2013 Giving Guide

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Dear Business Leader: Dea Since our founding in 1901 as a charter member of the American League, the India Indians have been a pillar of our community and as an organization we take exce exceptional civic pride in being a leader in the Northeast Ohio region. The Cleveland Indians are committed to making a positive impact through youth Cleve educ education, recreation and humanitarian initiatives. We achieve this through comm committed and passionate ownership, management, coaches, players, their wive wives and staff who invest their resources and time in a variety of organizations and c causes. It’s this history and commitment that motivates me to get perso personally involved.

Inside the 2013 Crain’s Giving Guide you will find several organizations right here in the Greater Cleveland area that are making a real impact. We commend them for their efforts. Like these organizations, we aim to inspire, engage and improve our community. We thank you for your support not only for the Indians impro organization, but for the entire Northeast Ohio region. orga

TERRY FRANCONA, Cleveland Indians Manager

youth Education and Recreation

The Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) have a collaborative partnership designed to support the majority of the district’s high school baseball and softball program. This partnership has transformed the lives of many young studentathletes and provides recreational opportunities they would not enjoy otherwise.

“The Dolan family saw the need to save our baseball and softball program and acted immediately. If it was not for the Cleveland Indians, baseball and softball would not be played in our district. The reality is, baseball is not just an extracurricular activity. Data demonstrates that youth who play sports achieve academically. Our youth need this program.”

ERIC GORDON, CEO, Cleveland Metropolitan School District Lincoln West celebrates after winning the Senate League Championship Game at Progressive Field.

On and off the baseball fields, the Cleveland Indians support youth recreation and afterschool activities with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland. In 2012, with support and encouragement from the Dolan family, Cleveland Indians Charities made a $1 Million dollar gift serving as the lead gift for their ‘Save our Kids’ Campaign.

The Cleveland Indians also support the Cleveland Baseball Federation’s free baseball and softball progam in the City of Cleveland.

A unique component of our partnership is the opportunity for high school youth to participate in Major League Baseball’s Reviving Baseball in the Inner City (RBI) Program. Our local Girls Senior Softball team won the East Regional Tournament and made it to the National Championship tournament in 2013 for the fifth consecutive year.

RBI youth are recognized for their efforts at Progressive Field prior to the East Regional Championship Games.

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“I have always been moved by how much the Cleveland Indians care about our urban youth. Their investment in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland, the Cleveland Baseball Federation and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District helps thousands of children have a safe place to go after school, a place to play baseball in the summer and keeps baseball alive in Cleveland. They really care about more than baseball.”

RON SOEDER, President & CEO, B Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland

HIGH ACHIEVERS Furthering our efforts to encourage Northeast Ohio youth to achieve academically, students in grades K-12 participate in our High Achievers program. In 2013, over 5,000 youth maintaining As and Bs participated in the High Achievers Program earning fun Indians’ prizes.

TO REGISTER, PLEASE VISIT: indians.com/highachievers

Vinnie Pestano spends the day with school children in Goodyear, Arizona.

Humanitarian INDIANS IN THE COMMUNITY As an extension of our commitment to the community, The Cleveland Indians launched the Indians Volunteer Challenge with BVU/The Center for Nonprofit Excellence in 2010 in an effort to inspire others to get involved.

SINCE THE LAUNCH OF THE INDIANS VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE: Volunteers from across Northeast Ohio have provided 151,398 hours of time and talent worth $3,351,952* 334 nonprofit organizations have received volunteers 56 local businesses have leveraged the partnership to reward their employees for community service TO LEARN MORE OR TO JOIN THE INDIANS VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE, PLEASE VISIT: indians.com/volunteerchallenge *Data is reflective of volunteer hours through July 31, 2013. Estimated national value of volunteer time is $22.14 per hour (Source: Independent Sector)

Yan and Jenna Gomes volunteer at Providence House.

“The Cleveland Indians are a leader in the region in their effort to grow our community’s culture of volunteerism. When the Indians Volunteer Challenge was launched, the number of people using the BVU Volunteer Center skyrocketed from 10,000 to over 20,000 people. Thank you Cleveland Indians for your willingness to grow volunteerism in NE Ohio and enrich our community and our lives.”

BRIAN BROADBENT, President and CEO, BVU/The Center for Nonprofit Excellence

Indians Front Office staff refurbish a house in Cleveland’s Hough Neighborhood.

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A SUPPLEMENT OF 700 West St. Clair Ave

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1-3 4

Cleveland Indians

Letter from the Publisher

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Welcome House Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland

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Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland & East Central Ohio

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A look at the importance of year-end giving Malachi House

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Stories of giving in action

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Holden Arboretum

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Stories of giving in action

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Cleveland Public Library

The McGregor Foundation

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Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging

Who to Watch: Nonprofits

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Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio

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The Cleveland Foundation

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The Centers for Families and Children

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Community Foundation of Lorain County

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University Hospitals

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Womankind

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Cleveland Foodbank

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Achievement Centers for Children

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2014 Nonprofit Opportunities

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2014 Book of Lists

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Largest nonprofits list

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Who to Watch: Nonprofits

Who to Watch: Nonprofits

Who to Watch: Nonprofits

Who to Watch: Nonprofits

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Sisters of Charity Health System

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A look at the importance of year-end giving

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Eliza Jennings

The Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland

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Squire Sanders

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FROM THE PUBLISHER C

levelanders are generous. We know this because we see the thriving institutions in town that were created, nurtured — and still flourish — because of the monetary gifts from members of our community.

Foundations, non-profits, charities, social-service organizations, religious congregations, museums, parks, schools, libraries, hospitals, cultural institutions – those are just the more recognizable of the literally thousands of licensed 503(c)(3) charities in Northeast Ohio.

It’s impossible to travel a city block downtown or a half-mile in the suburbs without seeing the direct effect of Cleveland-area philanthropy.

But that’s not to say that Northeast Ohio’s donors throw their funds around without thought. The opposite is true. Our region’s benefactors do their research and shop for the best causes for their donations. That’s where the Crain’s Cleveland Business Giving Guide comes in.

The guide you’re holding in your hands right now actually accomplishes two important goals: The first is that of a sort of shopping guide for donors. In the pages that follow, potential contributors can compare different nonprofits’ information and data, to see how and where they are succeeding. It’s all part of being a better-informed benefactor.

The guide also gives local nonprofits – many working with all the quiet humility you’d expect from charitable organizations – a chance to show Cleveland’s giving community the good they do with the support they receive.

Thanks to this special supplement’s for-profit advertisers, Crain’s was able to offer deeply discounted space to local nonprofits, allowing them to use the two-page spreads that follow as a unique, affordable and effective promotional piece (it was called by one of my colleagues a “direct mail piece” for local nonprofits, delivered with our weekly print issue at a cost of only pennies a copy).

Thank you to our advertisers for allowing this to happen. In addition, I have to add that Crain’s contributed the equivalent of more than $150,000 in advertising space and marketing efforts to the project.

The result is a reference guide that can be used by local donors and nonprofits all year long.

Crain’s Cleveland Business realizes the importance of our region’s nonprofits, not just to the economy and business climate of Northeast Ohio, but to the well-being of all the residents, our culture, the quality of life and, quite possibly, to our souls.

We are so honored to be able to provide another resource for Greater Cleveland’s nonprofits.

This is Crain’s Cleveland Business’ first Giving Guide.

It won’t be our last.

“Our region’s benefactors do their research and shop for the best causes for their donations.

That’s where the Crain’s Cleveland Business Giving Guide comes in. ”

JOHN CAMPANELLI Publisher

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HUNGER HUNGERNETWORK NETWORK CLEVELAND OFOF GREATER CLEVELAND

Philanthropic Opportunities

CHARITABLE OPPORTUNITIES 614 West Superior Avenue, Suite 744 Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216.619.8155 HungerNetwork.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 9 ANNUAL REVENUES: $2,430,086 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1977 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO: Dana Irribarren BOARD OF TRUSTEES Day Armelli Marcia McCoy Marc Glassman Inc. S.C.L.C. Mark Biche, Robyn McGuffin Second Vice President Playhouse Square Sandler O’Neil + Partners Stanley Miller, Asst. Secretary Estelle Bonchek CACC II-Nottingham Key Private Bank Robert Onorato Bradley Bond Applied Industrial Technologies University Hospitals John Anthony Orlando Jerod Cherry Orlando Baking Company Morgan Stanley Laura Rodriguez Jeffrey Crossman, Barbara P. Ruhlman Vice President Richard Sofka Crossman Legal, LLC Merrill Lynch Rev. Henry Curtis, John Steinbrunner Asst. Treasurer Christopher Szuch, Treasurer Board of Elections Pease & Associates Donna Dudas Grant Thornton LLP Mike Teichman, President Rose Dziak David Weiner Dominion East Ohio Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLC Rev. Dan Edgerly Bay Presbyterian Church Steve Wertheim United Way’s First Call Rev. Ben Gohlstin, for Help Past President Heritage Baptist Church Rev. Ogden White Presbytery of the Ann Killian, Secretary Western Reserve Ferro Corporation Donald A. Woods Jay Lucarelli First Merit Bank Minute Man Staffing George Yarbrough Andrew Margolius Margolius, Margolius Diane Zellmer & Assoc.

Redeemer Crisis Center Lance Mason Yvonne Zuchowski Court of Common Pleas Cliffs Natural Resources

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland is to reduce hunger in our community by providing food and linkages to other vital services for hungry people, especially children and families, by actively participating in a coordinated response to people in need.

SERVICE AREA

The Hunger Network distributes food at over 100 hunger center pantries and hot meal programs throughout Cuyahoga County. Over 75% of the emergency food in Greater Cleveland is distributed by the Hunger Network.

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 53% Government Q 4% Foundations Q 10% Business Q 27% Individuals Q 6% Other 8

The main mission of the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland has been and always will be to reduce hunger in our community. This, the largest association of food pantries and hot meal programs in our community, serves 60,000 people every month and 25,000 of those are children. Our 100 emergency food centers are placed in churches and community centers throughout Cuyahoga County.

With the help of 1,100 dedicated volunteers the Network puts nutritious food directly into the hands of our community’s most vulnerable citizens. The new face of hunger may be your neighbor. As the economic climate causes more job losses...families who have never had to ask for help before are turning to the Hunger Network. Our highest service increase is in the suburbs.

Over the years the Network has observed that hungry people often have other unmet needs. The Network has worked diligently to provide linkages to other vital services for the hungry clients who visit our centers for emergency food. For example, food insecure clients coming to our centers have few options for well care, common health services, nor prevention strategies.

Through the Stay Well Project, a partnership between the Hunger Network and University Hospitals, eight Network food centers are providing basic health & prevention information, diet education, health screenings and services to clients. The project has served thousands of our communities most vulnerable citizens, and has exceeded all expectations and saved lives.

In our dedication to provide the most nutritious food possible for clients, the Garden of Giving Project was created to bring fresh fruits and vegetables, directly from gardens, into the bags of emergency food and home with the hungry. Gardens have been planted at our food centers that have the space and volunteers for sustainability. The other centers are being linked with community gardens in their neighborhoods. Garden partners provide their overages for free. This means that thousands of pounds of fresh produce are going straight into the hands of hungry families. The Hunger Network is feeding a growing need!

FUNDRAISING EVENTS The Hunger Network has to pay for the food we distribute in your hunger centers. We are able to do so in part by hosting annual fundraising events; please join us!

The 24th Annual Best Party of the Year will take place on Friday, December 6th at the InterContinental Cleveland Hotel featuring local restaurants and live entertainment – bring your dancing shoes!

The All About the Bag Fashion Show will be held on Wednesday, February 26th at Landerhaven showcasing looks from Beachwood Place Mall and a fashion exhibit by students of Virginia Marti College.

Our largest and longest-running fundraiser will take place on Saturday, May 10, 2014 as we kick-off the 26th Annual Walk for Hunger throughout Downtown Cleveland.

Every Fall, the Friends of the Hunger Network Committee hosts a casino-themed bash for Cleveland’s finest young professionals called Rolling on the River; 2014 will mark the 8th annual party for this spirited group.

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Feeding a Growing Need™

1 in 6 children in Greater Cleveland is going hungry right now That is why the Hunger Network, the largest association of food pantries and hot meal programs in our community is working diligently to see that our children and their families receive the nutritious meals they need to survive.

Your support will help the Network continue to feed 25,000 children each month.

