m ent for the Arts had initiated a pilot program aim ed a t encouraging local governments and school system s to m ake a three-year com m itm ent to underw rite half the cost of the new or expanded program s a t cul­tural agencies in the com m unity. With the assistance of University Circle, Inc., the Cleveland Public Schools (CPS) de­signed an expanded program which would enable every s tu d en t to be exposed to a t least two different a rt forms be­tween 1984 and 1986. Sixteen local cu l­tural institu tions based in the Circle or on Playhouse Square offered to partici­pate, and financial support was pledged by the CPS and the Ohio Arts Council.

But w hen the federal m onies were w ithdrawn, the program was endan­gered. So The Cleveland Foundation and M artha Holden Jen n in g s Founda­tion agreed to supply the m issing piece. The program , w hich is ru n by Universi­ty Circle, Inc., has m ade it possible for double the num ber of children who were

R ubbing n o ses w ith cu lture; C leveland schoolchildren explore the w onders o f the C leveland M usuem o f Art.

getting such exposure in 1982 to partici­pate. Activities range from classes at the Cleveland M useum of Art—which have the kids drawing right in the gal­leries, learning printm aking or sculp­tu re—to attending a Cleveland O rchestra concert or an open rehearsal a t Cleve­land Ballet.

“You cannot actively participate in the arts as a grownup or even as a young person unless you have had prior expe­rience,” says Gil Brooks. The kind of intense, hands-on experience these in­stitu tions are providing, says Brooks, is ju s t about the best kind of education they could provide.

Do people need the arts? How fa r will they drive, and how much w ill they pay to have the arts in their lives7

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Cultural Affairs Grants

T h e Broadw ay S ch oo l o f M usic andth e A r ts —S alary for a new director over two y e a r s .........................$ 1 8 ,0 0 0

C ase W estern R eserv e U n iv e r s ity —An E quity g u est a rtist, residen t a rtis t and designer for the 1984 season of the Actors C o m p a n y ...............$ 5 ,0 0 0Publication of a catalog on folkways and folk a rt of C leveland’s b lack com ­m u n ity a s p a rt of a festival by M ather G a lle ry ........................................$ 3 ,5 0 0

C leveland B a lle t—M ini-perform­ances in the S tate T heatre . . $ 8 ,1 9 0Stage fittings for the S tate T heatre and costum es for a new ballet to Beethoven’s “Ninth Sym phony”

$ 7 3 ,0 0 0

C leveland C hildren’s M u s e u m -Start-up operating suppo rt exclusive of fund-raising costs over two years

$ 9 0 ,2 5 0

The C leveland F oundation (Inc.)—Com prehensive a rts m arket research survey of Cleveland institu tions

$ 1 2 5 ,0 0 0G uarantee of bank loan for Great Lakes Shakespeare F estival. $ 6 5 ,0 0 0Loan/cash reserve fund . . . . $ 4 0 ,0 0 0Technical assistance and evaluation p lanning for The Cleveland Modern Dance A ssocia tion ....................$ 3 ,0 0 0Technical assistance for an econom ic feasibility s tudy for Fairm ount T heatre of the D e a f ................. $ 5 ,0 0 0

The C leveland I n s titu te o f M u sic—Cleveland Q uarte t and Friends

$ 5 ,0 0 0

T he C leveland M odern D ance A sso c ia t io n —Audience developm ent for its p resen ter series in Playhouse Square C enter (third y e a r) . . $ 2 0 ,0 0 0

The C leveland M useum of A rt—C hina Music Project sponsorsh ip of lectures and concert by C entral Tradi­tional O rchestra of Beijing (Peking)

$ 2 ,5 0 0

The C leveland M useum of N atural H isto ry —Salary for education volunteer coordinator and nonsalary start-up costs associated w ith the Please Touch P ro je c t............ $ 1 9 ,2 5 5X-ray equ ipm en t for the physical anthropology departm en t . . $ 1 8 ,3 0 0

The C levelan d M usic S ch o o l S e t t le m e n t—'Transition costs a sso ­ciated w ith the em ploym en t of a new d ire c to r ......................................$ 3 0 ,9 5 8

C leveland O pera—P roduction costs of inaugura l season in th e S ta te T hea tre

$ 120,000

T he C levelan d P lay H o u s e -H ousing an d tran sp o rta tio n for guest p layw rights du ring the 1984-85 s e a s o n ..............................................$ 5 ,1 0 0S alary differential and m oving ex­penses for a new m anag ing d irector

$ 5 0 ,0 0 0

C levelan d S ta te U n iv e r s ity —Con­cert su p p o rt for Cleveland C ham ber S y m p h o n y .................................$ 4 ,3 7 5Second an n u a l N orth C oast Folk Music F e s tiv a l.............................. $ 2 ,6 5 0

E a st S u b u rb an C on certs, Inc., M entor, O hio—The Cleveland O rchestra concerts in Lake C ounty

$1,000

E d u cation a l T e lev is ion A sso c ia ­t io n o f M etrop o litan C leveland , WVIZ-TV—Participation by artists and a rts organizations in in s tru c ­tional television series, “Arts-a- B ound!” ...................................$ 1 1 ,6 0 0

F ind lay A rea A rts C ouncil,F indlay, O hio—C om m ittee for Art in Public Places for works of a r t a t Findlay’s new m unicipal building*

8 1 5 ,0 0 0TWo orchestra perform ances and associated workshops* . . . . $20,000

F indlay C ity S ch oo ls , Findlay,O hio—P lanning for renovation and restoration of the C entral Ju n io r High School au d ito riu m * ...............$ 1 7 ,6 4 0

F ind lay C ollege, F indlay, O hio—"G reat Lake Erie” traveling exhibit*

$ 4 ,6 0 0

F ootpath D ance C om pany—Prem iere perfo rm ances in the Ohio T heatre in sp ring 1985 . . . . $ 1 0 ,0 0 0

T he H olden A rboretum , M entor, O hio—M eeting of nationally recog­nized sc ien tis ts to estab lish scientific priorities of the A rboretum . . $ 5 ,0 0 0

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G reat L akes S h a k esp ea re F e stiv a l—T h o rn to n W ilder p roductions and special m a rk e t in g ..................$110,000

K aram u H o u se—Five-year loan at 8 pe rcen t in te rest th ro u g h a g ran t to T he Cleveland F oundation (Inc.) w hich is to be converted into g ran ts for a cash reserve fund as the com pany e lim ina tes its d e f ic i t ..........$100,0001984 a u d i t ................................. $ 1 0 ,0 0 0Salaries for a b u sin ess m anager and d a ta p rocessing clerk over two years

$ 4 3 ,3 9 1

K ent S ta te U n iv ersity , K ent, O h io -Local perform ance and production fund of WKSU-FM, a public radio s ta t io n .............................................$5,000

T he M u sica l A rts A s s o c ia t io n -C om m unity M usic Project involving m em b ers of the b lack com m unity w ith T he Cleveland O rchestra over two y e a r s .................................$ 2 5 ,0 0 0Pension subsidy for retired m usic ians of T he Cleveland O rchestra . . $ 7 ,4 6 0Soloists, ex tra m usicians, com poser/ conducto r an d com m issioning of new w ork an d p resen ta tion of 2 0 th cen tu ry m usic by T he Cleveland O rchestra

$ 7 5 ,0 0 0S u sta in in g F und of T he Cleveland O rc h e s tr a ................................... $ 5 0 ,0 0 0

N a tio n a l C ou ncil for th e Tradi­t io n a l A r ts —N ational Folk Festival in C uyahoga Valley N ational Recreation A r e a ................................................ $ 5 ,0 0 0

The New G allery o f C ontem poraryA rt—Robert R auschenberg exhibi­tion, Trisha Brown dance perform ance and perform ance a rt series sponsored by the Cleveland C enter for C ontem ­porary Art and The Cleveland M odern D ance A ssociation . . . $ 1 5 ,0 0 0

New O rgan ization for th e V isu a l A rts (NOVA)—City W indows E xhibi­tion of 1984 Cleveland Art Festival

$ 5 ,0 0 0

O hio A rts C ouncil, C olum bus,O hio—S culp tu re by an Ohio a rtis t in M arket S quare Park in Ohio City .............................................. $ 20,000

O hio B lu es S o c ie ty , In c .—Free blues concert, su m m er 1984 ..........$ 1 ,5 0 0

O hio B oychoir, Inc.-over 15 m o n th s . . . .

-Local concerts $10,000

R ob ert Page S in g ers and O rch estra—D evelopm ent of a new professional choral g roup over two years ..................................................... $ 3 5 ,0 0 0

P la y h o u se Square F oun dation—B anners and stree t lights near the Playhouse Square C enter . . . $ 2 ,7 5 0

T he Ib led o M useum o f A rt, Ib ledo, O hio—O perating s u p p o r t ..........$ 5 0 0

U n iv ers ity C ircle, Inc.—Expansion of a ttendance by Cleveland Public School ch ildren a t a rts program s in C leveland’s cu ltu ral in stitu tions over th ree y e a r s ..............................$ 3 0 ,0 0 0

T he Young W omen’s C h ristian A sso c ia tio n o f C levelan d —Salute to African-Am erican w om en during Black History W eek ................. $ 1 ,3 3 0

TOTAL CULTURAL AFFAIRS GRANTS—UNDESIGNATED ............................................. $ 1 ,3 5 0 ,8 4 9

(Following recipients and programs designated by donor)

A sh lan d Library A sso c ia tio n , A sh lan d , O hio—G eneral support ...................................................... $ 2 ,7 6 7

C leveland B a lle t—General support ........................................................... $ 1 8 8

The C leveland In s titu te o f M u s ic -General s u p p o r t ...................... $ 5 ,0 6 4

The C leveland M useum o f A r t -G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$ 1 5 ,6 1 2Purchase of objects of a r t exhibited a t the May Show in m em ory of Oscar Michael, J r ......................................$ 5 0 0

The C leveland M useum o f N atural H isto ry —G eneral support

$ 1 9 8 ,9 1 7P la n e ta r iu m ................................. $ 3 ,3 7 1

T he C leveland P lay H o u s e -E xperim ental d ram atic work or s c h o la rsh ip ................................... $ 1 ,7 9 6G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 7 ,8 8 8S hakespearean and classical p roduc­tions for s tu d en ts and teachers

$ 3 ,3 7 1

C leveland P u b lic L ibrary—Services to s h u t - in s ............ $ 7 4 ,2 8 6

C leveland Z oological S o c i e t y -G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 3 ,4 9 7

T he G arden C enter o f G reater C levelan d —G eneral s u p p o r t . . $ 2 5 0L ib ra ry ...........................................$ 1 ,7 7 0

K aram u H ou se—G eneral suppo rt$ 1 1 1 ,6 3 3

Lakewood L ittle T h eatre, In c .—G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 4 ,0 7 4

La M esa E sp an o la—Jess ie C. Thcker M emorial L e c tu re .......... $ 3 0 0

The M usical A rts A sso c ia tio n —C hildren’s concerts by The Cleveland O rc h e s tra ...................................$ 6 ,7 4 3G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 1 ,0 0 0G eneral suppo rt for The Cleveland O rc h e s tra ................................ $ 9 0 ,6 3 9

N orthern O hio O pera A s s o c ia t io n -G eneral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 1 8 8

O glebay In s titu te , W h eelin g , W est V irg in ia—C ultural and educational activ ities a t Oglebay Park . $ 1 3 1 ,6 3 4

T he W estern R eserve H istorica l S o c ie ty —Care of m em orabilia of the First Cleveland Cavalry A sso c ia tio n ............ $ 6 ,1 7 0G 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 recom m ended by F indlay D istribution C om m ittee o f the L. Dale D orney Fund.

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Education

It has been said th a t a good part of a com m unity ’s problem s begin in its schools. If th a t is so, then its hopes m ust begin there, too. And the im provem ent of public school education, in particular, ought to com m and our best thinking and m ost conscientious efforts. Altering a situation w hich is in tu rn influenced by so m any larger social factors is no easy task. But if ways of getting at specific recurren t problem s—or of tap ­ping unexplored resources—can be found, and shown to work, who knows w hat m ight be possible? “Give me a place to stand,” said Archimedes, “and I will move the world.”

A pair of projects The Cleveland Foun­dation has been nurturing , in coopera­tion w ith the Cleveland Public Schools, over the past couple of years have pro­duced som e very in teresting results in recent m onths and are already providing prom ising new ground for action. They are The Cleveland Education Fund and som ething called the WORK-IN’centive Program. And both are stirring national in terest am ong institu tions grappling w ith the plight of u rban school system s everywhere.

One of the m ost depressing facts about public secondary education in Am erican cities today is the dropout rate. Cleve­land, w hich holds the grim distinction of having the h ighest in Ohio (about 9.4 percent a year), is currently graduating barely 50 percent of its public school students. In o ther words, every other child who started kindergarten in 1973 will have dropped out before this June.

Many of these young people, if the statistics hold true, will sooner or later be in trouble w ith the law. (Of Cleveland youths u nder 18 arrested in connection w ith som e sort of crim inal activity, 80 percent are either tru an ts or dropouts.) They will have difficulty finding jobs. In 1981 the unem ploym ent rate am ong black, Hispanic and w hite high school dropouts was 71 percent, 35 percent and 29 percent respectively. And the entire com m unity pays the bill for that.

D ropouts in th e M aking: T he sa d fa c t is th a t every o th er ch ild w ho en tered the C leveland P ublic Schoo ls in 1973 w ill h a ve le ft school before th is Ju n e .

So in late 1983, The Cleveland Foun­dation initiated a series of m eetings with representatives of the Cleveland Public Schools and Youth O pportunities Unlimited (YOU) to work out the details of a fresh approach to this problem. The WORK-IN’centive Program, as it would be called, proposed to identify 30 to 50 studen ts between 14 and 16 years of age whose patterns of attendance and of academ ic perform ance had m arked them as potential dropouts. The pro­gram would provide these students with 8 to 12 hours of work per week in a com m unity organization near their homes. They could keep their jobs, and be guaranteed sum m er em ploym ent through YOU’s regular program (another Foundation-backed effort which had proved highly successful), if their attendance, grades and attitude improved.

Failure to show progress would result in dism issal from their jobs and from the program.

Parents would be parties to the con­tract. And all participating students would also be expected to attend a special class five tim es a week which com bined two periods of Star curricu­lum (work on reading improvement), one period of rem edial help (emphasizing m ath skills), one period dealing with skills related to life and career. Jobs would be arranged through the existing pool of com m unity agencies already co­operating with YOU’s sum m er Com m u­nity Services Projects. A WORK-IN’ coordinator would m onitor the studen ts’ participation, both in school and on the job, and serve as liaison between all parties involved in the program, which was launched last fall w ith a $60,000 grant from The Cleveland Foundation and an additional $50,000 in funding from Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, with support services provided by the Cleveland Public Schools and technical assistance from the Manpower Demon­stration Research Corporation (MDRC), a national agency with expertise in such projects.

Of the original 67 kids adm itted to the program, 13 were term inated in October. (In the next eight weeks only two fol­lowed.) One boy had cut school five tim es in the first 45 days of the sem es­ter. “But this sam e boy,” coordinator Ju n e C. Tkylor notes, “had been absent som ething like 107 tim es in 180 days the previous year.” The average num ber of absences per s tuden t enrolled in the program was 3.6 as com pared with 11.5

F ifty potential dropouts were given after - school jobs and told they could keep them only i f their attendance, grades and attitude improved.

One class followed a maple tree through the year, comparing its growth and nutri­tional needs with their own.

S tu d y in g n atu re’s ways: First graders a t A lm ira E lem en ta ry School in sp ec t a new born 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 quarter of the curren t academ ic year, b u t by the second quarter it had reached 1.85.

“The parents keep com m enting on how their kids have changed. I see it, too,” says Thylor, “in their attitude. It’s been good for them . They like the structure.”■ At Almira Elem entary School on the city’s west side, Michele Gorius’ class of first graders had a classroom experience this 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 the hatching of their baby chicks to the way hum an 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 the chicks for their scrapbooks, decor­ated blown eggs, studied cross sections of eggs th a t didn’t reach term and talked about nature’s ways.

This ingenious project was m ade pos­sible by som ething called the Small G rants Program of The Cleveland Edu­cation Fund (CEF), an independent com m unity-based organization estab­lished in 1983 w ith a $50,000 grant from The Cleveland Foundation to help improve the quality of education in the Cleveland Public Schools (CPS). Since then CEF has attracted other national and local funding for various pilot proj­ects. The Sm all G rants Program was es­tablished last fall to encourage creativity in the classroom by m aking available sm all am ounts of m oney—generally under $500—to teachers, principals or parent 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 equipm ent or supplies. The experience of hatching baby chicks cost $270.36.

One hundred two such projects were funded by CEF’s Sm all G rants Program during this school year. Classes in English and art a t East Technical High School collaborated to research, design and install an “East 'Ifech Hall of Fame” featuring well-known grads (and suc­cessful role models). In one kindergarten class, puppets were used to help nonver­bal children develop language faster.

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And a class a t ano ther school on the west side adopted a m aple tree, whose seasonal changes they followed through­out the year, gathering airborne pods, taking m easurem ents and com paring the tree’s growth and nutritional needs with their own (see photograph on page five).

O ther prom ising program s launched in recent m onths by CEF, which The Cleve­land Foundation will be helping support over the next two years with another grant of $85,000, include:

A S um m er O rientation P ro g ra m - aim ed a t easing the transition from elem entary to jun io r high school (which educators agree is often the beginning of the end for uncom fortable, alienated kids, who will eventually drop out). Last su m m er’s two-school pilot effort was felt to be so successful and so prom ising th a t CPS has decided to expand it a t the system ’s own expense to include six jun ior h ighs th is sum m er, and all of the system ’s ju n io r highs in 1986.

A School Com m unity Council Proj­ect—designed to encourage and train a greater num ber of parents to assum e a more active advisory role in the their local schools.

The Cleveland Collaborative for Math Education—an innovative program being funded in only five cities across the nation by the Ford Foundation, w hich is m obilizing the m athem atics resources of industry, professional societies, higher education and governm ent agen­cies to improve the quality of m ath education by working directly w ith the teachers in grades 8-12.

A TVuant Education Support System — a com puter dialing system installed this spring in two area high schools which alerts paren ts to the fact th a t their chil­dren are not in school (and th u s involves the paren ts in helping solve the problem). A bsences a t West Technical High School alone have reportedly dropped from 360- 400 a day (out of 1,300 students) to 260-280. With a m achine capable of calling 1,000 paren ts a day—in three languages—the days of playing hookey are surely num bered.

Teaching Youths How to F in d— and Keep—a Job

There’s a sign a t the en trance to the Minority Youth Helpers building th a t says, “Knock Hard.”

T h a t’s Lesson No. 1 for th is organiza­tion’s client youngsters: “If you w ant to get in, you’ve got to bang on the door.”

MYH is in the business of teaching teenagers—junior and senior high school students, some dropouts, m ost of them from welfare families—how to knock on the doors of the real world. Through testing, through tutorial pro­gram s in five schools and at its head­quarters, and through its basic job readiness and placem ent program, MYH reaches 900 to 1,000 youngsters a year, and works on a continuing basis with about 500 of those.”

MYH operates on an annual 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 when it was given to the organization in 1979. Since then, with the help of a $70,000 grant from The Cleveland Foundation, MYH has reha­bilitated the building, which has class­rooms 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-as­signed task of helping disadvantaged youth find jobs in a com m unity where the unem ploym ent rate am ong people 16 to 19 years old is 50 percent.

In the words of an MYH brochure:“If a t this point the client is found to 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 motivated: and dem onstrates personal and em otional m aturity and in­dividual economic responsibility com ­m ensurate with his/her age), he/she will be referred directly to the placem ent com ponent of the program. More often than not, however, clients entering the program are deficient in more than one of these areas. For these youth, an In­dividualized Employability Plan is developed and the client is engaged in job-preparedness training.”

Everyone in a job-oriented program takes a 20-hour Job Search and Survival Workshop. For school dropouts, th is is com pleted in a week; youngsters still in school take the workshop in a series of Saturday m orning sessions. With 10 to 15 youths in each group, workshops deal with job-search skills such as writing resum es and interviewing, with job-keep- ing skills such as job perform ance and interpersonal com m unications, and with

It does no good to send a youngster out fo r a job,” says Marcus Wilson,44without the know­ledge he or she is going to need to do the job.”

Work is w here you find it:A group o f M inority Youth Helpers earn m o n ey and learn a sa lab le sk ill rem oving a dead tree fo r a neighbor.

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Gaining firsthand experience, 100 teachers tagged butterflies, exam­ined the pottery o f Ohio Indian tribes or identified plants.

such personal skills as budgeting and m oney m anagem ent. If tests and in ter­views have dem onstrated the need, clients also receive tu torial work.

M arcus Wilson, founder and moving spirit of MYH, is a dream er, bu t a p rac­tical dream er.

“It does nobody any good,” he says, “to send a youngster out for a job w ithout the knowledge he or she is going to need to do the 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, p lus some m ath.

For each young person who com es up short on the initial test, a learning plan is developed and a nine-week tutorial cy­cle is started. At the end com es a re-test. If the test is passed, the client either enters the job-seeking phase or is “grad­uated” from the program. If skills are still not up to standard, a new learning plan is developed and a new cycle begun.

Both staff instructors and volunteer tu tors are trained through Cleveland State University’s tutorial project, where they learn how to teach basic reading, writing and m ath skills, as well as techniques for helping studen ts develop skills in such areas as studying, test- taking and personal tim e m anagem ent.

In addition to job-related tutoring,MYH offers program s in reading,English and m ath in three public and two private schools. These program s are aim ed a t helping youngsters avoid fall­ing behind in the first place, and efforts are m ade to identify those who are developing problem s as early as the sixth grade. “If we can catch them at this level, we can avoid doing rem edial work with them later on,” says Wilson.

Another segm ent of the MYH pro­gram —the Willing Workers Project—not only helps youth, bu t also elderly resi­dents of MYH’s Superior-St. Clair neigh­borhood. “There are all kinds of public assistance program s to help people find places to live, and to help them pay the rent,” says Marcus Wilson, “bu t when those hom es need m aintenance there’s nobody around, and lots of elderly folks can’t handle th a t kind of work them ­selves.”

T hat’s where Willing Workers come in.

Torn screens, broken windows, peeling pain t or wallpaper, sagging s ta irs—those are the m ainstay of Willing Workers. Youngsters are tra ined in building m aintenance and repair, and MYH m akes their services available th rough­out the neighborhood on a job-by-job basis and a t low cost. The youths develop salable job skills and earn some money, and neighborhood deterioration is slowed.

Wilson’s approach to helping young people is upbeat and positive, and he’s m uch m ore likely to say to a youngster, “We can show you how to help yourself,” th an to ask, “How can we help you?”The opportunity is there, he knows, but the youngsters have to reach for it. “No way we can hand it to them ,” he says.

For th is reason, and because funds are limited, MYH’s program s do not involve subsidies to the youngsters or to their employers. “Some of these kids th ink if you’re not on the subsidy you’re no place,” says Wilson, “bu t we don’t think th a t way. We th ink you’ve got to do it yourself.”

Economics, Science Made Real to Grade School ChildrenPuppets, street fairs and the San Diego Chicken have been m aking inroads into the East Cleveland elem entary schools this past year, not for fun bu t for the sake of economics. Puppets w ith nam es like “Spendin’ Sue” explain to spell­bound second graders th a t an oppor­tun ity cost is the Michael Jackson album they have to give up if they have $15 and w ant to go to Cedar Point. Older studen ts learn about scarcity and trade in a puppet-m aking exercise, com para­tive econom ics by staging a Mexican

P uppet econ om ics: E a st C leveland school chil­dren learn concepts o f scarcity a n d o pportun ity cost fro m S p e n d in ’ S u e a n d her fr ien d s .

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street fair, or free enterprise from a film starring the fam ous chicken.

These are ju s t a few of the activities suggested in the econom ics curriculum developed for the East Cleveland elem entary schools as a result of a proj­ect called Intensive DEEP (Developmen­tal Economic Education Program). This two-year pilot program , now nearing the end of its first year, represents extensive collaboration betw een the East Cleve­land school system and the Cleveland Center for Economic Education (CCEE). Housed a t Jo h n Carroll University,CCEE was founded in 1973 by area educators and businessm en to rem edy the absence of econom ics from m ost school curricula. CCEE has long offered a variety of program s—and involved an im pressive list of corporate and labor leaders—to expose elem entary and secondary school teachers to basic econom ic concepts.

To CCEE’s graduate credit courses, teacher w orkshops and lecture series, Intensive DEEP adds a more concen­trated and m uch-needed focus on class­room im plem entation. The Center hopes to use the pilot curriculum , developed with the help of funds from The Cleve­land Foundation, as a model for the Mentor schools in the 1985-86 school year and perhaps in the future for other school system s locally statewide and nationally.

Calling to m ind the trickledown theory, CCEE’s co-directors, Jo h n Soper and Ju d ith Staley Brenneke, estim ate th a t in its first 10 years, CCEE reached more th an 7,000 teachers who in tu rn introduced econom ics to 150,000 students. And the potential long-range im pact of such education? A community, they believe, of “well-informed con­sum ers, workers and voters.”

Intensive DEEP has already begun on th is course. Noting the buzz of en­thusiasm a t a recen t teacher workshop, the program ’s schools service coor­dinator Betty M arcus pointed out, “W hen th a t excitem ent gets transferred down to the kids, th a t’s w hat i t’s all about.”

■ Like economics, the sciences have also been getting inadequate trea tm en t in the schools. Recent national studies have show n th a t m any elem entary and even secondary school teachers have lit­tle or no specific tra in ing in the sciences. And teachers can’t teach w hat they don’t know.

The Cleveland M useum of N atural His­tory, w hich has presented educational program s since 1923, is a ttem pting to

m eet the critical need for teacher tra in ­ing with its Science Teacher Enhance­m ent Program (STEP). Assisted by a $25,000 grant from the Foundation, the Museum focused in STEP’S 1984-85 pilot year on developing five graduate credit courses. Held at the Museum, with credit offered through Cleveland State University, the courses stressed science content and drew on the M useum’s extensive collections and the expertise of its scientists and educators. Gaining knowledge as well as firsthand experience, 100 teachers tagged m onarch butterflies, examined pottery m ade by the Indians who lived in northeast Ohio or identified local plants.

