Serving the Community: A Timeline of Philanthropy, Charity, and Non-profit Organizations in Cleveland, Ohio
1921-1928
After 1920, Cleveland philanthropy helped to professionalize and specialize charitable and cultural institutions. Requirements of religious affiliation for receipt of social services or support were reduced or eliminated. Donor organizations began targeting specific communities or social programs for funding.
| 1921 Universal Negro Improvement Association organizes Cleveland branch to promote black pride, Pan-Africanism, and freedom from white rule in Africa1921 Zonta Club of Cleveland founded as an affiliate of Zonta International, a service organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women
1922 Rose-Mary Center established to house and care for crippled children 1922 West Side Community House social settlement founded out of the Methodist Episcopal Deaconness Home 1922 Notre Dame College of Ohio founded out of the Notre Dame Academy by the Sisters of Notre Dame 1924 Bureau of Jewish Education (Jewish Education Center of Cleveland) established to coordinate efforts of religious schools; Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver served as first president 1925 Mary B. Talbert Home and Hospital founded by the Cleveland Council of Colored Women to aid unwed, pregnant African American girls and women; closed in 1960 1925 Parmadale Children’s Village of St. Vincent de Paul established by Catholic Charities Corporation 1925 Lakeside Hospital, Babies and Childrens Hospital, and Maternity Hospital merge to form University Hospitals of Cleveland 1926 Women’s Philanthropic Union founded out of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Non-Partisan, of Cleveland to support a variety of charitable programs and institutions 1926 University Neighborhood Centers (later know as University Settlement) established by the Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences to provide graduate social worker training and neighborhood services 1926 Madonna Hall established as a Catholic-sponsored house for working girls and women 1927 Child Guidance Center of Greater Cleveland (Guidance Centers) established; first child psychiatric clinic in Cleveland 1927 St. Luke’s Hospital moves to a newly-built, state-of-the-art facility on Shaker Boulevard largely financed through the philanthropy of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss 1927 Windsor Hospital opens Linden Hall in Chagrin Falls under the leadership of Herbert Sihler; closed in 1929 due to the stock market crash 1928 Brush Foundation established by Charles Francis Brush to promote well-born children, family planning and population control, women’s health, and eugenics; later instrumental in establishing the International Planned Parenthood Federation 1928 Dittrick Museum of Medical History established by the Cleveland Medical Library Association 1928 St. John College founded as Sisters’ College to train teachers and nurses for Catholic schools and hospitals in the Diocese of Cleveland; closed 1975 1928 Maternal Health Association (later known as Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland) established to provide married women with birth control 1928 George Davis Bivin Foundation established to promote mental health services 1928 Notre Dame College of Ohio moves to its current location in South Euclid, Ohio |
    
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| 1915-1920 | 1929-1945 |
