2019 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY Transforming College and Career Access LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR AND CEO College Now’s mission is to increase postsecondary educational attainment in Greater hile celebrating College Now’s 50th anniversary last year, we had the unique opportunity to MISSION Cleveland through college and career access advising, financial aid counseling and Wreflect on just how much this organization has grown and changed since its inception in 1967. We looked scholarship and retention services. through old files and photos and discovered some of the earliest records of College Now’s work with students in Greater Cleveland. We read about former scholarship recipients such as four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Moore and Olympian Toccara Montgomery, students who, without College Now’s support, would not FINANCIAL RESULTS have been able to realize their postsecondary dreams. Through these materials, we revisited the organization’s growth from a few advisors in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) to the robust organization Operational Revenue Operational Expenses it is today. And, as we reflected on the past and looked toward the future, one word kept coming to mind: Ending July 31, 2018 Ending July 31, 2018 Transformation. Foundations $3,992,110 Advising and Counseling Services $6,614,625 For years, College Now has embraced transformation as a vital part of its organizational success. Not even Corporations $2,097,694 Scholarship Awards $3,591,596 10 years after the organization’s founding, it expanded to provide services to suburban Cleveland schools. Individuals and Organizations $366,809 Scholarship and Retention Services $928,207 College and career services were provided in the community as early as 1983 and, in 1991, College Now began to serve adult learners. The transformation of the organization continued. In 2009, College Now leveraged the Government Grants $4,087,088 General Administration $559,293 AmeriCorps College Guides program to ensure that a college advisor was placed in a CMSD high school every Fee for Service $1,190,263 Fundraising $ 611,105 day of the school year; in 2014, College Now began managing the AmeriCorps program for the entire state Special Events $603,885 of Ohio. Meanwhile, in 2011, the College Now Mentoring Program was launched with a pilot cohort of 43 scholarship recipients who earned a 72 percent on-time graduation rate – which is 30 percentage points $ 12,337,849 $12,304,826 above the national average for students receiving the Federal Pell grant. Over the past year, this transformation has gone even further. In July, College Now was awarded an astounding $6.1 million in 21st Century Community Learning Centers funding over five years, which will enable the COLLEGE NOW AT A GLANCE 2017-2018 ACADEMIC YEAR organization to offer its impact! programming at nine sites in Greater Cleveland and Lorain County. The staff $ has grown to unprecedented numbers as College Now has increased its reach to new locations, including 29,000 2,000 an expansion into Lake County. And, at the beginning of 2019, Cleveland was named the fourth Say Yes Number of individuals served by College Now Average College Now renewable scholarship award to Education chapter in the country! This means that every student in the CMSD who meets residency and enrollment requirements will be eligible for a tuition gap-closing scholarship at an Ohio four-year university, $3.5 Million 4 Stars two-year college, Pell-eligible trade/certificate program or one of the over 100 private colleges in the Say Yes Total amount of College Now scholarships Highest ranking awarded by Charity Navigator, Higher Education Compact. awarded the nation’s largest independent charity evaluator It is this historical proven track record of success that prepares College Now for its next transformation: administering the Say Yes Cleveland Scholarship and providing mentors to every Say Yes scholarship recipient $76 Million 185 as part of the College Now Mentoring Program. This means mentor recruitment efforts must be increased Scholarship dollars awarded to Greater Venues in Northeast Ohio where College Now significantly as the program likely more than doubles in size! Cleveland students since inception provides services Through this exciting transformation, we cannot forget College Now’s true strength – transforming the lives $ of the students served. While College Now has grown and changed as an organization throughout its first 160 Million 1,10 0 50 years of service, it has always maintained the same laser focus and objective: to increase postsecondary Amount of financial aid the more than 10,000 Number of community members from over educational attainment in Greater Cleveland through college and career access advising, financial aid counseling current college students served by College Now 450 companies volunteering as mentors for and scholarship and retention services. While change is inevitable, the consistency of mission has helped College have received College Now scholarship recipients Now thrive, grow and expand to where it is today. We are grateful for your partnership and support, and we cannot wait to see where the future takes us as we begin our next 50 years. $70,000 $116 Million A $500 investment in College Now advising services Sincerely, Total estimated amount saved by 1,350 individuals results in an average of $70,000 in financial aid who received College Now’s student loan awarded per student over four years of college restructuring services over the last five years 1,70 0 72% High school graduates and adult learners who Average graduation rate for College Now Mark Ross Lee A. Friedman receive College Now scholarships scholarship recipients, compared to the national Chair, Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer average of 42% for students receiving the Federal Pell grant

2019 Annual Report 1 CMHA CEO AND COLLEGE NOW ALUM JEFFREY PATTERSON REFLECTS ON HOW COLLEGE NOW SHAPED HIS CAREER

or Jeffrey Patterson, CEO at Cuyahoga the Mayor’s office. Eventually, the internship led to FMetropolitan Housing Authority, College a full-time job and, at 25, Jeff became the City of Now Greater Cleveland is more than just another Cleveland’s youngest-ever labor relations manager. organization that helps support and better the lives He served as a member of Mayor Michael White’s of Greater Cleveland residents. As an alum, Jeff cabinet (Mayor White was also a College Now credits College Now with being a driving force in scholarship recipient!) and worked with Mayor White his career path. and College Now to reinvigorate the City of Cleveland internship program. “I was a good student [in high school at Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Lincoln-West],” Jeff After more than a decade of working for the City said. “I had about a 3.0 GPA. There was a lot of focus of Cleveland, Jeff joined CMHA in the early 2000s. MAKING POSTSECONDARY DREAMS A REALITY: SAY YES CLEVELAND on those with a 3.5, the ‘cream of the crop.’ But there He was appointed as CMHA’s Chief Executive Officer weren’t a lot of resources for average students.” in 2012. hen College Now was founded in 1967, the a postsecondary education is being realized on a Jeff, however, found resources with College Now. “My work and the work of College Now is rooted goal was to provide Cleveland Metropolitan grand scale. W College Now helped Jeff get on track during his junior in caring about people,” Jeff said. “College Now is School District (CMSD) students with the resources As a Say Yes to Education chapter, CMSD students and senior years of high school, assisting him with important to this community because of its specific they needed to get to college. Through advising, will receive services in schools and tuition scholarships everything from looking at colleges to preparing for interest in individuals and their success. There is scholarship and retention services, College Now has upon graduation. Services will range from legal the ACT to evaluating and applying for financial aid. nothing like the connection of someone from worked tirelessly for over 50 years to provide the your hometown talking to you about what you’re and health to college and career advising, from Once Jeff enrolled at Mount Union College, he also supports students need to succeed in CMSD and going through. You can often talk to them about kindergarten through twelfth grade. Students will received financial assistance from College Now, which throughout Northeast Ohio. embarrassing things you don’t want to talk to other be able to receive one of two scholarships once they helped him cover the cost of books. There has always been a goal of doing more to graduate: a Say Yes Cleveland tuition gap-closing people about; you can ask them for guidance because help every CMSD student afford a postsecondary scholarship available to all eligible students attending Jeff earned his B.A. in political science in 1989 and you know they’ve been there.” began the first stage of his post-graduate career with education. As other cities throughout the nation an Ohio public four-year university, two-year college, “College Now is transformative because it removes the City of Cleveland, which is where he said College developed promise programs and universal or Pell-eligible trade/certificate program, or a Say Yes obstacles for people who want to grow,” Jeff Now truly played the most influential role in his life. scholarships, Cleveland also contemplated these things Compact tuition gap-closing scholarship available to continued. “It’s like knowing that, if you have a huge and wondered what could similarly be done here. all eligible students attending over 100 private colleges In the late 1980s, College Now collaborated with problem, you can count on X. That letter, X, may feel And then, the opportunity presented itself in Say in the Say Yes Higher Education Compact nationwide. the City of Cleveland on an internship program. Jeff like the biggest hurdle and the most important letter Yes to Education, a nonprofit that helps communities College Now will be administering the scholarship participated in the program, working jobs in the to gather. But with the help of College Now, you have improve education by providing support services and and each scholarship recipient will participate in the summer with the City, and applied for an internship that letter and suddenly you can change your focus. tuition scholarships. College Now Mentoring Program. in Mayor Voinovich’s office after he graduated. You have an incentive to go out and gather the rest He worked in the labor relations department of of your letters.” Almost three years ago, the City of Cleveland, the It is the hope of the entire Cleveland community Cleveland Foundation, CMSD, Cuyahoga County, that Say Yes Cleveland will completely change the United Way of Greater Cleveland and College Now postsecondary conversation. An educated workforce got together to start the work of turning Cleveland is what Cleveland needs to be competitive in a global “College Now is important to this community into the next Say Yes to Education city. Through deep, economy. The support from the community on this because of its specific interest in individuals intense community commitment, which included massive project demonstrates an understanding of this evaluating the services in Cleveland currently providing need and a willingness to dedicate resources to make and their success. There is nothing like student supports, reviewing how those services can it happen. become even more effective, and raising nearly $90 To all of the partners who worked tirelessly to bring the connection of someone from million against a goal of $125 million for scholarships, Say Yes to Cleveland, we cannot thank you enough your hometown talking to you about the dream of ensuring all students are able to achieve for your support in this endeavor. what you’re going through.” LEARN MORE > To learn more about Say Yes Cleveland, including residency and enrollment requirements for receiving the – Jeffrey Patterson, CEO, Cuyahoga Say Yes Cleveland Scholarship, visit www.sayyescleveland.org. Metropolitan Housing Authority