Future STEP program s will involve teachers even more closely in the life of the M useum as, for example, they work with educators to develop curricula or assist archaeologists on digs. The goal, explains Laura L. Nichols, the M useum’s supervisor of education, is “to help teachers feel more comfortable w ith u s­ing the Museum as a teaching resource.” As this happens, says Nichols, the once- a-year class trip to the Museum becomes no longer ju s t a day away from school, bu t an integral part of a year-long in­volvement with the sciences.

Rare Herbalsfrom Three Area Collections CataloguedW hat was known about the medicinal uses of various plants and herbs in the tim e of Shakespeare? W hat was the an ­cient Greek Dioscorides busy learning about p lants while Aristotle was study­ing the anim al kingdom? And w hat curious secrets did the seventeenth cen­tu ry apothecary Kenelm Digby write in a notorious and now very rare book about perfum es during his exile from England?

To find the answ ers to these and m any sim ilar questions concerning the study of botany before Linnaeus, scholars and other interested parties need go no fur­ther than a group of rem arkable collec­tions housed right here in northeast Ohio at the Cleveland Medical Library Association, Holden Arboretum and The Garden Center of Greater Cleve­land. But there is no way, short of ex­am ining hundreds of volum es individu­ally, to know for sure w hat is there,

What did the ancient Greek Dioscorides know about plants that Aristotle didn't?

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Institutions as different as an art museum and a hunger center, because both are nonprofits, face many sim ilar considerations.

Landm arks in h erb a l h istory : the s ix teen th - cen tu ry G erm an p h ys ic ia n a n d b o ta n is t Otto B run fels ' Herbarum Vivae Eicones (foreground) a n d the 1491 Hortus Sanitatis ("The G arden o f H ealth")

which books are complete, w hich are m issing a certain chapter, and which duplicate or amplify the contents of earlier editions.

So about three years ago, Patsy Gerst- ner, chief curator of CMLA’s historical division, suggested to the directors of the other two institu tions th a t the funds be raised to com m ission a descriptive catalogue of approxim ately 1,000 pre- 1830 botanical and horticultural books in the three collections, m any of which once belonged to such prom inent Clevelanders as W arren H. Corning, George Gehring M arshall and Ja red Pot­ter Kirtland, a leading nineteenth cen­tury naturalist and one of the founders of Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s Medical School.

Considering the historical im portance of these holdings and the usefulness to m edical and other scholars of such a catalogue, The Cleveland Foundation last December contributed a g ran t of $18,600 toward the realization of the three-year project. The catalogue will be published by Kent S tate University Press.

CWRU’s Mandel Center W ill Teach Nonprofit Management

The theory and practice of running pro- fitm aking organizations have been the subjects of academ ic inquiry and rigor­ous postgraduate training at American universities for decades. The art of ru n ­ning organizations th a t do not exist to make a profit has received m uch less attention.

But when one stops to consider that the nonprofit sector is composed of several million organizations across the

country w ith expenditures of m ore th an $180 billion annually and th a t it rep re­sen ts m any of our m ost cherished and vitally necessary in stitu tio n s—from sym phony orchestras to shelters for b a t­tered w om en—the relative unavailability of academ ic preparation for the runn ing of such organizations becom es a signifi­can t omission. As governm ent funding of such agencies continues to be cut back, moreover, effective m anagem ent and utilization of volunteers becom e all the m ore im portant.

Such concerns led a group of civic leaders and area funders (including The Cleveland Foundation), first brought together in the fall of 1982 by Cleveland industrialist Morton L. Mandel, to com ­m it more than $2 million to an exciting new interdisciplinary program now be­ing developed a t Case W estern Reserve University (CWRU). The Mandel Center for the M anagem ent of Nonprofit Or­ganizations (so nam ed for generous gifts of m ore th an $1 million from the Mandel brothers and The Prem ier Foundation) is believed to be one of the first pro­grams, if not the first, set up on so am ­bitious a scale. Based in CWRU’s post­graduate School of Applied Social Sciences (SASS), it also will be drawing on the resources of the Law School and the W eatherhead School of Management.

“As the concept of the Center was developed,” says the new dean of SASS, A rthur J. Naparstek, “it becam e clear th a t no one departm en t or school could adequately deal w ith the complex set of problem s confronting nonprofits.” These range all the way from staff/trustee rela­tionships to property m anagem ent to m arketing. N aparstek alone has talked w ith heads of m ore th an sixty local agencies and institu tions to get a feel for the kinds of needs they have. “Some are unique to their particu lar field, of course,” he hastens to point out. “An art m useum obviously is a different sort of operation than a hunger center.” But w hat also emerges, says Naparstek, is the m any areas in w hich such diverse institutions, because they are both non­profits, face very sim ilar considerations.

Therefore the program will draw upon the resources of the three schools in ­volved, explains the Mandel C enter’s new director Richard P. C hait—and where necessary bring in outside specialists— to offer courses in such subjects as Ac­counting for Nonprofits, the Sociology and History of Volunteerism and Philan­thropy, H um an Resource M anagement, Decision Analysis, Fund Raising and

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Development, Program Evaluation and Q uality Control, O perations Research, Organizational System s Analysis, Governance and Marketing. Chait is quick to add th a t the shape of the pro­gram and actual courses to be offered are still in the developm ental stages, though he would like to have the par­ticulars in place in tim e to open the doors to the Mandel C enter’s first class in the fall of 1986.

Basic program directions have been set. In addition to a graduate program for predom inantly young people looking toward careers in nonprofit organiza­tions, the Center will offer continuing education sem inars for those already employed or serving as volunteers or trustees in the nonprofit sector, and serious academ ic research related to the full range of issues confronting non­profits. Chait expects the Center to draw students, as well as researchers, from around the nation as the word gets out. “Nothing like th is is happening anyw here else.”

But it is the potential benefits the ex­istence of such a Center holds for the vitality of nonprofit organizations in the Greater Cleveland area th a t led The Cleveland Foundation to com m it $500,000 over the next five years to its development. As it develops, the Mandel Center offers the possibility of being a unique resource for building the long- range capability of the com m unity’s nonprofit institutions.

Project Videotapes Memoirs o f Holocaust Survivors

History, som eone once said, is w hat is rem em bered. T ha t old tru ism was brought hom e th is spring as the m edia rekindled m em ories of World War II, 40 years after the liberation of Europe, and Vietnam, 10 years later. In each case the eyes of new generations too young to have known the sobering realities of those conflicts were opened and hearts touched afresh by the recorded testim onies of those who had lived th rough those times. History was renewed. The cobwebs of gathering m yths were swept away. And one was rem inded, if one needed re­m inding, of how precious are the m em ­ories of eyewitnesses to events of great social im port.

The Holocaust is such an event. And the conviction th a t firsthand m em ories of th is com plex and enigm atic episode in the history of W estern Civilization ought to be preserved for generations to come led The Cleveland Foundation last

year to make a grant of $20,000 to the National Council of Jew ish Women/ Cleveland Section (NCJW/CS) to assist w ith its Holocaust Archive Project.

The project was inspired by the reali­zation th a t Cleveland has a large Holo­caust survivor population, estim ated at around 1,000 persons, which is dwindl­ing 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 their personal histories for posterity on videotape. All volunteer interviewers were required to undergo eight hours of training to enable them to aid and support the su r­vivors in recounting their experiences.

Project co-coordinators Terri Day and Lynn Schmelzer, aided by volunteers, also undertook the Herculean task of getting survivors to come forward, m ail­ing hundreds of questionnaires and m aking hundreds of phone calls. The Holocaust Archive Project eventually videotaped 137 Cleveland area su r­vivors, liberators and others who worked to free concentration cam p inmates.

One such survivor is Jacob Hennen- berg, a resident of Beachwood, who was released from Waldenburg, one of the less well-known of the Nazi concentra­tion camps, 40 years ago this m onth. A native of Oswiecim, Poland (later to be known to the world as Auschwitz), Hen- nenberg was only 16 when, in 1941, he entered the first of seven camps. His father and three sisters perished at Auschwitz, along with their children.

His story is typical of many, bu t his m em ories of those events, now preserved on videotape, resonate with the feelings and personal involvement of one hum an being who survived im m ense suffering. The chance to record w hat he rem em ­bers, says Jacob Hennenberg, m eant a great deal to him. In fact, m ost of those who were interviewed, according to Schm elzer and Day, have expressed great relief a t having finally told their stories.

NCJW/CS produced three copies of each three-hour interview. One was re­tained by the organization, one was presented to the Western Reserve Historical Society and one was sent to the Video Archive for Holocaust Testi­m onies a t Yale University. Together they form an invaluable historical record and indelible testam ent to the six million Jews who died and to the strength of those who survived.

E y ew itn ess to h istory:H olocaust survivor Jacob H ennenberg o f Beachw ood adds his m em ories to w h a t Civilization know s.

One was reminded of how precious are the memories o f eyewitnesses to events o f great social import.

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G reater C levelan d N eighborhood C en ters A sso c ia t io n —Coordination of efforts to m eet the needs of tru a n t s tu d e n ts in the Cleveland Public S c h o o ls ......................................$ 3 7 ,4 9 2

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$ 5 ,5 0 0

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U n iv ers ity o f C alifornia Founda­tion , B erkeley, C aliforn ia—General s u p p o r t ...........................................$1,000

Joh n Carroll U n iv e r s ity -General s u p p o r t .............................. $ 1 2 6

C ase W estern R eserve U n iv e r s ity —G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 8 ,4 7 1General support for Adelbert College

$ 5 ,0 5 1General support for Franklin T hom as Backus Law S c h o o l.................... $ 4 ,1 3 5G eneral suppo rt for the G raduate S c h o o l .................................. $ 1 4 0 ,0 3 6G eneral support for the School of M edicine............................................$ 5 0 0Reference books for the School of Library S c ie n c e .............................. $ 1 3 3Support of the Field Biological S tation a t Squire Valleevue Farm in the D epartm ent of Biology . . . . $ 2 6 ,3 3 0Support of social research a t the School of Applied Social Sciences . . . . $ 8 4 6

C leveland L utheran H igh School A sso c ia tio n —G eneral suppo rt ......................................................... $ 1 ,9 3 8

C leveland S ta te U n iv e r s it y -G eneral s u p p o r t ............................. $ 1 2 6

C on n ecticu t C ollege, New London, C o n n ecticu t—G eneral support $ 1 6 8

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E d u ca tio n a l R esea rch C ouncil o f A m erica —G eneral su p p o rt . . . $ 1 2 6

E d u cation a l T elev ision A sso c ia tio n o f M etrop o litan C leveland , WVIZ-TV—G eneral s u p p o r t . . . $ 1 8 8

Fenn E d u ca tio n a l F u n d -G eneral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 2 1 0

H aw ken S c h o o l -G eneral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 9 1 6

T he H ill Sch oo l, P o ttstow n , P enn­s y lv a n ia -G e n e ra l su p p o rt . . . $ 1 8 8

H illsd a le C ollege, H illsd a le , M ichi­g a n -G e n e ra l s u p p o r t ..........$ 1 2 ,6 3 6

H iram C ollege, Hiram , O h io -G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 7 ,0 0 0

K enyon C ollege, G am bier, O h io -G eneral sup p o rt ...................... $ 8 ,4 7 1

Lake Erie C ollege, Paine sv ille , Ohio—G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 6 7 1

T he M asters Sch ool, D obbs Ferry, New York—G eneral suppo rt . . $ 1 0 0

D an ie l E. M organ S c h o o l -Book aw ards to c h ild re n ............ $ 2 4 2

Ohio W esleyan U n iversity , D elaw are, O hio—G eneral support ...................................................... $ 1 ,8 5 4

U n iv ers ity o f th e P acific , S tock ton , C aliforn ia—G eneral s u p p o r t . . $ 1 6 8

The P in ey W oods C ountry L ife S ch ool, P in ey W oods, M is s is s ip p i-G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 7 ,9 3 3

P rin ceton U n iversity , P rin ceton , New J e r se y —General s u p p o r t . $ 1 8 8

S t. G eorge’s S chool, N ew port, R hode Is la n d —G eneral support

$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 ortham pton , M a ssa c h u se tts—G eneral suppo rt . ................$ 7 6 ,2 2 4

U n ited N egro C ollege Fund, In c .—G eneral s u p p o r t ......................... $ 7 ,9 3 3

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

TOTAL EDUCATION G R A N T S - DESIGNATED ....................... $ 3 5 1 ,9 6 2

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

Scholarships

B aldw in-W allace C o llege—Scholarsh ip s u p p o r t ...............$ 2 0 ,3 0 0

B erea A rea M on tessor i A sso c ia tio n—Scholarsh ip s u p p o r t .............. $2,000

Joh n C arroll U n iv e r s ity —Scholarsh ip s u p p o r t ............ $ 2 0 ,9 0 0

C ase W estern R eserve U n iv e r s ity —Scholarsh ip s u p p o r t ............... $ 1 7 ,4 0 0T hree scho larsh ips for s tu d e n ts from nonprofit or public organizations in the Executive MBA program a t W eatherhead School of M anagem ent over two y e a r s .........................$ 4 5 ,0 0 0

T he C leveland F oundation (Inc.)—H arriet B. S torrs Fund scho larsh ips for s tu d en ts no t a ttend ing Lake Erie or Garfield c o lleg es ...............$ 3 6 ,0 0 0Scholarsh ips to g radua tes of the public h igh school of Elyria, Ohio $ 1 ,2 6 0Technical assistance g ran t for the Cleveland H ispanic Scholarsh ip Fund, Inc........................................ $ 3 ,0 0 0

C leveland H isp an ic S ch o larsh ip Fund, Inc.—S cholarsh ips and publicity c o s ts ........................... $3,000

C leveland M on tessor i A sso c ia tio n—Scholarsh ip suppo rt a t Ruffing M ontessori School (W est). . . .$ 2 ,0 0 0

C leveland S ch o larsh ip Program s, Inc.—O perating s u p p o r t ..........$ 5 0 0

C leveland S ta te U n iv e r s ity —Scholarsh ip s u p p o r t ............ $ 4 4 ,0 0 0Scholarsh ips to s tu d en ts from non ­profit or public organizations in the Executive MBA program a t the J a m e s J . Nance College of B usiness A dm inis­tra tion over two y e a r s ..........$ 4 4 ,4 0 0

C uyahoga C om m unity C o llege—Scholarship s u p p o r t ...............$ 6 ,2 0 0

Dyke C o llege—Scho larsh ip su p p o rt ........................................................$ 7 ,2 0 0

Fairm ount M o n tesso r i A sso c ia t io n—Scholarsh ip su p p o rt a t Ruffing M ontessori School (East) . . . . $ 2 ,0 0 0

T he M ary F rier M o n tesso r i S p ec ia l E d u cation S ch o o l—Scholarsh ip s u p p o r t ...........................................$2,000

T he H udson M o n tesso r i A sso c ia ­tio n , H udson, O hio—Scholarsh ip s u p p o r t ...........................................$2,000

Lake E rie C ollege, P a in esv ille ,O hio—Lake Erie College/Garfield College s c h o la rsh ip s ................$ 1 2 ,0 0 0

W estshore M on tessor i A sso c ia ­t io n —Scholarsh ip suppo rt . . $ 2 ,0 0 0

TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS— UNDESIGNATED.................. $ 2 7 3 ,1 6 0

(Following recip ients a n d program s designa ted by donor)

A sh la n d C ollege, A sh lan d , O hio—The Hazel Myers Spreng Scholarship ....................................................... $ 4 ,4 2 7

Avon Lake U n ited Church o f C hrist, Avon Lake, O hio—Scholarsh ips for C hristian w o r k .........................$ 2 ,3 9 6

Baldw in-W allace C ollege—T he Hazel Myers Spreng Scholarsh ip . . $ 4 ,4 2 7

C apita l U n iversity , C olum bus, Ohio—The Frederick R. and B ertha Sprecht M autz Scholarsh ip Fund . . . . $ 4 ,0 0 4

J oh n Carroll U n iv er s ity —Ja m e s J. Doyle S c h o la rsh ip ....................$ 1 ,8 2 4

C ase W estern R eserve U n iv ers ity —T he Aloy M emorial Scholarsh ip Fund for w o m e n ...................................$ 1 ,1 0 8H arriet Fairfield Coit and William H enry Coit Scholarsh ips a t Flora Stone M ather C o lleg e ................$ 1 ,3 2 6For a s tu d en t of Flora Stone M ather College in foreign s tudy . . . . $ 2 ,5 1 9W illiam C urtis Morton, M aud Morton, K athleen M orton Fund Scholarships

$ 1 5 ,1 0 2Oglebay Fellowship Program in the School of M ed ic ine ...............$ 7 8 ,9 9 4Scholarsh ips in aerospace or c o m p u te r s ............................................$ 7 8S cholarsh ips in F ranklin T hom as Backus Law S c h o o l.....................$ 8 ,7 7 3The Hazel Myers Spreng S cholarsh ip ......................................................... $ 4 ,4 2 7

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In ez and H arry C lem en t Award—Cleveland Public Schools annual su p e rin te n d e n t’s a w a rd .............$ 1 ,0 7 0

T he C levelan d I n s t itu te o f A rt—Caroline E. Coit F und Scho larsh ips ..........................................................$ 1 ,4 3 6Isaac C. Goff F und S cho larsh ips

$ 1 ,8 0 0

T he C levelan d M usic S ch oo l S e t t le m e n t—T he Nellie E. H inds M emorial S c h o la rs h ip s .............$ 4 ,0 0 0

H arry C oulby S c h o la r sh ip —For P ickands M ather em ployees’ c h i ld r e n ...................................$ 4 6 ,0 0 0

D artm ou th C ollege, H anover, New H am p sh ire—T he J o h n M arshall Raible and David G ardner Raible S cholarsh ip F u n d ................. $ 1 8 ,7 8 6

Haw ken S ch o o l—T he J o h n M arshall Raible an d David G ardner Raible S cho larsh ip F u n d ....................$ 3 ,9 9 7

H illsd a le C ollege, H illsd a le , M ichi­gan —The Jo h n C. McLean Scholarships to deserv ing s tu d e n t s ..........$ 1 2 ,6 3 6

S h erm an J o h n so n M em orial S ch o la r sh ip —For m edical s tu d en ts from Lake an d G eauga counties .....................................................$ 5 6 ,0 0 0

V irg in ia J o n e s M em orial S ch o lar­s h ip —For fu rthe ring the college education of a fem ale g raduate of Shaw High S c h o o l....................$ 3 ,5 0 0

The J o n L ew is M em orial Award—For a Cleveland H eights High School g radua te to p u rsu e fu rth e r s tud ies

$ 4 ,0 0 0

M acM urray C ollege, J a c k so n v ille , I llin o is—T he George D. an d E dith W. Featherstone M emorial Fund Scholar­sh ips .............................................$ 2 ,3 9 6

N orth C entral C ollege, N ap erville , I llin o is—T he Hazel Myers Spreng Scholarsh ip in m em ory of Bishop Sam uel P. S p r e n g ....................$ 4 ,4 2 7

O hio W esleyan U n iv ersity , D ela­w are, O hio—T he Hazel Myers Spreng S c h o la rsh ip .................................$ 4 ,4 2 7

P urdue U n iv ers ity , L afayette , Ind iana—The Jo h n C. McLean Scholar­sh ips in e n g in e e r in g ............ $ 3 1 ,5 8 4

T he M iriam K erru ish S tage S c h o la r sh ip —For S haker H eights High School g r a d u a te s ..........$ 7 ,0 0 0

Ada G ates S te v en s S ch o la rsh ip —For g radua tes of the public high school of Elyria, O h io ............ $ 2 ,7 4 0

U n iv ers ity S ch oo l—The Jo h n M arshall Raible and David G ardner Raible Scholarsh ip F u n d ..........$ 8 0 0

U rsu lin e C o llege—Lillian Herron Doyle S c h o la rsh ip s ................. $ 1 ,8 2 5

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

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

Special Purpose FundsT h e C le v e la n d F o u n d a tio n a d ­m in is te r s tw o sp e c ia l p u rp o s e f u n d s in th e g e n e ra l a re 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 (FEF) is d e s ig n e d to p ro m o te a n d a s s is t in th e d e v e lo p m e n t o f co-op a n d w o rk -s tu d y p ro g ra m s a t in ­s t i tu t io n s o f h ig h e r e d u c a t io n in th e G re a te r C lev e lan d a re a . F E F h a s b e e n a fu n d o f th e F o u n d a tio n s in c e 1971.

In 1982 th e S ta te w id e P ro g ra m for 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) w a s e s ta b l is h e d in th e F o u n d a tio n th ro u g h th e s u p ­p o r t o f th e L. D ale D o rn ey F u n d . T h is p ro g ra m is d e s ig n e d to s t r e 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 ear in ­s t i tu t io n s o f h ig h e r le a rn in g th r o u g h o u t O hio. G ra n ts w ere f irs t a u th o r iz e d u n d e r th e p ro g ra m in M arch 1983 a n d a re a w a rd e d b ie n ­n ially . T h e n e x t s e r ie s o f g r a n ts w ill b e a u th o r iz e d in J u n e 1985.

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

B aldw in-W allace C o llege—Scholarsh ips for s tu d en ts enrolled in the “field experience” (work-study) p ro g ra m ...................................$10,000

Special honorary scholarsh ips$ 4 ,8 0 0

Joh n C arroll U n iv e r s ity —Co-op s c h o la rsh ip s ...........................$10,000

Special honorary scholarsh ips$ 5 ,0 0 0

C ase A lu m n i A s s o c ia t io n —C ontinuation of the an n u a l em ployer recognition luncheon for 1984 and1985 ............................$4,000Co-op sc h o la rsh ip s ...............$10,0001984 Midwest Cooperative E ducationAssociation Conference . . $2,000Special honorary scholarships

$15,000C harles J. Stilwell Scholarship a t Case Institu te of T echnology ..........$4,800

C ase W e ste rn R e se rv e U n iv e rs i ty —Co-op sc h o la rsh ip s ...............$10,000

C lev e lan d A rea C itiz e n s L eague fo r N u rs in g —Co-op scholarships

$10,000

T h e C lev e lan d F o u n d a tio n (Inc.)—1985 operating budget of The FennEducational F u n d .................$19,939

C le v e la n d S ta te U n iv e rs i ty —Co-op sc h o la rsh ip s ...........................$10,000Special honorary scholarsh ips

$18,400

C u y ah o g a C o m m u n ity C o lleg e—Nelson G. Peck M emorial Scholarship A w ard ................. $300

D yke C o lleg e—Im plem entation of stra teg ies for s treng then ing coopera­tive education program . . . . $ 10,000

N o tre D am e C ollege o f O h io—Co-op sc h o la rsh ip s ...........................$10,000

U rsu lin e C o lleg e—Nursing sc h o la rsh ip s ...........................$10,000

TOTAL FEF GRANTS . . . $164,239

S ta te w id e P ro g ra m f o r B u sin e ss a n d M a n a g em en t E d u ca 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 ontinuation of the Statew ide Pro­gram for B usiness and M anagem ent Education (PBME) and im p lem en ta­tion of the 1984-85 program over two y e a rs ............... $45,000

TOTAL PBME GRANTS . . $45,000TOTAL SPECIAL PURPOSE FUNDS G R A N T S.............................$209,239TOTAL EDUCATION GRANTS— EDUCATION PROGRAMS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND SPECIAL PURPOSE FUNDS COMBINED ............................ $3,158,054

*Grant recom m ended by F indlay D istribution C om m ittee o f the L. Dale D orney Fund.

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Health

W hen A braham Lincoln’s funeral tra in rolled into Cleveland in the early m orn­ing rain on April 28, 1865, 130 years ago this spring, one of the m ourners in the stunned and saddened crowd of 100,000 who tu rned out to pay their last re­spects, w ith all probability, was a 38- year-old form er slave nam ed Eliza S im ­m ons Bryant. She had been freed by her m aster along w ith her m other and two brothers in 1858, the year of the Lin- coln-Douglas debates and a full year be­fore Jo h n Brown led his fam ous raid on H arper’s Ferry. The family had left the plantation in North Carolina w ith their papers cosigned by ten influential citizens, including the governor, and travelled north to Cleveland.

Eliza’s b ro ther Jo h n had died of pneu­m onia contracted while m arching in a parade during Lincoln’s 1860 cam paign for the presidency. But the family, grate­ful for the new life they had found in Ohio, continued to open their hom e to other newly freed blacks who stream ed north in the years following the Em anci­pation Proclam ation of 1863, offering them tem porary shelter and sustenance until they could find jobs and begin to m ake their own way.

In 1893 Eliza, whose own m other was now in her eighties, discovered th a t none of the hom es for the aged of th a t day would adm it blacks. She gathered a group of strong black women and founded the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People—one of the first black philanthropies in the country. It was in ­corporated in 1896 and still serves the com m unity of w hat is now the Hough- Norwood section of Cleveland. Zealous fund-raising efforts and the generosity of m any citizens both black and white (such as a $700 m atching grant from Jo h n D. Rockefeller in 1902) m ade possible the purchase and operation of a series of progressively larger homes. Since 1967, the facility, which was renam ed the Eliza Bryant Center (EBC) in 1960, has occupied a roomy one-time m ansion a t 1380 Addison Road near Superior Avenue and East 71st S treet

Care for th e W hole Person: Irene Barber e n jo ys p e t therapy a t H ough's E liza B rya n t Center.

which was vacated by the Dorcas Home for Invalid Women following the Hough riots of the previous summ er.

A 47-bed facility, EBC offers its resi­dents such health services as eye care, podiatry, medical consultation, pharm a­cy, dental care and dietary counseling right on the prem ises—along with phy­sical fitness sessions, art, m usic and m ovem ent/dance sessions, films, holi­day entertainm ents and religious ser­vices, garden and pet therapy, and out­ings. Residents are also given oppor­tunities to interact w ith—and contribute to—the outside world through such ac­tivities as registering and voting in elec­tions, m aking scrapbooks for young pa­tients at Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, doing volunteer clerical work for charitable fund drives and partici­pating in the Home and Flower Show and Golden Age Hobby Show. Even some of the former white residents of the Dorcas Invalid Home returned, m aking Eliza Bryant 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 direc­tor, “is the continuity of the staff, 18 of whom have been with Eliza Bryant for more th an ten years.” Erm a Andrews, a 30-year veteran, presides over the great cast iron pots and pans in the kitchen— where she worked for 12 years when the aging m ansion was the Dorcas Home. The 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 more difficult to make.