Donate now HungerNetwork.org or text FOOD to 80100

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CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY

Philanthropic Opportunities

PROGRAM AREAS For over 144 years, Cleveland Public Library has been an integral part of the community, serving the City of Cleveland as well as its inner and outer ring suburbs. We have helped to shape and enrich lives by offering literacy programs, arts & cultural programming, children and teen programs, diversity celebrations, exhibits, musical performances and lectures, all of which are free and open to the public. All this is in addition to traditional library audiences who check out books and DVDs and use our research facilities.

325 Superior Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114 216-623-2800 cpl.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 696 ANNUAL REVENUES: $58,355,952 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1869 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Felton Thomas, Jr.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Thomas D. Corrigan, President Maritza Rodriguez, Vice President Alan Seifullah, Secretary Alice G. Butts John M. Hairston, Jr. Anthony T. Parker Rick Werner

MISSION STATEMENT We are the “People’s University” the center of learning for a diverse and inclusive community.

VISION STATEMENT Cleveland Public Library will be the driving force behind a powerful culture of learning that will inspire Clevelanders from all walks of life to continually learn, share and seek out new knowledge in ways that are beneficial to themselves, their community and the world.

REVENUE Q 34% Public Library Fund

Q 47% Property Taxes (City of Cleveland) Q 10% Intergovernmental Aid Q 5% Charges for Services (CLEVNET) Q 4% Other

EXPENDITURES Q 54% Salaries and Benefits Q 14% Library Materials Q 14% Utilities and Purchases Services Q 2% Other Expenditures Q 16% Advances and Transfers

NEED STATEMENT A significant amount of our operating budget is received from taxpayer dollars. Over the last five years these funds have been steadily declining.

Funds received through the State of Ohio’s Public Libraries Fund are down 22% since 2007 and dollars received locally from the collection of property taxes have decreased 19% in the same time. The Library must continually offer more services with fewer resources each year. In order to offer new or expanded programming we must look to outside support.

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES Gifts and contributions from individuals, businesses and foundations — at all levels — are critical to providing additional resources for both ongoing and special projects at the Cleveland Public Library. Your gift will help maintain the excellence of the Library’s collections, diverse programming, and free and open access to technology and information resources. Cleveland Public Library accepts monetary donations on its secure website. www.cpl.org, by calling Tracy Martin at 216-623-2831, and by mail, 325 Superior Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44114.

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BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING

The Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging is a national leader pursuing innovation in practice and policy to address the important issues of aging. As a champion for older adults, Benjamin Rose works to advance their health, independence and dignity. The organization has established itself as a trusted resource for people who counsel, care for and advocate on behalf of older adults.

11890 Fairhill Road Cleveland, Ohio 44120 216.791.8000 www.benrose.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 139 FTE ANNUAL REVENUES: 10,396,000 (2012 CY) YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1908 MANAGING EXECUTIVE Richard Browdie, President & CEO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS: Nancy A. Adams, Chairperson Elizabeth F. Stueber, Vice Chairperson Kathryn L. Kaesberg, Past Chairperson Emily A. Drake, Treasurer Marcia J. Wexberg, Secretary DIRECTORS: Selma A. Baron Suzanne D. Carle Leigh L. Fabens, PhD Anne M. Feleppelle Patricia R. Frutig Amy Scott Gilchrist Giesele R. Greene, MD Robin S. Gunning Yvette M. Ittu Hermine E. Krasny Denise M. Kresevic, PhD Christine A. Lobas Catherine D. LoPresti Kelsey Loushin Lori A. Lozier JoAnn H. Morano Nancy G. Rome Idelle K. Wolf

MISSION STATEMENT To advance the health, independence and dignity of older adults

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 41.9% Income from trusts

Q 27.3% Reimbursement for direct services Q 11.8% Contributions and grants Q 7.8% Property leasing Q 6.7% Interest and dividends Q 2.7% Apartment leasing Q 1.8% Other income

Philanthropic Opportunities

From our beginnings more than one hundred years ago, Benjamin Rose has built a Clevelandbased nonprofit into a nationally recognized research organization, a highly regarded service provider known for caring for people with complex, long-term needs, and a policy-driven advocate bringing information from around the country to the larger network of agencies serving older adults in the Greater Cleveland community.

In Spring 2013 Benjamin Rose opened a state-of-the-art Conference Center to offer educational programming that is responsive to the evolving demands of an aging population.

Individual and foundation contributions, earned income, government reimbursements and endowment earnings combine to form a stable and sustainable operating model that ensures the organization’s second century.

STRATEGIC GOALS The Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging’s three-year strategic plan includes the following strategic goals: Increase the impact and improve the quality of services and supports offered to older adults, individuals with disabilities, and family caregivers.

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Advocate to ensure access to managed long-term services and supports, and improve measureable outcomes for Ohio’s older, vulnerable populations amidst changes to Ohio’s financial and delivery systems.

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Improve the knowledge and skills of individuals working in the field of aging and those who serve older adults in other professional contexts through Benjamin Rose’s new Education and Training Program.

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Increase and diversify the resources of the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging to grow and sustain our programs for the future.

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CHARITABLE OPPORTUNITIES Charitable giving is the cornerstone of the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging’s strength as an organization. From our founding in 1908 through the generous bequest of industrialist Benjamin Rose, donors have helped grow and shape the organization. Individuals, foundations and corporations continue to support our work and our future in the following ways: Annual Drive support of operating budget.

Endowment support to sustain the organization.

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Programmatic support to fund conferences, speakers, and programs focused on specific topics, to develop and implement the Education and Training Program curriculum, and to provide continuing education scholarships for students and practitioners.

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SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK

Philanthropic Opportunities

MAJOR INITIATIVES In addition to supplying food and grocery products to our 104 partner hunger-relief agencies, Second Harvest has undertaken several strategic initiatives: Ending Hunger in Crawford, Erie, Huron and Lorain Counties

7445 Deer Trail Lane Lorain, Ohio 44053 440-960-2265 www.secondharvestfoodbank.org/morehope

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 20 ANNUAL REVENUES: $10,077,691 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Juliana Chase-Morefield

Farmers Markets: Working with local farmers and growers, we bring fresh, nutritious produce to families in need. During the 2012 season, in partnership with our food pantry network, we supplied over 2 million pounds of fresh produce to over 100 Farmers Markets helping over 16,000 families.

BackPack Program for Kids: Each week 1,600 backpacks filled with nutritious, easy to access food, find their way into the hands of children to ensure they have enough to eat over the weekend.

Mobile Pantry: We fill our truck and provide a food pantry on wheels to areas with little or no access to emergency food assistance and to under-served populations.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Patricia O’Brien, President Brian Sooy, Vice-President Adele Kozar, Secretary Tim McNeill, Treasurer Paul Adair Cynthia McCabe Stephen Lucas Elizabeth P. Maiden Mel Miller Elizabeth Newman Phyllis Nuber Jodi L. Penwell Gayle A. Reeves

MISSION STATEMENT To gather and provide resources to hunger-relief agencies serving individuals and families in Crawford, Erie, Huron and Lorain counties.

Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio plays an integral role in meeting the needs of families at-risk for hunger in our region. With nearly 1 out of 6 people in our region receiving emergency food assistance from one of Second Harvest’s partner hunger-relief agencies. Second Harvest sources and distributes nearly eight million pounds of food and grocery products annually; and works in partnership with 104 partner hunger-relief agencies including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs, BackPack Programs and Kids Cafes.

SERVICE AREA Crawford, Erie, Huron and Lorain counties

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 30.7% Donations Q 19.1% Foundations Q 13.4% Fundraisers Q 22.5% Agency Service Fees

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VOLUNTEER Over 1,600 people volunteer at Second Harvest each year from all walks of life. Volunteers lend a hand sorting and repacking donated food, filling children’s backpacks, packing mobile food pantry boxes, handing out produce at Farmer’s Markets, and in a hundred other ways.

FUNDRAISING EVENTS Generous Helpings is a culinary event in late September, bringing area chefs to our facility to share their creations with our guests, allowing them to see our hard work in the community first hand.

Harvest for Hunger is an annual food and funds drive, held each March in partnership with three other food banks in Northern Ohio, serving a total of 21 counties. Funds are used to refill the shelves of the food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.

Holiday Cheer celebrates 30 years in 2013. The annual drive in partnership with Burger King, WOBL & WDLW, raises funds during the holidays to provide holiday meals to families at-risk for hunger.

More Capacity. More Impact. Less Hunger.

Second Harvest’s current facility, and our logistical needs, far exceed the capacity we need to meet the growing needs of hungry families in the community. Over the past decade, our distribution of food and grocery products has tripled, and as a result we have embarked on a $3.5 million capital campaign. This initiative will allow us to construct a new 40,000 square-foot distribution facility, with expanded space for shipping and receiving, storage, repacking, and agency pickups.

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31 YEARS. 72 MILLION MEALS. The economy in Northeast Ohio is slowly improving, but hunger remains a critical issue for families, and especially seniors and children. For over 30 years, Second Harvest has been the leader in alleviating hunger in our community by distributing 87 million pounds of food and grocery products, equaling 72 million meals for families struggling with hunger. Our capacity to provide food and resources through our hunger-relief network has had a direct and lasting impact across our region.

OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE Our ability to support and strengthen those devoted to addressing the issue of hunger has never been greater and yet, it is not enough. Looking to the future, we will utilize all of our resources in undertaking strategic initiatives aimed at expanding our capacity to bridge the gap and bring hope to the families we serve.

WE NEED YOU Together, we can bring hope to the hungry of Northeast Ohio. For more information and opportunities to give, please visit secondharvestfoodbank.org/morehope.

Our goal remains unchanged: More Food. Less Hunger.

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CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

Philanthropic Opportunities

WHO WE ARE Born on January 2, 1914, the Cleveland Foundation is the world’s first community foundation and a model for community foundations worldwide.

More than 1,700 community foundations dot the globe now, inspiring the Chronicle of Philanthropy to hail the creation of the Cleveland Foundation as one of the 10 seminal events that shaped the nonprofit world in the 20th century.

We are known as the people’s foundation, established by Greater Clevelanders for Greater Clevelanders. We’ve been Cleveland’s philanthropic leader for almost 100 years, helping donors reach their charitable goals and distributing nearly $1.7 billion in our first century.

1422 Euclid Avenue Suite 1300 Cleveland, Ohio 44115 216-861-1933

facebook.com/clevelandfoundation @CleveFoundation

HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED It starts with passion. We are all passionate about Cleveland, but we need to convert that passion into meaningful change to realize the potential of this great region. We need to turn our passion into purpose. It’s about believing in Cleveland, our legacy, and our future and taking action.

You can give back to Greater Cleveland by giving through the Cleveland Foundation in several ways.

ClevelandFoundation.org

Create your own charitable fund at the foundation. The process is simple, and our team can partner with you to align your passions with purposeful organizations in the region.

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TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 74 TOTAL ASSETS: $2 billion YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1914 MANAGING EXECUTIVE

Plan now to leave a legacy gift through your will, trust, retirement plan, IRA, or life insurance policy. We can show you how.

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Ronald B. Richard, President & CEO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS James A. Ratner, Chairman Frank C. Sullivan, Vice Chairman Charles P. Bolton Inajo Davis Chappell Paul J. Dolan Hiroyuki Fujita Sally Gries Frederick R. Nance Michael Petras Jr. Sandra Pianalto Larry Pollock Beth Oldenburg Rankin The Rev. Dr. Stephen Rowan Ratanjit S. Sondhe Ernest L. Wilkerson Jr.

Turning passion into purpose — it’s about inspiration and activation.

Be Passionate.

Give Purposefully.

Create the next century of giving with the Cleveland Foundation.

MISSION STATEMENT The Cleveland Foundation’s mission is to enhance the lives of all residents of Greater Cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

SERVICE AREA The Cleveland Foundation grants dollars to tax-exempt agencies classified as 501(c) (3) organizations (public charities as defined by the Internal Revenue Service) in Cuyahoga, Lake, and Geauga counties.

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We can turn your passion

INTO PURPOSE.

TERRI B. EASON

ANN H. FAIRHURST

MICHELLE M. FRITZ

ANNE MARIE KOLLANDER

BOB F. MCDOWELL

GINGER F. MLAK AR

CINDY H. NAEGELE

K AYE M. RIDOLFI

JUDY M. SALM

Working with the Cleveland Foundation offers you real tax advantages and the chance to make the greatest charitable impact.

You supply the passion and ideas. Through our knowledge of the nonproďŹ t community and our expertise with charitable vehicles, we can help you achieve your philanthropic goals with purpose, so the causes you believe in can grow and prosper in perpetuity.

For more advantages on working with the Cleveland Foundation, you can reach our Advancement Team by calling 216-861-3810 or e-mailing GiveNow@CleveFdn.org.

