March 8, 2010

Employees Take On a More Active Role at Restructured Community Foundation

Employees Take On a More Active Role at Restructured Community Foundation 1

Cleveland Foundation

The Cleveland Foundation has supported the start of eight alternative schools, including one devoted to science.

By Ben Gose

During Ronald B. Richard’s first months on the job as head of the Cleveland Foundation, he says he often stepped over homeless people on his way into the office.

“So I came in and asked the program director for social services, 'What are we doing about the homeless?’’ he recalls. “She said, 'We don’t have a grant request.’”

Appalled to learn that his most-senior people were spending their entire days responding to grant requests,

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