The huge antiquated boiler in the cellar is full of stop-leak (the last p lum ber prescribed oatmeal) and the hot water system is leaking badly. And every tim e the furnace goes out, the whole system m ust be drained. When the pipes in the sprinkler system on the third floor burst last w inter from the cold, beds had to be pulled into the hallways and parlor. For th a t m atter, the rear wing is difficult to heat in the best of circum stances, given the loca­tion of the furnace. And so on.

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

In 1983 an ex-slave named E liza Bryant, whose mother was in her eighties, discovered none of the homes for the aged admitted blacks. So she founded one.

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A new hom e for th e secon d cen tu ry: A n exp a n d ed E liza B ry a n t C enter takes sh a p e n e x t door to the p re se n t 94-year-old fac ility .

“The idea is to focus not on illness care but on the healthy aspects o f older people’s lives,” explains EBC's May Wykle.

soon be unable to m eet the code require­m ents for nursing homes. The alterna­tives were m assive renovation, moving or building an entirely new facility. A grant from The Cleveland Foundation enabled EBC to undertake a detailed study of its options. The conclusion: th a t it m ade the m ost sense—in term s of the future and of the expanding needs and oppor­tunities of the present—to pursue the th ird course.

In the fall of 1981, the Foundation helped launch the capital cam paign w ith a pledge of $750,000. Of this am ount $400,000 cam e from the Forest City Hospital Foundation Fund of The Cleveland Foundation on the recom ­m endation of the Fund’s Advisory Com­mittee. By the spring of last year, ap ­proxim ately $2.3 million had been raised (including the Foundation’s grant), w ith another $2.2 expected from federal and city governm ent sources, and ground was broken for the new fa­cility on the six-and-one-half acres im ­mediately to the south of the old building.

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

with new pipes and wiring and a so­phisticated security system, it will have room for 100 beds—m ore th an double the capacity of the present Center—as well as m odern gam e and crafts rooms, a greenhouse (for hortitherapy) and a covered portico, all under one roof circl­ing an interior courtyard which can even be used for picnics in good weather. “The idea is to focus not on ill­ness care bu t on the healthy aspects of older people’s lives,” explains May Wykle, a nationally recognized authori­ty on geriatric care and a m em ber of the faculty a t the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing who both chairs the C enter’s nursing com m ittee and serves on its board. “The biggest problem our residents tend to have is not physical ill­ness bu t depression.

“If you can counteract that, you can slow down their deterioration. Older persons need special dietary care— m aking sure they are getting enough calcium and fluids—and help learning to sleep w ithout the aid of pills, bu 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 them to use their talents, skills and their ability to learn new things, w hich is still very m uch alive in older people. This em ­phasis on the whole person will be ex­panded in our new facility w ith the ad ­dition, we hope, of additional profes­sional nursing staff.”

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“It’s im portan t th a t good quality nursing care be available in th is part of the city, righ t here in the neighbor­hood,” says EBC’s director Rev. Bob Miller. “To be poor, black and old is to be a t a trem endous disadvantage in this society.” W hat Eliza Bryant provides is an intim ate, protective setting in which the frail elderly can continue to live and grow as hum an beings. The new Eliza Bryant Center will offer som ething else, too: a m ultipurpose senior center which will be open to o ther seniors in the neighborhood as well as to the resi­dents. Here seniors will be encouraged to engage in such healthy activities as group rem iniscence, socialization (espe­cially im portan t to the house-bound) and open discussion of fears, health questions and o ther m atters.

Phase two of w hat is developing into a sm all geriatric village, still in the p lan­ning stage, will be a nearby elderly apartm en t complex of 220 units where seniors still able to live independent lives can be close enough to use Eliza Bryant’s services and mingle w ith the residents while m aintaining their own apartm ents.

An excellent example of intelligent, long-range planning, Eliza Bryant Vil­lage will becom e one of the cornerstones in the recovery of H ough—a m assive com m unity redevelopm ent project th a t represents over $375 million in capital investm ent—which is now under way (see Civic Affairs). But the m ost im por­tan t contribution it will make, as Eliza Sim m ons Bryant knew, will be in the lives of the elderly citizens who call it home.

With Seniors the Cure Is Sometimes the ProblemAn elderly person is adm itted to a hos­pital w ith in ternal bleeding. It quickly develops th a t she has high blood pres­sure, takes m edicine for it, and th a t the dosage has recently been changed.

Stop the medicine. T h a t’s w hat’s causing the problem.

A nother senior is adm itted with per­sisten t nausea and gross trem bling of the hands, and soon develops cardiac arrythm ia. She has a history of severe cardiovascular disease and several severe pulm onary diseases. Among other things, she takes m edicine for asthm a.

Stop the m edicine. T h a t’s w hat’s causing the problem.

Cases like these, w hich are real, stem from the fact th a t w ith elderly persons the effect of m any routinely used m edi­cations is unpredictable.

The cases tu rned up in a study fi­nanced by The Cleveland Foundation which dem onstrated th a t prescription follow-up with elderly persons, simple as it seems, is all too rare, and tha t m any physicians, not to m ention the persons for whom they prescribe m edi­cation, aren’t aware of the need for it.

The study was proposed and carried out by the Greater Cleveland Poison Control Center, which is operated jo in t­ly by Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine and University Hos­pitals. The hypothesis was that, because of possible changes in body chemistry, the effect of m edicine on persons 65 and older may not be the sam e as it is on younger people, and th a t it is not so easily predictable. A further supposi­tion was th a t older individuals, in par­ticular, are likely to be taking m ultiple m edications, th a t they are ap t to be see­ing, and getting prescriptions from, more than one physician, and that 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 ust be a num ber of elderly per­sons around whose medical problems are being caused by medicine.

In 1983, with a $23,600 grant from The Cleveland Foundation, the Center initiated two surveys at University Hospitals, to be followed by a third in the community, to test its theories.

A study showed that prescription follow-up with elderly persons is rare, and that many physicians aren't even aware of the need fo r it.

M edicinal m isch ief: B ecause o f changes in body ch em is try during the aging process, m ed ic ines m a y effect persons over 65 differently.

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A serious ear infection in a child whose growth clock is saying it's time to be learning to talk can mean lifelong speech problems.

The hospital studies involved research into the records of 100 persons who had been treated and released, and a study by pharm acologists of the com binations of drugs prescribed for persons then in the hospital and an a ttem pt to forecast possible interactions. (In the first, 16 percent of the individuals studied showed adverse drug reactions, w ith 4 percent being life-threatening.) To con­duct the th ird study, the Center reached out with an offer to com m unity organi­zations serving the elderly: We’ll come and talk to your people about medicine, they said, if they’ll let us survey them in return.

Of 212 individuals who agreed to par­ticipate, 193 com pleted exhaustive questionnaires in one-on-one interviews with Poison Control Center personnel. The questionnaire sought inform ation on race, age, sex and general health level of the respondents, while explor­ing such questions as “How m any physi­cians do you see?”, and “Do you sleep well, and how m any pillows do you use?”

The surveys identified 276 prescribed m edications being used by respondents. While no a ttem pt was m ade to evaluate the m edical treatm en t prescribed, an elaborate com puter study was m ade of the effectiveness of various prescrip­tions and differences in individual re­sponses to the sam e medicines, of in­teractions am ong m edicines often pre­scribed in com binations, and of in terac­tions between some prescription drugs and frequently used over-the-counter remedies.

Conclusion: Because older individuals react in different and unpredictable ways to m edication, and because they may be receiving m edication from several different sources, health care professionals need to m onitor these per­sons more carefully than is the usual practice.

A two-year $105,000 Cleveland Foun­dation grant was authorized last Sep­tem ber to finance an educational pro­gram for com m unity physicians featur­ing a self-education packet designed by the Poison Control Center. The built-in feedback will be incorporated in subse­quent publications of the studies’ find­ings, which will help spread awareness of the special problem s of prescribing drugs for the elderly am ong other physicians and health organizations around the country.

Metro Hospital Team Takes on Otitis MediaUntil recently, infections of the m iddle ear in young children were regarded by parents and doctors as one of the ines­capable hazards of young childhood. Earaches are com m on, and fortunately they usually go away, b u t such infections can p resen t serious problems. In some children they happen often. In some cases there is tem porary deafness. If th is happens w hen the ch ild’s growth clock is saying it’s tim e to be learning to talk, lifelong speech difficulties can re­sult; m uddled hearing causes m uddled talk. And in som e children, it tu rn s out, the hearing problem isn’t temporary.

In the departm en t of pediatrics at Cleveland M etropolitan General Hospi­tal, w here a nationally recognized clinic has been developed for trea tm en t of oti­tis m ed ia (that’s Latin for middle ear trouble), professionals began looking some tim e ago for ways to prevent re­curring infections.

O rdinary vaccination doesn’t work. Ordinary vaccination stim ulates the body to produce and store antibodies which can pu t down a particu lar infec­tion before it has a chance to take hold. But in very young children, the system for producing antibodies hasn ’t been tu rned on yet, so vaccination is not effective.

On the other hand, adults who have received pneum onia shots have a plenti­ful supply of the antibodies needed to fight otitis m edia.

Metropolitan General staff m em bers, who also happen to be faculty m em bers a t Case Reserve Reserve University School of Medicine, talked w ith friendly colleagues a t the M assachusetts Public Health Biological Laboratories, which in some m atters, including this one, works with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard University.

The doctors a t Metropolitan General wanted to inject infection-prone children with bacterial polysaccharide im m une globulin (BPIG), a gam m a globulin refined from the blood of adults who have received pneum onia shots. M assachusetts Public Health had a supply of BPIG which they were will­ing to contribute to the experim ent. But Metropolitan General needed profession­al, clerical and statistical help to set up a research program to find out if the globulin injections did, in fact, work.

The National Institu tes of Health (NIH) responded positively to a grant application from M etropolitan General

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O titis s tr ik es: In very yo u n g children, the sy s te m fo r producing an tibod ies hasn 't been turned on yet, so ord inary vaccina tion is no t effective a g a in s t ear infections.

bu t provided no funding, and it was felt here th a t a prior pilot study, dem onstrat­ing feasibility, would help.

In October 1983 The Cleveland Foun­dation m ade a six-m onth grant of $34,337 to get the project started. Com­ing ju s t in tim e for the w inter cold sea­son, the g ran t provided wherewithal for a pilot study.

A pediatric nurse practitioner and a senior research assistan t set to work under the direction of staff pediatri­cians. A statistical consu ltan t was brought in to ensure th a t data would be collected and presented in valid form. G am m a globulin was shipped in from M assachusetts, and the prelim inary study was quickly under way.

Results?Because of the natu re of the disease,

and because a reasonable statistical base is needed, even prelim inary find­ings won’t be available until some time this sum m er.

But NIH w asn’t looking for answers to the m edical questions ju s t yet. W hat was needed was a dem onstration th a t staff could be assem bled, th a t serum would be available and th a t the num ber of children brought in for trea tm en t would be sufficient to provide a statistical base.

Those th ings had been successfully dem onstrated by last spring, and NIH has now m ade a g ran t of $416,660, plus provision for adm inistrative costs, to finance a three-year study.

The Cleveland Foundation’s tim ely provision of seed m oney in 1983 has gotten a prom ising study off to a ru n ­ning start.

County Gets Support fo r Life SupportNeither sudden illness nor the technol­ogy for dealing with it has the slightest regard for political boundaries, bu t am ­bulance service, which is becoming 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 study funded jointly by the Cuya­hoga County Board of Commissioners and The Cleveland Foundation two years ago docum ented the fact th a t highly de­veloped am bulance service (Advanced Life Support, or ALS) was available in only 20 of the county’s 62 m unicipalities and to only 30 percent of its population. The City of Cleveland wanted to provide ALS on its Em ergency Medical Service vehicles. The county com m issioners felt it should be available to everyone, coun- tywide. But there were obstacles other than the obvious one: cost.

ALS involves radio com m unication be­tween am bulance and hospital em er­gency room; m onitoring devices aboard the am bulance transm it a patien t’s vital signs to the hospital. Hospital person­nel, in turn , read the signs and radio back instructions to the am bulance crew for m edication or other treatm ent and prepare for the patien t’s arrival.

Highly developed ambulance service was available in only 20 o f the county’s 62 municipalities and to only 30 percent of its population.

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But radio channels m ust be kept clear so one is always available w hen needed. A m bulance personnel m u st be trained. And a great deal of expensive hardw are is needed.

Following patterns recom m ended by the study, county and city have forged ahead. An Em ergency Medical Service Board has been established. A county- wide radio system is being im ple­m ented. Nine Em ergency Medical Ser­vice Regions have been established.The county com m issioners have agreed to provide $1.5 million to com m unities for essential equipm ent. And already ALS is available in 35 com m unities and to 72 percent of the county population.

As part of its broad em ergency m edi­cal service assistance program to com ­m unities, and w ith a $25,500 grant from The Cleveland Foundation, the county will begin sponsoring param edical training for am bulance personnel in September. The medics, m ostly fire­fighters in their com m unities, will receive 600 hours of train ing over a 10-month period a t hospitals and com ­m unity colleges.

The goal, which is com ing visibly closer, is to have Advanced Life Support service available to everyone in the county.

ALS in action: Special m onitoring devices aboard th is W estlake Fire D epartm en t a m b u la n ce tra n sm it a p a tie n t’s vital s igns to the hospita l—w hich radios back in s tru c tio n s .

Grant Renews Med S c h o o l 's Department o f F in a l TruthThe series of large grants The Cleve­land Foundation has m ade to the Medical School of Case W estern Re­serve University since 1981 for the re­vitalization of the basic sciences is a good exam ple of how the Foundation —and the school, under the leadership of Dean Richard E. B ehrm an—have been taking the long view in m atters of m edical research. “We were a t a critical ju n c tu re w hen I approached the Foun­dation in 1981, w ith the heads of several key departm en ts either having recently left or being about to retire,” says Behrm an. G etting the right people, he argued, would be crucial to positioning the school on the cu tting edge of research th rough the end of the century. “If we’d lost th is chance, we would never have been able to re­trieve our position and stay competitive on a national level for the big grants. It was as sim ple as that.”

Time has proved him right. A $500,000 Cleveland Foundation grant in 1981 to revitalize the D epartm ent of Microbiology (since transform ed into the D epartm ent of Molecular Biology and Microbiology), and ano ther of $550,000 in 1983 to do the sam e with Anatomy (now the D epartm ent of De­velopm ental Genetics and Anatomy) have enabled CWRU to a ttrac t some of the m ost im pressive ta len t in the country, as was reported in these pages last year—along w ith substan tia l new gran t m oneys from such sources as the National Institu tes of Health. (Total outside funding for research and tra in ­ing for the D epartm ent of Molecular Biology has, for example, increased from $800,000 in 1980, the last year before the Basic Sciences revitalization program began, to $2.2 million for the curren t year.) And the school’s clinical departm ents are projecting $5 million more in grants for next year, a windfall Dean Behrm an attribu tes largely to their connections w ith m ajor research projects under way in the basic sciences. The Foundation’s grants having proved so successful as seed money, a third grant of $500,000 over three years was approved last Septem ber to help with the revitalization of the D epartm ent of Pathology.

Pathology, being the departm en t in a hospital th a t exam ines diseased tissue, gets involved in a broad range of m edi­cal problems, cu tting across nearly all of the other departm ents, from pedia­trics to gynecology. “It is the depart-

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m ent of final tru th ,” says Behrm an.“And in a m edical school it plays a cross-cutting role am ong the basic sciences.”

Pathology, for example, has in recent years been learning some very in ter­esting th ings about the im m une system and its involvement in such different conditions as cancer and diabetes. And accum ulating evidence suggests th a t the developm ent of some physical problems, such as arthritis, may actually be caused by a person’s im m une system tu rn ing around and attacking his or her own body. Learn­ing how to control th is complex and m ysterious m echanism is vital to the continuing advance of medicine. “In doing kidney and heart transplants, the transp lan ting is not the tricky part,” says Behrm an, “it’s figuring out how to suppress the natu ra l tendency of the body’s im m une system to reject the foreign body.” So the new investi­gators CWRU is bringing into its De­partm en t of Pathology will be working not only w ith a surgical im plant team a t University Hospitals—but also with CWRU’s D epartm ent of Pharm acology where other researchers are trying to discover how to activate the cells in the body w hich engulf and digest in­truders such as bacteria.

Over in Anatomy, still o ther investiga­tors are busy try ing to decipher the chem ical m essages transm itted between nerve cells—another area of research th a t will be of in terest to the patholo­gists. “People who understand how such m echanism s work will be in a position to apply th a t knowledge in clinical s itu ­ations,” says Behrm an. The pathologists, in other words, becom e the translators of basic science advances into practical applications.

The m ultiplier effect of g ran t money spent on a cluster of basic sciences departm ents operating in such a milieu of cooperation is obvious. “The ability of our D epartm ent of Internal Medicine to get a g ran t to study AIDS, for exam ­ple, has a lot to do w ith our ability to dem onstrate th a t investigators in other departm ents are working on relevant pieces,” says Behrm an. “And the faculty talent you have assem bled attracts other researchers eager to work in th a t m ilieu—as well as better studen ts who w ant to do research—w hich in tu rn ac­celerates your productivity.”

■ The connection betw een changes in the brain’s chem istry and shifts in m ood—w hich w ith som e people m eans going from m anic excitem ent to black

depression—is another area th a t has fascinated m edical science in recent years. In fact, there is increasing evidence th a t schizophrenia, m any forms of paranoia and some affective conditions have a biochemical basis. Some of the m ost prom ising work in this area has been done by Dr. Herbert Meltzer of the University of Chicago, perhaps the leading figure in the field of biological psychiatry in the country.And this sum m er, with the help of a two-year $243,270 grant m ade last December by The Cleveland Foundation, Meltzer will be moving his entire pro­ject to Cleveland’s University Hospitals.

Meltzer and his team will also be bringing w ith them about $700,000 in research grants (including three from the National Institute of Mental Health) and alm ost a third of a million dollars worth of equipm ent. Not to m ention na­tional attention.

There is no question, adm its Dr. L. Douglas Lenkoski, chief of staff at Uni­versity Hospitals and director of its De­partm ent of Psychiatry, th a t the exciting things going on these days between the hospital and CWRU’s medical school played a role in luring Meltzer here.“He’s very im pressed with w hat’s hap­pening a t UH, the possibilities of col­laborating with the D epartm ent of Pharmacology a t CWRU where he’ll have a jo in t appointm ent, the renovation of labs in progress, the confluence of talent, the research under way,” explains Lenkoski. And the presence of highly sophisticated technology—such as CAT (Computed Axial Tomography) and PET (Positron Emission Tbmography) scan­ners—at UH is a further attraction.

Meltzer, who will be coming to UH as the newly established Douglas D. Bond Professor of Psychiatry, will be testing some new anti-depressant drugs, am ong other things, and trying to find w hat Lenkoski calls a “biological m arker” for different types of depression, even the suicidal im pulse—which would be a m ajor breakthrough for psychiatry. Ac­cording to Lenkoski, a num ber of other em inent researchers now working at other institu tions around the country, on hearing th a t the University of Chi­cago team is coming to Cleveland, have indicated their own interest in moving here. “This is clearly going to be an ex­citing place to be in the next few years,” says Lenkoski.

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

The leading figure in biological psychiatry is moving his entire project to University Hospitals, thanks to a Cleveland Foundation grant.

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HealthGrants

A m erican H eart A sso c ia tio n , N o r th e a st O hio A ffilia te , In c .—E valuation of the “Body Power” Pro­gram for schoolchildren . . . $20,000

A m erican R ed C ross, G reater C leveland C h ap ter—C hurch and C om m unity H ealth Advocacy P ro g ra m ...................................$ 2 9 ,2 5 0

E liza Bryant C enter—C onstruction of a 100-bed nursing facility . . $ 2 5 ,0 0 0

C ase W estern R eserve U n iv e r s ity —Evaluation of the Doctor of N ursing program a t the F rances Payne Bolton School of N ursing over two years

$ 3 0 ,0 0 0Infant developm ent assessm en t in u rb an black fam ilies a t the School of M edic ine ........................................$ 4 ,7 7 3Revitalization of the D epartm ent of Pathology a t the School of Medicine over three y e a r s ................. $ 5 0 0 ,0 0 0S tudy to correlate hearing deficits and tooth enam el defects a t the School of D e n tis try .....................................$ 1 2 ,0 0 0

C entral School o f P ractica l N ursing, Inc.—Salary, stipend and supervision costs of hom e nursing p ro g ra m ...................................$ 2 3 ,3 0 0

The C leveland C linic F o u n d a tio n -Multiple sclerosis research . $ 3 7 ,0 0 0Study of short-term rehabilitation of elderly p a tie n ts ...................... $ 5 0 ,0 0 0

The C leveland F oundation (Inc.)—Evaluation and review of g ran t to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation for a s tudy of short-term rehab ilita tion of elderly p a t ie n ts .........................$2,000

Evaluation of g ran t to Case W estern Reserve University for revitalization of the D epartm en t of Pathology a t the School of M ed ic in e ................. $ 5 ,0 0 0E valuation of the hea lth clinic e s tab ­lished th rough the Cleveland S tuden t H ealth Program a t E ast High School

$ 2 ,5 0 0Involvem ent by the appropriate accrediting agency in the evaluation of Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s Doctor of N ursing program a t the Frances Payne Bolton School of N u rs in g ........................................$ 1 ,5 0 0Staff support for the Advisory Council on The Free Medical Clinic of G reater C le v e la n d ............... $ 9 ,0 0 0

C leveland S tu d e n t H ea lth Program—C ontinuation of p lann ing for a clinic a t E ast High S c h o o l ...............$ 4 ,9 0 0E stab lishm en t of a health clinic a t E ast High S c h o o l ................. $ 6 0 ,0 0 0

C levelan d U rban A rea H e a l th E d u cation C en ter—1984-85 H ealth C areers and H ealth O pportunities p ro g ra m .....................................$ 1 8 ,5 0 0

C uyahoga C ou nty Board o f Com ­m is s io n e r s —A ssistance to upgrade param edic s k i l l s ......................$ 2 5 ,5 0 0

C uyahoga C ou n ty H o sp ita l Foun­d a tio n , In c .—A rt th e rap is t for pedi­a tric m enta l hea lth p a tien ts in the Division of Child M ental H ealth at Cleveland M etropolitan G eneral H o sp ita l.........................................$ 1 1 ,0 0 0Initiation of p repaym en t in the Cleve­land M etropolitan G eneral Hospital c l in ic s ............................................ $ 3 4 ,1 2 5O titis m edia prevention research project in the D epartm en t of Pediatrics a t Cleveland M etropolitan G eneral Hospital (second y e a r) ..............$ 3 0 ,5 8 1

F ed era tion for C om m u n ity P lan ­n in g —R esearch on co n su m ers’ views on th e M edicaid system . . . $ 3 5 ,0 0 0

T he Free M edical C lin ic o f G reater C levelan d —T ransitional fund ing for the daytim e m edical clinic . $ 5 0 ,0 0 0

G reater C levelan d H igh B lood P ressu re C oa lition , In c .—Evalua­tion and refinem en t of the com puter track ing system for hypertensives

$20,000E xpansion of the com pu ter track ing system for hypertensives . . $ 3 3 ,9 6 4

H osp ice o f H ancock C ounty, F ind­lay, O hio—S tart-up fund ing over 18 m o n th s * ...................................$ 3 0 ,0 0 0

The In tern a tio n a l C enter for A rti­f ic ia l O rgans and T ran sp lan tation—Archival work on th e C enter’s c o lle c tio n ................................ $20,000

P lan n ed P arenthood o f C leveland , Inc.—Im plem en ta tion of efficiency im provem ents in clinics . . . $ 1 2 ,5 0 0S tart-up su p p o rt for add itional staff for Lakewood c lin ic ...............$ 3 7 ,7 5 0

P reterm C leveland , In c .—Reduced and/or deferred fees for ind igen t clients over th ree y e a rs ...................... $ 8 1 ,0 0 0

U n iv ers ity H o sp ita ls o f C leveland—G reater Cleveland Poison Control C en ter’s educational p rogram for physicians regard ing d rugs an d the elderly over two years . . . . $ 1 0 5 ,0 0 0Start-up su p p o rt for a cen te r on bio­logical p sych ia try over two years

$ 2 4 3 ,2 7 0

TOTAL HEALTH GRANTS— UNDESIGNATED . . . . $ 1 ,6 0 4 ,4 1 3

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(Following recipients and program s designated by donor)

A m erican C ancer S o c ie ty , C uyahoga C ou n ty U n it—G eneral s u p p o r t ......................................$ 7 7 ,5 9 3R esearch or any o th er purpose .....................................................$ 1 5 ,8 7 1

A m erican H eart A sso c ia tio n , N o rth ea st O hio A ffilia te , In c .—G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$ 7 7 ,5 9 3R esearch or any o ther purpose .................................................... $ 1 5 ,8 7 1

A rth r itis Foundation , N orth eastern Ohio C h ap ter—G eneral suppo rt ............................................................$ 9 1 7

B e llev u e H osp ita l, B e llev u e , Ohio—G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$ 3 ,6 3 2

C ase W estern R eserv e U n iv ers ity for th e S ch oo l o f M ed ic in e—B reast C ancer R esearch P r o je c t ..........$ 2 5 0C ancer research . . . . $ 1 6 ,2 4 7Medical research and general suppo rt

$ 7 6 ,0 1 9O utpatien t clinic for d ispensary .................................................... $ 4 5 ,4 4 2R esearch in d iseases of the eye

$ 3 0 ,2 0 4

C leveland C lin ic—R esearch in d is­eases of the e y e .......................$ 1 5 ,1 0 2

The C leveland 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

C leveland H ea lth E d u ca tion M useum —G eneral su p p o rt . $ 2 ,9 2 1

C uyahoga C ou nty H o sp ita l Foun­d ation , In c .—Cleveland M etropolitan G eneral H ospital N urse Award . $ 8 7 0G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

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

The D e a c o n e ss S o c ie ty —G eneral support of D eaconess H ospital of C le v e la n d ................................... $ 2 ,8 8 9

E lyr ia M em orial H o sp ita l—W illiam H. G ates b e d ............ $ 1 ,3 0 0

Fairview G en eral H o sp ita l—E q uip m ent..............................$ 6 3 ,4 5 6General su p p o rt...................... $ 9 ,9 8 9Christiana Perren Soyer bed . . . $ 8 2 0

G race H o sp ita l—Equipment .................................................... $ 3 1 ,7 2 7

H ealth H ill H osp ita l for C hildren—General su p p o rt...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

H ighland View H osp ita l—Employees’ Christmas fu n d .........................$ 1 ,1 2 0

H oly Fam ily C ancer H om e—General su p p ort........................................$ 1 ,6 0 4

Huron Road H osp ita l—General supp ort........................................$ 8 ,8 2 9

J e w ish C om m unity F ederation of C levelan d —Research or any other purpose ............... ....................$ 1 5 ,8 7 1

Lakewood H osp ita l—General supp ort........................................$ 2 ,8 8 9

Lakewood H osp ita l Foundation, In c.—General support . . . . $ 7 3 ,2 0 0

L utheran M edical C enter—Conference travel.......... $ 4 0 4Nurse aw ard ..............................$ 2 ,7 9 8

L u theran M edical C enter Founda­t io n —General support . . . . $ 2 5 ,2 6 0

N orthern Ohio Lung A s s o c ia t io n -General su p p o rt...................... $ 1 ,7 6 5

R ainbow B ab ies & C hildrens H o sp ita l—Equipment or supplies ...................................................... $ 1 ,3 2 7General su p p o rt...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

S a in t A nn F oun dation—General su p p ort....................................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

S a in t Joh n H osp ita l—General supp ort..................................... $ 1 3 ,7 0 0

S a in t Luke’s H osp ita l—General support............................................ $ 4 2 1

S t. V in cen t C h arity H o sp ita l—Aid for alcoholics and indigent sick ........................................................... $ 9 9 7General su p p o rt...................... $ 6 ,0 6 3Elizabeth Boersig Soyer bed $ 8 2 0

S am aritan H osp ita l, A sh land , Ohio—Memorial room maintained in mem ory of Mr. and Mrs. A.N. Myers

$ 1 1 ,0 6 7

S h r in ers H o sp ita ls for C rippled C hildren , Tampa, F lor id a—General supp ort........................................$ 7 ,9 3 3

U n iv ersity H osp ita ls o f C leveland—Conference t r a v e l ....................$ 2 ,5 4 2G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$ 1 2 ,1 2 5G eneral support for Lakeside Hospital

$ 5 0 7 ,9 6 7G eneral support for the m atern ity h o sp ita l ....................................... $ 6 ,7 6 4H enry L. Sanford M emorial bed

$ 1 ,3 2 6Urological or vascular 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—DESIG­NATED AND UNDESIGNATED ........................................... $ 2 ,8 9 9 ,9 6 9

*Crant recom m ended by F indlay D istribution C om m ittee o f the L. Dale D orney Fund.