2 College Now Greater Cleveland 2019 Annual Report 3 The program isn’t only transformational for the students involved. Mentors find that working with TOP 11 COMPANIES MENTORS their mentees during their college career opens PARTICIPATING 2018-19: their own eyes to the challenges faced by today’s college students. KeyBank > 69 Barbara, whose mentee, Sharareh, graduated in May Cuyahoga Community College > 63 of 2018, said that she learned “college students have The Sherwin-Williams Company > 44 many more challenges in their lives than just the Cleveland Clinic > 29 academic portion. They worry about what is going on Medical Mutual of Ohio > 29 in their family, their friends and, of course, worry about Swagelok > 29 money. The decisions they need to make during their college years are difficult.” Deloitte LLP > 28 Tom, who is mentoring Austin, a junior, said that he COLLEGE NOW MENTORING PROGRAM TRANSFORMS PNC > 28 and his mentee have built a great relationship over the LIVES OF BOTH MENTEES AND MENTORS College Now Greater Cleveland > 28 past three years. “We’ve really grown to be friends,” The MetroHealth System > 25 Tom said, “and I am very proud of how he has matured When College Now launched its Mentoring Program in 2011, it asked potential PwC > 24 and grown as a person at school. I like to think I have been able to offer him some useful tips and advice mentors a fundamental question: “When you were in college, did you have all along the way on his classes, career and personal life.” the answers? Don’t you wish you had someone to help you figure it all out?” “Watching [Shaina] grow and become more ost College Now scholarship recipients are than 450 employers across Northeast Ohio, offering Mfrom low-income backgrounds, and most are a plethora of industry connections to students. confident in herself has been a wonderful first-generation college students – which means they The College Now Mentoring team works intensely to experience,” said Andrea of her mentee, are the first in their families to go to college. First- make sure that mentees are matched with mentors a college senior. “Watching Shaina learn generation college students tend to need guidance, who share their career or extracurricular interests which often cannot be found at home, through to ensure that students are placed into partnerships from some of her personal struggles and some of the challenging questions that arise during that will provide them with worthwhile career seeing how resilient she is encourages the college-going process, such as who to talk to connections. Community support for the Mentoring me… This experience has been about financial aid concerns over even a less complex Program is overwhelming. Of the over 1,100 mentors question, like how to use their meal plans in the volunteering in the program during the current school educational. I’m excited about being dining hall. College Now created the Mentoring year, over 360 come from 10 of the largest and most there to watch her graduate, and I Program to help address this need. The Mentoring well-known companies and organizations in Greater Program partners each College Now scholarship Cleveland. And, College Now employees support the am so proud of her.” recipient with a volunteer mentor in the Greater program as well, with 28 staff members serving as Cleveland community who has been through it mentors! before, who can answer the student’s questions, The vast community support is deeply appreciated, as provide guidance and insight and serve as a steadfast HOW TO BECOME A MENTOR College Now must recruit hundreds of mentors each supporter throughout the student’s college career. > College Now is always looking for new mentors to join the Mentoring Program – and the need year to serve the next incoming class of scholarship this year is more critical than ever. With the January 2019 announcement of Say Yes Cleveland, the The Mentoring Program also brings valuable social recipients. The commitment is minimal – mentors Mentoring Program will more than double to encompass all students who will receive a Say Yes capital to its mentees. Students who come from commit to a four-year relationship with their students, Cleveland scholarship administered by College Now. This means College Now must recruite almost more-educated families often have connections to which includes exchanging messages twice per 900 mentors for students graduating from high school this spring! the workforce and industries that first-generation month via an online mentoring platform and meeting students do not possess; the Mentoring Program in person three times per year – but the results are > If you are interested in learning more about the Mentoring Program or becoming a mentor yourself, please visit www.collegenowgc.org/become-a-mentor. helps bridge that gap and gives students an entrée powerful. All mentors need is Internet access, a to the working world that they can leverage college degree and to complete the application and throughout their schooling. Mentors represent more screening process.

4 College Now Greater Cleveland 2019 Annual Report 5 COLLEGE NOW LAUNCHES INTENSIVE ADVOCACY WORK FOCUSED ON COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY

ith 50 years of experience as a direct service Additionally, College Now and the Compact met Wprovider, College Now and the Higher with elected officials in the Ohio Statehouse Education Compact of Greater Cleveland (the to continue to educate members on issues of Compact) recently had the opportunity to expand affordability and postsecondary attainment. Given their work into the realm of advocacy. With capacity- the important role the state occupies in the college building grants from the National College Access affordability and student debt collection space, CLEVELAND FOUNDATION COLLEGE NOW SCHOLARS PROGRAM Network (NCAN) and ArcelorMittal, College Now knowing the ins and outs of the state legislative and Compact staff members began creating an process is vital for College Now to effectively CONTINUES TO IMPRESS organizational infrastructure to engage in advocacy advocate for its students and programs. hen Anna Marshall was a senior at John Hay Science and Medicine was accepted to Harvard efforts focused on the affordability of higher In January of 2019, College Now and the Compact WEarly College, she knew she wanted to go to University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, education in Ohio. hosted a bipartisan breakfast for members of college – but didn’t know all the steps she needed Stanford University and Yale University. He was the As a starting point, Kittie Warshawsky, Chief External the Northeast Ohio Caucus to discuss issues and to take to get there. Luckily, as one of the highest- first student in the history of the program to be Affairs Officer with College Now, and Margie Glick, challenges related to higher education in Ohio as achieving students in the Cleveland Metropolitan accepted to Stanford, where he received a full four- Manager of Partnerships and Programs with the well as to brief representatives about the work School District (CMSD), Anna was selected to year scholarship as part of the QuestBridge College Compact, created a communications toolkit for being done by College Now and the Compact. The participate in the Cleveland Foundation College Now Match program. QuestBridge is an extraordinarily legislators to explain the affordability issues in Ohio breakfast also showcased both organizations as a Scholars Program, an innovative program developed competitive national opportunity to help outstanding and the challenges they pose to Ohio residents. resource for legislators as they craft the biannual in partnership between College Now and the low-income high school seniors gain admission to Nationally, Ohio ranks 45th nationally in college state budget. Cleveland Foundation. and receive a full four-year scholarship at some of the affordability, and state aid in Ohio has not increased While College Now is still in the early stages of nation’s most selective colleges. Three other students In 2011, the Cleveland Foundation College Now commensurately with rising tuition costs. its advocacy efforts, the past year has laid the also were QuestBridge participants, and received full Scholars Program was created to avoid the trend of Kittie and Margie also travelled to Washington, D.C. groundwork for continued advocacy work on a larger four-year scholarships to Vassar University, Wesleyan “under-matching,” which occurs when academically- to meet with members of the Ohio Congressional scale. Advocacy takes time, and it is vital in order to University and Vanderbilt University respectively. qualified students attend a college or university that delegation to raise constituent concerns related to ensure that the voices of the students College Now is less selective than their academic abilities merit. Overall, this past year’s participants in the Cleveland college affordability, the need to increase the Pell serves are heard in Columbus and in Washington, DC. This program targets the highest-performing students Foundation College Now Scholars Program were grant and the complications inherent in completing in the CMSD and exposes them to and matches them accepted at 74 different institutions in what was the the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) with highly selective schools that offer the academic, most impressive list of acceptances of the Cleveland form. Furthermore, College Now and the Compact financial and social resources to help them earn Foundation College Now Scholars Program’s history. submitted two letters to the United States Secretary Ohio’s only need-based their degrees. Anna, a graduate of Cleveland State University’s of Education when the Department sought public Students work with a dedicated College Now advisor, Mandel Honors College, now serves as an AmeriCorps comment on topics related to college access. aid program, the Ohio Martha Basile, who provides substantial personalized member with College Now at John Marshall High Because 2018 was a critical election year in Ohio, guidance and individualized support. Students in the School. She highlighted the focus on “best fit” college College Now and the Compact also took the time College Opportunity program must have a 3.3 weighted GPA and at least options as a major asset of the Cleveland Foundation to meet with Democratic gubernatorial candidate a 25 composite ACT score to participate. During the College Now Scholars Program. Richard Cordray and Republican lieutenant Grant, has dropped from 2017-2018 school year, 47 CMSD students participated “Programs like this one are important because governor candidate Jon Husted to outline in the program; their average ACT score was a 29, of the individualized support and the breadth of College Now and the Compact’s aligned its peak of $223 million in and their average weighted GPA was 4.18. opportunities to which they expose students,” Anna priorities and further inform both candidates With these impressive credentials, students in the said. “These programs have the potential to make a about the need for increasing the Ohio FY08 to $99 million in FY18 – program who graduated in May 2018 were accepted world of difference in the opportunities students have College Opportunity Grant, the state’s into more highly-selective institutions than ever for success after high school.” financial aid grant for Ohio students a decline of 56%. before. One graduate of the Cleveland School of as well as advocate for the need for student loan debt relief.