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THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

Philanthropic Opportunities

REMOVING BARRIERS 4500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44103 216-432-7200 www.thecentersohio.org

YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1968 ANNUAL REVENUES: $34,689,158 PRESIDENT AND CEO

The Centers for Families and Children is a multi-service organization with a strong focus on education, health and wellness, and essential human services.

We serve more than 20,000 youth, families, and individuals annually at multiple locations throughout Cuyahoga County and connect them to important resources and services that aim to stop poverty from being a barrier in creating strong futures.

PREPARING FOR SCHOOL AND LIFE Our early learning program prepares children to enter kindergarten ready to learn and focuses on creating strong partnerships with parents to ensure that each child is developing emotional and social skills necessary to become life-long learners.

Sharon Sobol Jordan

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Patrick Dugan, Chair David Doll, Immediate Past Chair Matthew Litzler, Vice Chair Jim Wooley, Vice Chair Greg Althans, Treasurer Stephen McHale, Secretary Sean Hardy Kristen Baird Adams Oliver Henkel Chris Antonetti Carolyn Hightower Greg Brown Jason Hillman Barbara Cicerchi Brinton Lincoln Dan Conway Dr. Don Malone Shawn Cornelius John McCann Ursula Cottone Julie Mangini Michael Coyne Jeffrey Milbourn Elizabeth Porter Daane Larry Miller David Dannemiller Travis Mlakar Patti DePompei Diana Morris Diane Downing Nancy Rome Mike Farrell Peter Rome David Foster Marc Sanchez Lisa Babish Forbes Linda Schneider Raj Gautam Ken Silliman Mark Gerteis Mark Straub Jim Geuther Ann Weinzimmer Jerome Grisko David Weiss Thomas Hanson

MISSION STATEMENT The Centers bridges the opportunity gap by connecting as many people as possible to effective health care, education and essential human services.

SERVICE AREA The Centers operates 14 service locations throughout the City of Cleveland and inner-ring suburbs. For a full listing of our service sites, visit our website or call 216.325.WELL.

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING

Q 58.2% Government

Reimbursement for Services Q 20% Government Grants Q 9.9% Charitable Contributions Q 6.1% In-Kind Donations Q 5.8% Fee for Service 18

TREATING THE WHOLE PERSON The Centers provides integrated primary and mental health care and wellness services to adults and children with severe mental illness. Our clients have access to counseling, case management, medication management, psychiatry, nursing, pharmacy and primary care services; as well as wellness groups and activities focused on social recreation, nutrition, and fitness.

MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY At The Centers, we believe that every person deserves the opportunity to build a successful future. Our El Barrio Workforce Development Center provides training and supportive services that result in steady jobs and career-building opportunities. Our youth and family services provide at-risk children and families in need the tools necessary to make healthy choices, contribute back to their communities, and to create a safe and healthy home environment. We also provide emergency food at our three WSEM food centers that connect families in need of food to services that will help them stand on their own.

VOLUNTEER/GIVING OPPORTUNITIES There are many ways to support The Centers. For more information, please call Alexa New, VP of Resource Development, at 216.325.9369 or visit www.thecentersohio.org/getinvolved/donate. The Centers offers many opportunities to donate, including event sponsorship, planned giving, gifts of stock, matching gifts and in-kind donations. A donation of any size will make a difference.

Do you have a passion for helping others? The Centers also has a variety of volunteer opportunities available, from internships to done-in-a-day group projects. We customize projects to fit your or your group’s goals. Contact our Volunteer and Engagement Office to get started! E-mail volunteer@ thecentersohio.org or call 216-325-9231.

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BE AN UNEXPECTED HERO

TELL A STORY. “I recall one time while I was reading, this little girl started to pick out some of the words and phrases in the book. It was something that we had done before, but in a way it seemed like I was helping her learn how to read. I’m a big reader myself, and I don’t think there’s a better gift than helping someone learn to read.”

GEOFF JAKIEL

PNC Employee/Volunteer

A donation of any size can make a difference. Do you want to empower someone in need or help make a large impact in your community? Become an unexpected hero now and create change in others....and yourself.

DONATE NOW. Donate Now. Visit our website www.thecentersohio.org or contact Alexa New at 216-325-9369

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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY

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Philanthropic Opportunities

9080 Leavitt Road Elyria, Ohio 44035 440.984.7390 www.peoplewhocare.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 10 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1980 PRESIDENT AND CEO Brian Frederick

CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jim Vandermark

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tim Harris Kristen Putnam-Walkerly J. Lawry Babitt Karen A. Wells Sharon Furcron Sam Speck, III Farnaz Ansari-Berna Joel Arredondo Chris Bellamy Morgan Parsons Susan J. Bowers Judith Crocker Raymond L. Cushing Angela Fielding Joseph Miclat Ruth Miller Sandhya Subramanian Eric Woidke

MISSION STATEMENT The Community Foundation of Lorain County connects people who care with causes that matter by turning donors’ charitable dreams into legacies, investing in strategic grant-making, and leading our community to a better future.

SERVICE AREA Lorain County

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 4% affiliate fund grants

Q 40% competitive grants

Q 23% designated agency grants

Q 11% designated school grants Q 9% donor initiatives Q 1% interim grants

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GOALS The Community Foundation of Lorain County currently manages 540 family and organizational endowed funds, valued at $110 million dollars in assets. This places us in the top 2% of community foundations in the U.S. Pooled funds are invested and we aim for an average 9% return which allows us to provide more than $4.5 million dollars in grants annually. Over our 33 year history we have provided $70K in grants to programs in Lorain County.

Our goal is to help people do good in the community while doing well financially.

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES We shape donors’ charitable passions into endowment funds that support causes, organizations, or impact the future. We have the ability to maximize the value of any asset, including cash, stocks, property, life insurance, charitable gift annuities, and more.

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UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS

Philanthropic Opportunities

CURRENT CAMPAIGN Discover the Difference: The Campaign for University Hospitals is our ambitious initiative aimed at raising broad support for our clinical programs and services in order to better meet the complex and growing health care needs of the families of Northeast Ohio.

Campaign Leadership: Monte Ahuja, Co-Chair John G. Breen, Co-Chair Sheldon G. Adelman, Vice-Chair Paul H. Carleton, Vice-Chair Ralph M. Della Ratta Jr., Vice-Chair

11100 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-983-2200 www.UHGiving.org

NON-PHYSICIAN EMPLOYEES: 14,434 EMPLOYED PHYSICIANS: 3,228 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1866 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Thomas F. Zenty III

CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF DIRECTORS Alfred M. Rankin Jr.

CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Sherri L. Bishop, Esq

Campaign Goal: $1.5 billion Campaign Supporters: 64,000 individuals, foundations and organizations; more than 100 $1 million+ donors; 15 $10 million+ donors Funding Priorities: UH Harrington Discovery Institute Institute for Health Care Quality & Innovation UH Ahuja Medical Center UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute UH Neurological Institute UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital UH Seidman Cancer Center

MISSION STATEMENT

Among the nation’s leading academic medical centers, University Hospitals Case Medical Center is the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a nationally recognized leader in medical research and education.

To Heal. To Teach. To Discover.

TOP SUPPORTED INITIATIVES Gifts to Discover the Difference: The Campaign for University Hospitals have supported the creation, construction or enhancement of a number of key capital and programmatic initiatives, several of which are reflected below. (Represents $600 million of $1 billion raised through 12/31/12)

SIGNATURE BENEFIT Ride the Rainbow 2014—SuperHeroes Unite Presented by PNC Bank

Q Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital $199.4M Q Angie Fowler Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Institute $20.5M

Q Quentin & Elisabeth Alexander Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit $22.0M

Q Seidman Cancer Center $131.8M Q Ahuja Medical Center $46.0M Q Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute $65.7M Q Center for Emergency Medicine and Marcy R. Horvitz Pediatric Emergency Center $12.2M

Q Harrington Discovery Institute $50.1M Q Neurological Institute $50.6M

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Dinah Kolesar, President, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Foundation, announced the launch of one of the most exciting Ride the Rainbow signature events in the Foundation’s history, with an aggressive goal to raise $1 million. Ride the Rainbow will be held Saturday, April 12, 2014 amid the stunning backdrop of the dramatic skylines and soaring open spaces of the Grand Ballroom of the Cleveland Convention Center.

Ride the Rainbow 2014 – SuperHeroes Unite will celebrate children, families, doctors, nurses, volunteers, researchers, corporate sponsors and donors, all heroes, who have joined together for 125 years, along with the Foundation, to make UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital one of the pre-eminent children’s hospitals in the country.

Since its inception in 2004, Ride the Rainbow has raised $4 million to support UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. The funds from the 2014 event will support key hospital programs, recruitment and recognition of exceptional physicianscientists and the nationally recognized Family and Child Life Services Program.

For more information on Ride the Rainbow 2014 - SuperHeroes Unite call 216-844-1513 or go to ridetherainbow.org.

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Your legacy helps create a healthier community.

Gifts to University Hospitals continue the legacy of giving from generation to generation – by enabling us to live our mission every day: To Heal – enhancing patient care, experience and access To Teach – training future generations of physicians and scientists To Discover – accelerating medical innovations and clinical research And with your support, we’ll continue to provide the same personalized and compassionate care that we have for nearly 150 years.

Join the many who are making a difference. To learn more, contact our gift planning team at 216-983-2200 or visit UHGiving.org.

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WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY

Philanthropic Opportunities

GOALS Western Reserve Land Conservancy O U R L A N D . O U R L E G A C Y.

3850 Chagrin River Road Moreland Hills, Ohio 44022 (440) 528-4150 www.wrland conservancy.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 39 ANNUAL REVENUES: $12.9 million YEAR ESTABLISHED: 2006 MANAGING EXECUTIVE Rich Cochran, President and CEO

BOARD OF TRUSTEES John D. Leech, Chair Elizabeth Juliano, Vice Chair Scott Mueller, Vice Chair Michael Shaughnessy, Vice Chair Owen Colligan, Treasurer Dale LaPorte, Secretary Ned Baker Laurence Bettcher Beau Daane Gene A. Faubel Frederick P. Floyd William J. Hlavin David L. Herzer Christopher D. Hess

We use sophisticated real estate tools to identify and permanently protect our state’s special places, and to date we have preserved more than 500 parcels and more than 35,000 acres. Our primary tool is the conservation easement, a voluntary, permanent restriction in which a landowner agrees to give up development rights to his or her property but retains ownership.

In addition, our Thriving Communities Institute helps revitalize and restore productive green spaces in aging urban neighborhoods.

J. Jeffrey Holland Richard C. Hyde Patrice Kouvas Kathy Keare Leavenworth G. Russell Lincoln Kathryn L. Makley Bassem A. Mansour S. Sterling McMillan, IV William C. Mulligan Nancy G. Rubin Mitchell Schneider Katharine O. Scovil Brian Sherwin James C. Spira Marta King Stone Richard B. Thompson Craig Owen White, Esq. Susan Dicken Yerian

MISSION STATEMENT From the countryside to the city, our mission is to work to provide our region with natural places that nourish and support vibrant and prosperous communities by identifying, preserving, restoring and maintaining essential assets like clean water, working farms, wildlife areas, and parks.

SERVICE AREA Land preservation in 17 counties in northern and eastern Ohio from Sandusky Bay to the Pennsylvania border; urban revitalization work throughout Ohio by our Thriving Communities Institute.

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 52% Property Sales Q 17% Individual donations

Q 16% Government Grants

Q 8% Foundation Grants Q 4% Program fees Q 2% Corporate Donations Q 1% Net Event revenue 24

Western Reserve Land Conservancy works to permanently protect natural areas, working farms and coastal lands in northern and eastern Ohio and to revitalize urban neighborhoods throughout the state. We believe that people, plants, animals, communities, businesses and economies are more likely to thrive and prosper when provided with the benefits of vibrant, nutrient-rich surroundings. That’s why we work to preserve and restore high-quality environments for all living things in our region.

FUNDRAISING EVENTS The Land Conservancy’s biggest fundraiser is EverGreen EverBlue, which regularly attracts more than 600 guests and will next be held on Sept. 6, 2014. We are currently staging Imaginature, our first virtual fundraiser. All donations to Imaginature are 100 percent tax-deductible and can be made online at www.wrlandconservancy.org. We are also planning a series of ‘house party’ fundraisers for 2014.

VOLUNTEER/GIVING OPPORTUNITIES There are numerous opportunities for individuals and groups to give their time and support to the Land Conservancy and its important mission.