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Social ServicesAs thousands of families in northern Ohio can testify, being unem ployed can be a traum atic experience, even for people w ith established skills and good work records.

Consider, then, the plight of people for whom joblessness is only one of the problems. In an economy where the level of joblessness persists a t 7 to 10 percent—or a good deal h igher if one counts the so-called “discouraged” unem ployed who have given up looking for a job—w hat do you do if you need work and you are blind or deaf? You have an arm or a leg m issing? You are m entally retarded or have been released recently from a m ental institution? You speak and understand no English? You are a paraplegic?

The Cleveland Foundation is helping organizations w hich are helping people in straits like these. Their program s pro­vide a challenging and interesting alter­native to state-supported welfare, and w hat is being accom plished is rem ark­able. One such organization is Voca­tional G uidance and Rehabilitation Services (VGRS), w hich has been help­ing people since 1890 w hen it began life as the Sunbeam Circle, founded to help crippled children.

VGRS has an im pressive headquarters building in the depressing E. 55th S treet neighborhood south of Chester Avenue. Inside is a factory, staffed w ith handi­capped individuals who m anufacture clothing—adaptive clothing, it’s called— for people w ith physical problems. Working a t fast, heavy industrial sewing m achines, they produce shirts and blouses w ith Velcro closures instead of buttons for those whose hands don’t work well or are m issing; sm ocks and trousers w ith large, low pockets for people confined to wheelchairs; gar­m ents with large arm holes for people stiffened by arthritis. Elsewhere in the building are a word processing facility, a place where docum ents are microfilmed (a contract service for outside clients), a woodworking shop, a soldering shop, long tables for assem bly of electronic devices or w iring harnesses.

This is bu t one of VGRS’s activities; 20 handicapped people work in the sewing shop and 85 more in the general con­tract division. Sears, Roebuck and J.C. Penney have bought adaptive clothing from VGRS since 1980, and m any local businesses have not only used the con­tract services bu t have hired “alum ni” 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 more pro­ducts and services,” and so, w ith a grant of $27,280 from The Cleveland Founda­tion, plus another from The Sherwick Fund, one of the Foundation’s supporting organizations, VGRS early this year hired a sales engineer. The goal is to bring in $325,000 in new work in 1985, to make the sales position self-supporting and thus self-perpetuating, to provide shel­tered em ploym ent for 35 additional people and to bring in enough new work so 600 more disadvantaged people can be shown how to get and hold jobs in the world outside.

On the other side of town, on the near west side, VGRS is in the process of opening a whole new facility with the help of another grant from The Cleve­land Foundation.

Initiative for establishing the west side facility cam e from the state, which was concerned because no vocational serv­ice was offered in th a t area. With a state grant, money from the federal govern­m ent and the City of Cleveland, plus a promise of fees from the state for serv­ices to be rendered, VGRS raised 73 per­cent of the $545,477 required for the first year’s operation. Matching 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 summ er.

Another such organization which The Cleveland Foundation has supported for some tim e is Dial Industries, Inc., an agency providing sheltered workplaces 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 prin t shop started two years ago th is sum m er. The shop, under the supervision of a foreman who had worked for a large m agazine publishing house, now serves nine clients

W oman W orking: E llen V anderw yst (left), a clerical in structor w ith Vocational G uidance a n d R eh a b ilita tion Service 's “S k ills A vailab le Program fo r im pa ired persons, teaches co m p u terese to a trainee.

The workshop makes shirts with Velcro closures instead o f buttons for those whose hands don't work well, trousers with large, low pockets fo r fo lks in wheelchairs.

Nearly 90,000 children in Cuya­hoga County are currently in need of day care. But existing centers provide only about 18,000 spaces.

and could handle three m ore w ith pres­en t equipm ent. S ituated in a m odest in­dustrial park on Corbin Drive, the shop handles the printing needs of m any of its neighbors and also has long-term p rin t­ing contracts w ith the state.

Having provided $66,150 in 1983 to get the p rin t shop started, The Cleveland Foundation last year granted another $27,750, which should see the operation through to a point where it can be en ­tirely sustained by other sources. To date, four persons have com pleted training in the p rin t shop and have gone on to “ou t­side” em ploym ent in a competitive world where, prior to their experience a t Dial, their chances for finding work would have been slim indeed.

Finally, out in Wickliffe, ano ther kind of em ploym ent assistance organization is receiving help from The Cleveland Foundation. Catholic Career Services (CCS), which serves clients in eastern Cuyahoga, G eauga and Lake counties, is a parish-based program staffed by an ex­ecutive director, a secretary and 60 volunteers. Unem ploym ent in the area was running a t more than 13 percent when the service was started, and the rate has not dropped as fast there as it has other places in northern Ohio. But CCS is m aking a difference in some people’s lives.

Residents of the area, w hether Catho­lic or not, can go to CCS for job evalua­tion and counseling, for referral to employers who have posted job orders and to join an unusual “job finding club,” which sponsors em ploym ent sem inars and talks on how to prepare resum es and provides a m utual support group for people with em ploym ent prob­lems. CCS volunteers provide general of­fice help, interview job seekers, file infor­m ation on their skills, and do adm inis­trative work. Interviewers, by the way, receive 14 hours of training from Joseph P. Latona, Jr., the agency’s executive di­rector. On a shoestring budget, to which The Cleveland Foundation has contri­buted $15,000, CCS is providing a sup ­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 satis­faction of self-sufficiency th a t com es with working for a living. G rant money can’t buy th a t kind of dignity, but, a t places like Vocational Guidance Rehabilitation Services, Dial Industries and Catholic Career Services, it is helping to give dis­advantaged Greater Clevelanders a chance. And th a t’s all they ask.

Exploring New Approaches to Child Day CareEm ploym ent can bring a whole new set of problem s for single paren ts or families in w hich both paren ts work outside the home. Single working fathers who sud ­denly find them selves faced w ith the re­sponsibility of arrang ing for younger children to be taken care of after school are discovering w hat m others who work outside the hom e have know n for a long time: good child care is hard to find.

Every working m other has her own frustrating story about day care. One tells of the extra hours and m iles it adds to her day, ano ther of the sitters she’s gone through or the crises th a t have arisen w hen her sitte r called in sick. Others m ay adm it they’ve left their chil­dren in less th an satisfactory hom es or centers or even, on occasion, to fend for them selves. Some m others aren’t work­ing because the cost of decent day care, even w hen it is available, is prohibitive.

And yet, the num ber of working m others has risen dram atically, from 12 percent of women w ith children below the age of six in 1950 to fully 50 percent in 1983. And in 1984, 64 percent of the women w ith school-age children were reported working, up from 39 percent in 1960. But the num ber of available day care slots has not kept pace. The Chil­dren’s Defense Fund estim ates th a t near­ly 90,000 children in Cuyahoga County are currently in need of day care. But existing centers provide only about18,000 spaces.

The availability, cost and quality of child day care are clearly concerns which cry out for com m unity action. And, even m ore im portantly, for a un i­fied, coordinated, well-planned ap ­proach. For these reasons, The Cleveland Foundation—which had been receiving a growing num ber of requests to fund individual day care projects—elected in December 1983 to lend its backing, in the form of a $20,000 grant, to a Com­m unity Day Care P lanning Project (CDCPP) undertaken by the Federation for Com m unity P lanning with the back­ing of the Cuyahoga County D epartm ent of H um an Services, United Way Services and The George G und Foundation.

This im portan t effort a t consensus- building around a key com m unity issue cam e up with a num ber of recom m enda­tions, one of which was the estab lish­m ent of a child day care im provem ent fund from a variety of public and private funding sources. The fund would be used to stim ulate innovative arrange­m ents which would improve day care

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“What would a truly comprehen­sive data system on this subject look lik e ” asks Carole Ellison, “and who ought to be maintaining it?"

C onven ient ch ild care: S tu d e n t/m o th e r B etty K ing looks in on her daugh ter K risty betw een classes a t C uyahoga C o m m u n ity College.

services in a cost-effective m anner; im ­prove the quality of care; and provide an objective data base, th rough a cost study, from w hich difficult child care cost decisions can be made.

Last Septem ber, playing a double role of convenor/educator, The Cleveland Foundation, w ith the cooperation of The George G und Foundation, the Founda­tion Advisory Council of the Jew ish Com m unity Federation, hosted an in­form ational luncheon for the represen­tatives of 20 foundations and corpora­tions a t which a knowledgeable panel of experts were invited to speak. And, with a grant of $150,000 approved a t th a t m onth’s quarterly m eeting of The Cleveland Foundation’s Distribution Committee, the Foundation also becam e one of the m ajor contributors to the new Com m unity Day Care Fund. The TVeu-Mart Fund, a supporting organiza­tion of The Cleveland Foundation, is also a contributor.

The C om m unity Day Care Fund, which is being adm inistered by the Federation for C om m unity Planning, will be supporting several prom ising model projects w hich have been chosen from am ong 72 proposals generated by an initial appeal to som e 1,500 providers of child care. The ideas include after­school care for young school-age chil­dren on the school prem ises, a day care program based a t a public library, and a network linking up hom e-care providers —in a kind of satellite day care support system —w ith a nearby center which could supply consulting aid, training, back-up care or even equipm ent. Other

ideas to be tested out include a capital im provem ents loan fund and a county- wide scholarship program to assist families in need of child care who can­not afford it.

The Com 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 sample of 62 different facilities in order to provide funding and referral agencies with better data on which to base decisions. “The challenge,” says project director Carole Ellison, “is figur­ing out w hat sort of data 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 ser­vices to those centers whose care could be upgraded or whose operations could be run more cost-effectively. “The idea behind all this is really a simple one,” says Ellison, “how to get the m ost—and the best—care for the least am ount of money.” Part of the answer, she stresses, lies in finding out w hat works. The other part lies in developing strategies for bringing existing resources together in an effective way.

The last of CDCPP’s tasks, therefore, will be to recom m end a structure and model for the ongoing collaboration of public and private institutions. Clearly, a good sta rt has already been made.

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Steiner's idea was to match grade school kids identified as having problems with teens from their own neigh­borhoods who are good role models.

Funders, policy m akers and day care providers are joining forces—thanks to a key consensus-building project—to de­velop more, better and less expensive day care. The results can only m ean fewer headaches and heartaches for working women and a growing num ber of single fathers, and equally im portant benefits for the com m unity’s children.

Saving K ids Through the Buddy System

“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree,” Oscar Steiner, founder of the Big Buddy/ Little Buddy program, responds w hen asked w hat 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 went back some m onths 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 chil­dren are flexible, they’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 models or the firm, car­ing hand of an older brother or sister to keep them moving on the straight and narrow.

Steiner was only a young college senior him self w hen he founded the Cleveland chapter of the Jew ish Big Brothers (JBB) in 1918. (It was Oscar Steiner, too, who established JBB’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 erous other philanthropic projects and running a successful business, he found him self thinking again about a program which would supplem ent Big Brothers’ well- known work with adolescents who have already had a b rush with juvenile court. And Big Buddy/Little Buddy was born.

S teiner’s idea was to m atch grade school children identified as having be­havioral or family problem s with teen­agers from their own neighborhoods who are positive role models. The point, ex­plains Steiner, is to intercept these chil­dren before they get into more serious trouble.

From the window of his office over­looking Public Square, you can look down Ontario Street to the Justice Center, a constant rem inder of the cost of crime. Taxpayers, says Steiner, spend

One on one: Big B u d d y Thm ara Moore g ives L ittle B u d d y Larzell S co tt so m e p o in ters 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 percent of the nearly 400 Little Bud­dies currently enrolled from ending up in jail, it will have saved a million dollars. A bargain, he m aintains, in re tu rn for the investm ent of about $160,000 to pu t those 400 kids together w ith Big Buddies.

The Cleveland Foundation agreed, and invested $15,000 in Decem ber 1983—and ano ther $70,000 over the next two years to support the program ’s expansion into the Cleveland public school system. Teens of both sexes join Big Buddy clubs in the high schools, and grade school teachers refer potential Little Buddies to the program ’s field representatives. Each pairing requires careful recruitm ent, m onitoring and contact w ith the parents of both the Big and Little Buddy.

The schools have proved an effective way of reaching kids. The num ber of pairings tripled between 1983 and 1984.

Big Buddies bring their Little Buddies to programwide events, such as a per­form ance of The Nutcracker ballet or a Cavaliers game, or to the bowling or skating parties sponsored by the clubs. But one-on-one activities are the heart of the program. Jo h n Hay studen ts speak of shopping, trips to the library, playing cards or checkers, shooting baskets on a corner playground, flying kites—and especially of heart-to-heart talks with their Little Buddies.

Some refer candidly to problem s—a Little Buddy who runs away or steals or has been uprooted from a home. But

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Steiner s claim, “The older children are easily challenged into accepting respon­sibility,” seem s to be borne out. New club m em bers clam or to be paired.

One such older s tu d en t sum s up the appeal of the program to the teens who get involved: “I w ant to give a Little Bud­dy a chance I didn’t have.”

Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence

Frank’s had a bad day a t work, so he stops a t the bar for a quick one. W hen he gets home, he ju s t w ants to eat, have another beer, and watch TV. But as soon as he walks in the door, his wife asks, “Where were you? W hat took you so long?” He th inks to himself. “She never gives m e a break, doesn’t tru s t me, thinks I’m out runn ing around.” His chest tightens, his heart pounds, he breaks into a sweat and tension m ounts until it explodes in violence once again.

It’s a way of life for too m any—28 per­cent of all m arried couples according to a pioneering study done in 1985. But it’s one vicious circle th a t doesn’t have to be unbroken. T h a t’s the conviction th a t has sustained Edward Cham berlain and David Larsen in the four years they’ve run a support group for m en who batter their partners. A program since 1984 of Parents A nonym ous of N ortheast Ohio, the project is now known as RAISE (Re­solve Abuse: Instill Self-Esteem). And its track record is sufficiently impressive, th a t last year a two-year Foundation grant of $39,155 was m ade to RAISE to enable it to increase the num ber of per­sons it can handle.

RAISE seeks, like sim ilar program s in St. Louis and Boston, to break the cycle of violence. It is directed a t m en referred by women’s shelters, m unicipal courts or hum an service agencies. Professionally led peer support groups teach strategies for nonviolence over a 12-week period. The m en m ust first come to see, and to acknowledge, says David Larsen, th a t “violence is a decision one makes.” They learn to heed the physical sensations that precede their violence—the sweat, the pounding and the tightening—and to defuse the fam iliar tim e bomb, before it explodes, w ith standard relaxation tech­niques.

RAISE em phasizes the relationship between thinking, feeling and acting. Ir­rational thinking, such as F rank’s as­sum ptions about his wife’s suspicions, leads to irrational acts. If the m en can learn to im agine rational, positive re­sponses to situations th a t typically end in violence, RAISE coordinators explain,

“V io len ce is a d ec is io n ”: learning to de fu se the fa m ilia r tim e bom 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 entire ly But for the 130 m en who completed all 12 weeks of the program between 1981 and 1984, the results were well worth it. Less than 5 percent of those m en have returned to battering their loved ones.

Lake County Y Expands to Serve Health-MindedSeveral years ago cynics were predicting th a t the new jogging craze would prove only a passing fad, and th a t Americans would soon tire of their 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 daw n... and settle back into their over­stuffed chairs with a can of beer and a hero sandwich, growing old gracefully. But runners still dash by during the downtown lunch hour, and health clubs and corporate cinder tracks are thriving. A concern with fitness seem s to be here to stay.

In Lake County, one of the fastest grow­ing areas in Greater Cleveland, an esti­m ated 20,000 m en and women are dues- paying m em bers of the YMCA. In fact, use of the Y’s several facilities has grown so steadily over the last decade or so that its board decided th a t the Lake County Y’s Central Branch in Painesville would

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G et down: w orking oa t a t the Lake C ounty Y

“Last year we decided it was time to start dealing with this concept o f being a model program,” says Kavelac, “but we had no idea how to do that.”

have to expand to keep up with the tim es and the increasing dem and. By Ju n e of 1984 alm ost $4.3 million had been raised toward a $6.6 million capital cam paign. To help th is worthwhile proj­ect a tta in its goal, The Cleveland Foun­dation pledged a contribution of $100,000 which, it is hoped, will leverage the raising of another $1 million from a select group of founda­tions, corporations and individuals.

The expanded Painesville b ranch will include an exercise/activities concourse featuring a three-lane running/jogging track, a 24-by-30-foot instructional sw im m ing pool with shallow depth for use in teaching and physical rehabilita­tion; separate locker and shower room facilities for women and girls, expansion of the women’s fitness center, and the addition of a new m en’s fitness center. And with the new physical facilities will come such new and diverse program s as older adult recreation groups, family- oriented sports, after-school child care, corporate health enhancem ent programs, adu lt fitness testing and counseling, and classes exam ining all the com ponents of wellness from nutrition to motivation.

Agencies Get Management Help from the Pros

Marita Kavalec used to call the Youth Mediation Services Program “the best- kept secret on Cleveland’s near west side.” And it was a great frustration to her. Institu ted nearly four years ago as a center where trained com m unity volun­teers can help w hen young people run afoul of their schools, families, neigh­bors or local m erchants, the program had been intended from the outset to serve as a model for other com m unities seeking to establish their own alterna­tives to the juvenile court system.

“It took us a couple of years to pu t it together,” says Kavalec, the cen ter’s director. “And last year we decided it was tim e to s tart dealing with th is con­cept of being a model program, bu t we had no idea how to do th a t—how to m arket the concept, how to approach, sell and price our services, and deal with any groups th a t m ight have in terest in replication.” And even when 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 part of our m ission to

spread the word about m e d ia io n , b u t we also w ant to m ake sure th a t o thers do it right, and we don’t w ant to get ripped off. But we had practically zero dollars, and we knew no one w ith th a t expertise.

Kavelac found the a n s w e r in United Way Service’s M a n a g e m e n t A ssistance Program (MAP), a consulting service de­signed to help improve the m anagem ent of nonprofit organizations dealing in hu m an services to the com m unity. W ithin a few weeks, United Way staff m em bers and volunteers had helped the Mediation Services Program to more clearly define its needs and, m ore im ­portant, had found two volunteers from a large local accounting firm who were willing to share their expertise in m ar­keting. As a result, Youth Mediation Services is now working ou t the final details of a plan th a t will enable it to spread the word effectively and effi­ciently—w ithout sapping precious staff tim e and scan 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 who had a different perspective on things.”

Mention MAP to a leader of any small nonprofit agency in G reater Cleveland and chances are you’ll receive an equally en thusiastic response. Now in its third year of operation, the project m atches volunteers from corporations, agencies and educational institu tions w ith orga­nizations, ranging from the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center to the Wel­fare Rights Organization, th a t need m anagerial and technical help. Since its inception, MAP has provided assistance to some 70 agencies—half of which are not m em bers of United Way, and many of w hich receive direct grants from The Cleveland Foundation. MAP has devel­oped a cadre of 77 volunteer consultants w ith such specialties as fiscal m anage­m ent, organizational developm ent and m anagem ent inform ation systems. Agencies which can afford to do so are asked to pay a nom inal fee, and all par­ticipants work under con tracts—“ju st as if you brought in Peat Marwick or McKinsey or any other professional con­sultant,” says Irv Lauber, who, as associate director of United Way Ser­vices, oversees the program .

Recognizing the im portance of devel­oping the organizational skills and in­ternal capability of grantees so th a t they can handle their own problem s and better serve their constituencies, The

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Cleveland Foundation has invested $226,000 in MAP since 1980, including a $100,000 grant for 1984-85.

Most frequently requested is assis­tance w ith fund raising, says United Way’s Lauber, so the program has begun to offer group “cram courses” for fund­raising neophytes who are not yet able to benefit from the m ore typical one-on- one consultations. But often, Lauber’s “diagnosticians” have found, the agen­cies’ need for new money can be eased through m ore efficient m anagem ent practices. And, as Anita Sm ith, director of Women 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 consultant. We m ight have been able to find som eone to vol­unteer to do it, bu t we couldn’t even af­ford the tim e and resources to look for someone.”

Senior Connection Focuses on Heights E lderlyThe Benjam in Rose Institute, which has been serving the elderly of Cleveland since the early years of the century, has been working over the past few years to realize two special goals. The first was the involvement of informal care pro­viders—such as families, neighbors and churches—in the care of the elderly. The second was bringing services to the neighborhoods in w hich elderly persons live by establishing neighborhood centers.

One such satellite facility was estab­lished in 1981 on Shaker Square with the help of a $135,222 grant from The Cleveland Foundation and another $181,500 grant the following year. Two sm aller additional grants of $16,000 in1983 and $17,500 in 1984 have funded a strategic outreach effort aim ed a t tra in ­ing and netw orking—or connecting in ­formally to one ano ther for purposes of m utual support and cooperation—a num ber of social organizations and sm aller agencies serving the elderly in the Shaker Square area, such as Meals on Wheels, the Jew ish Family Service Association and the Shaker Senior Adult Office. The resu lt is “The Senior Con­nection,” a council m ade up of volunteers from several neighborhood groups.

Benjam in Rose has also been working with nearby churches on increasing their com m itm ent to the elderly and, where churches already have special programs, helping improve the effec­tiveness of volunteers working with seniors. In 1984 the outreach project

was expanded to include Cleveland Heights, and in November a project coor­dinator was brought on to run a series of workshops for the Connection m em bers focusing on such m atters as housing available to the seniors in the area, the provision of services, Alzheim er’s Dis­ease and related disorders, and crisis- handling. The participants were intro­duced to the resources and personnel of the Benjamin Rose Institute, and en­couraged to utilize them.

This March another series of sem inars presented a t Plym outh Church in Shaker Heights dealt with the Challenge of the Aging Family. And in April a day-long workshop for senior volunteers was spon­sored by BRI. “The intent,” explains Dr. Mario Tonti, associate director for com ­m unity and family services, “was to give volunteers added tools to enhance their m inistry of serving older persons. We hope the result is th a t individual churches will be energized to more crea­tively develop their own programs, and th a t the Senior Connection will be the im petus for continued interfaith cooperation in joint programs.”

In the works, says Tonti, as a direct re­su lt of m onths of working with individu­al churches, are two promising projects. The First Unitarian Church is forming a board of directors who will be charged with developing a Share-a-Home for neighborhood seniors—an exciting con­cept on which BRI staff will continue to act as consultants. And, in response to growing concern about the isolation of “unchurched” seniors, the Cleveland Heights Office on Aging is developing a year-long program of dinners to be given by three neighboring churches which will be available to all seniors in their area regardless of church affiliation. Tonti is hopeful th a t this program will be replicated by other churches and neigh­borhoods in the Heights area.

From the Foundation’s point of view, BRI’s Senior Connection project is a good example of how a relatively few dollars can have a far-reaching im pact by bring­ing together a network of previously u n ­connected resources and developing a kind of synergism. And if things work properly, the resulting network begins to take on a life of its own. T hat seem s to be w hat is happening in the case of The Senior Connection.

The Senior Connection is a good example of how a few dollars can have a big impact by bringing together a network of form erly uncon­nected resources.