6 College Now Greater Cleveland 2019 Annual Report 7 When Matthew and his supervisor, Bailey Capelle, one practice presentations, students presented their final of College Now’s Managers of Advising Programs and projects to representatives from Burten, Bell, Carr, Services, attended a conference in Toronto in early College Now and Wildfire Education, an organization 2018, they were introduced to a method of project- led by the creator of the Korda Method, Doris Korda. based learning called the Korda Method. The Korda In their final presentations, one group of students Method empowers students to utilize deep learning proposed turning the green space into a multi-use to solve rigorous challenges posed by community public park, while the second proposed the creation organizations. Excited to test this new teaching of a Zen garden to help improve the mental health methodology, Bailey and Matthew implemented a of area residents. pilot program at the Cleveland Public Library Main At the end of the session, students reflected on the Branch in partnership with community development transformations they had undergone as a result of organization Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc., their participation in the program. One student said IMPACT! BRINGS DEEP LEARNING TO CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY which was looking for ideas on uses for a community that she learned that having to break from your green space in the Kinsman/Central neighborhoods original plan is not always a bad thing, and that the hen College Now’s impact! program launched neighborhood of Cleveland, at Clearview High of Cleveland. skills she developed helped her learn how to more Wits Fall session at the Cleveland Public Library School in Lorain County and the MLK, Jr. Branch of Throughout their impact! session, students at this easily adapt to working with new ideas and people. Main Branch in October 2018, College Now site the Cleveland Public Library in Cleveland’s University Cleveland Public Library site participated in activities A second student admitted that impact! helped coordinator Matthew Markusic asked the high school Circle neighborhood; and three were awarded to that emphasized teamwork, creative thinking and teach her that she may not necessarily always be students in attendance if anyone had taken the community partners who contract with College scientific research, all of which they applied to this right, and that working in a group requires listening SAT before. Now to provide this program in Warrensville, at the project with Burten, Bell, Carr. Students spent the to the ideas of groupmates and making decisions as Not one of his students raised a hand. Longfellow Middle School in Lorain County and at last three weeks of their session working in teams a team. Students also recognized that impact! helped Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland’s Broadway Club in to research possible options for the green space, them develop research skills that they will utilize in By the end of the session in December, students had the Broadway Slavic Village neighborhood. taken the test three times – a pre-test at the start learning about other community green spaces and their senior year of high school as well as their of the session, an official standardized test in early The impact! program is offered three times per year visiting the site for additional inspiration. On the last college years. December and a post-test at the session’s end. And at each location, and each session provides students day of their session, after much preparation and while the goal of impact! is to help students meet with ACT, SAT and/or PSAT test-taking strategies, state and local standards in core academic subject enrichment activities that complement their regular areas, specifically math and reading, as well as academic programming and the necessary tools to prepare for the SAT, the transformation these students prepare for postsecondary education. Along with the experienced beyond their test scores was impressive. standardized testing practice exams, an eight-week “impact! provided session includes two family nights and a In 2012, College Now secured a competitive 21st parent orientation. the type of space Century Community Learning Center grant from the Ohio Department of Education to launch the In addition to the daily SAT/ACT prep, which includes and environment that impact! program­ – a standardized test preparation reading, math, and science lessons, students at afterschool program hosted at two branches of the impact! sites throughout Northeast Ohio also allowed me to feel Cleveland Public Library. In the past six years, the undertake a massive college and career project each program has seen tremendous growth. The most session. Students spend time researching colleges they comfortable while learning. significant expansion occurred in 2018 when the are interested in attending, majors they may want Ohio Department of Education awarded College Now to pursue and taking personality tests to learn more You can gain so much from nine grants totaling $6.1 million for the program over about the skills they will bring to their postsecondary five years. Of these grants, three were renewals to endeavors. Students present this project during the this program if you are willing continue work already being done in Euclid, the Main last family night of each session. to give it a chance.” Branch of Cleveland Public Library and at Wellington Students participating in Matthew’s session at the Exempted Village School District in Lorain County; Cleveland Public Library during the Fall of 2018 also – Jaritza, Fall 2018 impact! participant three were new dollars coming directly to College had the opportunity to participate in an innovative Now to establish the program at City Life, Greater project that built on the skills they learned during Cleveland Youth for Christ in the Near West-Side the session.

8 College Now Greater Cleveland 2019 Annual Report 9 GRASSROOTS EFFORTS WORK TO CHANGE BROADWAY SLAVIC VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD’S COLLEGE-GOING CULTURE

ne of College Now’s greatest strengths is the for college and researching best-fit postsecondary Odeep community partnerships and collaboration educational institutions. it forges with partner organizations. Perhaps one To further help students shape their postsecondary of the strongest examples is the grassroots efforts plans, College Now hosted the fourth annual P-16 of community-building occurring in Cleveland’s Majors Fair in 2018, which engaged approximately Broadway Slavic Village neighborhood. 70 students in grades 8-12 from five of the P-16 College Now has worked directly in this community schools. Forty community professionals volunteered since 2011 thanks in large part to financial support to participate in the Majors Fair, where they shared FEDERAL PROGRAMMING HELPS ADVISORS TARGET STUDENTS EARLY from Third Federal Savings & Loan. College access their majors, where they attended college and their advisors work at Cleveland Central Catholic High career experiences with students to give them a better hen College Now refreshed its strategic to more fully inform and impact their high school School, as well as in numerous Cleveland Metropolitan understanding of their postsecondary options. Wplan with the Board of Directors in 2015, it experiences. School District buildings within the community’s P-16 Students in the P-16 area also went on college tours, service area, including Jane Addams, John Adams, developed three areas of focus, one of which was Likewise, in the Warrensville Heights school district, attended a college workshop series and have started Washington Park, East Tech and New Tech at East increasing early awareness of college and career eighth-grade students participate in the #CareerU to participate in the impact! program, discussed Tech high schools as well as at Fullerton, Miles Park, readiness. By targeting students earlier in their program, which began in 2017 when College Now elsewhere in this report, which is being hosted in the Miles, Mound, Warner Girls Leadership Academy and secondary schooling, this area of focus ensures that won a $100,000 Community Connectors grant from area thanks to a collaboration with the Boys & Girls Willow middle schools. they move through their educations with a fuller the Ohio Department of Education. #CareerU is a Clubs of Cleveland’s Broadway Club. picture of what exactly they need to do to achieve school-based mentoring program that helps eighth- In addition to its school-based advising services, These grassroots efforts, which have been made their college and career goals. grade students build a foundation for postsecondary College Now also offers several other programs and possible through deep partnerships with Youth As part of this work, College Now has put into and career success. #CareerU is an extension of the services to students in the area to help them prepare Opportunities Unlimited, Neighborhood Leadership practice research-based models that focus on early True2U mentoring program, which College Now for their postsecondary journeys. For example, Institute, Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland, Slavic Village awareness in several school districts throughout co-designed with the Cleveland Metropolitan School eighth-graders from Miles Park Elementary Development, University Settlement and NewBridge Northeast Ohio. The programming is supported by District. Students meet with mentors to explore participated in a high school and college transition Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology, have helped competitive federal and state grant funding that their interests and their futures, and mentors use a workshop entitled “What I Wish I Knew,” where College Now become a trusted Broadway Slavic College Now has successfully won. research-based college and career access curriculum to a panel of current high school students shared Village partner that is playing a vital role in helping to information such as the best ways to maintain GPA, In both the Cleveland Heights-University Heights and help students develop personal, academic and career transform the college-going culture of P-16 students extracurricular activity participation, finding money the Parma City school districts, middle school students goals. During the 2018-2019 school year, #CareerU and their community. are being advised by College Now advisors through is serving over 100 eighth-grade students with 25 Federal GEAR UP grants. In Cleveland Heights- mentors. In addition to their monthly mentoring University Heights, the GEAR UP 2 New Heights meetings, students take college and career field trips, “The P-16 Majors Fair is program targets students in middle school and will participate in workshops that help them to discover follow these cohorts through high school and into their skills and passions and attend college and career one of College Now’s the first year of their postsecondary educations. By fairs for exposure to new and exciting postsecondary partnering with local organizations and businesses, opportunities. most unique activities that GEAR UP 2 New Heights is exposing students to As College Now deepens its early access advising career opportunities early in their educational careers, work, it is the organization’s goal that students engages the community and which gives them time to understand what different will reach their high school years with a better career fields require, both in terms of education and understanding of the pathways they must take gets students excited about eventual career responsibilities. Students also take to reach their postsecondary and career goals. By college and career field trips, as well as participate developing plans at an earlier point in their schooling, their futures.” in internships and work-based learning experiences. students will have a stronger chance of taking the – Michele Scott Taylor, Chief Program Officer, Similarly, middle school students in Parma are appropriate steps while still in high school to make College Now Greater Cleveland receiving services early in their education journeys their college and career dreams a reality.

10 College Now Greater Cleveland 2019 Annual Report 11 The (Re)Connect program understands the obstacles off a defaulted loan in order to reenroll in school or to that many adults returning to school face and works secure transportation to enable borrowers to get to to overcome those barriers by providing financial aid, class and complete their educations. academic support, advising services and more. As a The results of the program have been so impressive participant in the (Re)Connect program, Trayshawnna that they have caught the attention of the Ohio was able to complete her undergraduate degree Department of Higher Education, which is now with support from both College Now and Cleveland implementing a statewide effort, Finish for State University. Once she completed her degree, Your Future, to equip up to five of Ohio’s public COLLEGE NOW ADULT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES HELP ADULT Trayshawnna received a promotion and a raise! postsecondary institutions with more tools to better STUDENTS FIND RESOURCES TO RETURN TO COLLEGE College Now also has worked with the University of serve adult learners. This effort will ensure that Akron to implement a similar (Re)Connect to College Ohio has the skilled workforce needed to thrive well hen she was in college, Trayshawnna was in Over the past year, the team has employed new program through a partnership with New Horizon into the future as adults are provided with more Wa car accident that forced her to take time tactics to help students connect with and identify Federal Credit Union, which provides adult students opportunities to earn certificates and degrees after off from her job in a restaurant. She still worked in-demand careers and the pathways that are needed with education loans to help them get back to college. high school. Given that 65 percent of all jobs in Ohio about 10 hours per week at a second job, but the to achieve positions in those fields. One of these These loans are used to cover costs that prohibit will require postsecondary education by 2025, this wages she was earning were not enough for her to initiatives has been the creation of the Managing access to postsecondary education, such as paying initiative is more vital than ever. pay for college out of pocket. She finished out her Advancement Programs (MAP) database, which links semester and had a plan to get back on track when postsecondary credentialing and degree programs to her next semester rolled around. However, because specific jobs in high-demand fields in the region that of the accident, Trayshawnna had to buy a new car pay family-sustaining and living wages. Made possible – and that expense, plus raising her children, made through funding from the Deaconess Foundation, it financially impossible to continue her education, College Now advisors and trained College Now “I received a loan through the New despite her needing only one more class to finish partners will use the MAP database with clients and her accounting degree. students to help guide them toward these in-demand Horizon Federal Credit Union and the Trayshawnna’s story is all too common. Adult careers and opportunities. Currently, the database College Now Adult Learner scholarship, students return to school but, with their other houses 500 educational programs that lead to local in- financial, familial and professional obligations, demand jobs in the manufacturing, IT and healthcare which helped me pay for my tuition. they often do not have the time and/or finances sectors, identified and populated thanks to research to finish their education, which can be detrimental from Team NEO on in-demand jobs in Northeast Ohio. You don’t know how much of a burden when it comes to career advancement, as, often, The database will be updated regularly with current earning a degree could mean also earning a raise educational programs and, as it grows, also will was lifted because of that.“ or promotion. expand to include other training programs that lead to local in-demand jobs in other industries. – Megan, Cleveland State University, Class of 2019 In 1991, the Cleveland Foundation awarded College Now a $100,000 grant from the Jane D. In addition to the support from the Deaconess White Fund No. 2 to establish the Adult Student Foundation for the MAP database, the Adult Programs Counseling Program. Today, the robust Adult and Services team also has worked closely with Cleveland State University to develop the (Re)Connect Programs and Services team offers adults and HOW TO GET INVOLVED to College Program to support “comebacker” students non-traditional students the college access and > College Now works onsite with employers to help retain and promote incumbent talent and, where in earning their degrees. The goal of the (Re)Connect career advising, financial aid counseling, scholarship applicable, helps employees leverage employers’ tuition assistance programs. services and student loan debt counseling resources program is to recruit, retain and graduate students and tools they need to return to school, complete who have previously stopped out of the university > Visit College Now’s website for more information about how College Now can provide these services onsite their degrees and advance their careers. before completing their undergraduate program. to your workforce at https://www.collegenowgc.org/adult-programs-and-services/.