Each year, hundreds of volunteers help us put on such popular events as Conservation Rocks!, Kids in the Creek, Raccoon County Music Festival, Hoot and Harvest Festival and Gold Panning in the Vermilion River. Others contribute their time and talent in ways ranging from stuffing envelopes to producing videos. The Land Conservancy depends on the generosity of its supporters. We recently made it much easier for our friends to donate online, and our publications always contain a remit envelope. One of our fastestgrowing programs is the White Oak Legacy Society, a special group of Land Conservancy supporters who have made a lasting commitment to land protection through a variety of estate-planning tools.

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AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Philanthropic Opportunities

GOALS For more than 58 years, Akron Community Foundation has been helping everyday individuals and companies give efficiently and powerfully to their favorite causes both now and forever with a charitable fund in their name.

Our business is helping you give. You choose the cause or nonprofit. We make sure your charitable gifts reach your target, whatever it may be.

You can start a fund for as little as $5,000, and Akron Community Foundation will invest and grow your charitable assets through the power of endowment.

You’ll also get 24/7 online fund access, staff advice (when/if you want it) and invitations to join other area philanthropists for educational and networking events – all at no cost.

345 West Cedar Street Akron, Ohio 44307 330-376-8522 www.akroncf.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 16 ANNUAL REVENUES: $160,727,000 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1955 MANAGING EXECUTIVE John T. Petures Jr., President and CEO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mark Allio, Chair Steven Cox, Vice Chair Rev. Sandra Selby, Secretary Paul Belair, Treasurer Virginia Albanese Steve Albrecht Nick Browning Tommy Bruno Marilyn Buckey Eileen Burg Robert Cooper Olivia Demas Samuel DeShazior Edward Eliopoulos Rick Fedorovich Sarah Friebert, M.D. Tom Knoll Dale Koblenzer Rob Malone Judge Carla Moore Vivian Neal Robert Reffner Steve Strayer Michael A. Sweeney

MISSION STATEMENT We embrace and enhance the work of charitable people who make a permanent commitment to the good of the community.

SERVICE AREA Greater Akron

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 56% Companies and Individuals

Q 33% Nonprofits Q 9% Bequests Q 2% Special Events

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GIVING OPPORTUNITIES Akron Community Foundation offers you the greatest tax deduction possible of any nonprofit. You can start a fund using a variety of simple and complex gifts, including cash, appreciated securities (including closely held and S-Corp stock), and commercial or residential real estate. You can also give later via bequest, CGA or charitable remainder trust. We’ll work with you and your advisor to ensure you’re giving your most tax-wise assets.

CHARITABLE FUND OPTIONS INCLUDE Corporate-Advised Funds, which create a culture of philanthropy by pooling employee gifts and making grants to any 501(c)(3) organization in your company’s name.

Q Donor-Advised Funds, a great private foundation alternative that engages your family in philanthropy through grant-making and generational giving.

Q Scholarship Funds, which allow you to further students’ education in a chosen field, institution or alma mater (initial gift of $25,000).

Q Designated Funds, which support the specific organization(s) you choose.

Q Field-of-Interest Funds, which award grants on your behalf to the most promising programs in your charitable field of choice.

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Learn more, or meet the people and organizations achieving their charitable dreams with Akron Community Foundation. Visit www.yourcharitabledreams. org, or contact Margaret Medzie, vice president of development and donor engagement, at 330-436-5610 or mmedzie@akroncf.org.

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Lillian and Lincoln Gries

will be helping pint-sized performers belt show tunes

forever.

Lillian and Lincoln Gries had d a charitable dream: to support ort children’s creativity forever.

In 1995, they started the Lillian D. and Lincoln H. Gries Fund at Akron ron o Community Foundation with a $50,000 50, 0,00 0000 00 bequest. Today, the fund has grown own to more than $250,000 and granted ted nearly $55,000 – even more thann their original bequest – to exciting children’s hildren’s projects throughout the region.

Make your charitable dream come omee om true, too. Akron Community Foundation ndat nd a ioon has been helping charitable people, opplee, companies and nonprofits makee their their dreams reality since 1955. Wantt to know how?

The Gries Lega Legacy Founded: 1995 Initial bequest: $50,000 $50 Assets today: $264, $264,680

Request your free copy of Akronn Community Foundation’s new report eportt “Thanks to You,” a collection off taxwise stories of greater Akron’s mostt charitable people and nonprofits. ts.

Contact Margaret Medzie at mmedzie@akroncf.org or 330-436-5610.

366-5 -5610.

Or, visit YourCharitableDreams.org. org.

Grants totaling $54,482 $544,48 $5 4,48 to: • Supportt mu music training usi sic c tr train for chil children ldr dren en • Comfort Co omf mfo ort kids dss who who witness violence viiolence ol • Encourage Encourragge healthy practi tice es in sschools choo ch ool practices

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THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

Philanthropic Opportunities

VISION Scholarship. Artistic Excellence. Community Engagement. These hallmarks lay at the heart of the museum’s vision to serve as an innovative cultural institution renowned worldwide, an educational beacon, and a local economic driver. Philanthropy is critical to the museum’s ability to advance this vision. Whether a special one-time gift for an identified project or an annual contribution to help offset operational needs, the generosity of our supporters allows the Cleveland Museum of Art to remain free of charge while enhancing the quality of life of all Clevelanders, making our community a more attractive place to live and work.

11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44104 216.421.7350 clevelandart.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 413 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1913 DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER August Napoli Jr.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Virginia N. Barbato Frederick E. Bidwell Charles P. Bolton Rev. Dr. Jawanza K. Colvin Sarah S. Cutler Terrance C. Z. Egger Richard H. Fearon Helen Forbes Fields Lauren Rich Fine Robert W. Gillespie Agnes Gund William L. Hartmann Cynthia Ames Huffman Susan Kaesgen Nancy F. Keithley

R. Steven Kestner William P. Madar Milton Maltz Ellen Stirn Mavec Scott Mueller Stephen E. Myers Katherine Templeton O’Neill Dominic L. Ozanne Julia Pollock Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Peter Raskind James A. Ratner Mark Schwartz Richard P. Stovsky Daniel P. Walsh, Jr. Paul E. Westlake, Jr.

MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Cleveland Museum of Art is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world’s most distinguished comprehensive art museums and one of northeastern Ohio’s principal civic and cultural institutions. The museum, established in 1913 “for the benefit of all the people forever,” seeks to bring the pleasure and meaning of art to the broadest possible audience in accordance with the highest aesthetic, intellectual, and professional standards.

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES A wide variety of giving opportunities are available, ensuring that each contribution reflects the donor’s specific philanthropic interests at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Options include individual memberships at all levels, unrestricted gifts to our Annual Fund, support for specific programs and projects, planned gifts and endowment giving, corporate memberships and sponsorships, foundation giving, and gifts of art.

Sponsorship opportunities include exhibitions, performances, community festivals, education programs, and more. Solstice, a summer music festival, Parade the Circle, a larger-than-life community parade, and City Stages, which brings acclaimed global musical artists to a neighborhood stage, are among our signature events. The museum offers myriad other programs throughout the year, including family oriented monthly Second Sundays, the monthly first Friday event series, MIX at CMA, and eclectic and dynamic community arts and performance programs both at the museum itself and in Cleveland’s neighborhoods. In addition, our special exhibitions satisfy every aesthetic taste, spanning a wide range of genres and time periods.

For more information about giving opportunities please contact the Department of Development at 216-707-2585.

TOP SOURCES OF GIVING Q 63% Individuals Q 20% Foundations Q 10% Corporations Q 7% Government

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Transformation The campaign for your new Cleveland Museum of Art

A stunning, 39,000 square-foot, glass-enclosed atrium, an increase of 33% in gallery space showcasing our world renowned permanent collection, and the groundbreaking Gallery One which blends art, interpretation, and technology are just a few of the incredible new offerings awaiting museum visitors.

Since 2005, nearly 1,000 members and friends of the museum have supported its transformation, demonstrating their commitment and generosity toward the museum, the Cleveland community, and the future of Northeast Ohio. We invite you to join them by making a donation to help ensure that this magniďŹ cent museum remains a source of cultural pride and inspiration to Clevelanders for generations to come.

Be sure to visit soon and experience for yourself the extraordinary developments at your Cleveland Museum of Art.

Be a part of your Cleveland Museum of Art. To give today, call 216-707-6832 or visit ClevelandArt.org/transformation

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A Ministry of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine

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WE LIGHT THE WAY

To health and wellness for individuals, families and communities HEALTH CARE MINISTRIES Mercy Medical Center St. John Medical Center* St. Vincent Charity Medical Center Providence Hospitals Light of Hearts Villa* Regina Health Center Independent Physician Solutions FOUNDATION MINISTRIES Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina OUTREACH MINISTRIES Building Healthy Communities Catholic Community Connection Early Childhood Resource Center Healthy Learners Joseph’s Home South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families *Joint ventures with partners

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’TIS AN IMPORTANT SEASON

By CHRISSY KADLECK

clbfreelancer@crain.com

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t’s not hard to pump up the spirited and generous team at Thogus Products.

Even so, a party atmosphere with complimentary refreshments on Nov. 1 helped kick off the second annual Pin Oak Parkway/City of Avon Lake Food Fight — a mouthful that refers to a citywide business competition to raise donations for hunger relief.

Proceeds from the month-long giving fest go to Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio, the regional food bank responsible for supplying food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in Crawford, Erie, Huron and Lorain counties.

“We are all feeling very lucky this time of year that we are employed and our company is successful and doing well, and we want to give back to the community that we live and work in,” said Katie Kuczinski, human capital coordinator at Thogus, which does plastic injection molding for companies such as Vitamix Corp. “Why not make it fun and turn it into a little friendly competition?”

Last year, eight businesses along the industrial parkway took part in the Food Fight challenge and raised enough in donations to provide 72,000 meals. This year, the holiday effort was expanded citywide, participation has doubled and the effort has the backing of the police and fire departments and city hall, Ms. Kuczinski said.

Ms. Kuczinski said the collective goal is to raise enough to provide at least 100,000 meals, and internally, Thogus — which won the competition last year at 47,000 meals — hopes to generate enough for 50,000 meals from its family of four companies and 155 employees.

Second Harvest couldn’t be more thrilled to be the beneficiary of such dedicated supporters, said Susan Bartosch, the organization’s external affairs manager.

“We are totally and completely grateful for people thinking of new and creative ways in coming up with ideas to help. They are making a statement and they are having fun doing it,” said Ms. Bartosch, adding that 70% of Second Harvest’s donations from the general public come in during the last couple months of the year.

“This is the time of the year when we try to make ourselves as visible, helping people understand the need and what’s going on with people in their own backyard and providing as many opportunities and solutions for people who would like to give,” she said.

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FOR GIVING For many Northeast Ohio nonprofits, end-of-the-year donations are critical

PHOTOS COURTESY SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK

At left, volunteers from U.S. Steel work at a mobile pantry. At right: Clients are seen at the Oberlin Farmers Market.

Critical time for contributions Year-end and holiday giving is the lifeblood for nonprofits around Northeast Ohio, many of which depend on increased individual donations to supplement their operating budgets.

Melanie A. Shakarian, director of development and communications for the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, said her organization relies on unrestricted gifts to help meet its mission.

“We expect about 1,500 to 2,000 individual gifts to Legal Aid in 2013. While we encourage people to give to us throughout the year, we regularly see about 50% of our individual gifts coming to us in December, and half of those come to us in the last week of the year,” she said, adding that of the organization’s $7 million budget, just less than 10% comes from individual donors.

At the Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland, however, 60% of revenue comes in from donations

collected between November and January, said Stella Dilik, who had been divisional development director for the organization until recently.

“These are the three most important months to us,” Ms. Dilik said. “If we’re not able to raise the projected funds in those holiday months it really sets us back for the rest of the year, and we’re trying to play catchup. If we can’t, we have to limit services and that means feeding less people and housing less people in the community.”

That happened in 2012. “Last year was probably the hardest year we’ve seen in quite some time.

Donations were down about 3% so we did have to trim back some service and that has a direct impact on the people that we service,” she said. “And now changes in our legislation will limit the amount of dollars going to families in need so our food pantry and hot meal lines will get longer and bigger.”