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Social Services Grants

A lco h o lism S e r v ic e s o f C levelan d , In c .—S tudy to determ ine the feasi­bility of estab lish ing a flex-time day tre a tm e n t p rogram for alcoholism

$ 3 2 ,3 3 0

A m erican R ed C ross, G reater C leve­lan d C h ap ter—H ispanic ou treach p ro g ra m ...................................$ 2 3 ,0 0 0H ousing relocation program .......................................... $20,000

A n ti-D efam ation L eague o f B’nai B ’r ith , New York, New York—Gift from the Halle F u n d ...............$ 2 ,5 0 0

B eech Brook—E xpansion of the Spauld ing for C hildren Adoption P ro g ra m ...................................$ 2 5 ,1 0 0

B etterw ay, In c .—S tart-up su p p o rt for a hom e for ado lescen t girls . . $ 5 ,0 0 0

B e tty J a n e M em orial R e h a b ilita ­t io n C enter, T iffin , O hio—E stab ­lishm en t of a satellite office to provide vocational rehab ilita tion services in Findlay, Ohio, over th ree years*

$ 4 5 ,0 0 0

Boy S co u ts o f A m erica , G reater C leveland C ouncil No. 4 4 0 —In-School S couting Program in e lem en tary s c h o o ls ..................$ 1 7 ,8 6 0Local partic ipa tion in the National Exploring C o n fe ren ce ................$ 2 ,5 0 0

Boy S co u ts o f A m erica , N o rth ea st Ohio C ouncil, P a in esv ille , O h io -O perating s u p p o r t .......................... $ 5 0 0

B oys’ C lubs o f C leveland , In c .—Capital cam paign and operating su p ­port for new west side club over two y e a rs ........................................... $ 1 7 5 ,0 0 0

C enter for H um an R e la tio n s—E stab lishm ent of the C enter for H um an Relations over two years .................................................. $ 3 0 ,0 0 0

Child C on servation C ouncil o f G reater C leveland—E xpansion of Big Buddy/Little Buddy Program (second and th ird years) . . . $ 7 0 ,0 0 0

Child G uidance C en ter—Merger of The E leanor Gerson School (formerly The School on M agnolia and Parkview Therapeutic Preschool) w ith the Child G uidance C enter (third year)

$ 3 5 ,0 0 0

C hildren’s D efen se Fund, W ashing­ton , D.C.—E stab lishm ent of an Ohio office for the Children’s Defense Fund (third and fourth years) . . . $100,000

T he C h ish olm C e n t e r — D evelopm entand evaluation of a vocational p rogram for alcoholics over two years

$ 4 9 ,6 8 8

C itiz en s O pposin g D rug/A lcohol A b u se, F indlay, O hio—C om m unity In tervention W orkshop rela ted to a d rug a n d alcohol in tervention/preven­tion program * ......................... $20,000

C ity Club Forum F ou n d ation , Inc.—S enior c itizen a tte n d an c e a t the w eekly forum s e r i e s ................... $ 4 ,6 2 0

T h e C leve lan d F ou n d ation (Inc.)—Living a t Hom e p rogram of the Com ­m onw ealth Fund over two years

$200,000Technical a ssis tan ce for g ran t to the Federation for C om m unity P lann ing for Child Day Care P lann ing P ro ject’s Day Care Im provem ent Fund

S 5 .0 0 0Technical a ssis tan ce to T he Teen F ather P ro g ra m ............................$ 5 ,0 0 0

C leveland H earing and S p eech C en ter—E stab lish m en t of a cen ter for chronic com m un ica tion disorders

$ 4 7 ,5 0 0

T he C levelan d S o c ie ty for th e B lin d —E xpansion of staff in preschool program over two y e a r s ............. $ 9 ,0 9 0M anagem ent info rm ation service co­ord inato r to develop a m an ag em en t inform ation an d program evaluation system over two y e a r s ..............$ 3 5 ,3 8 5O perating s u p p o r t ...............$ 3 2 ,2 5 0

C om m u n ity A ction C om m ission , F indlay, O hio—H ancock Senior T ransportation Program * . . . $ 4 ,0 0 0

C om m unity Inform ation /V olunteer A ction C en ter (CIVAC)—Develop­m en t of a com m unityw ide d a ta base system over th ree years . . . $ 1 1 7 ,1 9 3

C ouncil G ard en s—R em odeling and fu rn ish ing of the k itchen a rea

. $ 1 6 ,0 0 0

C ouncil on H azardou s M a ter ia ls—H azardous m ate ria ls in form ation and education c e n te r ....................$ 3 0 ,0 0 0

T he C ouncil on H um an R e la tio n s—U nited N ations Day luncheon w ith the form er chancello r of W est Germany, H elm ut S c h m id t .......................$ 2 ,5 0 0

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C ouncil o f In ter n a tio n a l Pro­gram s—E xpansion of Cleveland In­terna tiona l Volunteer O rganizations’ coord inating function and activ ities for low-income m inority youth

$ 2 0 ,3 2 5T hirtie th A nniversary Conference

$10,000

The C oventry Youth C en ter—E xpansion of c e n te r ............ $ 2 8 ,0 0 0

C uyahoga C ou nty Board of C om m issio n ers—Youth Services C oordinating C ouncil’s su m m er youth p ro g ra m ..........................$ 8 5 ,0 0 0

C uyahoga C ou nty W elfare D ep art­m en t—Crippled an d hand icapped children’s f u n d .............................$8,000“Give-A-Christmas” program th rough the Special O pportun ity and Service F u n d ................................................$ 5 ,5 0 0

D elta S igm a T h eta S orority , Inc., G reater C leveland C h apter—S um m it II—a conference related to issues for b lack single m others

$ 1 ,2 5 0

Dial In d u str ie s , In c .—Im p lem en ta­tion of a p rin tshop tra in ing and sheltered work cen te r (second and th ird y e a rs ) ..............................$ 2 7 ,7 5 0

D iocese o f C leveland (C atholic)—E stablishm ent of a consulta tion c e n te r ........................................$ 4 0 ,0 0 0

Divorce E quity, In c .—C om m unity divorce education program . $ 2 5 ,0 0 0

Far W est C en ter—Additional su p ­port for construction of a new facility .................................................... $ 2 5 ,0 0 0

Federation o f C atholic C om m unity S e rv ic e s—R esearch correlations and data analysis obtained from senior citizens’ q u e s tio n n a ire ..........$2,000

F ederation for C om m u n ity P lan ­n in g—A dm inistra tion of the ch ari­table portion of the su p e rm ark e t se ttle ­m en t (third y e a r) ...................... $ 6 ,0 5 3Child Day Care P lann ing P ro ject’s Day Care Im provem ent Fund . . $ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0Developm 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 public a ttitu d e s abou t h um an service p rogram s . $ 5 ,0 0 0Training, coord inating an d case m anagem en t assis tance for aspects of the Intrafam ily Sexual A buse Project (second y e a r) ............................$ 4 8 ,8 2 0

T he G olden A ge C en ters o f G reater C levelan d —M utual A ssistance Net­work over two y e a rs ...............$ 6 5 ,5 2 0

G reater C leveland N eighborhood C en ters A sso c ia t io n —Interagency project for h igh-risk youth operated by the E ast End N eighborhood House

$ 1 9 ,0 0 0

Group H om es, Inc., F indlay, O h io -Child care staff in a hom e for em otion­ally d istu rbed boys (second year)*. ............................ '....................... $ 5 ,7 8 5

H ancock C ounty Board of M ental R etard ation , F indlay, O hio—Devel­opm en t of a class for low-functioning, m ulti-hand icapped m entally retarded an d developm entally disabled adults in B lanchard Valley Adult 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 paren ts over 16 m on ths

$ 3 2 ,2 2 2

I n s t itu te for Child A d v o c a c y -Child advocacy and child welfare system m onitoring activities over two y e a rs ............................................ $ 7 5 ,0 0 0

J e w ish Fam ily S erv ice A sso c ia ­t io n —Coordinated services for alcoholics and their fam ilies over two y e a r s ....................................... $ 1 1 1 ,6 7 0

J e w ish V ocational S e r v ic e —PROCleveland (Prom oting Relevant Op­tions in Cleveland) program (third y e a r) ............................................ $ 5 0 ,0 0 0

J u d so n Park—Renovation of Ju d so n M a n o r..........................................$ 7 5 ,0 0 0

Lake Erie G irl S cou t C ouncil—O perating s u p p o r t .........................$ 5 0 0

L ittle S is te r s o f th e Poor—M odernization of St. Mary and Jo seph hom e for the aged poor . . . $100,000

M arycrest S ch oo l—Start-up funds for a residential aftercare program for older adolescent g ir ls .............. $ 1 3 ,1 2 5

M axim um In d ep en d en t L iving A sso c ia tio n —Director for new ho u s­ing fac ility .................................... $ 4 ,5 0 0Start-up support for ap a rtm en t bu ild ­ing for the hand icapped . . . $20,000

OASIS, In c .—Start-up support for downtown senior cen ter . . $ 1 3 ,5 0 0

O hio S ta te U n iv ers ity D evelop­m en t Fund, C olum bus, O hio—C uya­hoga C ounty Extension Service’s Con­su m er Inform ation on H ealth Care b o o k le ts ...................................$ 2 2 ,1 7 5

P aren ts A n onym ou s o f N orth ­e a s te r n Ohio, In c .—RAISE (Resolve Abuse: Instill Self-Esteem) program for m en involved in dom estic violence over two y e a r s .........................$ 3 9 ,1 5 5

P lan n ed Parenthood of N orthw est Ohio, Inc., Tbledo, O hio—Coordi­nated countyw ide ou treach program in H ancock C o u n ty * ...............$ 1 1 ,5 9 2

P rodigal Youth and Fam ily S e r v ic e s —Diversion program for teenage shoplifters (second year). . . . $ 4 ,5 0 0

The B enjam in R ose I n s t itu te —Activities to increase public aw areness of adaptive aids for the elderly

$ 5 ,0 0 0O perating s u p p o r t ...............$ 3 2 ,2 5 0Training and netw orking social organizations serving the elderly in the Shaker Square/Shaker Heights/ Cleveland Heights area . . . . $ 1 7 ,5 0 0

S t. Mary M agdalene Church, W illo- w ick , O hio—Expansion of Catholic Career Services’ parish-based employ­m ent p ro g ram .........................$ 1 5 ,0 0 0

The S o c ie ty for C rippled Children of Cuyahoga C ounty, Inc.—Capital cam paign over two years . . $100,000

A m asa S ton e H ouse, I n c . -Operating support ...............$ 3 2 ,2 5 0

S u n sh in e C hildren’s D evelopm ent Fund, M aum ee, O hio—O perating s u p p o r t ....................................... $ 1,000

The Teen Father Program —Start-up and operating support . . . . $ 3 0 ,0 0 0

U n ited C erebral P alsy A sso c ia ­tion , Inc., o f C uyahoga C ou nty—Needs survey and m anagem en t assess­m en t for The Society for Crippled Children of Cuyahoga County, Inc., and the United Cerebral Palsy Associa­tion, Inc........................................ $ 1 5 ,0 0 0

U n ited Way of C ollier C ounty, N aples, F lorid a—O perating support

$ 5 0 0

U n ited Way of G reater Toledo, Tbledo, O hio—O perating support

$ 5 0 0

U n ited Way of Lake C ounty, Inc., P a in esv ille , O hio—O perating s u p p o r t ..............................................$ 5 0 0

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V ocation a l G uid an ce and R eh a b ili­ta tio n S e r v ic e s —E stab lishm en t of a com prehensive vocational rehab ilita ­tion cen te r on the n ear west side over th ree y e a r s ..............................$ 1 4 6 ,5 8 4Sales e n g in e e r .........................$ 2 7 ,2 8 0

W est S id e C om m u n ity H ou se—A ppliances a n d repairs associated w ith a group h o m e ....................$ 4 ,5 0 0

W est S id e C om m unity M ental H ealth C en ter—Initiation of a Volunteer Involvem ent Program over two y e a r s ................................... $ 7 0 ,4 4 9

The Young M en’s C h ristia n A sso c ia ­t io n o f C levelan d —‘Shoes for K ids” project (second y e a r ) .................$8,000

T he Young M en’s C h ristian A sso c i­a tio n o f Lake C ounty, P a in esv ille , O hio—Capital cam paign over th ree y e a rs ......................................... $100,000O perating s u p p o r t ......................$ 1 ,0 0 0

T he Young W om en’s C h ristian A sso c ia tio n o f C levelan d —Project Redirection for teen-age m others ......................................................$ 9 9 ,3 5 4S tudy of financial options 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

(Following recip ien ts a n d program s d esig n a ted by donor)

A lco h o lism S e r v ic e s o f C leveland , In c .—General su p p o rt.................... $ 4 4

A m erican B ib le S o c ie ty , New York, N ew York—General support . . $ 5 5 1

A m erican R ed C ross, G reater C leveland C h apter—General su p p ort.......................................... $ 2 ,8 6 0

B eech B r o o k -General su p p ort....................$ 4 9 ,0 3 0

B ellefa ire /Jew ish C hildren’s B ureau—General support...................... $ 6 ,2 8 9

Big B rothers/B ig S is te r s o f G reater C levelan d —General support for the Big Brothers Program ..........$ 1 0 ,7 7 6

Boy S c o u ts o f A m erica , G reater C leveland C ouncil No. 4 4 0 -General su p p ort...............................$ 1 2 6

B oys’ C lubs o f C leveland , In c .—General su p p ort...............................$ 9 1 6

E liza B ryant C e n t e r -General su p p o rt....................$ 1 6 ,2 6 8

C atholic C h a ritie s C orporation—Benefit of aged p erson s.............$ 3 ,0 0 0Benefit of Parmadale-St. Anthony Youth Services V illage............... $ 8 ,6 6 8

CEDU F oundation , Inc., Laguna N iguel, C a lifo r n ia -General su p p o rt...................... $ 2 ,7 1 7

C enter for H um an S e r v ic e s —General su p p ort........................... $ 2 2 6General support for the Counseling D iv is io n ...................................$ 3 4 ,1 4 0General support for the Day Nursery Association of Cleveland . . . . $ 3 ,7 9 4General support for the Hom em aker- Health Aide D iv ision ...............$ 2 ,0 0 0

C hild C on servation C ouncil o f G reater C levelan d —Big Buddy/Little Buddy p rogram ....................$ 2 9 ,9 4 4

C hild G uidance C e n t e r -Operating su p p o rt...................... $ 3 0 2

T he C hildren’s A id S o c ie ty —General su p p ort........................... $ 4 2 3General support for the Industrial H o m e............... $ 6 0 ,5 9 8

C hildren’s S e r v ic e s —General su p p ort........................... $ 6 3 8

C h rist E p iscop a l C h u r c h -General su p p o rt...................... $ 1 ,1 2 3

The C hurch H om e—G eneral s u p p o r t ............. ,6 ,0 6 3

T he C hurch o f th e Savicrar, U n itedM e th o d is t—G eneral su p p o rt

. . S 4 .4 2 7

C hurch o f th e W estern R e s e r v e - G eneral s u p p o r t .................... $ 1 1 ,0 0 0

C levelan d C h r is tia n H om e, I n c . -G eneral s u p p o r t .......................$ 2 ,3 9 6

C ity o f C leveland , D irector o f Public S a fe ty —Prevention of delinquency am ong b o y s ................................... $ 5 1 6

T he C levelan d P sy c h o a n a ly tic S o c ie ty F o u n d a t io n -G eneral s u p p o r t .............................. $ 3 0R esearch a n d app lication of psychoanalysis an d su p p o rt projects

$ 5 3 ,3 5 5

T he C levelan d S o c ie ty for th e B lind—G eneral s u p p o r t ...............$ 1 9 0 ,1 9 2R esearch or any o th er purpose

.......................$ 1 5 ,8 7 1Volunteer braille tran sc rib ers ....................................................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

C uyahoga C ounty W elfare D epart­m e n t- S p e c ia l client needs . . . $ 4 2 2

E a st End N eighborhood H o u s e -G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 2 ,7 9 4

Fairm ount P resb y te r ia n C h u r c h -G eneral s u p p o r t ...................... $ 1 ,8 4 3

F ederation for C om m unity Planning—G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$ 3 ,4 3 6G eneral sup p o rt for the C om m unity Inform ation/V olunteer Action Center (CIVAC)........................................ $ 2 ,6 6 4G eneral su p p o rt for needy and deserv­ing fam ilies and c h ild re n ..........$ 9 0 6

T he F ir st C on gregation al Church o f Sonom a, Sonom a, C a lifo r n ia -G eneral s u p p o r t ........................... $ 1 2 6

T he F ir st U n ited M eth od ist Church, A sh lan d , O hio—G eneral s u p p o r t ........................................ $ 5 ,5 3 3

G oodw ill In d u str ie s o f G reater C levelan d —G eneral s u p p o r t . . $ 9 2 6

G reater C leveland N eighborhood C enters A sso c ia tio n —G eneral s u p p o r t ......................................$10,547

The H ebrew Free Loan A sso c ia tio n—G eneral s u p p o r t ....................$1,000

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H eig h ts B lau gru n d Lodge No. 1152 B ’n a i B’r ith —General support

$ 1 ,6 0 4

The H iram H o u s e -General su p p o r t ...........................$ 1 ,4 4 2

E liza J e n n in g s H om e—E q u ip m en t..............................$ 3 1 ,7 2 7General su p p o rt....................$ 1 8 ,7 9 7

J e w ish C om m u n ity F ed eration of C levelan d —General support .................................................... $ 1 3 ,0 5 7

J o n e s H om e o f C h ildren’s S e r v ic e s—Capital improvement in building and eq u ip m en t...................... $ 3 1 ,7 2 7General su p p o rt....................$ 2 0 ,1 2 3

Lakewood C h ristia n C h u r c h -General su p p o rt.......................... $ 1 ,3 5 8

The H a ttie L arlham F oundation , Inc., M antua, O hio—General support........................................... $ 7 ,9 3 3

L ittle S is te r s o f th e P o o r -Operating support.......................$ 2 ,3 2 8

The L utheran H om e for th e A g e d -General su p p o rt...................... $ 9 ,8 8 6

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

M arycrest S c h o o l -General su p p o rt...................... $ 6 ,0 6 3

M ission ary S e r v a n ts o f th e M ost Holy T rinity, S ilv er Sprin g , M ary­lan d -G en era l su p p ort.............$ 4 ,0 1 0

The M ontefiore H o m e -General su p p o rt...................... $ 6 ,0 6 3

The M uscular D ise a se S o c ie ty o f N o rth ea stern O hio—General su p p o rt .............................................. $ 2 5 0

Ohio P resb y ter ia n H om es, Colum ­bus, O hio—General support for Breckenridge V illage..................$ 1 ,0 0 0

Our Lady o f th e W ayside, Incorporated , Avon, O hio—General supp ort...........................................$ 4 ,0 7 4

P a rm a d a le -S t. A n th on y Youth S erv ic e s V i l la g e -Operating supp ort....... $ 1 2 ,7 3 1

P lan n ed P arenthood o f C leveland , Inc.—General support .$ 1 1 ,4 4 6

The B en jam in R ose I n s t i t u t e -General su p p o rt...........$ 1 6 ,4 7 9

Rose-M ary C e n t e r -General su p p o rt..........................$ 2 ,3 3 3

S t. A ndrew s U n ited M eth od ist Church, F indlay, O hio—General support...............................................$120

S t. D om in ic’s P a r is h -General su p p o rt...................... $ 4 ,0 1 0

S t. J o h n L utheran C h u r c h -General su p p o rt ...................... $ 1 ,9 3 8

S t. M artin’s E p iscop a l C h u r c h -General su p p ort.............................. $ 1 2 6

S t. P au l’s E p iscop a l Church, C leveland H eigh ts, O hio—General su p p ort.......................................... $ 1 ,2 5 0

T he S a lv a tio n A r m y -General su p p o rt.......................$ 2 2 ,3 6 1

The S a lva tion Army, A sh land , Ohio—General support......................$ 2 ,7 6 7

T he S c o tt is h R ite B en ev o len t F oundation , L exington , M assa­c h u s e t t s —General support . . . $ 1 2 6

Shak er H eigh ts Lodge No. 4 5 FOP A s s o c ia te s —General support

$ 2 ,3 1 6

T he Shaker One H undred, Inc.—General su p p o rt......................... $ 2 ,3 1 6

S is te r s o f N otre Dam e, Chardon, O hio—Physical education program for the Julie Billiart School . . . $ 1 2 ,0 4 2

The S o c ie ty for C rippled C hildren o f C uyahoga C ounty, In c .— E q u ip m en t.................................$ 3 1 ,7 2 7General su p p o rt.......................$ 1 4 ,7 0 5

S o c ie ty o f S t. V in cen t de P a u l -Operating su p p ort......................... $ 6 0 6

S tarr C om m onw ealth for Boys, A lbion , M ic h ig a n -General su p p o rt ......................... $ 1 ,3 6 9

A m asa S ton e H ouse, I n c . -General su p p o rt......................... $ 6 ,0 6 3

T he Three-C orner-R ound Pack O u tfit, Inc.—General support for the cam ping program ....................$ 1 1 ,3 0 6

T rin ity C a th e d r a l-General su p p o rt......................... $ 1 ,5 7 9

U n ited A p peal o f A sh lan d C ounty, Ohio, Inc., A sh lan d , O hio—General su p p ort.......................................... $ 2 ,7 6 7

U n ited Way S e r v ic e s—General su p p ort....................$ 3 0 8 ,8 7 1

The V is itin g N urse A sso c ia tio n of C le v e la n d -General s u p p o r t ......................... $ 3 ,2 9 4

V ocational G uidance and R eh ab ili­ta tio n S e r v ic e s —A ssistance to needy clients of S unbeam School . . $ 1 ,0 0 0A ssistance to needy of S unbeam School g raduating class . . . . $ 1 ,0 0 0G eneral s u p p o r t ..........................$ 3 ,8 2 7

W est S id e D eu tsch er Frauen V erein , T he A lten h e im —General s u p p o r t .....................................$ 2 0 ,2 5 1

The Young M en’s C h ristian A sso ­c ia tio n , A sh land , O h io -General s u p p o r t ...................... $ 2 ,7 6 7

T he Young M en’s C h ristian A sso ­c ia tio n of C le v e la n d -G eneral suppo rt ....................$ 1 1 ,2 3 9G eneral suppo rt for Lakewood Branch ...................................................... $ 7 ,9 3 3G eneral suppo rt for West Side Branch

$ 1 5 ,8 6 4

The Young W om en’s C h ristian A sso c ia tio n o f C levelan d —General s u p p o r t ..........................................$ 9 5 3G eneral suppo 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

*Grant recom m ended by F indlay D istribution C om m ittee o f the L. Dale D orney Fund.

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Civic AffairsThough the day was blustery and cold, a large crowd had gathered in the vacant lot at the corner of East 79th and Lex­ington for the ground breaking. And if a few snowflakes were in the air on th a t December 4th, good feelings and opti­m ism concerning the future of Cleveland and its neighborhoods were in the air, too. The excitem ent around the ground breaking for the $13.3 million Phase One of Lexington Village, a bold experi­m ent in u rban housing, was increased w hen someone noted th a t it had been at this very street corner back in 1966 that the notorious Hough riot had flared, effectively sealing the neighbor­hood’s doom even as it gave painful voice to years of unassuaged frustration.

In the years th a t followed, Hough had lost 65 percent of its population. Mer­chants had closed up and left, too. And the rem aining housing stock in the gu t­ted area had been allowed to deteriorate even further. No wonder, then, th a t the various public figures who addressed the shivering crowd on th a t chilly, bu t oddly sunny, noon hour were calling Lexington Village an im portan t m ile­stone in Cleveland’s attem pts to revital­ize its inner city. Indeed th is am bitious project had a symbolic significance which went far beyond its m eaning for the im m ediate neighborhood—though that was considerable.

The projected 606-unit complex com ­bines the principles of tough m anage­m ent and m inority participation with affordable tow nhouse apartm ents. It will provide attractive hom es in close proxim ity to such high-em ploym ent areas as University Circle and the Cleve­land Clinic Complex while reclaim ing five city blocks in one of Cleveland’s m ost devastated areas. Lexington Village will not be subsidized housing, b u t the first m arket-rate rental stock to be built in Hough in 50 years.

Lexington Village is im portan t in another respect: It m arks a dram atic new level of cooperation between the public and private sectors and offers a

H ousing for th e P eople, by th e People. T heresiden ts o f L akeview Terrace g e t organized. (Photograph by D avid Beach)

model for how creative com m unities can deal w ith m assive problem s such as lack of decent housing and loss of urban population, which plague America’s older cities. Some 28 separate funding entities, including local and national foundations, area businesses and a m a­jor banking institution, joined with a nationally known developer and a re­spected neighborhood-based housing developm ent organization, Hough’s Famicos Foundation, to make Lexington Village a reality. It was the willingness of these organizations to make low-in- terest money available to the project which will make it possible for working families earning a m oderate to low-mod­erate income to rent these apartm ents for $285-$360 a m onth.

The City itself, having given Lexington Village its support alm ost from the start, lined up $5.6 million in public monies. The Cleveland Foundation, playing the role of broker throughout the alm ost two years it took to pu t the complicated project together, lined up nearly two dozen other funding partners, and itself m ade a precedent-setting $800,000 low- in terest loan to Famicos as well as con­tributed m any hundreds of staff hours and an estim ated $50,000 in legal fees. “It was in part the im portance of this project as a model for addressing large u rban problems,” said Stanley C. Pace, chairperson of the Foundation’s Distri­bution Committee, in connection with the ground breaking, “th a t m ade it such a high priority for us. It seem ed highly appropriate th a t we, as Cleveland’s co m m u n ity foundation, should take the lead in moving such a worthwhile undertaking forward.”

National funders, such as the Ford Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), which also m ade substantial contributions, will be w atch­ing the progress of Lexington Village. Some of the com ponents which make the project an interesting one are the involve­m ent of neighborhood and m inority persons in the creation and m anagem ent of the complex—two areas in which the developer, McCormack, Baron & Associ­ates, Inc., has an excellent perform ance record—and the ongoing involvement of Famicos—which has a impressive track record of its own in rehabilitated housing in H ough—in everything from the care­ful screening of prospective residents to the enforcem ent of a strict set of s tand ­ards concerning resident behavior and the upkeep of property.

Lexington Village combines the principles o f tough management and minority participa­tion with the firs t market-rate apart­ments built in Hough in 20 years.

