History of the Saint Luke's Foundation
1894
• This is the year Cleveland
General Hospital, the predecessor of Saint Luke's
Medical Center, was born.
1907
• The Saint Luke's Hospital Association is established.
The hospital
operated in several locations in Cleveland, including
its final location on Shaker Boulevard near East 116th Street.
1997
• Saint Luke's Medical Center is sold to a for-profit
partnership. Net proceeds from the sale are transferred to what is now
the Saint Luke's Foundation.
• Sam Huston becomes the Foundation's first President
and CEO, and Francis H. Beam, Jr. becomes the Foundation's first Board
Chair.
• Foundation office is established in the Allen Memorial
Library Building.
• The Foundation's founding board is put in place. Founding
board members: Lawrence Albert, Joseph A. Avila, Francis H. Beam, Jr.,
Lois G. Brucken, Janet E. Burney, Esq., Sr. Anne Marie Deidrich, George
L. Forbes, John H. Gherlein, Sally S. Hollington, Samuel R. Huston, Sandra
Kiely Kolb, J. Christopher Manners, Patricia S. Mearns, Kenneth L. Okeson,
William R. Robertson, Joseph H. Thomas, Joseph D. Whiteman.
• Peg Butler joins the Foundation as Office Manager.
• The Foundation's first mission statement is created:
The Saint Luke's Foundation seeks to foster and improve
the health status and well-being of the people of Northeast Ohio, with
special emphasis on those living in the areas traditionally served by Saint
Luke's Medical Center.
• First logo, featuring the Saint Luke's clocktower,
is introduced.
1998
• Leah Gary is hired as the Foundation's Senior Program
Officer.
• First grantmaking policies and procedures are developed.
• Foundation mails first grantmaking guidelines to nonprofit
organizations throughout Cleveland.
• Huston presents results of the Foundation's neighborhood-factor
analysis to the board; Mt. Pleasant is chosen as focus of first community-building
initiative.
• Foundation makes first six grants: First United Methodist
Church, Grantmakers In Health, The Center for Community Solutions, United
Way of Greater Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society and the Saint
Luke's Medical Center/Department of Orthopaedics.
1999
• Twenty individuals are asked to join a Community Planning
Council in Mt. Pleasant; the goal is to create a multifaceted plan for
Mt. Pleasant's revitalization.
• Sam Huston resigns.
• Daniel Harrington joins the Foundation staff as Chief
Financial Officer.
• In response to concerns that the systems of providing
care to urban children were failing, the Foundation creates multidisciplinary "think
tank," which leads to the development of the Foundation's second strategic
initiative, KidzHealth 2020.
2000
• Denise San Antonio Zeman joins the Foundation as President
and CEO.
• Saint Luke's Medical Center Secretary Terri Taylor
joins the Foundation when Peg Butler is promoted to Grants Manager.
• Saint Luke's Foundation funds pilot dental program
that later becomes Healthy Smiles Transformational Initiative.
2001
• First annual meeting at Federal Reserve Bank; featured
keynote speaker is Mark Kramer, founder of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
• Healthy Smiles is approved as a formal transformational
initiative.
• Annual report focuses on "healthy communities," defined as
those that promote economic development, education excellence and an attractive
living environment, one that empowers neighborhoods and families to envision
their own futures and work together to achieve them.
2002
• "Community-focused" grants concept is approved.
• Planning, Implementation and Evaluation (PIE) Committee
is established to ensure that outcome results are used to inform planning
and decision making.
2003
 • Foundation moves into the Kies-Murfey House and hosts
annual meeting on-site.
• LaTida Lester is hired as Program Officer.
• Saint Luke's Foundation becomes a private foundation.
• New statement of purpose and mission statement: The
Saint Luke's Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, reinvests
its resources to provide leadership and support for the improvement and
transformation of the health and well-being of individuals, families and
communities of Greater Cleveland.
• Board refines the Foundation's focus areas to include
health and healthcare, human services and neighborhood empowerment.
• Foundation surveys more than 300 not-for-profit organizations
that had previously applied for grants. Survey findings promote improved
communications with rejected applicants and first-time grantees interested
in receiving additional funding support. New technical assistance tools
are also developed.
• New logo introduced.
2004
• Foundation makes grant of $1.3 million, payable over
three years, to the "Healthy Kids in Healthy Homes" Initiative,
a broad-based public-private partnership mobilized against lead poisoning.
• Neighborhood Progress Inc. grant is made for "Creating Neighborhoods
of Choice in Buckeye-Larchmere."
• Foundation board approves yet another proactive concept for allocating
resources: "21st Century" grants.
• Terri Taylor retires; Timothy McCue joins staff.
• Foundation joins over 40 grantmaking colleagues to form the Fund
for Our Economic Future, an unprecedented philanthropic coalition attempting
to positively impact the long-term economic prospects of Northeast Ohio.
2005
• Board makes Foundation's inaugural 21st Century grant,
a $10 million award to The MetroHealth System.
• Annual Meeting features a keynote address by Geoffrey
Canada, the director of Harlem Children's Zone, a revolutionary
attempt to create a birth-to-college safety net of social,
medical and educational services through which no child living in a 60
block zone could slip.
2006
• Board and staff undergo Governance Project, which results
in revised vision, values, methods and metrics, and a streamlining of
grantmaking into Community Grants and Transformational Initiatives.
• Sandra Kiely Kolb becomes Board Chair; Frank H. Beam,
Jr. is named Founding Board Chair, a title he will hold in perpetuity.
• David Gretick is hired as the first Francis H. Beam,
Jr. Fellow.
• Kim Fields Jackson joins staff as Secretary.
2007
• Kim St. John-Stevenson joins staff as first Communications
Officer.
• Sandra Byrd Chapelle is named Senior Program Officer
for Transformational Initiatives.
• Heather C. Clayton joins the Foundation as the second Frances H. Beam, Jr. Fellow.
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