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ELIZA JENNINGS

Philanthropic Opportunities

GOALS

14701 Detroit Avenue Suite 620 Lakewood, Ohio 44107 216.226.5000 216.226.5899 fax www.elizjennings.org

Eliza Jennings, a nationally recognized not-for-profit organization with 125 years of providing excellent care and services to older adults, is the first aging services organization to offer SAIDO Learning™, a breakthrough, non-pharmaceutical intervention that is shown to improve the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. We oversee a range of senior living communities offering the complete continuum of residential long-term care needs, including independent living at a continuing care retirement community, assisted living, skilled nursing, and rehabilitation services. We also provide community-based services, including home health services, a nurse practitioner house call program, and wellness clinics within affordable housing complexes.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Rick J. Weigle Jr., Chair Susan O. Scheutzow, Vice-Chair Deborah Lewis Hiller, President and CEO Barrie Briggs Spang, Secretary Patricia M. Scanlon, Treasurer Nancy Oatey McMillan, Assistant Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Richard L. Fletcher Alayne J. Fodor Carol B. Hall John E. Hunger Glenn S. Krassen Gerrit C. Kuechle Paul D. McGrady Jr. Paulette K. McMonagle Phyllis F. Nacey Katie Ramella Terrie Tenk Shrock Steve Strayer Michael A. Sweeney Margaret G. Weitzel

MISSION STATEMENT We affirm the dignity and individual worth of older adults and their right to attain the highest possible quality of life.

SERVICE AREA Northeast Ohio

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING

SPECIAL EVENTS Eliza Jennings will host its annual fundraiser, Best of the West, on Sunday, May 18, 2014. The event features tastings from an array of West Side restaurants, open bar, silent auction and a musical performance. Individual and corporate sponsorships are available. Proceeds will fund SAIDO Learning™ scholarships.

GIVING OPPORTUNITIES SAIDO Learning™ is an innovation that offers hope to older adults with dementia and their families. For the first time, we can now see improvement in the symptoms of dementia. Gifts to Eliza Jennings provide a charitable opportunity to fund SAIDO Learning™ scholarships for the older adults we serve who do not have the means to pay for the therapy.

Q 25.0% Net Medicaid resident services revenues Q 14% Net Medicare resident services revenues Q 47% Net Private/Insurance resident services revenues Q 4% Other net resident services revenues Q 6% Amortization of initial entrance fees Q 2% Net investment gain/loss Q 1% Contributions and bequests Q 1% Income from beneficial interest in perpetual trusts

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Eliza Jennings is actively recruiting volunteers to assist with the SAIDO Learning™ memory support program, as well as with various other activities in our communities. Retirees, professionals, homemakers, students and others are welcome to join our corps of volunteers. Volunteer opportunities are available for individuals or small groups.

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There is fierce competition for donor dollars around the region, Ms. Dilik said.

“Many nonprofits have hands extended and every organization needs an increase in revenue,” she said. “Holiday is a really important time for the Salvation Army in particular because it is when most people think about the Salvation Army, and it’s when we raise the most money.”

The iconic red Christmas kettles are just one way the organization raises money. In fact, the kettle campaign generates just shy of $5 million or about 5% of Salvation Army’s operating budget in Northeast Ohio, Ms. Dilik said.

“We’re highly focused on making sure we are doing all that we can to connect with donors on a major gift level and annual gift level to ensure that we can close a gift by Dec. 31,” she said. That means face-to-face meetings and direct mail appeals that always connect a dollar amount with the ability to provide a service.

It’s also the only time of year that the organization engages in a marketing and PR plan and specifically buys TV, radio and print ads to “share Salvation Army’s story and to create those triggers for more people to give during the holidays.”

Legal Aid’s strategy is to update donors throughout the year with newsletters, informational postcards and letters so donors “have a personal connection to Legal Aid and the work we do to ensure shelter, safety and economic security for the most vulnerable in our community.

“Our donors know how much we appreciate their support and they get continual information from us during the rest of the year — so it makes their act of giving to us in December an easy choice,” Ms. Shakarian said. “They know we are a good investment of their limited donation dollars.”

Telling the story Excellent stewardship is critical for building a base of supporters, said Karen Bain Hiller, development director at Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland.

“The best way to stand out among other nonprofits is to tell your story in the best way possible, to make sure you are able to communicate the need in a very compelling way and to also make sure that your reputation is such that people know if they have never considered giving you money in the past, if they give it now, you will be good stewards of their money,” she said.

Mandel JCC’s successful annual campaign last year allowed it to continue to award nearly $400,000 in scholarships for its day and overnight camps and membership dues, to provide more than 12,000 hot kosher lunches to senior adults and to provide early childhood experi34

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“The best way to stand out among other nonprofits is to tell your story in the best way possible . . .”

KAREN BAIN HILLER, development director at Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland

ences to more than 100 young children.

Philanthropic support year-round accounts for one-third of the revenue necessary for Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, said development director Jason Weiner.

“Our holiday fundraising, spring and end-ofthe-fiscal-year campaigns are all critical ways we connect with our constituency to get their support and continue engaging them in our mission of creating arts experiences,” Mr. Weiner said.

In addition to the traditional annual fund campaign and holiday appeal letters, emails and calls, Beck Center’s creative twist is to engage its art students in a card design contest.

“We have students and kids that come in from five counties so we are well represented around Northeast Ohio,” he said. The students are asked to submit an original piece of artwork that is seasonal and not religious or holiday related.

The winner is chosen and the card is produced and used as a fundraising vehicle.

“It is a great way that we engage our students in our mission and a great way that we engage our students in helping to sustain the organization,” Mr. Weiner said. “We send that holiday card to all of our constituents and all of our donors — individuals, corporate and foundation partners.”

At the Visiting Nurse Association of Ohio, a big challenge is communicating how charitable gifts are used since many of the agency’s services are covered by Medicare or Medicaid, said Catherine Ciha, VNA’s chief development officer.

“Year-end giving helps VNA provide special services such as recruitment and training for volunteers for our hospice,” Ms. Ciha said. “Our fundraising approach invites our patients to tell their own stories so our donors understand how their contributions matter. Patients tell us how VNA helped them recover from a serious illness or injury, and how comforted they were to be at home with their loved ones. They talk about personally connecting with their caregivers and nurses. It illustrates the highly personal nature of home health care services.”

Like most organizations, VNA combines direct mail, electronic communications and events to make its case for support.

“Our year-end campaign traditionally relied upon direct mail appeals to raise about $80,000,” she said.

“This year, VNA has advanced its social media use, so we hope to see an increase in online gifts as well.

Our board members and volunteers are always ambassadors who connect us to new contributors.

And, our employees participate as well.”

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MALACHI HOUSE

Philanthropic Opportunities

GOALS Nestled in the historic Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland, Malachi House is a pioneering effort founded in 1988 to serve persons who are terminally ill, who have no financial means or caregiving support, and might otherwise spend their final days alone. Our residents have always been our first priority and providing free, respectful, and dignified care to as many people as possible in our home is our goal.

2810 Clinton Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 621-8831 www.malachihouse.org

Malachi House is not a hospice facility or a nursing home, but a private home for each person to live life’s last journey as fully as possible. We maintain a pure mission — to meet our residents’ basic human needs of food, shelter, clothing and comfort. Each of our residents is under the care of a hospice team while our caregivers lovingly provide their individualized 24-hour personal care. Together, we care for them as family and ensure they are as comfortable as possible to the end of their natural lives. Over the past 25 years, Malachi House has been blessed to care for 1,883 people who needed it most and did not qualify to receive care anywhere else.

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 29 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET: $1,000,000.00 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1988 MANAGING EXECUTIVE Mary Kay Stahley, R.N., Executive Director

CO-FOUNDERS Father Paul J. Hritz (1923-2013) Catherine “Kaki” O’Neill

BOARD OF DIRECTORS John J. Sullivan, Chair Joseph C. Granzier, Vice Chair Jeffrey D. Neuman, C.P.A., Treasurer Wayne H.J. Cunningham, Ph.D., Secretary Michael Seidman, M.D., Medical Director Thomas D. Anderson, J.D. George S. Coakley, Esq. Kevin M. Kelly Diane C. Kennedy

Patricia F. Krewson L. Joseph Lee Murlan J. Murphy, Jr. John Opdycke James J. Roop Lauren Rudman Peter J. Schindler Father Anthony J. Schuerger Donna Skurzak James J. Stocker, C.P.A. Walter Votteler

MISSION STATEMENT Created out of a Christian sense of ministry, Malachi House serves, without cost, terminally ill persons who have no available caregiver or financial resources and provides love and dignified home care in the final stages of life. Trained staff and volunteers offer spiritual, emotional, and physical support with the assistance of a hospice team.

SERVICE AREA Northeast Ohio, primarily Greater Cleveland and Akron Areas

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 50% Individual Contributions 33% Grant and Q Foundation Support Q 13% Special Events and Fundraisers Q 4% Corporate Contributions

FUNDRAISING EVENTS Malachi House relies solely upon the generosity of individuals, corporations and foundations for operating support. Sponsorships are available for most events. Our largest fundraising event is our Annual Benefit, which is held in late October. Our Lights for Life Celebration occurs annually on the 1st Friday of December. Our Associate Board is launching a new signature event, the Ken“duck”y Derby, on May 3, 2014. To donate on #GIVINGTUESDAY $25 in 25 for Malachi House, visit facebook.com/malachihousecleveland.

VOLUNTEER/GIVING OPPORTUNITIES We rely upon volunteer assistance for receptionist tasks; food preparation; cleaning, home repair, and yard maintenance; and direct resident care.

Positions for board members at the Trustee and Associate levels are available; event committee members needed.

Malachi House welcomes groups of volunteers for corporate philanthropy day projects and year-round for food and supply drives from our “Wish List” (available online) of commonly used household items.

Contributions of cash, matching corporate gifts and stocks are appreciated.

Memorial and tribute gifts are individually acknowledged. Planned or deferred gifts to complement your personal philanthropic goals are available.

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GIVING IN ACTION Cleveland Sight Center

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here were no prenatal signs that anything was out of the ordinary when Jennifer and Jason Gromek were expecting their second child.

But when Noah was born, a combination of urology issues and a condition called aniridia (or the absence of an iris) led to the eventual and startling diagnosis of WAGR syndrome.

There are fewer than 300 known cases of WAGR — which stands for Wilms tumor, aniridia, genitourinary anomalies and mental retardation syndrome. Its effects include a predisposition to kidney cancer, vision issues and sensory and developmental disorders.

“It was overwhelming,” Mrs. Gromek said.

“Jason and I were fumbling … you’d get beaten down very easily.”

It took a couple of weeks for Mrs. Gromek “to work up the nerve,” but she eventually turned to the Cleveland Sight Center.

“I went to the Sight Center not even knowing what to ask for,” she said. “It was like a hand had reached out and said, ‘I’ve got you.’”

The Cleveland Sight Center provides a wide

range of supportive services for infants through adults, including an early intervention program, preschool and vocational training services.

At 10 weeks old, Noah started attending the early intervention program at the Sight Center, which is located on East 101st Street near the main Cleveland Clinic campus.

“There was this collaborative addressing of his needs,” Mrs. Gromek said of the services her son received, which included on-site physical and speech therapy.

Now 3, Noah, who has low vision and is considered legally blind, is in the Sight Center’s preschool

Cleveland Foodbank

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lice Birovsek said she cried and felt embarrassed the first time she realized she needed to go to a food bank. But rising costs and a fixed income necessitated the move several years ago.

Once she walked through the doors, however, volunteers and staff made her feel comfortable by reassuring her she was doing the right thing to care for herself, and that she would be OK. Ms. Birovsek said she decided then that she wanted to impart that generosity on others by becoming a volunteer at the Parma Heights Food Pantry.

“Our clients are all so nice, and I feel like they’re helping me just as much as I’m helping them,” she said. “I had a client once come in before Thanksgiving and started crying to me because she needed a turkey for her family. I reassured her the way the volunteers did for me, and I think it made a difference.”

Ms. Birovsek, a resident of a Parma Heights’ senior living center, has been both a client and a volunteer for nearly seven years, working three times a week at the food distribution center. She also picks up throughout the week food for distribution at area restaurants and grocers, including Olive Garden, 36

Chipotle, Pizza Hut, Auntie Anne’s and Acme.

The trips using her own car no doubt are a sacrifice, even though the agency sometimes offers her use of a gas card. “(Many first-time visitors) are so grateful for the nutritious food and warm support of the people that help them that it’s not uncommon for current or former clients to take an interest in volunteering to show their gratitude,” said Kristin Warzocha, vice president of external affairs for the Cleveland Foodbank.

According to the organization, more than 12,000 individuals volunteered 62,000 hours of service to the food bank and its six-county

program, and the plan is for him to attend a typical school for kindergarten. The Gromeks credit the Sight Center with playing a key role in “frontloading him with as many advantages as possible.”

As a result of WAGR, Noah is consistently monitored for other complications of the syndrome. He has had respiratory issues, and he had to undergo a six-month protocol of chemotherapy after lesions were found on his kidneys.