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“The f irs t thing we did was standard­ize the window sizes,” says BEU's Leon Hogg. “Do you know how many windows there are in 16 buildings7ft

The B reakthrough, P h ase One: an a rch itec t’s rendering o f Lexington Village

These very factors have proven crucial to the success of rehabilitated housing efforts in St. Louis. There is every reason to believe they will also work w ith new housing in Cleveland. And if the first 183 units of Lexington Village, which should be ready for occupancy by next year, can succeed, m ore new housing— not to m ention nearby com m ercial re­developm ent—will not be far behind for a section of the city th a t is already showing encouraging signs of recovery. TWenty years after the infam ous Hough riots, a new day may be dawning for one of the city’s oldest and m ost sadly neglected neighborhoods, which could light the way for others.

■ Cleveland Foundation grants also went to support other inner-city housing initi­atives in 1984. The principle of resident involvement in the im provem ent of public housing led to a $43,000 grant to the Lakeview Tferrace Resident Council (CNA, Inc.) to develop a tenan t m anage­m ent program, a training process th a t could eventually lead to the residents taking over the m anagem ent of the 830- unit estate from the Cuyahoga Metro­politan Housing Authority (CMHA).

The residents of the 50-year-old com ­plex of 44 three-story walk-up ap art­m ents on Cleveland’s near west side (see photograph on page 60) are convinced th a t tenan t m anagem ent is the best way to deal w ith the deplorable conditions a t

Lakeview. As a resu lt they have em barked on the process of learning w hat they will need to know to assum e control of the operation. Organized under building captains, the residents have acted out confrontations w ith o ther residents con­cerning drinking in the halls, leaving garbage around the grounds and failing to keep their children u nder control. And they have m et w ith experienced consul­tan ts such as B ertha Gilkey, the dynam ic president of the ten an t m anagem ent corporation th a t m ore th an a decade ago transform ed St. Louis’ Cochran Gardens, then w ritten off as a public housing jungle th a t could be improved only with a wrecking ball, into a nationally recog­nized m odel for public housing.

Today the Cochran G ardens residents ru n their own day-care centers for work­ing parents and a catering com pany deli­vering m eals to the elderly, while new units continue to be built and older ones renovated—all of these activities employ­ing tenan ts them selves and funneling profits back into the estate to finance further im provem ents. Sim ilar results could be realized here, say the residents of Lakeview Terrace, if they are given a chance to take control of their own destiny.

O ther Foundation gran ts last year went to help underw rite the adm inistrative costs of a num ber of organizations which are busy rehabilitating and w eatherizing the existing housing stock in older sec­tions of the city, including the Union- Miles Com m unity Coalition, the Broad-

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way Area Housing Coalition, and New Cleveland-6, Inc., a neighborhood de­velopm ent organization serving Fairfax (the Cedar-Quincy area between East 79th and East 105th streets). G rants also went to the Housing Advocates, Inc., a countywide organization dedicated to “increasing housing opportunities and prom oting safe, decent and reasonable- cost housing for low- and moderate-in- come families,” and the Cleveland Ten­ants Organization, a group charged with developing, recom m ending and im ple­m enting constructive changes in the way the Municipal Housing Court operates.

Another grantee, the Black Economic Union (BEU), has already rehabilitated nearly 800 apartm en t units in Hough in ­cluding the 313-unit Vanguard A part­m ents on Chester Avenue. BEU, which was founded in 1966 following the Hough riots, continues to inspect, repair and m anage all of these buildings through its affiliate, H allm ark M anage­m ent Associates, Inc.

This sum m er, w ith the help of a Foun­dation grant, the finishing touches axe being pu t on Chester Village, a cluster of eight buildings ju s t north of Chester at E. 90th Street, containing 84 suites. “We want to create a little park across the way,” says BEU president Leon R. Hogg, “so the kids will have som ew here to play other th an the halls.” O ther hard-won BEU wisdom: “The first th ing we did when we took over the Vanguard in 1972 was to standardize the window sizes so we could keep spares in storage. Do you know how m any windows there axe in 16 buildings? Oh, and we’ve learned to pu t lots of m oney into the k itchens and bathrooms,” says Hogg. “Your biggest problem w ith older buildings is leaks and water dam age.”

The newest Foundation g ran t is also helping BEU move toward acquiring Fair- m ount Village, a group of 22 three-bed- room tow nhouses half a block north of Chester Village. “If you can rehab enough buildings w ithin a single area, you have changed m ore th an som ebody’s apartm ent,” explains Leon Hogg, “you’ve begun to change the entire environm ent in w hich people live.”

ESCOC Helps Minorities Integrate Eastern SuburbsThe Heights com m unities—Cleveland, Shaker and University—have m ade spe­cial efforts over the past two decades to insure th a t their com m unities and school districts are racially integrated. They have developed outreach program s and special incentives to a ttrac t residents to

better balance the racial composition of each area.

Last year, the three com m unities, working in cooperation with their school districts, created the East Suburban Council for Open Com m unities (ESCOC) —a m ajor effort to extend the policy of integration throughout the eastern end of Cuyahoga County and to stim ulate open housing in a m anner th a t results in more racially integrated neighbor­hoods and schools. A two-year $124,000 gran t from the Foundation has helped w ith th is effort.

ESCOC’s activities will include a m ar­keting cam paign aim ed not only a t pros­pective hom e buyers bu t also a t realtors w ith access to m inority families who are looking to buy a hom e in a new area; a residential location service which will provide inform ation to prospective home buyers about schools, shopping, recrea­tion and hom e financing opportunities in the eastern suburbs; and various types of financial aid to prospective buyers to help reduce interest on m ort­gages or to m ake downpayments.

“Realtors are showing a new sensitivity th a t was not found in the past,” says Dr. W inston Ritchie, ESCOC’s executive di­rector. “Now they feel th a t anyone has the right to live wherever they can afford to.” ESCOC has also been promised the cooperation of all the school superin ten­dents it has approached, says Ritchie, who have said they “are willing to work hard to educate those in their school system s (regarding integration).” It will take time, he concedes, bu t he is op­tim istic for the future.

ESCOC's activities will include a marketing cam­paign aimed not only at prospective home buyers but also at realtors with access to minorities.

An even in g a t hom e in th e suburbs: In tegration gets so m e help. (Photograph by R icardo Barrett)

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School b e lls a t C ity Hall: reta in ing good peop le in stea d o f h iring n ew ones

The City's effort is based on the premise that man­agers skilled in human relations and participatory management tech­niques w ill bring out the best in their subordinates.

Management Techniques Taught at C ity Hall

For those who have never quite gotten used to being pu t on “hold” for in term i­nable waits, a telephone call to Cleveland’s City Hall these days can be a p leasant surprise. Many of the City’s workers have been trained in telephone e tiquette— and it shows. A n icety perhaps, bu t i t’s part of a broader, m ore thoroughgoing effort to better the operation of the City’s governm ent by improving the capability of the people running it. By all accounts, the staff training program has borne out th a t theory.

Suggested in 1979 by Mayor George V. Voinovich’s Operations Improvement Tksk Force, the staff developm ent pro­gram has received $226,000 in grants from The Cleveland Foundation since 1982 as part of the Foundation’s com ­m itm ent to help build the capability of key public institu tions to function more effectively. To date, about 2,000 of the City’s 8,500 employees have participated in classes, m ost taugh t by colleagues who have been specially trained in the art of instruction. In fact, the program has been so successful th a t the City has converted unused space in City Hall into perm anent classroom s and expects to

assum e full financial responsibility in 1985 for the program , now budgeted at roughly $300,000 per year.

The City’s effort has operated from the outset on the prem ise th a t m anagers skilled in hu m an relations and partici­patory m anagem ent techniques will bring out the best in their subordinates. Spe­cial executive re treats and nine-week m anagem ent courses cam e first, followed by shorter, m ore technical courses and sem inars aim ed a t sharpen ing the per­form ance of career civil servants who m ake up the bulk of the City’s work force.

The program also has provided a means for the City to benefit from train ing ex­pertise found in local businesses and in­stitu tions of h igher education. Case W estern Reserve U niversity’s Depart­m ent of Organizational Behavior was re­tained to aid in the initial planning of the program . O ther local resources have also been utilized: representatives of Ohio Bell, for example, have taugh t classes in telephone etiquette and procedures. And in a project th a t Karl Bonutti, a Cleve­land State University econom ist who directs the tra in ing program , hopes will become a prototype for o ther depart­m ents at City Hall, Cuyahoga Com m u­nity College (TH-C) is cooperating with the City to offer an associate degree pro­gram for building inspectors. The curri­culum stresses both theoretical ground-

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

Some program benefits are less tangi­ble. Lawrence Bicking, the City’s direc­tor of parks, recreation and properties, notes th a t employees seem to enjoy the break from the routine (efforts are m ade to include people from several different departm ents in each class) and are eager to share their new knowledge. “I’d rather spend money on tra in ing the people we already have th an on hiring more people,” says Bicking. “It’s the best in ­vestm ent we can make.”

Aggressive Media Campaign Works to Reduce Crime

At a tim e when m any elem ents in the com m unity are throw ing up their hands at the daunting problem of crime, the Cleveland Bar Association is taking a hard look a t society’s efforts to handle the crime problem and helping to plan some highly aggressive program s aim ed at improving those efforts.

In 1981, Louis Paisley, the Association’s president, appointed a Tksk Force on Violent Crime to be chaired by Judge Burt W. Griffin of Com m on Pleas Court. Today, the Tksk Force has three program s up and running, w ith others being planned. One has already established itself so well th a t the state is p lanning to take it over and expand it to cover all of Ohio. T hat effort is a m edia cam paign aim ed a t cu tting down the use of h an d ­guns in robberies.

Begun in 1983, a t the s ta rt of the Christm as shopping season, it is cen­tered around a picture of a pistol and the slogan, “Use It To Rob and You Rob Your­self. M andatory 8 Years Prison.” Partly financed w ith a g ran t from The Cleveland Foundation, th is m essage was displayed on 70 billboards around Cuyahoga County, on posters and in p rin t adver­tisem ents, and incorporated in a series of radio and television com m ercials which were aired during a two-week blitz.

“The resu lts have been very satisfac­tory,” says Ju d g e Griffin. “During the time the cam paign has run, there has been a 25 percent reduction in gun rob­beries and com m ercial robberies.”

“Obviously,” he continues, “not all of that can be a ttribu ted to our cam paign, bu t we have anecdotal evidence th a t suggests we have been effective.” Prison­

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

In addition to the handgun project, Foundation support has been made available for other, more general, Tksk Force activities, such as the creation of the first auxiliary police un it to work in a public housing project.

“We knew,” says Judge Griffin, “that police auxiliary units were doing good work, bu t m ost of them were in some of our ‘better’ neighborhoods, where it’s easier to get volunteer participation. We w anted to try one in a high-crime area.” King-Kennedy, on Woodland Avenue near East 55th Street, qualified. One felony a day was being reported there. So a group of residents was recruited and trained.

Functioning under the supervision of the city police, the auxiliary police are uniform ed and have police radios, but they are unarm ed. They patrol in cars and on foot.

Since the King-Kennedy unit was cre­ated in late 1984, the num ber of reported felonies has plum m eted to a new low of three a year, and the Cleveland Police D epartm ent is now planning to establish auxiliary units a t other public housing projects.

Mandatory 8 yews prison.THE TASK FORCE ON VIOLENT CRIME

The poster that talked business. There was evidence it was effective.

“During the time the campaign has run,” says Judge Griffin, “there has been a 25 percent reduction in gun robberies and com­mercial robberies.”

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Police were issu­ing 300,000 tickets a year—and fewer than 100,000 were being paid without expensive and time-consuming follow-up.

A third program was begun a t Alexan­der Ham ilton Ju n io r High School. Using school faculty and staff, police, proba­tion officers and other Juvenile Court personnel, the Ik sk Force se t out to identify hard-core delinquents a t the school.

“These kids thought our whole system was a fraud,” Judge Griffin says. “Ju v e­nile Court was a joke—they say people beat the system there all the time.”

Having identified about 35 hard cases, the Tksk Force set out to show them the system could work. Police drop by the school twice a week; probation officers m eet and work w ith kids on probation there; parents have been contacted and now attend m eetings where experts speak on parenting techniques and how to cope. S tatistics on successes have been hard to come by, b u t school people, Juvenile Court and outside social agen­cy officials are im pressed enough th a t sim ilar program s are being started a t six other jun ior high schools.

Building Efficiency into Crim inal Justice

Changes in the way the justice system operates do not happen overnight. They often require careful planning, rigorous testing and close cooperation am ong the system ’s key com ponents.

A continuing jo in t effort on the part of the Cleveland Police D epartm ent, the Clerk of Municipal Courts and the Police Prosecutor, has recently been showing tangible results in term s of increasing revenue through better collection of fines, saving money through more efficient use of police personnel, and enhancing the civil rights of m inor offenders—not through foregoing their punishm ent, bu t through reducing unnecessary process­ing in the handling of their cases.

TWo m ajor program s have been tested and are being im plem ented by the three agencies involved. These are a new sys­tem for handling follow-up of delinquent traffic offenders and a program which perm its police districts to release m inor offenders who cannot make bail, rather than shipping them to the Justice Center for further detention.

S h ot in th e dark: A C leveland police officer leaves a ticket on a c itize n ’s w indsh ie ld .

The delinquent traffic offenders pro­gram began w ith the realization there had to be a better way: police were issu­ing 300,000 tickets a year—and fewer than 100,000 were being paid w ithout expensive and tim e-consum ing warrant processing and follow-up by police. In a m onitored test, 2,861 notices were sent, 508 were retu rned because of bad ad­dresses and 1,067 cases were cleared. In m onetary term s, $39,389 was collected, w hich breaks down to $36.92 per case cleared or $13.77 per notice sent.

Cleveland has six police districts, all bu t one (downtown) w ith its own limited lock-up facilities. Prisoners were held here until they could m ake bail, or until they could be taken to the Ju stice Center for arraignm ent. In som e cases, mostly on weekends or holidays w hen court was closed, a defendant m ight be held for 12 to 24 hours or even longer. More often, police took the offenders to the Justice Center where they were detained. Each transportation run tied up two police of-

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ficers and one police car, and involved a good deal of paper work. Police records for 1984 showed th a t 61 percent of the prisoners held a t local station houses were eventually transferred downtown.

The Cleveland Police D epartm ent, under a Foundation grant, worked with the Clerk of Courts, the Police Prosecutor and the C incinnati Institute of Justice to develop a station house release program under which persons charged w ith some m inor m isdem eanors and traffic offenses could be released on au thority of police at the local station. (The Cincinnati In­stitute of Justice is a nonprofit consult­ing firm which helps local governm ents improve their crim inal justice procedures. The Institute also assisted w ith the de­velopment of the traffic-ticket program.)

A three-m onth study conducted before the program was finally adopted showed that, of 6,638 persons arrested, 3,745 could be considered for early release, and 1,025 were actually let go. Of those released, 82 percent m ade their court appearances as promised, and w arrants were issued for those who did not. (The rate of court appearances m atched th a t of offenders for w hom bail had been posted.) Savings in police personnel hours alone were estim ated a t about $70,000 a year.

The underlying them e of these efforts has been improving efficiency in the criminal justice system . The long-range program the Foundation is supporting has been highly encouraging in two respects: initiative for specific efforts has come from the agencies involved, ra ther than from external sources; and there seems to be a new realization th a t cooperation am ong various elem ents of the justice system is a crucial ingredient in improving operations not only of the system as a whole bu t also of individual agencies.

■W ith quite a different goal in m ind, and using a totally different approach, another Cleveland Foundation grantee, CLEAN-LAND, OHIO, has been exploring a new way of tu rn ing crim e to the com m unity’s benefit.

CLEAN-LAND engages in beautifica­tion projects th roughout the city. Among its m ajor undertak ings is a visual im ­

provem ent program for Carnegie Avenue, consisting of vacant lot beautification, high-im pact landscaping in plots it calls cityside gardens, tree planting and gen­eral clean-up. As of early spring this year, there were six cityside gardens along Carnegie Avenue from Ontario to East 46th Street, and two m ore were in the works, one of which would extend the area to Fairhill Boulevard.

Featuring neatly m ulched shrubbery and plots where flowers bloom, some cityside gardens are on city-owned prop­erty, some 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 hangs a tale.

As of the end of 1984, 4,929 hours of labor had been provided by nonviolent crim inal offenders who, under an inno­vative Common Pleas Court program funded in part by a two-year, $45,000 grant from The Cleveland Foundation, were paying their debts to society in ways more useful than sitting in jail.

An offender who cannot pay a fine or who is given conditional probation may find him- or herself working w ith spade and trowel along Carnegie Avenue or the RTA right-of-way under supervision of CLEAN-LAND and the court. If the of­fender is working off a fine, CLEAN- LAND credits his or her account a t the m inim um wage rate. Other offenders are assigned to perform a stated num ber of hours’ work in public service. CLEAN- LAND 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. “This year, we’ll make it an even mile.”

By the end of 1984, 4,929 hours o f labor had been provided by non­violent crim inal offenders under an innovative program.

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Civic A ffairs Grants

Black Econom ic Union of Ohio—H ousing developm ent ac tiv ities in the H ough area of Cleveland (second y e a r ) .......................................... $ 3 5 ,0 0 0

Broadway Area H ousing C oalition—H ousing rehab ilita tion program in the North Broadway a rea (second year)

$ 1 8 ,0 0 0

Broadway D evelopm ent Corpora­tion —Facade renovation program jo in tly adm in istered by the Broadway Developm ent Corporation and The Slavic Village A ssociation (second y e a r) .......................................... $ 2 0 ,9 5 7

The C leveland Bar C haritable and Educational Fund—A ctivities of the Tksk Force on Violent Crim e

$ 3 5 ,0 0 0

City of C leveland—D epartm en t of Parks, Recreation and P roperties’ rehabilita tion and prom otion of Rockefeller Park G reenhouse and Talking G arden for the Blind . $ 2 ,5 0 0Design, developm ent and general concept phases of the “Civic Vision,” a citywide p lann ing effort over 18 m o n th s ...................................$100,000Expansion of the no cost/low cost energy savings program of the Office of C onsum er Affairs (second year)

$ 1 7 ,0 0 0S upp lem en t in The Plain D ealer en ­titled “Cleveland’s Civic Vision: A B lueprin t for D evelopm ent” . $ 5 ,0 0 0

Cleveland D evelopm ent Founda­tion (Greater C leveland Growth A ssociation)—Cleveland’s pa rtic ip a ­tion in a m ulti-city u rb an in frastruc­tu re program sponsored by The U rban Institu te and Spring Hill C enter (third y e a r ) ..........................................$10,000Com pletion of the im plem entation phase of the G reater Cleveland Growth A ssociation’s C om m unity Capital In­vestm ent S tra te g y ................. $ 6 0 ,0 0 0

The Cleveland Foundation (Inc.)—Evaluation of Cleveland S tate Univer­s ity ’s C enter for N eighborhood Devel­opm ent H ousing R esearch and Policy Project of the College of U rban Affairs, T he U rban C e n te r ....................$ 5 ,0 0 0Monitoring of the City of Cleveland’s Integrated Safety System (second y e a r ) ............................................ $ 7 ,0 0 0Planning assistance to the Ohio D epartm en t of N atural Resources for the Euclid Beach u n it of Cleveland Lakefront S tate P a r k ...............$ 5 ,0 0 0Technical assistance for the M.Y.H.Club Corporation program to address its long-term organization and fund­ing n e e d s ...................................$ 5 ,0 0 0

C leveland H istoric W are. tSe D istr ict D evelopm ent C orpora­tio n —D evelopm ent of th e w arehouse d istric t over two years $20,000

C leveland M unicipal Court, Office of Clerk of C ourts—C om pletion of special p ro ject cond u c ted by the Clerk of Courts, th e Division of Police and the Office of the P rosecu to r to improve a rre s t p rocedures a n d th e p rocess for serv ing w arran ts for traffic an d pa rk ­ing vio lations ......................... $ 1 0 ,9 8 7C reation of a special opera tions p lan ­n ing u n it over two years . . $ 120,000

C leveland R ecycling C e n te r -Partial opera ting su p p o rt . . $ 2 0 ,0 0 0

C leveland S ta te U n iv e r s ity -O perating su p p o rt for the C enter for N eighborhood D evelopm ent over two y e a r s ...........................................$ 1 3 0 ,0 0 0

Cleveland Tenants O rgan ization -First phase of an analysis of th e Cleve­land H ousing C ourt Division of the Cleveland M unicipal C ourt . $ 1 3 ,5 3 6

Cleveland W aterfront C o a litio n -E xpanded staff and o ther operating e x p e n d itu re s ...............................$ 1 8 ,7 5 0Slide show of the new developm ent plan for C leveland’s lakefront in con­jun c tio n w ith the Mayor’s W aterfront S teering C o m m itte e ................... $ 7 ,5 0 0

CNA, Incorporated—A ssistance to T he Lakeview Terrace R esident Coun­cil in estab lish ing a te n a n t m anage­m en t p rogram a t Lakeview Terrace

8 4 3 ,0 0 0

Collier County Conservancy,N aples, F lorida—O perating support

$200

C om m unity Inform ation/Volun­teer A ction C enter (CIVAC)—E stab lishm en t and operation of a com m un ity service sen tenc ing pro­gram for C uyahoga C ounty m unicipal courts over 18 m o n th s . . . $ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0

Cuyahoga C om m unity C ollege—M inority en trep ren eu r tra in ing

$ 3 ,5 0 0

Cuyahoga M etropolitan H ousing A uthority—S u m m er youth e m p lo y m e n t.............................. $ 4 ,9 6 3

Cuyahoga Valley C om m unities Council, Inc.—C uyahoga Valley Entrancew ay Project over 18 m on ths

$ 7 ,5 0 0

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D etroit Shoreway Com m unity D evelopm ent O rganization—Legal f e e s ...................................$ 2 ,0 0 0

D iocese of Cleveland (Catholic)—The Com m ission on Catholic Com ­m unity Action’s m inority voter educa­tion project ................................ $ 4 ,1 0 0

East Suburban Council for Open C om m unities—New program s for open housing over two years

$ 1 2 4 ,0 0 0

Euclid Com m unity C oncerns—C om m unity im provem ent efforts (third y e a r ) ..............................$ 1 3 ,0 0 0

The Findlay/Hancock County Com­m unity D evelopm ent R esearch Foundation—Revitalization plan for the downtown area of Findlay*

$ 8 1 ,0 0 0

Forest Hill Parkway Area Council—Neighborhood Preservation Project (third y e a r ) ................................ $ 9 ,0 0 0

Greater C leveland Ecology A ssocia ­tion—E xpansion of leaf com posting program over two years . . . . $ 2 5 ,0 0 0

Greater C leveland Neighborhood Centers A ssocia tion —Project S.H.A.R.E. a t M urtis H. Tkylor Multi- Services C enter (second year) ..................................................$ 1 3 ,5 0 0

Greater C leveland R oundtable—Labor/m anagem ent sem inar

$ 1 2 ,5 0 0

Hancock Park D istr ict, Findlay, Ohio—Im provem ent an d m anagem en t plan for S h an k Lake N ature Preserve*

$ 8 0 0“Smokey the B ear” costum e and educational m a te r ia ls * ...............$ 4 8 0

The H ousing A dvocates, Inc.—Pro­m otion of new and conservation of ex­isting housing in C uyahoga C ounty (second y e a r) ........................... $ 2 5 ,0 0 0

The Inner C ity Renewal S o c ie ty —Juven ile Offenders In tervention Net­work ...........................................$ 2 5 ,0 0 0

Jew ish C om m unity C enter of C leveland—E stab lish m en t of the Jew ish C om m unity C enter Beach- wood Com plex .......................$ 7 0 ,0 0 0

League o f Women Voters of Cleveland E ducational Fund, Inc.—Program on you th an d the election system over two y e a r s ..........$ 4 5 ,0 3 0

Lincoln In stitu te o f Land Policy, Inc., Cambridge, M assach u setts—Cleveland Land D ata System Project (third y e a r ) ..............................$ 5 0 ,0 0 0

M.Y.H. Club Corporation—Program supplies and salaries for the director and adm inistrative assis tan t

$ 4 5 ,0 0 0

M inority Economic Developm ent Council—Technical assistance to sm all m inority-ow ned businesses (second y ea r) ..............................$ 2 5 ,0 0 0

N ational N eighbors—Cleveland M etropolitan S trategy Group over 13 m o n th s ...........................................$ 4 ,0 0 0

National Urban Fellows, Inc., New York, New York—U nderw riting costs of two National Urban Fellows in C lev e lan d ................................ $2 4 ,1 0 7

New Cleveland-6, Inc.—C ontinued support of neighborhood developm ent activ ities in the Fairfax area

$ 3 4 ,0 6 6

The Old Brooklyn Community D evelopm ent Corporation—Program m anager for the Broadvue T heater C om m unity C enter facility over two y e a r s .........................$ 4 5 ,8 1 5

Private Industry Council of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County—O perating support for first-year p ro g ra m ...................................$ 6 2 ,0 0 0

Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—Cleveland area in terns in C om m unity Econom ic Development Program sponsored by the Development TYain- ing In s titu te ..............................$1 8 ,1 0 0V entures in C om m unity Im provem ent program in Cleveland to tra in young people in construction trades over two y e a rs ............... $ 5 0 ,0 0 0

Rapid Recovery, Inc., DBA Clean- land, Ohio—Carnegie Avenue visual im provem ent program . . . . $20,000

R esource—Women: The Untapped R esource—Publications and pro­gram s associated w ith the Dual C areer P ro je c t..............................$ 5 ,0 0 0

Tremont W est Developm ent Corporation—Staff for econom ic developm ent of TYemont West com ­m ercial areas .......... $20,000

TVust for Public Land, San Fran­cisco, C alifornia—'Ibward the p u r­chase of 27.93 acres of Euclid Beach p roperty for the Cleveland Lakefront S tate P a r k ..............................$ 1 2 5 ,0 0 0

Union-Miles Developm ent Corporation—Housing rehabilitation p ro g ra m ..................................... $ 3 0 ,0 0 0Sm all Private Owner A bandonm ent Project (second y e a r) ................. $ 4 ,0 0 0

U niversity Circle, Inc.—E stab lishm en t of system for collecting and com posting leaves in University C irc le ...........................................$ 2 0 ,0 0 0

The Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Inc.—Program to in ­crease m inority em ploym ent in safety careers (Project PRIMES) (third year) ....................................................$ 2 4 ,4 7 5

Youth O pportunities U nlim ited—S um m er Youth Em ploym ent Program (second and 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 designated by donor)

Greater Cleveland Neighborhood C enters A ssociation —General s u p p o r t ..........................................$200

The Women’s C ity Club of Cleve­land—E ducational lectures . . . $ 3 6 5

TOTAL CIVIC AFFAIRS G R A N TS- DESIGNATED ........................... $ 5 6 5

TOTAL CIVIC AFFAIRS G R A N TS- DESIGNATED AND UNDESIG­NATED ........................... $ 2 ,2 8 2 ,9 3 1

*Grant recom m ended by F indlay D istribution C om m ittee o f the L. Dale D orney Fund.