12 College Now Greater Cleveland 2019 Annual Report 13 COLLEGE NOW DONORS 2018

This list reflects gifts and multi-year pledges from January 1- December 31, 2018. We have made every effort to ensure the completeness and accuracy of this report. If an error or omission has occurred, please accept our sincere apologies.

$1,000,000 AND ABOVE Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation Toby and Melanie T. Maloney The Cleveland Foundation Hyatt Legal Plans, Inc. Elizabeth Ring & William Gwinn Mather Fund ServeOhio Medical Mutual of Ohio The Meisel Family Foundation The Morshana Foundation The MetroHealth System $500,000-$999,999 John P. Murphy Foundation Estate of Dorris C. Michalske Cuyahoga County Parker Hannifin Corporation National College Access Network The John Huntington Fund for Education PNC PCMA Foundation Ohio Department of Education RPM International, Inc. The Perkins Charitable Foundation INVEST IN SUCCESS HONORS FOUR FOUNDATIONS SUPPORTING Ohio Department of Higher Education The Sherwin-Williams Company Preformed Line Products Co. U.S. Department of Education Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust The Reinberger Foundation COLLEGE NOW FOR 50 YEARS The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Robert J. and Cynthia Schneider $250,000-$499,999 The Swamy Family Foundation Shearer’s Foods, Inc. n June 12, 2018, College Now hosted its fifth “College Now’s work is tremendously important Deaconess Foundation Third Federal Savings & Loan University of Akron Oannual Invest in Success event, which honors because it might be the lifeline that helps a young The George Gund Foundation Westfield Insurance Foundation Visible Voice Charitable Fund an individual or organization in Greater Cleveland person succeed,” noted David Abbott, executive KeyBank The Thomas H. White Foundation William M. Weiss Foundation Nordson Corporation Foundation Estate of Frances R. Zverina Milton A. & Roslyn Z. Wolf Family Foundation dedicated to the cause of educational attainment director at the George Gund Foundation. Swagelok Company Dan and Ellen Zelman and the mission of College Now. The George Gund $10,000-$24,999 “Our economy is dependent on these graduates $5,000-$9,999 Foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, the Martha $100,000-$249,999 Anonymous coming out with skills and being able to fulfill these Barberton Community Foundation Aleris Corporation Cargill Corporation Holden Jennings Foundation and The John Huntington jobs,” concluded Anna Adams, treasurer at the John City of Cleveland ArcelorMittal City of Barberton Fund for Education were recognized as the four Huntington Fund for Education. Richard J. Fasenmyer Foundation Bank of America Cleveland Indians funders that have supported College Now since its The Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Cleveland Rotary Foundation Following the video and award presentations, former Pipefitters Local 120 California Closets Pitt A. and Sally H. Curtiss beginning. Representatives from the four foundations Cuyahoga Valley Career Center College Now advisor Carolyn Beeler introduced the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland M.E. & F.J. Callahan Foundation shared in a video presentation what makes College United Way of Greater Cleveland Capital One Dominion Foundation evening’s keynote speaker, Greg Moore, a College Katinka Domotorffy Now an appealing organization worthy of their Jane D. White Fund No. 2 Cavaliers Youth Fund Now scholarship recipient who shared his story of the William and Cathy Christopher FirstEnergy Foundation sustained philanthropic support. Fortney Foundation life-changing support he received from Carolyn. At his $50,000-$99,999 Cleveland Beer Week, Inc. Cleveland Clinic David B. Goldston and Bonnie Borman Helen Williams, program director for education at the ACE Mentor Program of Cleveland conclusion, Greg was surprised with the creation of Jack W. & Shirley Berger Scholars of Promise The George W. Codrington Charitable Grant Thornton LLP Cleveland Foundation stated, “College Now has stood the Gregory L. Moore Scholarship, which will be given Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland Foundation Harvard Business School Club of Cliffs Natural Resources The Community Foundation of Lorain County Northeastern Ohio the test of time because it has been clear about its to a Cleveland Metropolitan School District graduate Huntington National Bank Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Harry Coulby Fund No. 2 mission of helping students, yet has also adapted to Independence Excavating, Inc. pursuing journalism or communications. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Colleen M. Craven Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation changing circumstances.” David & Inez Myers Foundation Cuyahoga Community College College Now would like to extend a sincere thank Ohio Chapter One Candle Foundation Deloitte LLP Kiwanis Foundation of Cleveland, Inc. “I look at the map and marvel at everyone that has you to all its partners – including the four celebrated PwC Downtown Cleveland Alliance Eaton Corporation Toby D. Lewis been impacted as College Now expands,” said Dan at Invest in Success – who recognize the critical The Ratner Miller Shafran Foundation Judith and Thomas J. Embrescia Gilbert and Carol Lowenthal Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland Keenan, executive director of the Martha Holden need for increasing the educational attainment level Lauren Rich Fine Catherine L. & Edward A. Lozick Foundation Fred E. Scholl Charitable Foundation Forest City Realty Trust Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation Jennings Foundation. in the community. Starting Point The Sam J. Frankino Foundation William C. Meier Foundation SunTrust Erwin & Katherine Geis Charitable The Burton D. Morgan Foundation The Treu-Mart Fund Foundation Fund The Murch Foundation The George Garretson Wade Charitable The Giant Eagle Foundation Nissan of North Olmsted Trust #2 The Gail & Sheldon Goodman Family Northern Trust Bank Foundation Ohio Security Traders Association $25,000-$49,999 The Higley Fund The O’Neill Brothers Foundation Anonymous (3) Patricia M., Jaclyn and Kathryn Inglis Parkway Pharmacy The Abington Foundation Intown Club of Cleveland Peter K. Ranney Arconic Foundation Margaret A. Kennedy and Robert G. Paul Charles and Sally Inglis Rich The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation Laborers’ International Union of North Mark Ross Margaret A. Cargill Foundation America - Local 894 The Sherwick Fund Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa The Lincoln Electric Co. David and Deborah Stahler Cleveland Browns The Lubrizol Corporation TEGNA Foundation Cleveland State University Jimmy Malone Tucker Ellis LLP