“He’s been through a lot,” Mrs. Gromek said.

“The Sight Center has been that safety net.”

The Gromek family, which also includes 5-year-old Emily, lives in Brecksville. Mr. Gromek works for a medical device company, while Mrs. Gomek works for Safeguard Properties, which inspects and maintains foreclosed properties for mortgage servicers, lenders and other financial institutions.

As for Noah, Mrs. Gromek said he is thriving at the Sight Center, and he continues to make progress with speech, mobility and with his willingness to experience things from a sensory standpoint.

And, his mom reports: “He’s the best giver of hugs.”

— AMY ANN STOESSEL

member agencies, including the Parma Heights pantry. Those efforts save the agency from hiring 30 full-time staff and more than $1 million in salary and benefits, which it says it could not otherwise afford.

The Foodbank offers a program that provides classes for member agencies on everything from safe food handling to how to run a food pantry, Ms. Warzocha said.

Last year, the Cleveland Foodbank provided access to 40 million meals for more than 200,000 people.

The efforts of volunteers such as Ms. Birovsek will be particularly crucial to the food bank’s mission, as cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as of Nov. 1 mean 1.8 million Ohio families received a reduction in food stamp benefits. This can mean a family of four will lose $36 a month. The program’s cuts in Ohio will total $193 million in one year.

“To put this in perspective, the total value of the food distributed by all 12 food banks in Ohio was $223 million last year,” Ms. Warzocha said.

“To fill the gap cause by these cuts alone, we’d almost have to double our distribution overnight.”

— KATHY AMES CARR

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THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM

Philanthropic Opportunities

GOALS The Holden Arboretum envisions a Northeast Ohio in which trees, forests and gardens provide maximum ecological and social benefits to the region’s people and communities.

Growing trees and communities: We promote the creation and care of interconnected networks of trees and wooded environments, to sustain the ecological health of the communities where we live and work.

Conserving native forests: We foster conservation of the diversity, health, function and ecological services of natural forested ecosystems in our region’s human impacted landscapes.

9500 Sperry Road Kirtland, Ohio 44094 440.946.4400 www.holdenarb.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 65 ANNUAL REVENUES: $6.7 million YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1931 MANAGING EXECUTIVE

Engaging children with plants: We instill in children an appreciation for and knowledge of plants and their environments, so they will apply that value and understanding as adults.

Fundraising Events: Holden’s major fundraising event, Bloom at Woodland Twilight, will be held on July 12, 2014. The event consists of dinner, cocktails, a live and silent auction and entertainment. This event helps raise over $125,000 each year to support mission programs at the arboretum.

Clement W. Hamilton, PhD, President and CEO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Paul R. Abbey, Chairman of the Board Joseph J. Mahovlic Thomas D. Anderson Michael C. Marino Barbara Brown Cynthia A. Moore-Hardy Christopher A. Cullis C. W. Eliot Paine Jonathan E. Dick Lynn C. Shiverick Robert R. Galloway Robin D. Schachat Sarah L. Gries K.K. Sullivan Peter S. Hellman Timothy L. Swanson Ellen W. Jones Nordell Michael T. Victor Stephen J. Knerly, Jr. Ann T. Whitney

MISSION STATEMENT The Holden Arboretum is an outdoor living museum that promotes the beauty and importance of trees and other woody plants to create sustainable and healthy communities in the Great Lakes region and beyond.

SERVICE AREA Northeast Ohio Region and Beyond

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 18% Contributions & Membership Q 60% The Holden Arboretum Trust Q 11% The Arboretum Endowment Q 2% Special Events Q 1% Admissions Q 1% Museum Store Q 2% Investment

VOLUNTEER/GIVING OPPORTUNITIES Holden is a membership driven organization with individual membership options ranging from $40 to $25,000 and Business Partnerships beginning at $300. In addition to the value of supporting Holden and its mission, members and business partners receive complimentary admission, discounts, reciprocal garden visiting privileges, subscription to the quarterly Leaves magazine and more.

Four years ago, The Holden Arboretum embarked on the first major capital campaign in its history. Now with the $8.5 million goal in sight, Holden has entered the public phase of the New Leaf capital campaign. One of the many projects that this campaign will help fund includes Northeast Ohio’s first tree canopy walk, an aerial trail over 60 feet above the forest floor.

Volunteers at The Holden Arboretum make the many programs and services possible. They support nearly every facet of the organization’s operations and work in areas including education, conservation, horticulture and special events. Holden has 600 active volunteers that assist in administrative duties, gardening, research and more.

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GIVING IN ACTION Alzheimer’s Association CLEVELAND AREA

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an Dubsky “can’t say enough good things” about the Alzheimer’s Association.

He has been turning to the Cleveland chapter for support ever since his high school sweetheart, and wife of 38 years, was diagnosed in 2009 with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Joyce Dubsky was 53 years old when she first started to have trouble with her vision. However, it wasn’t until years later — and endless doctors, MRIs, neurologists, a spinal tap and a PET scan — that doctors eventually diagnosed her with Alzheimer’s.

“Here we were in our early 50s dealing with the disease,” he said.

Almost immediately, the couple turned to the Alzheimer’s Association, which has served ever since as a lifeline for Mr. Dubsky, who today is his wife’s 24/7 caregiver.

“It was relieving to a degree. You got to see and meet with people who were in the same situation you’re in,” said Mr. Dubsky, who retired as chief of police in the village of North Randall.

Now 60, Mrs. Dubsky still lives at home in

Warrensville Heights with her husband, with whom she raised three children. But, she can’t be left alone, and in recent months she started receiving hospice care.

Also a grandmother of three — ages 6, 4 and 1½ — Mrs. Dubsky once had loved to sew and read, Mr. Dubsky said. The couple also enjoyed traveling to such places as Las Vegas and Phoenix.

When Mrs. Dubsky received her diagnosis, the doctor emphasized the gravity of the situation by telling the couple that if they ever had plans of taking a trip to Fiji, they had better do so.

Western Reserve Land Conservancy

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ithout the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, an undeveloped 2-mile stretch of Lake Erie shoreline might have become the foundation for a manufacturing plant or some other type of development.

But the Moreland Hills-based agency’s influence in preserving the 600-acre Lake Erie Bluffs in Perry and Painesville townships permanently protects the wetlands and habitat that is home to rare plant and animal species, while enhancing the public’s quality of life with access to this pristine site.

“The bluffs are a great example of a modern conservation success story,” said Paul Palagyi, executive director of Lake Metroparks, which spearheaded the preservation effort. “Without the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, we wouldn’t have been able to put this preservation plan together.”

The initiative to acquire and protect the strand began in 2010, with a $75,000 grant through the Cleveland Foundation’s Lake-Geauga Fund.

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together the targeted properties from various landowners. The conservancy secured with $7.7 million the larger 345-acre tract situated between a 140-acre section to the east and 115 acres to the west.

“The land conservancy not only acquired the land and sold it to us but worked on our behalf to secure several local, state and federal competitive grants,” to fund a total of $10 million of the $11 million property, Mr. Palagyi said.

Public entities such as municipalities and park districts typically do not have enough financing on their own to obtain parcels of land with high conservation values as quickly as a private developer, once those properties become available.

The land conservancy assists those entities by

While Fiji specifically wasn’t on their bucket list, New York City was, at least for Mrs. Dubsky.

So in June 2011, the couple spent three nights in Manhattan. They saw the musical “Wicked” and took a carriage ride in Central Park.

“We walked the city,” Mr. Dubsky said. “I fell in love with the city … and I was glad I got to take her.”

As the Alzheimer’s has progressed, traveling is no longer on the agenda for the Dubskys, and the services that the couple receives from the Alzheimer’s Association have changed with their needs.

For example, home visits through the association’s “Reducing Disability in Alzheimer’s Disease” program at one time assisted with keeping Mrs. Dubsky on an exercise program. The goal is to keep patients at home and out of a nursing home.

Most recently, Mr. Dubsky has become involved with a reimbursement program through which the couple receives some care assistance.

Indeed, through the course of his wife’s Alzheimer’s, Mr. Dubsky said the Alzheimer’s Association always has been a place to turn, whether it’s been for support or to answer specific questions.

“They truly have all the knowledge,” Mr. Dubsky said. “They’re just a phone call away.”

— AMY ANN STOESSEL

acquiring the land, then later transferring it, said Kathy Obert Hill, the land conservancy’s chief strategy and engagement officer.

The nonprofit conservation organization has permanently preserved 500 properties and more than 35,000 acres of natural lands and farmland throughout northern and eastern Ohio.

“We’re so fortunate and proud to have partnered with Lake Metroparks to protect places like Lake Erie Bluffs for vibrant communities, thriving wildlife and happy people,” she said. “The real beneficiaries will be the residents of Northeastern Ohio who will have access to the coastline and wooded areas that exist there for generations to come.”

Next up is to begin construction on a 50-foot coastal observation tower atop the 40-foot-high bluffs, which will provide a 360-degree view of the lake and Lake County’s topography.

A $100,000 Cleveland Foundation grant initiated the project, which is expected to total about $200,000 to $250,000. The Lake Parks Foundation also is working with the Lake Metroparks on the tower’s design.

“Now you can watch the bald eagles fly by at eye level,” Mr. Palagyi said.

— KATHY AMES CARR

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McGREGOR

Philanthropic Opportunities

14900 Private Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44112 216-851-8200 www.mcgregoramasa.org

TOTAL EMPLOYEES: 310 YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1877 MANAGING EXECUTIVE R. Robertson Hilton, DM President & CEO, A.M. McGregor Group

MISSION STATEMENT Founded in 1877, McGregor’s mission is supporting seniors in need in Northeast Ohio and those who serve them, by providing skilled nursing, long term care, rehabilitative services, hospice, assisted living, market-rate and subsidized housing and independent living through the McGregor Home, McGregor at Overlook, McGregor Senior Housing, McGregor PACE homecare and grants through the McGregor Foundation.

SERVICE AREA

GOALS McGregor improves the experience of aging, both by enabling seniors to age successfully in a place they call home and also by ensuring for seniors the highest standards of personal dignity, respect, quality of life and compassion.

McGregor continues to optimize resources, generating maximum value from financial, intellectual, political/social capital and physical assets.

McGregor is an innovative and comprehensive service provider and benefactor to vulnerable seniors in Northeast Ohio.

McGregor PACE assists seniors who qualify for nursing home-level of care but who are still able to live safely in the community with proper assistance. PACE enables low-income seniors to age at home and extends their independence as long as possible.

McGregor serves seniors 55 and older throughout Northeast Ohio.

FUNDRAISING EVENTS

HISTORY

McGregor’s largest fundraising event is the annual “Celebrating Women…

Health, Wealth, and Wellness”, which will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2014 in McGregor’s Ballroom.

The McGregor Story starts in 1877 when Amasa Stone, the legendary Cleveland philanthropist and Ambrose McGregor built and endowed one of the first private organizations in Cleveland — specifically for the care of seniors. Today, situated on a historic 32-acre private estate, McGregor represents over a century tradition of excellence in senior living for Greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

TOP SOURCES OF FUNDING Q 4% Foundations, Corporations, Trusts Q 93% Fees for Service Q 1% Individual and Board Gifts Q 2% Special Events

McGregor hosts annual “Ask Our Experts” and “Veterans Day” Programs to provide resources and information to the public. The “Early Morning Learning” continuing education series provides education and current topics within the healthcare industry to other professionals.

VOLUNTEER AND GIVING OPPORTUNITIES McGregor offers some of the most meaningful volunteer opportunities with our organization, seeking adult professionals, educational groups and organizations, healthcare companies, and individuals who want the volunteer experience with our residents.

Groups who want to volunteer can participate in being a friendly visitor, an activity assistant, horticultural therapy helper, a volunteer entertainer, program leader, offer supportive help at our special events, and many other ways to enhance the lives of the residents. Other ways include Company Service days, Planting Partners event, annual Easter Egg Hunt, Halloween Bash, New Year’s Eve party for Residents, company and organization partnerships, or just ask us!

Giving lends itself in many ways at McGregor, including annual gifts and corporate event sponsorships. The “Celebration of Living” Foundation Garden continues the legacy of the Gardens of McGregor restoration and engraved brick pavers enhance the ability our resident to enjoy the grounds. After School or other programs, Gifts of stock, in-kind donation of items such as books, tickets to cultural events, furniture or facilities equipment are additional giving opportunities.

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WHO TO WATCH: Nonprofits

As published in Crain’s Cleveland Business, April 22, 2013

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nnemarie Grassi swore she would never work with middle school students.