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Forty Years of Leadership:T he K n igh t F oundation’s C.C. Gibson (left) roasts H om er W adsw orth a t the Ohio Foun­da tions Conference. (Photograph bu Robert Muller)

Special Philanthropic ServicesThe funds expended for special philan­thropic service go prim arily for the oper­ating costs of The Cleveland Foundation and a wide variety of services for the benefit of the philanthropic com m unity throughout N ortheast Ohio. The latter includes services to o ther charitable in­stitu tions w hich do not employ staff or have limited staff. The services include evaluation of grant proposals and m onitoring grants as well as convening m eetings to deal w ith issues of com m on concern to the participating foundations.

■ In November, the Foundation hosted the ten th annual Ohio Foundations Con­ference, supplying (besides a financial contribution) staff support and office space for the conference coordinator and helping with the arrangem ents for the two-day gathering of representatives from com munity, private and corporate foundations around the state. This year’s conference, built around the them e “Revitalizing the Civic Vision: the Role of Philanthropy,” was the largest and m ost successful ever, draw­ing some 230 participants. TWelve dif­ferent sessions were offered in all, cover­ing such topics as “Education for a Changing Business Environm ent” and “Helping Donees Help Themselves: S tretching the G rant Dollars,” with The Cleveland Foundation providing six of the speakers or panelists. Richard W. Lyman, president of The Rockefeller Foundation and chairperson of The In­dependent Sector, gave the keynote ad­dress, and retired Cleveland Foundation director Homer C. W adsworth shared his observations on “A Decade of Philan­thropy in Ohio,” in a special plenary ses­sion honoring the former director for his nearly four decades of inspired leader­ship in the philanthropic sector.

■ The Cleveland Foundation continued to support the regional library and field office of the Foundation Center of New York. The library is nam ed in honor of Kent H. Sm ith, a former Cleveland Foun­dation Distribution Com m ittee m ember.

The two-person staff includes a profes­sional librarian w ith expertise in foun­dation m atters who conducts o rien ta­tion sessions in the use of the library s resources.

The library houses m ateria ls relating to the grant-m aking process, including annual reports of national foundations, Internal Revenue Service re tu rn s of foundations in Ohio and neighboring states, and inform ation on federal and state governm ent funding.

In 1984, a record 2,700 visitors from the Cleveland area, o ther parts of Ohio and the Midwest used the library. Of these, 673 attended the 124 orientation sessions struc tu red to teach grant seekers how to use the lib rary’s resources m ore effectively.

G r a n ts

The C leveland Foundation (Inc.)—Anisfield-Wolf a w a r d s .......................... $ 2 9 ,0 0 0D em ographic an d o rgan izational profile of Lake and G eauga c o u n tie s .................... $ 5 ,0 0 0D evelopm ent of an overall m ission and s tra tegy for The Cleveland F oundation ...............................................................$ 2 2 5 ,0 0 0E xpenses in cu rred in p repara tion of ag reem en ts an d d ocum en ts for the Lexington Village P ro je c t .........................................$ 5 0 ,0 0 0Ohio F oundations Conference: Partial sup p o rt for the years 1984-1986. . . .$ 5 ,0 0 0O perating b udget of The Cleveland F oundation (Inc.) for the year 1985 .......................................................... $ 1 ,6 4 0 ,2 7 5

Council on Foundations, Inc., W ashington, D. C.—Professional develop­m en t ac tiv ities related to foundation trustees over two y e a r s .........................................$ 1 5 ,0 0 0

The Foundation Center, New York, New York—O perating su p p o rt for the Foundation C enter-C leveland for the year 1985

$ 3 8 ,3 6 0

TO TAL........................................... $ 2 ,0 0 7 ,6 3 5

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Trust Funds, Combined Funds, N ontrust Funds and Supporting O rganizations

C o n stru ctiv e a ltern a tiv e to ja il: N onviolent offenders do tim e on C arnegie A ven u e under a n in n o va tive program (See Civic Affairs.)

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Trust FundsA wide variety of donors, w anting to benefit their com m unity for years to come, have established the following tru s t funds. These funds are nam ed for their donors, by the donor for a m em orial or, in som e instances, for the recipient organization which they enrich.

Rob Roy A lexander Fund The Aloy M emorial Scholarship Fund The Dr. David A lsbacher Fund for Medical

ResearchT he George an d May M argaret Angell "IYust Anisfield-Wolf Fund C harles Rieley A rm ington Fund W alter C. and Lucy I. A strup Fund No. 1 W alter C. an d Lucy I. A strup Fund No. 2 Sophie A uerbach Fund*The Frederic M. and Nettie E. Backus

Memorial Fund W alter C. and Fannie W hite Baker Fund Lilian H anna Baldwin Fund Mabel R. B atem an Memorial Fund W arner M. B atem an Memorial Fund Cornelia W. Beardslee Fund Ja m e s C. Beardslee Fund Louis D. B eaum ont Fund Mary B errym an Fund Ida Beznoska FundBig Brothers of Greater Cleveland FundThe Dr. H am ilton Fisk Biggar FundGeorge Davis Bivin FundThe M artin E. and Evelyn K. Blum FundTom L.E. Blum and M artin E. Blum FundKatherine Bohm FundRoberta Holden Bole FundThe George H. Boyd Fund*Alva Bradley II FundG ertrude H. Britton, K atharine H. Perkins

FundFannie Brown Memorial Fund George F. B uehler Memorial Fund The H arry F. and Edna J. B urm ester

C haritable R em ainder U nitrust No. 1 T hom as B urnham Memorial Trust K atherine Ward Burrell Fund The M artha B. Carlisle Memorial Fund The Alfred J . C arpenter Memorial Fund The Central High School Endow m ent Fund The Fred H. C hapin Memorial Fund The Frank J. and Nellie L. Chappie Fund* George W. Chisholm Fund J.E .G . Clark TYust Marie O denkirk Clark Fund The Elsa C laus Memorial Fund No. 2 Cleveland Foundation Com bined Funds The Cleveland Foundation Special Fund

No. 3Cleveland: NOW! Fund Cleveland Recreational A rts Fund Caroline E. Coit Fund A.E. Convers Fund*H arry Coulby Fund No. 2 H arry Coulby Fund No. 4 Jacob D. Cox Fund S. Houghton Cox Fund Henry G. Dalton Fund The Howard and Edith Dingle Fund Edwin A. and Ju lia Greene Dodd Fund

No. 1Edw in A. and Ju lia Greene Dodd Fund

No. 2

L. Dale Dorney FundThe Mary and W allace D uncan FundThe W illiam C. and Agnes M. D unn FundAlice M cHardy Dye FundThe E m erald Necklace FundAda C. Em erson Fund*H enry A. Everett THist H om er Everett Fund Mary McGraw Everett Fund T he Irene Ewing Thast C harles Dudley Farnsw orth Fund T he George D. and E dith W. Featherstone

M emorial Fund Dr. F rank Carl Felix an d Flora W ebster

Felix Fund The Fenn Educational Funds (5)First Cleveland Cavalry-Norton Memorial

FundWilliam C. Fischer and Lillye T. Fischer

Memorial Fund*Fisher FundErwin L. Fisher and Fanny M. Fisher

Memorial Fund Edward C. Flanigon Fund Forest City Hospital Foundation Fund C onstance C. Frackelton Fund No. 1 C onstance C. Frackelton Fund No. 6 C onstance C. Frackelton Fund No. 7 C onstance C. Frackelton Fund No. 8 The Fannie P itcairn Frackelton and David

W. Frackelton Fund Robert J. Frackelton Fund The George Freem an C harity Fund Frederic H. G ates Fund The William F. an d A nna Lawrence

G ibbons Fund*William A. Giffhorn Fund Frederick H arris Goff Fund Frederick H. and Frances Southw orth Goff

Fund*Isaac C. Goff Fund*Edw in R. Goldfield Fund Lillian F. Goldfield Fund Marie Louise Gollan Fund Dr. Isadore J. G oodm an and R uth G oodm an

Memorial Fund Ju liu s E. G oodm an Fund The George C. and Marion S. Gordon Fund Robert B. G randin Fund The Eugene S. Halle Memorial Fund The Hortense B. Halle and Jay M. Halle

FundDorothea W right Ham ilton Fund Edw in T. and Mary E. H am ilton Fund The Lynn J. and Eva D. H am m ond

Memorial Fund*Leonard C. H anna, Jr. Cleveland

Foundation Special Purpose Fund Leonard C. H anna, Jr. C om m unity

Development Funds (5)Leonard C. H anna, Jr. Fund for

C om m unity Chest Leonard C. H anna, Jr. Fund for United

Appeal William S titt H annon Fund Perry G. H arrison and Virginia C. H arrison

Memorial Fund The Kate H anna Harvey M emorial Funds

No. 1 and 2 Melville H. Haskell, Mary H. Hunter,

G ertrude H. Britton, K atharine H.Perkins Funds No. 1 and 2

George Halle Hays Fund K aufm an Hays Memorial Fund The Louise W. and Irving K. Heller Fund Mildred Shelby Heller Memorial Fund The William Myron Heller Memorial Fund The H inds Memorial Fund*The Hiram House Fund

T he Jaco b H irtenstein F undH. Morley and E lizabeth New berry

H itchcock Fund Mildred E. Hom m el an d A rth u r G. H om m el

M emorial Fund C en tureena S. H otchkiss F und M artin Huge, M artha M. Huge, T heodore

L. Huge and R einhard t E. Huge M emorial Fund

J o h n H unting ton Benevolent Fund The A. W. H urlbu t Fund T he N orm a W itt Ja c k so n F und S h erm an Jo h n so n M em orial Fund Caroline Bonnell Jo n e s Fund Ja m e s S. Jo rd a n F und A drian D. Joyce Fund T he Frederick W. an d H enryett S locum

J u d d Fund H enryett S. Ju d d Fund The G ertrude Pfeiffer K ahn Fund Isaac Theodore K ahn Fund Tillie A. Kaley an d W arren R. Kaley

M emorial Fund K aram u House T hist C larence A. K irkham M emorial Fund Jo h n R. K istner Fund The Otto and Lena Konigslow Memorial

Fund*Elroy J . an d Fynette H. Kulas Fund*The A rth u r A. Lederer an d R uth Lawrence

Lederer Fund M artha M. L inden Fund Robert M. Linney Fund Sue L. Little Fund Vida C. Logan Fund E lizabeth T. Lohm iller Fund Gustave Lorber and Frieda B rum l Lorber

Memorial Fund Ella L. Lowm an Fund H enry M. Lucas Fund Clem ens W. Lundoff an d H ilda T. Lundoff

FundF rank J . Lynch Fund*Nellie Lynch Fund T heresa Mae MacNab Fund The M aude F. M ajerick Fund Leone R. Bowe Marco Fund Alice Keith M ather F und The Sam uel M ather an d Flora Stone

M ather M emorial Fund H arriet E. McBride Fund T he Lewis A. an d Ellen E. McCreary

M emorial Fund The Jo h n A. and Mildred T. McGean Fund The George W. and S arah McGuire Fund D onald W. M cIntyre Fund The K atherine B. M cKitterick Fund The J o h n C. McLean M emorial Fund The T hom as an d M ary McMyler Memorial

FundThe A lbert Younglove M eriam and K athryn

A. Meriam Fund Alice B utts M etcalf Fund S arah S tern M ichael Fund Helen G ibbs Mills M emorial Fund Victor Mills Fund A nna B. Minzer Fund Cornelia S. Moore Fund*The Mr. and Mrs. Ja y P. Moore Memorial

FundWilliam C urtis Morton, M aud Morton,

Kathleen Morton FundE. F reem an Mould Fund Ja n e C. Mould Fund Tbm Neal Fund

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Blanche E. Norvell Fund*Harry Norvell Fund The Crispin and Kate Oglebay Trusl Clarence A. Olsen T hjst Mary King O sborn Fund William P. Palm er Fund The Dr. Charles B. Parker Memorial Fund* The Joseph K. and Amy Shepard Patterson

Memorial Fund Linda J. Peirce Memorial Fund Douglas Perkins Fund Grace M. Pew Fund Walter D. Price Fund William H. Price Fund The J. Am brose and Jessie W heeler Purcell

M emorial Fund*The Charles Greif Raible and C atherine

Rogers Raible Fund The Jo h n R. Raible Fund Clay L. and Florence R annells Reely Fund The Retreat Memorial Fund Charles L. R ichm an Fund N athan G. R ichm an Fund Alice M. Rockefeller Fund Charles F. Ruby Fund William A. Ruehl and Mary Ruehl

Memorial Fund The Mary Coit Sanford M emorial Fund Mary Coit Sanford Fund Dr. Henry A. and Mary J. Schlink

Memorial Fund William C. Scofield M emorial Fund Charles W. and Lucille Sellers Memorial

FundWilliam K. Selm an M emorial Fund Frank S. Sheets and A lberta G. Sheets

Memorial Fund Frank E. Shepardson Fund The Henry A. Sherw in and Frances M.

Sherwin Fund*The Henry A. Sherw in and Frances M.

Sherw in Memorial Fund No. 1*The Henry A. Sherw in and Frances M.

Sherwin M emorial Fund No. 2*The Jo h n and LaVerne Short Memorial

FundThe A.H. and Ju lia W. S h u n k Fund The Thom as and A nna Sidlo Fund Kent H. Sm ith Fund The Nellie B. Snavely Fund A.L. Som ers Fund William J. Southw orth Fund William P. Southw orth and Louisa

Southw orth Fund Dr. George P. Soyer Fund The Jo h n C. and E lizabeth F. Sparrow

Memorial Fund Marion R. Spellm an Fund Josephine L. Sperry Fund The George B. Spreng and Hazel Myers

Spreng M emorial Fund The Hazel Myers Spreng Fund in m em ory

of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.N. Myers The Dorothy and O scar H. S teiner Fund

for the C onservation of A bused C hildren Frederick C. S terling Second Testam entary

Thist*Avery L. S terner Fund Ada Gates Stevens M emorial Fund C atherine E. Stewart, M artha A. Stewart,

Ju d ith H. S tew art an d Je a n n e tte Stew art Memorial Fund

Jessie Stew art Fund Charles L. and M arion H. Stone Fund H arriet B. S torrs Fund Leonard F. Stowe Fund The Alma M. and H arry R. Templeton

Memorial Fund

H enrietta Tteufel Memorial Fund The Jo h n H. T hom as Fund Amos B urt and Je a n n e L. T hom pson Fund M aude S. Tbmlin Memorial Fund Mabelle G. and Finton L. Tbrrence Fund Ja m e s H. TUrner Fund The Edward and E sther T. Thttle

Memorial Fund C harles F. Uhl Fund Rufus M. U llm an Fund J o h n F. and Mary G. Wahl M emorial Fund Jessie MacDonald Walker M emorial Fund The Jo h n Mason W alter and Jea n n e M.

Walter M emorial Fund No. 1 T he Jo h n Mason W alter an d Jea n n e M.

Walter M emorial Fund No. 2 Mabel Breckenridge Wason Fund A Mabel Breckenridge Wason Fund B* George B. and E dith S. W heeler Thist Edward Loder W hittem ore Fund H enry E. and E thel L. Widdell Fund The Jo h n E dm und W illiams Fund Tferesa Ja n e W illiams Memorial Fund A rthur P. and Elizabeth M. W illiamson

FundThe George H., Charles E., and Sam uel

Denny W ilson M emorial Fund Edith Anisfield Wolf Fund The B enjam in and R osem ary Wolpaw

Memorial Fund David C. W right Memorial Fund E dith W right Memorial Fund T he Wulf Sisters M emorial Fund

*PARTIAL BENEFITS FUNDS provide p a y m e n ts o f a n n u itie s to certain ind iv idua ls prior to p a y m e n t o f incom e to the Foundation. W ith three exceptions. T he C leveland Foundation w ill u ltim a te ly receive the en tire n e t incom e fro m these fu n d s . T he principa l a m o u n ts o f these fu n d s are carried as a sse ts o f T he C leveland Foundation.

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

N ew T ru st F u n ds R ece ived :WILLIAM P. SOUTHWORTH AND LOUISA SOUTHWORTH FUND Donor: Otis S. Southw orth and G eorgiana Lee Southw orth Trusts Carrying Value: $694,303 Market Value 12/31/84: $882,368 Use of Income: U nrestricted charitab le purposes

THE EDWARD AND ESTHER T. TUTTLE MEMORIAL FUND Donor: E sther Tbttle Peyton Estate Carrying Value: $92,146 Market Value 12/31/84: $91,696 Use of Income: R estricted to m entally retarded persons in the G reater Cleveland Area

A d d itio n s to E x is t in g F u n dsC harles Rieley A rm ington Fund was increased by a gift of $36,000 to in ­com e from the E lizabeth Rieley A rm ­ington C haritable Thist.

Mabel R. B atem an M emorial Fund was increased by a d istribu tion of $12,140 from the Mabel R. B atem an Estate.

The M artin E. and Evelyn K. Blum Fund was increased by a d istribu tion of $346,120 from the M artin E. Blum Estate.

Cleveland: NOW! Fund was increased by a d istribu tion of $670 from Cleveland: NOW!

Cleveland Recreational Arts Fund was increased by a gift of $2,000 from Kurt L. Seelbach and $100 from the Raym ond Jo h n Wean Foundation.

Edw in A. and Ju lia G reene Dodd Fund No. 2 was increased by a d istribu tion of $100 from the Edwin A. Dodd Estate.L. Dale Dorney Fund was increased by $14,688 th rough an insurance distribution.

The Em erald Necklace Fund was in ­creased by gifts of $10 from Anony­m ous and $200 from the Stouffer Cor­poration Fund.

T he Irene Ewing T hist was increased by a d istribu tion of $28,518 from the Irene Ew ing Estate.The Fenn Educational Fund was in ­creased by gifts of $15,000 from The Autom obile D ealers’ Educational A ssistance Foundation, $430 from The H arry F. and E dna J . B urm ester C haritable R em ainder U n itrust No. 1 and $10 from Mr. and Mrs. F rancis J. McDonough.

Forest City Hospital Foundation Fund was increased by a gift of $53,000 from the Forest City Hospital Foundation.

The H ortense B. Halle and Ja y M. Halle Fund was increased by a d istribu tion of $507,218 from the H ortense B. Halle Estate.

Donald W. M cIntyre Fund was in ­creased by $45,939 th rough a d istri­bu tion from the Donald W.M cIntyre Estate.

The Dorothy and O scar H. S teiner F und for the C onservation of Abused C hildren was increased by a gift of $500 from O scar H. Steiner.

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C harles L. an d M arion H. S tone Fund w as increased by a d istribu tion of $20 from the C harles L. S tone Estate.

T he W ulf S isters M em orial Fund was increased by a d istribu tion of $3,372 from the A ugusta M. W ulf Estate.

Combined Funds

Com bined Funds were created w ithin The Cleveland Foundation in 1943 to provide a m eans through which gifts of any size could be m ade and pu t to work m ore efficiently. Several thousand donors have contributed to Com­bined Funds since their creation. Gifts to a Combined Fund retain their separate identity as m em ori­als bu t are com m ingled for invest­m en t purposes, thereby providing a large block of capital for more efficient investm ent m anagem ent and greater income potential.

Gifts to a Combined Fund may be m ade in the nam e of an indi­vidual or as memorials. There is no restriction as to size, and addi­tions may be m ade a t any time. Donors are encouraged to make their gifts available for unrestric t­ed charitable purposes, since this enables the Foundation to be flex­ible in m eeting changing com m u­nity needs and problems. If a donor wishes to express a prefer­ence as to how the income from the gift should be spent, it is sug­gested th a t one of the general Cleveland Foundation grant cate­gories—Civic Affairs, Cultural Affairs, Education, Health, Social Services or Economic Develop­m ent—be specified.

Morris A bram s FundAcademy of Medicine, H ealth Education

Foundation Fund R hoda L. Affelder Fund Alcoholism Services of Cleveland, Inc. W ickham H. Aldrich Fund Eunice Westfall Allen Memorial Sam uel Westfall Allen Memorial Lydia May Am es Fund Raleigh F. Andrie Memorial Fund M arguerite E. Anselm Memorial K atherine B. A rundel Fund Leonard P. Ayres Memorial

R uth and E lm er Babin Fund A.D. Baldwin M emorial Fund Robert K. Beck M emorial Fund T he B eckenbach Scholarship Memorial

FundH attie E. B ingham Fund Beulah Holden Bluim Memorial A rthu r B lythin Memorial Robert Blythin Memorial E rnest J . Bohn M emorial Fund Helen R. Bowler Fund Nap. H. Boynton M emorial Fund Alva Bradley Memorial B righam B ritton Fund Marie H. Brown Fund C harles F. B uescher Memorial T hom as B urnham M emorial Fund E lizabeth A. Burton Memorial E dm und S. Busch Fund Robert H. Busch Scholarship Fund C arm ela Cafarelli Fund Marian M. C am eron Fund Edna L. and G ustav W. C arlson Foundation

Memorial Fund Leyton E. C arter Memorial Fund Mary C atherine C arter Fund George S. Case Fund Isabel D. C ham berlin Fred H. C hapin Memorial The Adele Corning Chisholm Memorial

FundG arnetta B. C hristenson an d LeRoy W.

C hristenson Fund Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. C lark Fund Inez and H arry C lem ent Award Fund Cleveland Conference for E ducational

Cooperation Fund Cleveland G uidance C enter E ndow m ent

FundCleveland Heights High School

Scholarship Fund The Cleveland Foundation Special Fund

No. 4Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society FundThe Cleveland Sorosis FundCleveland War MemorialA rthur Cobb MemorialA rthur Cobb, Jr. MemorialFlorence Haney Cobb MemorialLouise B. Cobb MemorialMary Gaylord Cobb MemorialMavis Cobb MemorialPercy Wells Cobb MemorialRalph W. Cobb, Jr. MemorialDr. Harold N. Cole MemorialCole National Corp. FundLawrence E. Connelly MemorialJu d g e Alva R. Corlett MemorialMary B. Couch FundJaco b D. Cox, Jr. MemorialThe Eileen H. C ram er and M arvin H.