14 College Now Greater Cleveland * deceased 2019 Annual Report 15 U.S. Bank Foundation Our Lady of the Wayside Barbara Ginn Taylor Oswald Fareed and Laura Siddiq Jill Stanley Union Home Foundation Raju N. and Lisa Patel Robert and JoAnn Glick Thompson Hine LLP Angie Spitalieri Howard A. and Terri Steindler John and Denise York Robert D. and Trisha Pavey Bruce and Deborah Goode Daniel Traci Sports & Scholars Julie A. and George M. Szeltner Anna L. Zverina Roland S. Philip and Linda M. Sandhaus Goodman Real Estate Services Group Susan M. and Bill Tyler Michele Scott Taylor and Douglas Taylor The Timken Company Cheri M. and Ben Phyfer Florence S. Goodman James and Margo Walker David Turner Verizon Foundation $2,500-$4,999 Julie A. and Peter E. Raskind Great Lakes Publishing Co. Elizabeth H. Warshawsky United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Mary C. Warren Anonymous Edward Rivalsky Richard Gross Willoughby Brewing Co. United Way of Rhode Island The Western Reserve Historical Society William Barr Walter J. and Janice A. Romansky Michael J. and Jane R. Horvitz Peter and Robin F. Winokur Kittie D. Warshawsky and Timothy J. Tibbitts Western Reserve Land Conservancy Brian C. and Kris Barren Lawrence M. and Sally Z. Sears Indiana Youth Institute Alenka M. Winslett Paul Wellener Howard and Linda Dickey-White Christopher and Tina Benavides The Sears-Swetland Foundation Douglas and Karen Katz WKYC George Wenz Stephen W. Boesel John W. and Pamela A. Spencer Amy E. Kellogg John H. and Jacqueline F. Woods Dickson L. and Ann Whitney $100-$249 Suzanne Aral-Boutros and Akram Boutros Squire Patton Boggs William and Jean Koehler Timothy and Sandy Wuliger Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley and John Alton Glenn and Jeanette Grasselli Brown Andrea Thome Alan and Susie Kopit Gerard Winstanley Michelle Amato Buckley King LPA United Way of Greater Atlanta Donna Kurit* $500-$999 Youth Opportunities Unlimited Anthony Anfuso and Mary Rakauskas Richard and Doreen Cahoon Universal Windows Bobby R. Larkin, Sr. Charitable Association, Inc. Gerri Abbey Thomas Zlatoper Don Banas Jim and Mo Callam University Hospitals Health System Paul and Dorothy Maloney Rita Andolsen Jonathan E. and Debbie Bartlett Harry and Mary Ann Carlson Vocon Design, Inc. Joseph J. and Sheri Morford Ric and Kate Asbeck $250-$499 Beck Center for the Arts BL Restaurant Operations Centric Consulting, LLC Jeffrey M. and Hallie Wasserman John C. Morley Martha Basile Amazon Smile Flora Blumenthal Change for Charity Mickey and Cheryl E. Weinstein Patrick S. and Amy Mullin Jack Belcher The Andersons, Inc. Herman and Eileen Bohinc Yolanda Chanoine S. K. Wellman Foundation Evelyn B. Newell Cynthia E. Boncella and Keith Anderle Bruce and Dorothy C. Baunach Charles P. and Julia Bolton Cuyahoga County Agricultural Society John S. Wilson and Lawrence Li Gerald F. and Evelyn Newman Timothy J. Cosgrove Adam and Stacey Berebitsky Antoinece Boyd DeWine Family Foundation, Inc. WJW Fox 8 Cleveland NextWork Ronald Courey Margaret Bernstein Stephanie and Jeff Bunsey Christine & Guido DiGeronimo Foundation Ohio CAT Manohar L. and Chandra K. Daga Big Boy Restaurants International LLC Annette Busse Robert DiGeronimo $1,000-$2,499 Ohio Concrete Resurfacing, Inc. Fred DiSanto Todd and Denise Bugansky Care Alliance Trina Evans and Ken Birch Dan Abrams and Nan Cohen Ohio Farmers Insurance Diane Downing and Tom Corrigan Charles M. and Susan I. Caito Audrey Chang Fortney & Weygandt, Inc. Thomas W. and Joann Adler Kendall Perkins Ward and Colleen Dumm Case Western Reserve University Cindy Chapman Harry K. Fox & Emma R. Fox Charitable Jennifer L. and Mark J. Altstadt James R. Pierce Thomas J. and Barbara A. Ferkovic Sunil and Cynthia Chand Florence Chelm Foundation Stephanie and Juan Antunez Gloria Pointer Teen Movement Foundation Suzanne Ferrante Cleveland Council of Black Colleges Cleveland Metroparks Joyce Glickman Richard and Sherry R. Aronson Rhema Yes, Inc. Catherine Fishbach Alumni Association The Cleveland Play House The Graduate! Network William and Jane Baldwin Todd and Shelley F. Rodman Five Points Dentistry Carrie B. Davis Cleveland Police Foundation Haskell Fund Banks-Baldwin Foundation Andrew and Lynn Rollins David C. and Claudia Fulton Charles T. Day Family Charitable Fund Construction Employers Association Shane Hollett Virginia Benjamin and Philip Woodcock The Enid and David Rosenberg Frank Gargano Richard M. Donaldson Michael A. Costanzo Joseph K. and Anne Juster Christopher Brandt and Beth Sersig Family Foundation Catherine Graham Robert and Sarah Durham The Cruse Family Bernard L. and Nancy Karr Breakfast Club of America Alan and Barbara Rosskamm Charles and Kathie Hardin Early Steps Learning Center Eric O. Davis, Sr. Kinzua Environmental, Inc. Gabe and Tracy Bruno Steven and Lydia Rzucidlo Albert M. Higley Company EY Elizabeth and Brody Day Charles and Joyce Kullik Calfee, Halter and Griswold LLP Aaron Saltzman John and Sharon Hosek Tony Fabrick Gary S. and Andrea Desberg Steven Kutnick and Jacquelyn F. Derrow Fiona and Brian F. Chambers Richard F. and Elizabeth A. Schiferl Linda Kane Flynn Restaurant Group Destination Cleveland The Laub Foundation Cleveland Hillel Foundation Stacey Schroeder Catherine Kilbane Gilbane Building Company Eugene Dobryakov Frank Lewendowski Michael and Jennifer Cogan Janice Scotton Michael LaBarbera Matthew Glickman and Susie Hwang Scott and Elizabeth Donaldson Littler Mendelson P.C. Richard and Michelle Creger Shiksha Daan Lear Promotions Allan and Elise Goldner Nancy Dowding Richard and Jane Marcus Robert R. & Gay C. Cull Family Foundation Edwin Z. and Naomi Singer Mark Magyar and Susan Dolfi Barbara H. Gustafson Michael and Sally Elvitsky Marketplace Events William W. Cushwa William Sockman Majic Family Fund Jaworski Meats Richard and Cynthia Marie Fairman Medic Management Group Durrel Corporation Sean and Laurel Stack Frank and Lisa Malone Sharon Sobol Jordan Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Megan L. Mehalko Dworken & Bernstein Sally and Terry Stewart Richard D. and Margaret Margolis Brian Kelly Michael and Julie Ferkovic NASA John H. Glenn Research Center Fifth Third Bank Rotary Club of Strongsville Materion Corporation Kathleen Kennedy and Douglas White Pierre R. Ferrer John G. and Karen R. Nestor Charles D. and Charlotte Fowler Summit County Developmental McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., L.P.A. Dottie Klemm Bill and Carol Foley Norhio Plumbing, Inc. Greg and Kathleen Freeh Disabilities Board Patrick and Martha McGraw John and Theresa Kunkel Rosetherese Fox Novagard Solutions, Inc. Lee A. Friedman and Joe Gogol Swaminathan and Garg Foundation Jeff J. and Rhonda McKissick Robert D. Labes and Sheryl Markowitz Gina France Oswald Companies Jim R. and Laura Geuther James and Kathleen Szabo Stanley* and Barbara Meisel Barbara Lichstein Barry E. and Sandra Gabel Lorraine Miller Lokal Real Estate David and Amy Garnitz Steven A. Minter Elton Lytle and Kristen Galewood William Garrison and Mary Jo Mlakar Russ Mitchell Philip Madden and Debra Rozin Rebeca Glanton Marc and Amy Morgenstern Matthew Markusic Marjorie Glick Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Mitchell Brothers Ice Cream Allan and Elise Goldner Jennifer Neill Warren L. and Betsi Morris Murray A. and Rachel A. Goldstone Michael and Marcia Neundorfer Donald Morrison Nancy E. Joseph-Gould Oatey Company National Interstate Insurance Company Belinda Grada Penn Mutual Dale and Barbara Nitzsche Alan and Nancy Grannis Paul and Kim Pesses Palmer Financial LLC Greater Cleveland Community Shares Larry and Julia Pollock Progressive Corporation Emma and Michael Greenes PROFILEBJ, LLC. Diana S. Riley Burt W. and Beatrice Griffin Robert H. and Judy Rawson Brian Roche John Grunden Rea & Associates, Inc. Rockwell Automation Inc. Norman and Cheryl Gutmacher Madeline and J. Harlen Rife Tim and Lisa Rose Barney and Susan G. Guttman Roetzel & Andress Donald S. and Toni Scherzer James E. Heflich and Patricia Kellner Joseph Roman Sea-Land Chemical Company John S. and Elaine M. Hibshman Donald J. and Kathleen Rynbrandt Emily Spivack Elizabeth Honold