But that’s exactly what she’s doing today as CEO of Clevelandbased Open Doors Academy, the nonprofit enrichment and leadership program for teens that she founded more than 10 years ago.

“I’m a firm believer in destiny ... eventually you’ll end up where you’re supposed to be,” she said. “It is very different from anything I expected.”

Dr. Grassi — who last year defended her Ph.D. dissertation at Cleveland State University with her Open Doors students in tow — initially started her career working with autistic children and those with traumatic brain injury.

But the Geauga County native also had maintained a connection with her former youth minister, who was associated with St. Paul Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights.

The East Side church had a growing CEO youth program, and before Dr. Grassi Open Doors Academy knew it, at the age of 23, she was given a $70,000 budget and hired to build the after-school drop-in program.

“They said, this is your baby ... grow it,” she recalled.

And grow it, she has.

Open Doors Academy today has a $2.1 million budget and serves more than 350 middle and high school students annually at eight locations. She hopes that someday the program is in every middle school in Greater Cleveland, and more locations are in the works.

“I never could have imagined it being what it is,” she said.

The after-school program focuses on internal growth for middle school students and college preparations and work force development at the high school level.

The overall curriculum includes service-learning trips, tutoring, volunteer work, SAT and ACT preparations, college trips and internships. Summer programs are available, and the program has a presence within individual schools during the day.

Phylicia Delic, a 2008 graduate of Cleveland Heights High School, was one of the first students, along with her twin sister, to go through the program.

“I just think it’s an amazing program,” said 22-year-old Ms. Delic, who works as promotions coordinator at Radio One and is a graduate of Northwood University in Midland, Mich.

As for Dr. Grassi, she feels about the same: “She’s always been an amazing person ... she believes in all her students.”

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ight now, Jacob VanSickle is gearing up for “Bike to Work Day” May 17. After that it might be lobbying Cleveland City Council to improve safety for bicyclists or helping design and build a bicycle trail through another city neighborhood.

“You have a lot of flexibility” working in the nonprofit sector, said the founding executive director of Bike Cleveland. “It’s not like a corporate job or a government job where you’ve got to be very meticulous; at a nonprofit you can be more strategic.”

That freedom to leap from one imperative to another is certainly true at Bike Cleveland, where Mr. VanSickle is the only employee and the point person for a small but growing bicycling community in Cleveland and its suburbs.

Among his big victories in 14 months on the job were the opening of a bikeway on the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge and a Cleveland bicycle safety Executive Director ordinance that requires passing cars, Bike Cleveland trucks and buses to keep a three-foot buffer zone between them and bicycles at the curb.

It’s all part of an effort to build a bicycle culture, “something we really need in Cleveland,” he said.

Mr. VanSickle, 29, grew up in Michigan and met his Cleveland-born wife at a small college there. Now, he and his wife and their infant son, Milo, live in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood, a four-mile (plus twowheel ride) to Bike Cleveland’s office on West 25th Street.

He first landed a job with Slavic Village Development, a community development group, where part of his job as the active living coordinator got him involved with building the Morgana Run Trail, a bike path along an abandoned rail line that runs through the neighborhood.

From that experience he was drawn into a local bicycle advocacy community that hadn’t yet gelled into a formal organization. But government planning agencies and foundations realized bicyclists — both those who don’t have cars and those who use two wheels for recreation — needed a seat at the regional transportation planning table.

Still, the job wasn’t his for the taking when Bike Cleveland got organized and started looking for an executive director.

After a national search, however, Mr. VanSickle still pedaled out ahead of the pack, said board chairman Christopher Alvarado, “because he had been at Slavic Village and with people face to face — that was the winning experience that he brought. We’re very happy with his performance.”

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n her job at the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Lisa Meranti most definitely sees the forest for the trees, both literally and figuratively.

Ms. Meranti is a detail person, and she has to be. As director of volunteer services for the conservancy, Ms. Meranti manages a program with 5,900 volunteers serving in about 150 distinct volunteer positions.

She’s also mindful of how the volunteer program serves the broad goals of CVNP and other national parks: encouraging visitors to engage with nature, promoting environmental awareness, preserving beautiful corners of the country for future generations to enjoy.

“I feel very, very fortunate ... that as a young professional I have really found my place,” says Ms. Meranti, 31, a lifelong lover of the outdoors.

As a kid growing up in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania, her favorite leisure activity was hiking. She studDirector ied environmental science at Lebanon of volunteer services Valley College in Pennsylvania, focusConservancy for ing on water quality research. Out of Cuyahoga Valley college, she landed a job at the conservancy’s environmental education unit.

National Park Ms. Meranti says that job reinforced how she “loved connecting people with the outdoors” and ultimately led, beginning in March 2011, to her current position directing volunteer services. It’s a job she has performed while simultaneously earning a master’s degree in environmental studies and a certificate in nonprofit management from Cleveland State University last December.

In addition to coordinating the activities of about 25 volunteer organizations that serve the park, Ms. Meranti works with corporate groups that use teambuilding activities at CVNP — planting trees, for example — as an opportunity to give something back to the community.

Deb Yandala, CEO of the conservancy, says Ms. Meranti already is “viewed as a leader in the volunteer management arena and is consulted by other national park nonprofit leaders about the program she has helped build.”

CVNP encompasses 33,000 acres along the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron. As its huge number of volunteers would suggest, CVNP is a popular place; a recent National Park Service report for 2011 showed that there were 2.16 million visitors to CVNP that year. Ms. Meranti likens her role in coordinating volunteers for CVNP to “managing a giant jigsaw puzzle,” with the goal of getting the pieces to fit together so everyone “can enjoy the park to the fullest.”

She certainly does; among her own volunteer activities has been working as an elf for the Polar Express event at CVNP’s Scenic Railroad. Ms. Meranti also is active with the Forum for Volunteer Administrators and volunteers with Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron.

Her hobbies include biking, hiking (still), kayaking and yoga.

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iz Ferro knows how devastating abuse can be to a young woman — but she also knows how empowering athletics can be.

So much so, in fact, that Ms. Ferro credits athletics with her own survival.

Ms. Ferro, who was in the foster system and later adopted, said the experience of being sexually abused by a nonfamily member as a child ultimately led her to create Girls With Sole, a fitness and wellness program for at-risk young women, ages 9 to 18.

“I just don’t want any girl to feel like they’re worthless or like their life isn’t going to go anywhere,” she said.

Ms. Ferro had worked as the executive director of Westlake-based Wigs for Kids before she decided to combine her passion for fitness with her passion for helping young adults.

She founded the Girls With Sole program in August 2009, and she estimates about 550 young women have taken Founder part since.

Girls With Sole The program consists of participation in and exposure to a wide variety of sports, from football and yoga to running, as well as self-esteem building activities. It is for young women who have experienced or are at risk for any type of abuse, from sexual abuse to bullying.

Currently, Girls With Sole hosts six weekly groups in Northeast Ohio. Ms. Ferro does get help from volunteers, but she is the only one dedicated to the effort full-time.

Bobby Taylor, director of operations at the Boys & Girls Club of Lorain County, said the participants look forward to the meetings. Ms. Ferro helps build their self-esteem, he said, and she creates an environment where “it’s OK to try.”

“The girls really gravitate to the energy that Liz brings,” Mr. Taylor said.

Rocky Melendez, the youth and recreation coordinator at the Merrick House in Cleveland, called the program “invaluable” and said it helps empower the young women and gives them confidence.

As for the future, Ms. Ferro, a runner, triathlete and married mother of two, said she eventually would like to earn a salary and hire a small staff.

She also hopes to by 2020 spread the Girls With Sole program nationally.

Ms. Ferro said a lack of funding is the group’s biggest obstacle to expansion — it’s hard to hire people to run chapters without money for salaries — so she has been fundraising and looking into available grant funding. She also plans to encourage interested volunteers to hold fundraising runs.

Ms. Ferro said there’s often a lot of eye-rolling at the start of the program, but she’s had breakthroughs, too. Indeed, some girls tell her the program changed their lives and some choose to come back to Girls With Sole even after they’ve left residential treatment or a juvenile detention center.

As for the curriculum that Ms. Ferro created, she said she tries to ensure that there is something for everyone, which includes the focus on self-esteem.

“They find their way to feel good,” Ms. Ferro said.

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osé Estremera is a champion of manufacturing and a promoter of youth, which is good because he spends most of his time doing both as youth program director for the manufacturing advocacy and consulting group, WIRE-Net. Mr. Estremera is the point man for the organization’s partnership with Max Hayes High School, a trade school on Cleveland’s West Side that prepares students for jobs in advanced manufacturing and other industry sectors. The school is being rebuilt, and Mr. Estremera is recruiting students and organizing its 2014 reopening.

Oddly enough, Mr. Estremera spends much of his time giving kids the same advice his father gave him: Consider a career in manufacturing; it can be good-paying work with a future. It’s odd because Mr. Estremera didn’t take the advice — he wanted to work with young people and went to college so that he could teach English.

However, he has found a more satisfying career working with youth on Youth program career matters. And, in the process, director he’s been exposed to enough modern WIRE-Net manufacturing to see that his dad was right. He goes so far as to say there are even more opportunities in manufacturing than his father ever could have dreamed.

Still, it isn’t always an easy message to get across.

“When I do a presentation to parents, I say, “How many of you in the last year have told your child, I would like you to consider a career working in a factory,’ and everyone laughs,” Mr. Estremera says, referring to the 2,500 to 3,000 students who, along with many of their parents, he presents to each year.

But then he talks about how much money a good welder makes or what a machinist takes home, along with how many job openings there are just in Northeast Ohio for workers with those same skills. Suddenly, parents who never thought of it before, start to consider sending their children to Max Hayes.

“That’s really surprising to these parents to know that these companies are here and that they’re really interested in hiring talent from our school,” Mr. Estremera said.

That’s what drives Mr. Estremera’s enthusiasm for his work, and also what led him to return to WIRE-Net in 2011, after an 11-year stint in health care.

“We approached him two years ago to direct our new Max Hayes project because I knew he was passionate about helping young people find the best path forward,” said WIRE-Net president John Colm.

Mr. Estremera had worked on youth manufacturing programs at WIRE-Net before, so the organization knew what it was getting. It has expanded Mr. Estremera’s role, however, and expects him not only to attract students to Max Hayes, but also to work with those developing the school to ensure it meets the needs of manufacturers by offering a first-class facility and curriculum.

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espite making inroads in the private sector at a research and development firm, Julie Chase-Morefield always was drawn to the nonprofit arena.

“There just felt like there was something more than the bottom line,” said Ms. Chase-Morefield, now the executive director of Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio, which serves Lorain, Erie, Huron and Crawford counties.

“I wanted there to be a different bottom line. In food banking, the end result is people are fed. At the end of the day, that makes me feel better than zeroes on a balance sheet.”

When Ms. Chase-Morefield arrived at the organization in 2004, she said Second Harvest was in the “midst of a transition, which is the best and nicest way to put it.” The quiet organization employed only five and distributed about 2 million pounds of food each year.

Since her arrival, Second Harvest distributes roughly 7 million pounds Executive Director of food annually, its staff has grown to Second Harvest Food 19 and the organization has launched Bank of North Central a bevy of new programs.

Ohio Moreover, the group recently launched a $3.5 million capital campaign to help fund the construction of a new headquarters, which is expected to increase the organization’s space from 16,000 square feet to 40,000 square feet. The campaign got a major boost in January with a $1.5 million gift from the Nordson Corporation Foundation.

“It was three times more than we had asked, and the largest gift in their foundation’s history,” Ms. Chase-Morefield said. “I don’t think it gets any better than that.”

Ms. Chase-Morefield credits the organization’s success to Second Harvest’s staff and the communities in which it operates.

However, Deb Mills-Scofield, a local consultant who helped Second Harvest with its strategic planning process, credits Ms. ChaseMorefield’s ability to embrace Second Harvest’s mission and carry it out effectively.

“She has a very unique ability to lead internally and externally,” Ms. Mills-Scofield said. “She’s got the respect of the community, she makes things happen, she’s down to earth and, quite frankly, her leadership qualities are powerful and better than I see in a lot of for-profit companies.”

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A

fter she graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1997, Rebecca Kusner was a case manager at a halfway house. She then went to work for a staffing agency.

In those early years, she learned a valuable lesson.

“People really wanted permanent jobs,” Ms. Kusner said. “Employment plays such a prominent role in people’s well-being.”

Ms. Kusner went on to receive a master’s degree from Cleveland State University, and later became the work force policy manager for Community Research Partners, a nonprofit organization in Columbus.

