Serving the Community: A Timeline of Philanthropy, Charity, and Non-profit Organizations in Cleveland, Ohio
1907-1914
1907 Camp Wise fresh air camp for boys and girls founded by the Council Educational Alliance and Council of Jewish Women on property donated by Samuel D. Wise
1907 Catherine Horstmann Home established by the Catherine Horstmann Society to shelter and educate homeless girls and young women 1907 East End Neighborhood House established by Hedwig and Anna Kosab to serve the Buckeye-Woodland-Woodhill neighborhood 1907 Glenville Hospital/Parkwood Hospital established by Parkwood Hospital Association; later known as Euclid Hospital 1907 Lakewood Hospital established 1908 St. Luke’s Hospital moves to a newly built, state-of-the-art facility on Carnegie Avenue through the leadership and philanthropy of Francis F. Prentiss 1908 Cleveland Association of Colored Men established to improve the social and economic conditions of African Americans 1909 Benjamin Rose Institute founded to provide health services to the elderly 1910 City Mission founded to provide food, shelter, and spiritual guidance to the homeless and the poor 1910 Grace Hospital established by a group of homeopathic physicians to provide medical and surgical services in Cleveland’s near south side neighborhoods 1910 Rotary Club of Cleveland founded 1911 Federated Churches (Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland) established to coordinate church-sponsored charity efforts 1911 Western Reserve Child Welfare Council founded to regulate services for children and youth in Cleveland 1911 Phillis Wheatley Association established as the Working Girls Home Association by Jane Edna Hunter to house and assist newly arrived African American women and girls 1911 Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Cleveland established to provide services to unwed mothers and their children and delinquent and at-risk girls 1912 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Cleveland Branch established 1912 Cleveland Boy Scout Council founded to promoted the development of skills and values in young men by Horatio Ford, Samuel Mather, James R. Garfield and Rabbi Moses J. Griess 1912 Cleveland Music School Settlement founded by Almeda Adams and Adella Prentiss Hughes with the help of the Fortnightly Musical Club 1912 Animal Protective League founded by Stella Hatch and Edith Dustin 1912 Junior League of Cleveland founded to promote volunteerism, develop women’s potential, and improve communities in Cleveland 1913 Federation of Charity and Philanthropy created by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce to broaden base of charitable giving and promote public interest in charitable giving; held first “Good Will Week” that same year to educate public on charitable needs, organizational efforts, and fundraising 1913 Thomas H. White Charitable Trust established to support education, scientific research, social services, and recreation programs; becomes active in 1939 1913 Cleveland Museum of Art founded 1914 Cleveland Welfare Council established by Newton D. Baker to advise Cleveland’s welfare department 1914 The Cleveland Foundation established by Frederick Goff, first community foundation in the United States ; Goff’s wife Frances Southworth Goff was a co-founder of the Federation of Charity and Philanthropy 1914 Deaconess Hospital of Cleveland founded by the Evangelical Deaconess Society to train religious sisters as nurses and hospital administrators 1914 Jewish Chronic Relief Society established as the Cleveland Ladies Consumptive Aid Society to assist poor Jews suffering from tuberculosis and other illnesses |
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1900-1906 | 1915-1920 |