16 College Now Greater Cleveland * deceased 2019 Annual Report 17 Gwen Hyman $99 AND UNDER Don Hurrle Ceena R. Jewell Anonymous Samuel Jakabcic Lei Jiang Advanced Pediatrics Ricki Janis JPMorgan Chase Julie Allen Deanna Jarvis Patricia Kalbac Bianca Arendas Andra D. Johnson Tim and Yvonne Kaple Gail Arnoff Stephen L. Kadish David Katz Curtis R. Arrington Steve Kammer Brett Ketvertis Frank Balass Libby Kannard and Bill Janesh Michele L. Krantz Geoffrey and Maryann Barnes Robert and Linda M. Katz John Kropf Mary Baron Miles and Nancy Kennedy Elroy D. and Dee C. Kursh Roger Barry Kimberly Kenzig Stanley and Diane Lakota Sophia Bartel Jack Kerrigan Ron and Linda Kessler Mary Ann Lamanna Heather Beasley Judson A. Kline Brian Larson and Laurie J. Albright Russell and Carolyn Beeler Patrick Knoth Tom E. and Betsy Leib Joseph Beno Ken and Terri Kraus Marcia Levine Gary B. and Janice R. Bilchik Zelma Lavin Stephen and Lillian Levine Douglas Boes Paula Lewis Marylyn Leach Ken and Phyllis Bravo Kenneth J. and Mary Ellen Liang Rosemary Lesher Patricia Karr-Segal Joseph Carnivale Grant and Kaitlin Ross Lauren Bruns Lawrence A. Mack Jose Llapa Lauren Seymour Linda Carnivale Ken and Terri Kraus Sarah Bryson Richard T. and Polly A. Marabito Joan Lowry Bryan Cantrall Stanley E. and Marylyn B. Sibits Wendy Cohen Ryan Solganik Megan O’Connor-Martin and Andrew Martin Nataliya A. and Andrey Lozovyy Bailey Capelle Chaundrea Simmons Gwen Hyman Steven Kutnick and Jacquelyn F. Derrow Ashish Masih Greg and Shelley Marcus Joe and Linda Carnivale Stephanie and Jeffrey Spencer Todd and Shelley F. Rodman James and Kathe Mayer John and Lauren H. Mastracco College Now Staff Maritza Castro Joseph Starc Peter and Robin F. Winokur Mayfield Village Racquet Club Janice McCourt Andrew W. Prusinski The Centers for Families and Children Jonathan Steele Brooke McClain Margaret McGrath Jack Spellman Michael L. and Debra M. Clark Melanie Steele Sarah Corrigan Bridget M. McFadden and Thomas Sylvester Donald and Sally Messinger Charles D. and Charlotte Fowler Hadley and Patti Morgenstern-Clarren Elaine Straub Smith Club of Cleveland MCPc Ariesas Milan Kevin Sullivan Angie Spitalieri Cleveland Impact Institute LLC Elizabeth Day Peter and Jennifer Meyer Jason Miller Michelle Amato Veronica Colborn Michael Taylor Charles T. Day Mechanical Contractors Assocation Elaine Minch Michael and Bonnie Cole Charles and Gretchen Tice Howard Steindler Sarah Mihalik Margaret Mitchell Judith and Tom Embrescia Roslyn S. Collins Benjamin Tomins Norman and Cheryl Gutmacher Cliff Miller Stephen Mittman Sally and Terry Stewart Yadira Ramos-Colon George Ungvarsky Paul Misterka Shanese Moore LJ Stover Victor Courtney United Way of Central Ohio Lee A. Friedman Anthony and Maureen Nasrallah John C. Neesham Stacey Schroeder Carmen Daniel Robert Vajda Donald and Sally Messinger Clifton Newman Kirk and Lori Neiswander Roderick and Barbara Dibble Judith Valliere McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., L.P.A. Helen Trutko Phillip A. and Sonia Newmark Network for Good Dix & Eaton Jessica R. Vitale Mary C. Warren OhioGuidestone Charles L. and Ann G. Newman David B. Goldston Mary A. Dunbar Justin Vitrano Boyung Pahls Hannah Nutt Littler Mendelson P.C. Vincent and Karen Eckdahl Anna Walley In Memory Of Mary Partin William and Nancy Oakley Donald and Sally Messinger Courtney Walsh Jason Phillips Monroe and Marcia L. Elbrand Michelle Oatman Ms. Afi Adrienne Ellis De’Antae Ware Mike and Mary Ann Hilton Ariesas Mlina Jason C. Pinizzotto Otto Orf Sally and Terry Stewart Embers Custom Fireplace Roger C. and Jane F. Warner James and Betsy Sampliner Larry Oskowski William Bauer Ieda Warshay Dorothy M. Sawyer Jeff and Leah Epstein Paul H. Pangrace Ira Kaplan William and Jane Baldwin Claire Weiss Russell C. and Karen Schlote Robert Everden Patricia A. Patrick McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., L.P.A. Steven and Rachel Feinleib Krissie Wells and Alex Nosse Willia Coleman John D. and Barbara Schubert Alexander Phipps Sheryl E. Kline Tharal L. White Mechanical Contractors Association Katharyn Schwab Fleming’s Steakhouse Emily Pietrasz Judson A. Kline Racheal Seibert R. D. and Sara Follett Tameka Pollard Tiffany White Anne B. DesRosiers Alan S. Kopit Joanne Siegla Matthew H. Frank Elinor G. Polster Marley A. Wilder Stephen L. Kadish Maureen Frey Christopher Williams Edwin Z. and Naomi Singer Robert and Donna Simoneau Julianne Potter Charles and Frances Feiner Jennylee Gandarilla Jeremy Wilt Smith Club of Cleveland Amanda Pratt Ralph Krogh Steven Kutnick and Jacquelyn F. Derrow Robert Gantzer William and Resa Wiseman William Stultz Andrew W. and Leslie Prusinski Walter J. Romansky Todd and Shelley F. Rodman Richard Garnai Jessica Quittenton Kris Witt Lorraine Szabo James Maher Peter and Robin F. Winokur Lois Gaynor Casey Ray Bryan Wortmann and Caitlin Walsh Teach For America Joseph Starc Bruce Trammell Deborah Glosserman Barbara S. Robinson Kathleen M. Yates Robert Fortney Fortney Foundation Dianne Treska William L. and Jean C. Gordon Bernadette Robinson Mikhail Yatsushkevech Megan Mehalko Matthew H. Frank Timothy and Linda Tuthill Camille Graham Kelly Roland John Zarlenga Allan and Elise Goldner Leonard and Barbara Greenberg Homer A. Virden Bobbi N. Roquemore Sienna Zeilinger Michael Mitchell Robert M. Ginn Samuel Walker Sarah Griffin Eric Rubin Advanced Pediatrics William H. Cruse Greg Warren and Karen A. Seawall Charles L. Hand Patty Rubin IN HONOR OF Barbara Ginn Patrick S. Mullin Leigh Wasson Michael Hanrahan Twyla Sales Derricka Barron Sandy Hosek Herb Harpster Michael Salkind and Carol Gill Melanie Steele The Andersons, Inc. Kimberly White John Hosek William and Valerie Harrell Brian C. Sallee and Sherry D. Buckner-Sallee Laurel Wilder and Zack Meisel Mia Berry Rick Nutt Jason Harris Robert J. Sandrick David S. Inglis Abe and Idelle Wolf Gail Arnoff Hannah Nutt Lynn Wolfram Sheldon and Nancy Hartman Kathy Sarnowski Allan and Elise Goldner Lauren Onkey and Robert Nowatski Brenda Haunty Mark and Mac Schloss Cynthia E. Boncella and Keith Anderle Patricia M. Inglis Steven and Ellen Young Sally and Terry Stewart John and Donna Zitel Carly Hill Susan Schwartz Martha Basile Richard and Jane Marcus Kate Howley Lori Scott Mary Ann Lamanna Peter E. Raskind Charles and Sally Inglis Rich Deanne Hurley Katlyn Seballos Samuel Walker Capital One Emily Spivack

18 College Now Greater Cleveland * deceased * deceased 2019 Annual Report 19 Bobby R. Larkin, Sr. KeyBank Howard Steindler Rae Stewart, Deloitte LLP Norman and Deborah Bolden Nordson Corporation Foundation Bobby R. Larkin, Sr. Charitable Association, Inc. The Lubrizol Corporation Elaine Straub Christine Taylor, Medical Mutual of Ohio Charles P. and Julia Bolton Norhio Plumbing, Inc. Sarina Turner, American Greetings Theodore and Luann Brenner Oswald Companies David and Florence Moritz JPMorgan Chase Laura Vexler Clarissa White, Cuyahoga Community College Robert Clarke Brown Our Lady of the Wayside Douglas and Karen Katz Nordson Corporation Penn Mutual College Now is very appreciative of Brittany Williams, Destination Cleveland Charles M. and Susan I. Caito Paul H. Pangrace Roland W. Moskowitz Progressive Corporation those individuals whose planned Bobby Blankschaen-Withrow, ArcelorMittal Cleveland Browns Patricia A. Patrick Robert and Linda Katz The Timken Company gifts will benefit future generations Cleveland Indians Paul and Kim Pesses College Now is grateful to these Cliffs Natural Resources Pipefitters Local 120 Yvonne Morningstar Verizon Foundation of students Charles L. Hand longstanding donors whose Michael and Bonnie Cole Preformed Line Products Co. Jeanette Grasselli Brown College Now would like to thank sustained commitment to The Community Foundation of Lorain County The Ratner Miller Shafran Foundation Betty Marcus Sunshine Estate of Dorris Michalske Michael and Lori Conley Barbara S. Robinson Gary B. and Janice R. Bilchik the following entities for their Danny Solow and Audrey Davis educational attainment is both in-kind donations Michael A. Costanzo Walter J. and Janice A. Romansky Ken and Phyllis Bravo Estate of Frances R. Zverina inspiring and impactful Harry Coulby Fund No. 2 Linda Ross Arconic Michael L. and Debra M. Clark 25+ YEARS CONSECUTIVE GIVING Colleen M. Craven Alan and Barbara Rosskamm Hadley and Patti Morgenstern-Clarren Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP College Now would like to thank Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Manohar L. and Chandra K. Daga RPM International, Inc. Robert and Sarah Durham Cleveland Browns the following members of the Bicknell Fund Carrie B. Davis Michael Salkind and Carol Gill Steven and Rachel Feinleib Cleveland Indians Emerging Leaders Association for Glenn and Jeanette Grasselli Brown Deloitte LLP Dorothy M. Sawyer Lois Gaynor Cleveland Metroparks their generous contributions of time The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation Gary S. and Andrea Desberg Richard F. and Elizabeth A. Schiferl Nancy E. Joseph-Gould Cleveland Public Library Harry and MaryAnn Carlson Roderick and Barbara Dibble Robert J. and Cynthia Schneider Alan and Nancy Grannis Cuyahoga Community College and expertise The Cleveland Christine & Guido DiGeronimo Foundation Fred E. Scholl Charitable Foundation Leonard and Barbara Greenberg Cuyahoga County Library Tosin Araba, Swagelok Cleveland Rotary Foundation Lee DiGeronimo Lawrence M. and Sally Z. Sears Deloitte LLP Tess Boutros, Bernie Moreno Companies Barney and Susan G. Guttman The George W. Codrington Charitable Robert and Jennifer DiGeronimo Shearer’s Foods, Inc. Embers Custom Fireplace Jessica Choromanski, The Riverside Company Tim and Yvonne Kaple Foundation Nancy Dowding Fareed and Laura Siddiq Fleming’s Steakhouse Yadira Ramos-Colon, Deloitte LLP Ron and Linda Kessler Pitt A. and Sally H. Curtiss Robert and Sarah Durham Robert and Donna Simoneau Julie DeStefanis, Deloitte LLP Alan and Susie Kopit The Greater Cleveland Foodbank Dominion Foundation Vincent and Karen Eckdahl The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Andrea Donatone, Nordson Corporation Michele L. Krantz J3 Clothing Company Richard M. Donaldson Lauren Rich Fine Stephanie and Jeffrey Spencer Kristina Dooley, Estrela Consulting Elroy D. and Dee C. Kursh KeyBank Eaton Corporation Catherine Fishbach Joseph D. and Catherine Sullivan Annie Drechsler, College Now Zelma Lavin The MetroHealth System Allen H. Ford James and Kathleen Szabo Greater Cleveland FirstEnergy Foundation Barbara Lichstein National College Access Network David B. Goldston and Bonnie Borman Fortney & Weygandt, Inc. Howard J. and Sara S. Tucker Brandi DuVall, College Now Greater Cleveland Richard and Jane Marcus Next To Me Intimate Apparel Bernard D. and Susan Goodman Harry K. Fox & Emma R. Fox Charitable Susan M. and Bill Tyler Adrienne Fischer, EY Stephen Mittman and Ronald Klokke Northeast Ohio Educational Service Center The George Gund Foundation Foundation United Way of Greater Cleveland Karen Cross-Hatten, Cuyahoga Anthony and Maureen Nasrallah Parma High School The Giant Eagle Foundation University Hospitals Health System Community College Haskell Fund Palmer Financial LLC PwC Joyce Glickman Mary C. Warren Carly Hill, Care Alliance Health Center Michael J. and Jane R. Horvitz Eric Rubin Runyon & Sons Roofing George M. & Pamela S. Humphrey Fund Florence S. Goodman Jeffrey M. and Hallie Wasserman Leah Hudnall, Saint Luke’s Foundation Patty Rubin Mark Wayner Video and Photography LLC The John Huntington Fund for Education John S. and Elaine M. Hibshman Stacy and Sam Watts Jarrod Nadzan, JPMorgan Chase Mark and Mac Schloss Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Frank Holowach and Pam Williams William M. Weiss Foundation Theresa Patterson, Lokal Real Estate Michael Vernick and Audrey Chang College Now would like to thank Ceena R. Jewell Charles R. Honton and Margaret Beck Westfield Insurance Foundation Julianne Potter, BrownFlynn N. Leigh Wasson the following individuals for their Margaret A. Kennedy and Robert Paul John and Sharon Hosek Jane D. White Fund No. 2 Amy Rice, College Now Greater Cleveland Claire Weiss KeyBank Patricia M., Jaclyn and Kathryn Inglis Dickson L. and Ann Whitney in-kind donations Samantha Selio, Nordson Corporation William Wiseman and Resa Kresge Kiwanis Foundation of Cleveland, Inc. JPMorgan Chase Alenka M. Winslett Suzanne Aral-Boutros Samantha Sepulski, Brown Gibbons Abe and Idelle Wolf The Lincoln Electric Co. Charles King and Catherine Keating Milton A. & Roslyn Z. Wolf Family Foundation Nan Cohen Lang & Company John and Denise York Gilbert and Carol Lowenthal Kinzua Environmental, Inc. Timothy and Sandy Wuliger Judi Embrescia Michael Shay, Hawthorn PNC Family Wealth The Lubrizol Corporation Alan and Susie Kopit Thomas Zlatoper Monica Lacks Chaundrea Simmons, College Now Jimmy Malone Charles and Joyce Kullik Matching Gift Companies Frank Lewendowski Greater Cleveland Richard D. and Margaret Margolis John and Theresa Kunkel 5+ YEARS OF CONSECUTIVE GIVING and Organizations Barbara Lichstein Isis Harbour-Smith, LEAP The Murch Foundation William B. La Place ACE Mentor Program of Cleveland Bank of America Jimmy A. Malone Chelsea Smith, Tucker Ellis LLP David & Inez Myers Foundation Laborers’ International Union of North Kristen Baird Adams FirstEnergy Julie A. Raskind Meredith Stewart, Cuyahoga The Perkins Charitable Foundation America - Local 894 Amazon Smile The John Huntington Fund for Education Susie Rubin Community College PNC Tom E. and Betsy Leib Rita Andolsen Robert C. and Katharine C. Ruhl Stephen and Lillian Levine Apple America Group Aaron Saltzman Toby D. Lewis ArcelorMittal The Sherwick Fund Lawrence A. Mack Arconic Foundation The Sherwin-Williams Company Toby and Melanie T. Maloney Ric and Kate Asbeck The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Frank Balass Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust Mansour, Gavin, Gerlack & Manos Co., LPA Barberton Community Foundation The George Garretson Wade Charitable Materion Corporation Jonathan E. and Debbie Bartlett Trust #2 Patrick and Martha McGraw Virginia Benjamin and Philip Woodcock The S. K. Wellman Foundation Jeff J. and Rhonda McKissick Jack W. & Shirley Berger Scholars of Promise Jane D. White Fund No. 2 Medical Mutual of Ohio Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland The Thomas H. White Foundation Megan L. Mehalko Bernie Moreno Companies Anna L. Zverina The Meisel Family Foundation Cynthia E. Boncella and Keith Anderle Stanley* and Barbara Meisel Gabe and Tracy Bruno 10+ YEARS CONSECUTIVE GIVING John C. Morley Buckley King LPA The Abington Foundation Warren L. and Betsi Morris Stephanie and Jeff Bunsey Thomas W. and Joann Adler Patrick S. and Amy Mullin Richard and Doreen Cahoon Christopher and Tina Benavides John P. Murphy Foundation Calfee, Halter and Griswold LLP Flora Blumenthal Nissan of North Olmsted Capital One Michael Bohinc Dale and Barbara Nitzsche Karen J. Carcione