She eventually was recruited by Towards Employment, a Cleveland nonprofit with an ambitious goal — to start a program called WorkAdvance that would supply a total of 650 qualified candidates from low-income households to Northeast Ohio employers between 2011 and 2015.

“As we were writing the grant proposal, we had her in mind,” Christie Director Yonkers, Towards Employment’s depWorkAdvance at uty director, said of Ms. Kusner.

Towards Employment For Ms. Kusner, it was a homecoming of sorts.

“I’m originally from Cleveland,” the Orange High School graduate said. “I was excited about the chance to come back to Northeast Ohio and work on a program that not only has an impact on employers, but also has an opportunity to change how we do business.”

WorkAdvance is a collaboration of more than 13 Northeast Ohio work force and economic development organizations. It helps disadvantaged adults find employment and works with its manufacturing and health care partners to ensure that their needs are being met, too.

The WorkAdvance model was developed by the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity and as the result of several national studies that took an industry-focused approach to work force development. After early success, the government-sponsored Social Innovation Fund provided grants to spread the program to new communities in New York, Oklahoma and Ohio.

Ms. Kusner was hired in April 2011 to direct the programs in Northeast Ohio (Cuyahoga and Lake counties) and the Youngstown area, where WorkAdvance is present in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties.

“It’s an enormous program to get up and running,” Ms. Yonkers said.

Unemployed and low-income adults are selected. Once they are in the program, they receive counseling, learn interviewing skills and are taught industry-specific skills — all with their future employers in mind.

“What it really is, is a partnership with multiple organizations in Northeast Ohio,” Ms. Kusner said. “We are working really hard to meet the needs of our manufacturing and health care partners.”

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arah Ryzner worked as a real estate lawyer and as a site-acquisition consultant for commercial interests before becoming projects director for the Thriving Communities Institute, an effort of the nonprofit Western Reserve Land Conservancy.

“I’ve evaluated each opportunity as it came along. I stuck with my gut, and I’m very happy with where my career has taken me,” the 32-year-old Mrs. Ryzner said. Today, she’s using her legal, real estate and planning skills to work on the ground level to tackle the region’s problems with urban blight, including coping with acres marked by homes emptied by foreclosure.

She joined the institute, which the conservancy launched in 2011, last August. In some respects, after years in the private sector she decided to follow her family’s path in civic service; both her parents have worked in community development in Cleveland. Mrs. Ryzner, who grew up in the Director of Projects Detroit Shoreway neighborhood and Thriving Communities is expecting her second child, lives Institute of the in the Cudell-Edgewater neighborWestern Reserve hood with her teacher- husband and Land Conservancy 1-year-old.

Rich Cochran, conservancy president and CEO, said that he’s been so impressed by her strength as an emerging leader he feels she will someday run a nonprofit.

“She is a proven leader who cut her teeth in a very competitive forprofit real estate business,” said Mr. Cochran, who leads the organization dedicated to preserving the region’s natural resources. “In that business, she excelled in transactions as well as management of others, a rare combination in the world of real estate.”

With the move last year, she has traded getting government approvals and readying sites for construction with working to put vacant land in urban areas back into productive use at the street and policy level.

Jim Rokakis, director of Thriving Communities, notes Mrs. Ryzner took a pay cut to join the nonprofit.

“She is invaluable to me,” he said. “For the conservancy to go into urban areas is virgin territory. She’s taking on some difficult projects.”

She currently oversees college interns who will evaluate conditions of homes in Lorain and map them to help the city strategically use its abandoned-home demolition funds.

Mrs. Ryzner has both a bachelor of arts and a master’s degree from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and a law degree from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

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hile arguably a young executive director at age 39, Sean Shacklett brings to his newest work a diversity of perspectives, forged from experience in the for-profit, nonprofit and government sectors. And that’s exactly what the people who hired him to lead the Susan G. Komen Northeast Ohio affiliate wanted.

“His sort of medley of experiences and exposures was a perfect fit for what we were looking for,” said Mike Gall, the local affiliate’s board president and one of the people who interviewed and hired Mr. Shacklett.

“He just stuck out as someone who could take the organization to new and much better places,” Mr. Gall said.

Mr. Shacklett started as the local affiliate’s first male executive director on Feb. 4. His resume had been on file because he’d applied for another position previously, and Komen reached out to ask if he still was interested in working there.

Executive Director Having earned some leadership Susan G. Komen stripes and feeling the desire to serve his local community again, he was.

Northeast Ohio affiliate Mr. Shacklett had worked most recently for an academic nonprofit, but his focus and impact were nationwide, not “directly impacting the folks that lived down the street.”

“What I found very quickly is I had a significant hole ... I was not engaged in this community,” he said. “I needed that.”

As executive director, Mr. Shacklett oversees a staff of nine and is responsible for developing the strategy and vision for the local affiliate, whose annual revenues total nearly $3 million.

Mr. Gall said the new leader already, in the first couple months, has immersed himself in the organization’s operations and community work.

“This is someone who’s going to look at how we’ve done things in the past and find improvements,” he said. “He’s a visionary (and) also practical and strategic.”

Mr. Shacklett is committed to raising the organization’s brand awareness in Cleveland so more people know it invests the money it raises in services for women and men around breast health, screening and education.

So, Mr. Shacklett is leading his staff to increase attendance at the 20th Race for the Cure on Sept. 21, partly through a media campaign.

They also will begin community conversations, wherein they will sit with professionals and community members to uncover the challenges different communities face in terms of access to care.

“This isn’t a woman’s disease,” he said. “Women and men both get this. This is an issue that affects our entire community.”

Mr. Shacklett lives in Richfield with his wife, their three children and two dogs. “Always a big wearer of pink,” he is more purposeful about wearing it now and owns a handful of pink ties and a pink bowtie.

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tephen Love dropped his plan to go to law school in the summer of 2009 when, through the Cleveland Foundation, he became an intern with the Buckeye Area Development Corp.

He knew he found his nonprofit calling when he started helping residents of Cleveland’s Buckeye neighborhood work together to improve their community, Mr. Love said. For instance, one community block club didn’t even have money to buy bushes and flowers for a streetscape project. So he gathered donations from area nurseries and recruited volunteers to spruce things up.

“This is something I really like to see — a community coming together to really improve their neighborhood,” he said.

Today, Mr. Love’s an information specialist with the Cuyahoga County Land Bank, which finds new uses for run-down properties. He runs the database that the organization uses to Information manage its long list of properties, but Specialist he also is the land bank’s communicaCuyahoga County tions specialist and helps communities Land Bank develop their own land re-use projects.

But by night the 2006 graduate of Charles F. Brush High School is an advocate for all things related to Lake Erie beaches, which he describes as “a passion gone wild.”

After he got a taste for community development, he and a few other Baldwin-Wallace College students started doing regular cleanups at Euclid Beach Park. Then two Collinwood nonprofits joined in, as did area residents.

The growing group won a grant to add recycling and trash bins at the park and signs stressing the importance of the environment. They also started holding events at the park.

Now they’re working on an even bigger plan: They’ve received an $18,000 Cleveland Foundation grant to start an Urban Beach Ambassadors program. This spring, volunteers will start visiting different beaches to talk to people about why it’s important to take care of the lake and its beaches.

“What started out as a rinky-dink cleanup, it’s really taken on some legs now,” Mr. Love said.

Nelson Beckford, program officer at the Cleveland Foundation, described Mr. Love as a “tireless, tireless, tireless” person who thinks about community development day and night.

“He’s not a talker. He’s a doer,” Mr. Beckford said.

Mr. Love — who studied political science, Spanish and international studies at B-W before earning a master’s in public administration from Cleveland State University in 2011 — does sometimes think about things other than community development, though.

For instance, he has a girlfriend, Allison Lukacsy, and plays trombone in an eight-piece Latin music fusion band.

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WESTERN RESERVE AREA AGENCY ON AGING 925 Euclid Ave., Suite 600, Cleveland, OH 44115, Cuyahoga (216) 621-8010, www.psa10a.org

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CATHOLIC CHARITIES, DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND 7911 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH 44102, Cuyahoga (216) 334-2900, www.clevelandcatholiccharities.org contactus@clevelandcatholiccharities.org, @clevecatholicchar

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HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 17876 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, OH 44110, Cuyahoga (800) 707-8922, www.hospicewr.org contactform@hospicewr.org, @HospiceWR

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MENORAH PARK CENTER FOR SENIOR LIVING 27100 Cedar Road, Beachwood, OH 44122, Cuyahoga (216) 831-6500, www.menorahpark.org publicrelations@menorahpark.org, @menorahparkohio

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JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND 25701 Science Park Drive, Cleveland, OH 44122, Cuyahoga (216) 593-2900, www.jewishcleveland.org

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CLEVELAND FOODBANK 15500 S. Waterloo Road, Cleveland, OH 44110, Cuyahoga (216) 738-2265, www.clevelandfoodbank.org info@clevelandfoodbank.org, @CleveFoodbank

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THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106, Cuyahoga (216) 421-7340, www.clevelandart.org @ClevelandArt

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THE MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106, Cuyahoga (216) 231-7300, www.clevelandorchestra.com

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OHIOGUIDESTONE 202 E. Bagley Road, Berea, OH 44017, Cuyahoga (440) 234-2006, www.ohioguidestone.org information@ohioguidestone.org

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UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND 1331 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115, Cuyahoga (216) 436-2100, www.unitedwaycleveland.org @UnitedWayCLE

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PLAYHOUSESQUARE FOUNDATION 1501 Euclid Ave., Suite 200, Cleveland, OH 44115, Cuyahoga (216) 771-4444, www.playhousesquare.org questions@playhousesquare.org, @playhousesquare

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POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM 3100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115, Cuyahoga (216) 361-4400, www.pepcleve.org info@pepcleve.org

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THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN 4500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44103, Cuyahoga (216) 432-7200, www.thecentersohio.org ann.holt@thecentersohio.org, @thecentersohio.org

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ORIANA HOUSE INC. P.O. Box 1501, Akron, OH 44309-1501, Summit (330) 535-8116, www.orianahouse.org pi @orianahouse.org

Purpose: To enhance the ability of older persons to maintain high levels of health, productivity and independence $100,633,700

$94,360,000

$100,060,000

$74,305,000

37.6

83.6

673

Purpose: To provide leadership in the health and human service fields in the counties that comprise the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland 34-1256377

$95,000,000

$96,500,000

$97,800,000

$53,200,000

15.4

84.5

830

Purpose: To provide palliative comfort care for people with serious illness, support for their caregivers and bereavement services 34-0714443

$69,204,325

$68,428,836

$66,775,357

$18,658,547

45.7

96.3

910

Purpose: A not-for-profit Medicare/Medicaid-certified health care provider that operates residential and outpatient services 34-0714445

$67,000,000

$65,058,000

$86,483,000

$348,831,000

99

85.4

95

Purpose: Allocates funds to social service, religious and educational organizations in Cleveland and worldwide 34-1292848

34-0714539

34-0714336

$61,530,700

$51,475,000

$50,000,000

$53,324,500

$34,362,000

$52,068,141

$52,733,300

$44,188,995

$89,100,516

$3,591,400

$10,296,089

$807,814,672

69

81

28.6

96

96

44.3

102

470

341

Purpose: One of the world’s comprehensive art museums and one of Northeast Ohio’s principal civic and cultural institutions 34-0714468

$48,829,000

$48,440,000

$48,257,000

$153,554,000

96

85

214

Purpose: To provide inspirational experience by serving the art of music at the highest level of artistic excellence 34-0720558

$45,080,728

$42,587,404

$43,212,658

$15,114,413

12

87

588

Purpose: To equip and empower children and families to reach their potential and become contributing members of a strong community 34-6516654

$44,000,000

$43,550,000

$50,069,000

$38,983,044

96.7

86

123

Purpose: Addressing health and human service needs by convening partnerships, funding programs and generating resources 23-7304942

$40,600,000

$39,363,793

$46,987,691

$96,670,877

96

91

415

Purpose: To operate the performing arts center and help restore and develop the PlayhouseSquare district 34-1127919

$40,500,000

$42,299,960

$43,520,460

$24,457,445

2

88

510

25

86

470

Purpose: PEP helps troubled and troubling children learn and grow 23-7084455

$39,988,344

$37,258,360

$38,555,856

$38,257,918

Purpose: To give as many people as possible the opportunity to be healthy, educated, independent and connected 34-1334919

$38,500,000

$38,100,000

$39,100,000

$13,900,000

2

96

570

Purpose: Community corrections programs and chemical dependency treatment

Note: (Judson Services) 2012 expenses did not include South Franklin Circle.

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