C ram er Fund Willis B. Crane Memorial Dr. W ilbur S. Crowell Memorial M arianne North C um m er Memorial G lenn A. Cutler Memorial N athan L. Dauby Memorial Mary E. Dee Memorial Fund Carl D ittm ar Memorial M agdalene Pahler Donahey Fund A nna J. D orm an and Pliny O. D orm an

Memorial Fund L. Dale Dorney Memorial Fund Ja m e s J . Doyle and Lillian Herron Doyle

Scholarship Fund Robert J. Drake Memorial Charles A. Driffield Memorial Fund Bruce S. Dwynn Memorial Fund Kristian Eilertsen Fund

Irene C. an d Karl E m m erling S cho larsh ip Fund

C harles Farran Fund A rth u r H. Feher Fund W illiam S. an d Freda M. Fell M em orial

FundHerold an d C lara Fellinger C haritab le Fund Sidney B. Fink M emorial K athleen Holland Forbes M usic Fund Percy R. and B eatrice R ound Forbes

M emorial Fund F rances B. an d George W. Ford M emorial

FundG ladys J . an d H om er D. Foster Fund H arriet R. Fowler Fund K atyru th S trieker Fraley M emorial A nnie A. F rance Fund H erm ine Frankel M emorialI.F. F reiberger Fund Mrs. I.F. Freiberger M emorial W inifred Fryer M em orial Fund Frederic C. Fulton Fund Doclie G allagher M em orial Fund Florence I. G arre tt M emorial F rank S. G ibson M emorial Fund Ellen G ardner Gilmore M emorial F rances Southw orth Goff Memorial R obert B. G randin M emorial Ja m e s L. G reene M emorial Bell Greve M emorial Fund R obert Hays Gries M emorial Carolyn K. G rossm an Fund Isador G rossm an M emorial Fund Marc J. G rossm an Fund M axine Y. H aberm an Fund Jessie Haig M emorial Florence H am ilton M emorial Leonard C. H anna, Jr. Cleveland Play

House Fund The Leonard C. H anna, Jr . Special Fund J a n e t Harley M emorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Harley Fund H. S tu a rt H arrison M emorial Fund Mrs. Ward H arrison M emorialF.H. H aserot Fund H om er H. H atch Fund Lewis Howard Hayden and Lulu May

Hayden Fund Nora Hays Fund Iva L. Herl FundT he Clifford B. H ershik M emorial Fund T he S iegm und an d B ertha B. Herzog

E ndow m ent Fund H ighland View Hospital Em ployees' Fund A lbert M. Higley M emorial Mary G. Higley Fund Reuben W. H itchcock Fund Mary Louise Hobson M emorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. A rth u r S. Holden Fund Cora Millet H olden M emorial G uerdon S. Holden M emorial Helen M. H olland M emorial Dr. Jo h n W. Holloway M emorial Fund Jo h n W. Holt M emorial Mrs. Jo h n H. Hord M emorial A.R. H orr Fund Jo sep h C. H ostetler M emorial G ilbert W. H um phrey M emorial Fund The In term useum Conservation Association

E ndow m ent Fund Mrs. Ray Irvin Memorial Earle L. Jo h n so n and W alter Sawtelle Doan

and Ella P. Doan M emorial Fund J. Kimball Jo h n so n M emorial Fund The J. Kimball Jo h n so n M emorial Fund

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Jam es K. Jo h n so n , Jr. Memorial Fund Minerva B. Jo h n so n Memorial Fund Virginia K. Jo h n so n Memorial Fund Florence Jo n e s Memorial The T hom as Hoyt Jo n e s Family Fund The Virginia Jo n e s M emorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. Sidney D. Jo sep h s Fund Albert B. and Sara P. Kern Memorial Fund Joseph E. Kewley M emorial Fund Orrin F. Kilmer Fund D.D. Kimmel Memorial Fund Quay H. Kinzig Memorial Thom as M. Kirby Memorial Dr. Em m anuel Klaus M emorial Fund Sam uel B. K night Fund The Philip E. and B ertha Hawley Knowlton

FundEstelle C. Koch Memorial Scholarship

FundRichard H. Kohn Fund Sam uel E. K ram er Law Scholarship Fund George H. Lapham Fund Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Latham Fund Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Lechner Fund Margaret Irene Leslie Fund Mrs. Howell Leuck Fund The Jo n Lewis Fund Daniel W. Loeser Fund Meta M. Long Fund The Chalm er F. Lutz Fund The William Fred Mackay an d Cora Carlisle

Mackay Memorial Fund Anna Mary Magee M emorial Fund George A. and Mary E. M arten Fund Mrs. E.O. M arting Memorial The Frederick R. and B ertha S pecht M autz

Scholarship Fund Erma L. Mawer Fund Malcolm L. McBride and Jo h n H arris

McBride II Memorial Fund Thom as M cCauslen M emorial Dr. Jan e Power McCollough Fund Mrs. E.P. McCullagh Memorial Em m a E. McDonald Fund Heber McFarland Fund Hilda J. McGee Fund Gladys M. M cIntyre M emorial Fund W. Brewster McKenna Fund Anna C urtiss M cNutt M emorial Medusa FundCharles E. Meink M emorial William J. Mericka M emorial The Grace E. Meyette Fund Herman R. and E sther S. Miller M emorial

FundFrancis Charlton Mills, J r. Fund Em m a B. Minch Fund Jo h n A. Mitchell and B lanche G. Mitchell

FundHarry F. Miter M emorial Helen Moore Fund Daniel E. Morgan M emorial Fund Mary MacBain Motch Fund Ray E. M unn Fund Jo h n P. M urphy M emorial C hristopher Bruce N arten M emorial The N ational City B ank Fund Harlan H. Newell M emorial Harold M. Nichols Fund Jessie Roe North and George M ahan North

Memorial Fund John F. Oberlin and Jo h n C. O berlin Fund Ohio Nut an d Bolt C om pany Fund The Ohio Scottish G am es Endow m ent Fund Jo h n G. an d May Lockwood Oliver

Memorial Fund William J . O’Neill M emorial Fund Ethelw yne Walton O sborn Memorial

Erla S ch lather Parker Fund C harles J. and M arian E. Paterson Fund Blanche B. Payer Fund Caroline Brown Prescott Memorial Fund Mary D unham Prescott Memorial The George Jo h n Putz and M argaret Putz

Memorial Fund The Fred O. and Lucille M. Q uick Fund O m ar S. Ranney Memorial Grace P. Rawson Fund Leonard R. Rench Fund Marie R ichardson Memorial Fund M inerva P. Ridley Fund E dna A. Rink Fund Orra M. Risberg Memorial G ertrude M. R obertson Memorial Helen D. R obinson Fund C larence A. Roode Memorial E lizabeth Becker Rorabeck Fund Edward L. Rosenfeld and B ertha M.

Rosenfeld Fund Dr. A.T. Roskos Fund Dorothy and Helen R uth Fund St. B arnabas Guild for N ursing Fund Mrs. Raym ond T. Sawyer Memorial Oliver H. S chaaf Fund Cornelius G. Scheid Memorial Fund The Robert N. Schw artz Fund for Retarded

C hildrenAlice Duty Seagrave Foreign S tudy Fund Kurt L. and Lela H. Seelbach W arner Seely Fund A rthu r H. Seibig Fund Mrs. Louis B. Seltzer Memorial The A rthur and Agnes Severson Memorial

FundA nnette S. Shagren Memorial G lenn M. and Elsa V. Shaw Fund Nina S herrer Fund Ja m e s Nelson Sherw in Fund The Jo h n and Frances W. Sherw in Fund Cornelia Adam s Shiras Memorial Dr. T hom as S hupe Memorial Fund Sam uel S ilbert Fund David G. Skall Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Skove Fund Joseph ine R. and Edward W. Sloan, Jr.

FundSocial Work Scholarship Fund Society for Crippled Children—'TYis Speaker

Memorial Fund Society N ational B ank Fund Meade A. Spencer Memorial Virginia Spriggs Fund The M iriam K erruish Stage Fund Belle Bierce S tair Memorial Frederick S. S tam berger Memorial Nellie Steele Stew art Memorial The C harles J . Stilwell Scholarship Fund Ralph P. S toddard Memorial Fund E sther H. and B.F. S toner Memorial Fund Vernon Stouffer Memorial Fund M ortim er I. S trauss and Helen E. S trauss

and B lanche New Memorial Fund The Ignatz and Berta S unsh ine Fund Jo sep h T. Sweeny Memorial C harles Farrand Taplin and Elsie H. Taplin

Fund C.F. Tkplin Fund Jessie Loyd Tkrr Memorial E lizabeth B ebout Tkylor Memorial Mary J. Tewksbury Fund Allison J o h n T hom pson M emorial Fund C hester A. T hom pson Fund M argaret Hayden T hom pson Fund Sarah R. T hom pson Fund

H om er F. Tielke Fund Maud Kerruish Tbwson Memorial Jessie C. TUcker Memorial Fund The C harles F. Uhl and Carl F. Uhl

M emorial Fund Leo W. Ulm er FundC hristian and Sophia Vick Memorial Fund Malcolm B. Vilas Memorial Philip R. and Mary S. Ward Memorial Fund Cornelia Blakem ore W arner M emorial Fund Helen B. W arner Fund Stanley H. W atson Memorial F rank Walter Weide Fund The H arry H. and Stella B. Weiss Memorial

FundCaroline Briggs Welch Memorial B urt W enger Fund Leroy A. W estm an Fund S. B urns and Sim onne H. Weston Fund Lucius J . and Jen n ie C. W heeler Memorial

FundElliott H. W hitlock Memorial Mary C. W hitney Fund The M arian L. and E dna A. W hitsey Fund R.N. and H.R. W iesenberger Fund Lewis B. W illiams Memorial W hiting W illiams Fund A rthur P. and Elizabeth M. W illiamson

FundJa m e s D. W illiamson Fund R uth Ely W illiamson Fund Marjorie A. W inbigler Memorial Jo h n W. W oodburn Memorial Nelle P. W oodworth Fund Dorothy Young Wykoff Memorial Leward C. Wykoff Memorial Frederick William York Fund Dr. Edward A. Yurick Fund H erbert E. and Eleanor M. Zdara Memorial

FundRay J. Zook and Amelia T. Zook Fund

Combined Funds GrowthIn 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, $5,000Donor: Robert B. S trother, Jr.Use of Income: U nrestricted charitab le purposes

DOCLIE GALLAGHER MEMORIAL FUND, $200Donor: Mary E. and Lee R. Forker and Helen S. and C harles E. G allagher Use of Income: U nrestricted charitab le purposes

J. KIMBALL JOHNSON MEMORIAL FUND, $89,443Donor: J a m e s Kimball Jo h n so n EstateUse of Income: U nrestricted charitab le purposes

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DR. JANE POWER McCOLLOUGH FUND, $19,601Donor: Dr. J a n e Power McCollough E stateUse o f Income: R estricted to research or aid in com bating tubercu losis and o th e r c h est d iseases

ROY J. ZOOK AND AMELIA T. ZOOK FUND, $46,488Donor: Roy J. Zook and Am elia T. ZookUse o f Income: R estricted to assis tance of im poverished and underpriv ileged children

A d d itio n s to E x is t in g F u n dsROBERT K. BECK MEMORIAL FUND, $1,000Donor: Mrs. Robert K. Beck

THOMAS BURNHAM MEMORIAL FUND, $7,082Donor: Marie Louise Gollan-W inston P. B urton Fund

THE INTERMUSEUM CONSERVA­TION ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FUND, $88,000Donor: Mary Mallery Davis, Flint In­s titu te of Arts, The GAR Foundation, K night Foundation, The Je sse Philips Foundation and The W hiting Foundation

THE JON LEWIS FUND, $25 Donor: J u d ith B. and Ja c k Kaufm an

THE FREDERICK R. AND BERTHA SPECHT MAUTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND. $6,000Donor: Dr. Frederick R. Mautz

BURT WENGER FUND, $105,721 Donor: B urt W enger Estate

DR. EDWARD A. YURICK FUND, $20 Donor: Dr. Edw ard A. Yurick

Nontrust FundsThe Cleveland Foundation also holds gifts not imm ediately estab­lished as trusts, or which are to be distributed over a specified period of time. These funds are nam ed either for their donor or for the recipient organization they benefit. In those instances where the donor prefers to re­m ain anonymous, the fund is ac­cepted as a special fund of The Cleveland Foundation.

A m erican Foundation FundAssociated Grocery M anufacturers R epresentatives Fund

The S u m n er C anary Lectureship FundThe Cleveland Foundation Special Fund No. 1The Cleveland Foundation Special Fund No. 2Ja m e s E. and Isabelle E. D unlap Fund Mary P. and Edw ard M. Foley Fund Sam uel B. K night T tust Fund Robert R. and A nn B. Lucas Fund Shaker H eights D ram a Fund

N o n tr u s t F u n ds G ro w th

In 1984 the carry ing value of new accounts and add itions to existing accounts totaled $155,750.

N ew F u n ds R ece ived :THE SUMNER CANARY LECTURE­SHIP FUND, $10,550 Use o f Income: R estricted to lectures or o ther p resen tations by o u tstand ing scholars of national repu ta tion in law, econom ics, political science, sociology or governm ent

SAMUEL B. KNIGHT TRUST FUND, $30,000Use o f Income: The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

A d d itio n s to E x is tin g F unds:A m erican Foundation Fund, $200 The Cleveland Foundation Special Fund No. 2, $115,000

Supporting OrganizationsSeven supporting organizations were affiliated w ith The Cleveland F ounda­tion in 1984. These organizations have com m itted their asse ts to the benefit and charitab le purposes of the Foundation and are classified u nder section 509(a)(3) of the In te r­nal Revenue Code. Each supporting organization reta ins a separa te iden ti­ty, enabling its founders to m ain ta in an active in terest in philan thropy during their lifetimes, while enjoying the public charity s ta tu s and staff services of The Cleveland Foundation.

The first supporting organization of The Cleveland Foundation was created in 1973 by Jo h n and Frances Wick Sherw in. In th a t year, after 20 years of operation as a fam ily foundation, The S h erw ick Fund becam e the

first private foundation in th e c o u n ­try to gain affiliation w ith a c o m m u ­n ity tru s t. T he tru s tee s of T he S h e r­w ick F und approve g ran ts for a varie­ty of educational, h ea lth , social serv ­ice an d cu ltu ra l a r ts p rogram s. In 1984, six g ran ts were approved to ta l­ing $60,500.

T he G oodrich S o c ia l S e t t le m e n t was also a private foundation p rio r to its affiliation in 1979 w ith T he Cleve­land Foundation. G ran ts approved by the tru s tee s of th is F und benefit, b u t are no t lim ited to, T he G oodrich- G anne t N eighborhood C enter and the Bell N eighborhood Center. E ight g ran ts to ta ling $40 ,575 were a u th o r­ized in 1984.

The five rem ain ing su p p o rtin g or­g an iza tions becam e affiliated w ith the Foundation w ithou t p rio r p h ilan ­th rop ic s tru c tu re . T he E liza b e th and E llery S ed g w ick F und was c rea ted by th e Sedgw icks in 1978. In 1984 the F und benefited genera l ch a ri­table ac tiv ities in the Cleveland area w ith 12 g ran ts to ta ling $74,230.

T he A lton F. and C arrie S. D avis Fund, created in 1979, supported nine o rgan izations d u rin g 1984 for a varie ty of cu ltu ra l an d charitab le ac­tivities. G ran t aw ards to ta led $20,000.

A nother source of ph ilan th rop ic dol­lars for the Cleveland a rea is The W olpert Fund, created in 1980 by S am uel an d R oslyn W olpert. Fifty-two g ran ts were approved in 1984, provid­ing $71,100 for civic, social services, cu ltu ra l an d educationa l program s.

T he first su p p o rtin g organization in the coun try to becom e affiliated w ith bo th a com m un ity foundation and a n o th e r charity was T he Treu-M art Fund. E stab lished in 1980 by Eliza­be th M. an d th e late W illiam C. TVeu- haft, The Tteu-M art F und is a su p ­porting organization of bo th The Cleveland Foundation an d The Jew ­ish C om m unity Federation of Cleve­land. In 1984 the tru s tee s of the F und approved 10 g ran ts for diverse charitab le activ ities in the Cleveland area.

In late D ecem ber 1984 The M cD onald Fund, created by C harles and D eborah M cDonald, becam e the new est suppo rting o rganization of T he Cleveland Foundation. The M cDonald Fund expects to focus its g ran t-m aking ac tiv ities p rim arily on s tren g th en in g sm all b u sin esses in C leveland’s inner-city neighborhoods.

Detailed listings of the 1984 gran ts of The Sherw ick Fund, T he TVeu-Mart Fund and The W olpert Fund m ay be found in b iennial reports pub lished separa te ly and available a t T he Cleve­land Foundation.

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Decem ber 31Balance SheetsT h e C lev e la n d F o u n d a tio n

Statements of Revenue, Expenses and Changes in Fund Balances

T he C leveland F ou n d ation

A sse tsC a s h ...................................................................Certificates of d e p o s it ...................................Short-term in v e s tm e n ts ..............................Securities—Note D:

U.S. governm ent o b lig a tio n s .................Bonds ............................................................C om m on and preferred stocks ............C om m on tru s t f u n d s ................................

O ther investm ents—Note D ......................O ther a s s e t s ....................................................

L ia b il i t ie s a n d F und B a la n ce sAccounts payable and accrued expenses Fund balances:

R estricted for charitable purposes . . . . U nrestricted for operating purposes . .

1 9 8 4$ 158,217

1,650,000 23 ,992,518

31 ,829 ,67239,898 ,22987 ,920 ,86632.624 ,305

192,273,0726 ,558 ,467

916 ,884$225 ,549 ,158

$ 407,203

224,172,881969,074

225,141,955$225 ,549 ,158

1 9 8 3$ 166,060

1,450,000 15 ,471,757

25,815,49139 ,869 ,83790 ,135 ,02431 ,707 ,875

187,528,2275,569 ,372

437,888$210 ,623 ,304

265,203

209 ,661 ,446696,655

210,358,101$210 ,623 ,304

See notes to financial statements.

Year Ended December 31R even u e 1 984 1983Received from d o n o rs ............................................. $ 3 ,368,993 $ 6 ,893,788Net gain from sale of a s s e t s ................................ 10 ,112,905 7,729,233D iv id en d s ................................................................... 5 ,228 ,856 4 ,896,775In te re s t ........................................................................ 6 ,077 ,949 5 ,073,943Com m on tru s t fund in c o m e ................................ 2 ,535 ,728 2 ,317,462Partial benefit incom e—Note B ........................... 5 ,060,431 5,001,415D istribution of estate in c o m e .............................. 586 ,975 406 ,088O ther .......................................................................... 534 ,776 341,512Total R e v e n u e ............................................................ 3 3 , 5 0 6 , 6 1 3 3 2 , 6 6 0 , 2 1 6

E x p e n se sAuthorized by tru stee banks:

T rustees’ fe e s ......................................................... 999 ,562 932,578O ther tru s t e x p e n se s .......................................... 85,322 45,854

Paym ents under g ran ts authorized byThe Cleveland Foundation Com m itteeor the D istribution Com m ittee forcharitable p u rp o se s ............................................. 16,021,968 18,774,045

A dm inistrative expenses:S a la r ie s ...................................................... 860,477 821,636Employee b e n e fits ..................................... 170.196 194,263Occupancy and office ex p e n se s ...................... 317.801 211.673Professional and consu lting fees and

staff expenses .............................. 189,278 174,868O ther 78,155 78,406

Total E x p e n s e s .................................. 1 8 , 7 2 2 ,7 5 9 2 1 , 2 3 3 , 3 2 3E x c e s s o f R e v e n u e o v e r E x p e n s e s . . . 1 4 , 7 8 3 ,8 5 4 1 1 , 4 2 6 ,8 9 3

F und b a la n c e s a t b e g in n in g o f y e a r 2 1 0 ,3 5 8 ,1 0 1 1 9 8 ,9 3 1 ,2 0 8F u nd b a la n c e s a t e n d o f y e a r $ 2 2 5 ,1 4 1 ,9 5 5 $ 2 1 0 ,3 5 8 ,1 0 1See notes to financial statements.

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Notes toFinancialStatementsThe Cleveland Foundation December 31, 1984

N ote A —T he financial s ta tem en ts include the accounts of The Cleveland Foundation (“charitab le corporation”), T he Cleveland Foundation (“com m unity t ru s t”) and their affiliated supporting organizations. The ag ­gregate fund balances of the suppo rting o r­ganizations are $7,845 ,782 and $6,860,180 a t D ecem ber 31, 1984 and 1983, respec­tively The suppo rting organizations were estab lished u nder the provisions of Section 509(a)(3) of the In ternal Revenue Code.T he Cleveland Foundation is responsible for expend itu res of the suppo rting o rgan i­zations for specific charitab le purposes. In terorganizational tran sac tio n s and ac­coun ts have been elim inated.

The financial s ta tem en ts are not in tended to p resen t financial position and resu lts of operations in conform ity w ith generally accepted accoun ting princip les on the ac­crual m ethod; rather, it con tinues to be the

Foundation’s consisten t policy to prepare its financial s ta tem en ts prim arily on the acceptable accounting m ethod of cash re ­ceipts and d isbursem en ts by w hich certain revenue and the related asse ts are recog­nized w hen received ra th e r th an w hen earned and certain expenses are recog­nized w hen paid ra th e r th an w hen the obligation is incurred.

S ecurities and o ther investm ents are m ain ta ined by trustee banks in various t ru s t funds and are carried generally a t cost or am o u n ts determ ined by esta tes at the tim e of bequest.

C ertain trusts, estab lished for the benefit of The Cleveland Foundation (“com m unity t ru s t”), have been excluded from the ac­com panying sta tem en ts un til such tim e as they have been form ally transferred to The Cleveland Foundation.

N ote B—Partial benefit funds generally provide, each in varying am ounts, for pay­m en t of an n u itie s to certain individuals, t ru s tee s ’ fees and o ther expenses of the tru sts, prior to paym en t of the balance of the incom e to The Cleveland Foundation (“com m unity t ru s t”). The total carry ing values of partial benefit funds are included

in the accom panying s ta tem en ts since The Cleveland Foundation (“com m unity t ru s t”) u ltim ately will receive the en tire incom e of such funds. In both 1984 and 1983 The Cleveland Foundation (“com m unity t ru s t”) received approxim ately 80% and 84% , respectively of the aggregate incom e of the various partial benefit funds.

T he carry ing value of partial benefit funds is as follows:

A m eriTV ust.............................................N ational City B a n k ..............................C entral National B ank of Cleveland

D ecem ber 311 9 8 4 1983

50,139,2255 ,789,4481,481,777

51 ,034,6735,514,5911,392,722

$ 57 ,410 ,450 $ 57 ,941 ,986

N o te C—T he Cleveland Foundation has un- and $11,030,000 a t D ecem ber 31, 1984paid g ran t com m itm en ts of $9,709,000 and 1983, respectively.

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Report of Ernst & WhinneyIn d e p e n d en t A u d ito rs

N o te D —A pproxim ate m ark e t values for secu rities an d o ther investm ents of the

charitab le corporation , the c o m m u n ity tru s t an d the su p p o rtin g o rgan iza tions are:

U.S. governm ent obligations . .Bonds .............................................Com m on and preferred stocks Com m on tru s t funds ...............

O ther investm ents ....................

D ecem ber 311 9 8 4

$ 32 ,934 ,835 33,745,131

171,868,489 36 ,940 ,252

275,488,707 6 ,532 ,007

$282 ,020 ,714

1 9 8 3$ 26 ,106 ,214

32 ,411,871 181,780,582 37 ,441 ,862

277 ,740 ,529 5 ,641 ,799

$283 ,382 ,328

Since approxim ate m arket valuations as of D ecem ber 31, 1984 and 1983 for o ther in ­vestm ents w ith a carry ing value of $4,691,207 and $4,811,795, respectively,

were no t readily obtainable, the carry ing value of su ch o ther investm en ts h as been included as the approxim ate m arke t value.

N ote E —The Cleveland Foundation has an insured pension plan for certain employees. Pension expense for 1984 and 1983 was

$94,500 and $98,900, respectively. All con­tribu tions u n d er the p lan are funded and vest w ith em ployees as m ade.

N ote F —The Internal Revenue Service has ruled th a t the com m unity trust, the ch ari­table corporation and each of their su p ­porting organizations qualify u nder Sec­

tion 501(c)(3) of the In ternal Revenue Code and are, therefore, no t sub jec t to tax under p resen t incom e tax laws.

The Cleveland Foundation Distribution Com mittee and Trustee Banks o f The Cleveland Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

We have exam ined the balance sheets, a ris­ing prim arily from cash transactions, of The Cleveland Foundation as of D ecem ber 31, 1984 and 1983, and the related sta tem en ts of revenue, expenses and changes in fund balances for the years then ended. Our ex­am inations were m ade in accordance with generally accepted aud iting standards and, accordingly included such tests of the ac­counting records and such o ther auditing procedures as we considered necessary in the circum stances.

The accom panying financial s ta tem en ts are not intended to p resen t financial posi­tion and resu lts of operations in conform i­ty with generally accepted accounting principles on the accrual m ethod; rather, it continues to be the Foundation’s consistent

policy to prepare its financial s ta tem en ts p rim arily on the acceptable accoun ting m ethod of cash receip ts and d isbu rse­m en ts by w hich certa in revenue and the related asse ts are recognized w hen received ra th e r th an w hen earned and certa in ex­penses are recognized w hen paid ra th e r th an w hen the obligation is incurred .

In our opinion, the financial s ta tem en ts referred to above p resen t fairly the finan­cial position, a rising p rim arily from cash transactions, of T he Cleveland Foundation as of D ecem ber 31, 1984 and 1983, and the changes in its fund balances for the years th en ended, on the basis of accoun t­ing described above, w hich h as been ap ­plied on a consisten t basis.

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D is tr ib u tio n C o m m itte eStanley C. Pace

ChairpersonAndrea Tkylor Coaxum Jo h n J. Dwyer Henry J. Goodman Sally K. Griswold David G. Hill Roy H. HoldtLindsay Jo rdan M orgenthaler Harvey G. O ppm ann Richard W. Pogue Thom as V.H. Vail

T ru s tees C o m m itte eJe rry V. Ja rre tt

C om m ittee C hairperson A m eriT rust C om pany

Ralph W. AbeltBANK ONE, CLEVELAND, NA

Wilson M. Brown, Jr.C entral N ational B a n k

Robert W. Van Auken (until Ja n u a ry 31, 1985)

William J. Williams(as of February 1, 1985)T he H unting ton B a n k o f N ortheast Ohio

Ju lien L. McCall(until April 30, 1985)

Edward B. Brandon (as of May 1, 1985)N ational 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 ry 1, 1985)Society National B ank

S ta f fSteven A. Minter

DirectorMuriel H. Jones

A dm inistrative A ssistantCathy L. Crabtree

Special A ssistant

Patricia Jan sen DoyleProgram Officer, C ultural Affairs

Dennis J. DooleyC om m unity Relations Officer &Director of Publications

Amber Lee MorrisA dm inistrative Secretary

Ju d ith C. FredrichsA dm inistrative Secretary (resigned Ja n u a ry 1985)

Robert E. EckardtProgram Officer, Health

Jay TklbotProgram Officer, Civic Affairs (appointed A ugust 1984)

Karen L. Mastney A dm inistrative Secretary

Susan N. LajoieProgram Officer, Education

Charlotte A. CarrProgram Associate(National U rban Fellow, Prim ary &Secondary Education)

H anna H. BartlettC onsultant(Statewide Program for B usiness and M anagem ent E ducation & G rantm akers Forum)

Carm en T. RizzoA dm inistrative Secretary

Jam es B. Hym anProgram Officer, E ducation (resigned A ugust 1984)

Kay M. MeierA dm inistrative Secretary (resigned S eptem ber 1984)

Carol G. Sim onettiProgram Officer, Social Services

Paula C. AndersonProgram Associate(Director, The Cleveland E ducationFund)

Ju n e I. HowlandA dm inistrative Secretary

Mary Louise HahnSpecial Projects Officer

Lois E. Weber Adm inistrative A ssistant

Michael J. HoffmannAdm inistrative Officer

Jan e t M. CarpenterA dm inistrative A ssistant

Jo h n G. JoyceManager, Financial Services

Gloria J. Kish Jean A. Lang

A ccountantsEdna M. Deal

Account Clerk

Jan ice M. CutrightManager, G rant Services

Alicia M. CilibertoA ssistant Manager, G rant Services

Barbara Anderson Darlene M. Downs Rose Marie Ley

Staff A ssistantsM artha A. Burchaski

Staff Assistant/R eceptionist Joseph W. Huston

Staff Intern Michael L. Hinders

Staff A ssistant (resigned D ecem ber 1984)

Malvin E. BankT hom pson , H ine a n d Flory General Counsel

1 9 8 4 A n n u a l R e p o r tDennis J. Dooley

Editor/Principal Writer Epstein and Associates

Design and Principal PhotographyCathy L. Crabtree Adrienne E. Koppenhaver

Editorial AssociatesJa n e t M. Carpenter Alicia M. Ciliberto Jan ice M. Cutright Darlene M. Downs Gloria J. Kish Jean A. Lang Amber Lee Morris

Editorial A ssistantsMargaret M. Caldwell Margaret Lynch Jo h n G. Mearns M artha Southgate Carolyn Wiggins

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