20 College Now Greater Cleveland * deceased * deceased 2019 Annual Report 21 Fiona and Brian F. Chambers John D. and Barbara Schubert Cleveland International Film Festival Change for Charity Lori Scott Cleveland Metroparks William and Cathy Christopher Michele Scott Taylor and Douglas Taylor Cleveland Metropolitan School District City of Cleveland Racheal Seibert The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Cleveland Clinic Emily Spivack Cleveland Public Library Cleveland State University Sports & Scholars Cleveland Rape Crisis Center Combined Federal Campaign Jill Stanley Cleveland State University Corporate Charters Starting Point Cleveland Transformation Alliance Cuyahoga County Sally and Terry Stewart College Club of Cleveland Elizabeth and Brody Day William Stultz Columbia Local School District DeWine Family Foundation, Inc. Swagelok Company The Council for Economic Opportunities Diane Downing and Tom Corrigan The Swamy Family Foundation in Greater Cleveland Ward and Colleen Dumm Julie A. and George M. Szeltner Cuyahoga Community College Judith and Thomas J. Embrescia Taylor Oswald Cuyahoga County Trina Evans and Ken Birch Third Federal Savings & Loan Cuyahoga County Public Library EY Benjamin Tomins Cuyahoga Valley Career Center Bill and Carol Foley The Treu-Mart Fund Cuyahoga County Fatherhood Intiative Forest City Realty Trust Tucker Ellis LLP Destination Cleveland WJW Fox 8 Cleveland East Cleveland City School District United Way of Summit County Neighborhood Leadership Institute University of Toledo Cuyahoga County Scholarship Fund Matthew H. Frank Eastern Michigan University Universal Windows NEO Talent Exchange University Settlement Deloitte Accounting Scholarship Lee A. Friedman and Joe Gogol Educational Service Center of Roger S. and Sharon K. Vail New Hope Fellowship Church Urban League of Greater Cleveland Mary M. Doll Endowed Scholarship Fund James and Carol Garanich Cuyahoga County Verizon Foundation NewBridge Cleveland Center for Urban League of Lorain County East High Alumni Association William Garrison and Mary Jo Mlakar Educators for Fair Consideration Deborah Vesy Arts & Technology Ursuline College Judith Embrescia Scholarship Fund Erwin & Katherine Geis Charitable Elyria City School District Vocon Design, Inc. Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School Thomas J. and Judith Embrescia Endowed Fund Foundation Fund Esperanza Inc. Elizabeth H. Warshawsky Notre Dame College Wadsworth City School District Irene C. and Karl Emmerling Scholarship Fund Jim R. and Laura Geuther Euclid City Schools Kittie D. Warshawsky and Timothy Tibbitts Oberlin College of the Cleveland Foundation Barbara Ginn Euclid Public Library Warrensville City School District Wells Fargo Insurance Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Even Cut Abrasive Company Matthew Glickman and Susie Hwang Fairfax Renassiance Development Corporation Wellington Exempted Village School District George Wenz Administrators Charles and Francis Feiner Endowed Grant Thornton LLP Firelands Local School District WIRE-Net Peter and Robin F. Winokur Ohio Department of Education Scholarship Fund Burt W. and Beatrice Griffin Friendly Inn Settlement Youth Opportunities Unlimited John H. and Jacqueline F. Woods Ohio Department of Higher Education Ferro Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund Richard Gross Garfield Heights City School District YWCA Greater Cleveland Dan and Ellen Zelman OhioGuidestone Robert L. Fortney Endowed Scholarship Fund John Grunden Gesher Ohio Means Jobs Scholarship Partners General Electric Scholarship Fund Norman and Cheryl Gutmacher Community and Great Lakes Science Center Eleanor Gerson Endowed Scholarship Fund The Ohio State University ACE Mentor Program Nancy Hartman Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers The George Gund Foundation Educational Partners Ohio University Althans Scholarship Fund Hyatt Legal Plans, Inc. Association Sondra and Stephen Hardis Endowed ACE Mentor Program of Cleveland Olmsted Falls City School District Hyland Software, Inc. Greater Cleveland Partnership Sophie Auerbach Scholarship Fund of Scholarship Fund Akron Public Schools Open Doors Academy William and Jean Koehler Habitat for Humanity the Cleveland Foundation Harvard Business School Club of Northeast Aspire Padua Franciscan High School Steven Kutnick and Jacquelyn F. Derrow Higher Education Compact of Greater Joseph Babin Endowed Scholarship Fund Ohio Scholarship Fund Avon Local School District Parma City School District Lear Promotions Cleveland James C. Beardslee Fund of the Henkel Consumer Adhesives Endowed Passages Elton Lytle and Kristen Galewood Baldwin Wallace University Highland Local School District Cleveland Foundation Scholarship Fund Playhouse Square Mark Magyar and Susan Dolfi Barberton High School Hiram College Jack W. & Shirley Berger Scholars of Promise George M. Humphrey Scholarship Fund PNC Fairfax Frank and Lisa Malone Barberton Public Library Holy Name High School Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland Gilbert and Louise Ireland Humphrey Endowed Richard T. and Polly A. Marabito Bay Village City School District i know i can Polaris Boodle Endowed Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Greg and Shelley Marcus Beachwood City School District ideastream Promise Academy George H. Boyd Scholarship of the The John Huntington Fund for Education Marketplace Events Bedford City School District Indiana Wesleyan University Richmond Heights City School District Cleveland Foundation David S. Inglis Endowed Scholarship Fund Lauren H. and John Mastracco Berea City School District Job Corps Rocky River City School District Britton Endowed Scholarship Fund The Intown Club of Cleveland James and Kathe Mayer Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland John Carroll University Saint Martin de Porres High School Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation Scholarship Fund Bridget M. McFadden Bowling Green State University Kent State University Salvation Army Endowed Scholarship Fund Mayor Frank G. Jackson Endowed Scholarship Medic Management Group Breakthrough Charter Schools Lakeland Community College Say Yes to Education Cambodian Scholarship for Excellence Fund Charles and Margaret Jones Scholarship Fund The MetroHealth System Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland Lakewood City Schools ServeOhio Bill Christopher-Alcoa Leadership Sharon Kearns Endowed Scholarship Fund Estate of Dorris C. Michalske Broadway Slavic Village P-16 Link 4 Schools Shaker Heights City School District Scholarship Fund Margaret A. Kennedy Endowed Lorraine Miller Brunswick City School District Lorain City School District Solon City School District The Christopher Family Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund John G. and Karen R. Nestor Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. Lorain County Community College South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School District City of Cleveland Black History KeyBank Evelyn B. Newell Care Alliance Health Center Lorain County JVS St. Edward High School Scholarship Fund Kiwanis Scholarship Fund Gerald F. and Evelyn Newman Case Western Reserve University Lorain County Urban League St. Ignatius High School City of Cleveland Scholarship Fund KnowledgeWorks Foundation Endowed Northern Trust Bank Catholic Charities- St. Phillip Neri MAGNET St. Joseph Academy Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Fund Michelle Oatman The Centers for Families and Children Magnificat High School Starting Point Cleveland Browns Foundation Charles E. Kullik Scholarship Fund Parker Hannifin Corporation Cincinnati Youth Collaborative Marion Correctional Facility Summer on the Cuyahoga The Cleveland Foundation Laborers’ International Union of North Mark Phillips and Lita Gonzalez City Club of Cleveland Mayfield City School District Summit Education Initiative Cleveland Indians America - Local No. 894 James R. Pierce City Life, Greater Cleveland Youth for Christ The MetroHealth System Teach For America Cleveland Rotary Foundation Marcia LaRiche Endowed Scholarship Fund Jason C. Pinizzotto City of Barberton Miami University Team NEO Cleveland War Memorial Scholarship Bobby R. Larkin, Sr. Charitable Association, Inc. PwC City of Cleveland Midview Local School District Towards Employment Cliffs Natural Resources Endowed Scholarship Fund Peter K. Ranney City Year Minds Matter of Cleveland Trinity High School Roy and Willia Coleman Scholarship Fund Leadership Cleveland Endowed Bernadette Robinson Cleveland Central Catholic High School Moms First True2U Youth Mentoring Program The College Now Alumni Endowed Scholarship Fund Todd and Shelley F. Rodman Cleveland Clinic NASA Glenn Research Center U.S. Department of Education Scholarship Fund Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust Andrew and Lynn Rollins Cleveland Heights - University Heights National College Access Network United Way of Greater Cleveland Shirley and Robert Coplan Endowed Sue L. Little Fund of the Cleveland Foundation Steven and Lydia Rzucidlo School District National Scholarship Providers Association University Hospitals Health System Scholarship Fund Elizabeth T. Lohmiller Fund of the George F. Schaefer Cleveland Hillel Foundation Neighborhood Connections University of Akron Harry Coulby Scholarship Fund Cleveland Foundation

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Cleveland Foundation 22 COLLEGE NOW BOARD OF DIRECTORS COLLEGE NOW LOCATIONS 79 MENTOR The Malone Endowed Scholarship Fund 72 51

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage 28 29 Materion Corporation CHAIR 63 EUCLID 59 Elizabeth Ring Mather & William Gwinn Mather 37 15 13 Mark Ross, PwC 30 9 47 Endowed Scholarship Fund CLEVELAND 45 TRUSTEES 48 18 61 Meisel Family Scholarship Fund 14 19 49 27 Gregory L. Moore Scholarship Fund Kristen Baird Adams, PNC 67 5 66 26 12 4 39 50 1 20 40 52 The Bernie Moreno Company Drive to Jennifer Altstadt, Sea-Land Chemical Co. 60 46 62 44 69 34 41 68 Succeed Scholarship Rita Andolsen, The MetroHealth System 43 65 80 76 10 36 2 38 53 33 35 78 55 David A. and Florence F. Moritz Endowed Stephanie Antunez, California Closets 64 11 75 74 Scholarship Fund 23 25 Brian Barren, Cleveland Indians 70

David & Inez Myers Foundation Endowed 32 Mary Beth Beck, EY LORAIN 58 7 6 Scholarship Fund 56 57 Virginia Benjamin, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP 24 54 The Scholarship for a New Generation 42 71 Suzanne Aral-Boutros, State Farm Insurance 21 The Nordson Corporation PARMA The One Candle Endowed Scholarship Fund Gabe Bruno, The Lincoln Electric Co. 17 O’Neill Endowed Scholarship Fund Brent Buckley, Buckley King LPA Parkway Pharmacy Dick Cahoon, Dealer Tire (ret.) Pipefitters Local 120 Harry Carlson, The Lincoln Electric Co. (ret.) STRONGSVILLE Millicent W. Pitts Endowed Scholarship Fund Fiona Chambers, Deloitte LLP 8 Plain Dealer Endowed Scholarship Fund Michael Cogan, Northern Trust Gloria Pointer Scholarship Fund Timothy Cosgrove, Square Patton Boggs Preformed Line Products Company Katinka Domotorffy, Community Leader 77 16 F.M. Pritchard Fund of the Cleveland Diane Downing, Say Yes to Education Cleveland Foundation Ward Dumm, Swagelok Florence Mackey Pritchard and P.J. Pritchard 31 Scholarship Fund of the Cleveland Foundation Judith Embrescia, Community Leader The Ratner Miller Shafran Foundation Trina Evans, KeyBank CUYAHOGA Lauren Rich Fine, Gries Financial Corporation William Roberts Endowed Scholarship Fund MEDINA FALLS Samuel Rosenthal Foundation Endowed David Fulton, Hartland Scholarship Fund James R. Geuther, SunTrust Bank Robert J. Schneider Endowed Scholarship Fund David Goldston, Jo-Ann Stores, LLC AKRON 3 Fred E. Scholl Charitable Foundation Richard (Rick) Gross, Grant Thornton LLP (ret.) 73 Augie Schroeder Endowed Scholarship Fund Patricia Inglis, San Francisco Forty Niners BARBERTON Shearer’s Foods, Inc. Michael Jeans, Growth Opportunity Partners, Inc. The Sherwin-Williams Company 1 Alfred A. Benesch K-8 28 Ginn Academy 55 North Olmsted High School Kathleen Kennedy, The Nordson Corporation 2 Avon High School 29 Glenville High School 56 Olmsted Falls High School Shiksha Daan Scholarship Fund Margaret Kennedy, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP (ret.) Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust 3 Barberton Public Library 30 Heights Middle School 57 Padua Franciscan High School William Koehler, Team NEO Solow Endowed Scholarship Fund 4 Bay High School 31 Highland High School 58 Parma Senior High School Alan Kopit, MediLogix LLC Sally Stewart Scholarship Fund 5 Beachwood High School 32 Holy Name High School 59 Patrick Henry K-8 School Jimmy Malone, WMJI (Clear Channel) Ralph P. Stoddard Memorial Fund of 6 Bedford High School 33 James Ford Rhodes High School 60 Rocky River High School Megan Mehalko, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP the Cleveland Foundation 7 Berea–Midpark High School 34 Jane Addams Business Careers Academy 61 Saint Martin de Porres High School Russ Mitchell, WKYC Swagelok Advantage Scholarship 8 Brunswick High School 35 John Adams High School 62 Shaker Heights High School Swaminathan and Garg Foundation Joseph Morford, Tucker Ellis LLP 9 Brush High School 36 John F. Kennedy High School 63 Shaw High School Scholarship Fund Patrick S. Mullin, Deloitte (ret.) 10 Charles Eliot K-8 School 37 John Hay High School - All Schools 64 Solon High School Swamy Family Scholarship Fund Adam Myers, Cleveland Clinic 11 Clearview High School 38 John Marshall High School-All Schools 65 Southview Middle School Teamsters Truck Drivers Union Local 407 Raju Patel, Bank of America 12 Cleveland Central Catholic High School 39 Lakewood High School 66 St. Edward High School The Union Club Scholarship Fund Cheri Phyfer, Moen U.S. Businesses 13 Cleveland Heights High School 40 Lincoln-West High School 67 St. Ignatius High School University Hospitals Endowed Scholarship Fund Sandra Pianalto, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (ret.) Ella M. Walz Memorial Fund of the 14 Cleveland High School for Digital Arts 41 Longfellow Middle School 68 St. Joseph Academy Julie Adler Raskind, Community Leader Cleveland Foundation 15 Cleveland School of the Arts 42 Lorain County JVS 69 Thomas Jefferson International Beth Riczko, Community Leader Waxman Family Scholarship Fund 16 Cloverleaf High School 43 Lorain High School Newcomers Academy Enid Rosenberg, Community Leader William M. Weiss Endowed Scholarship Fund 17 Columbia High School 44 Magnificat High School 70 Trinity High School Jane D. White Fund No. 2 Scholarship Fund Traci Rourke, McMaster-Carr Supply Company 18 Davis Aerospace & Maritime High School 45 Martin Luther King Jr. Career Campus 71 Valley Forge High School Thomas H. White Foundation John Spencer, Eaton Corporation 19 Design Lab Early College 46 Max S. Hayes High School 72 Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School Teresa Jane Williams Memorial Fund of Sean Stack, Aleris the Cleveland Foundation Sally Stewart, Howard Hanna 20 East Technical High School 47 Mayfield High School 73 Wadsworth High School Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Scholarship Fund J.D. Sullivan, Jr., MFH Partners 21 Elyria High School 48 MC2STEM-9th Grade 74 Warrensville Heights High School Margaret W. Wong Scholarship Fund Kathleen Szcznesniak, The Sherwin-Williams Company 22 Euclid High School 49 MC2STEM-10th Grade 75 Warrensville Heights Middle School Youth for Holiness Scholarship Fund Eddie Taylor, Taylor Oswald 23 Facing History New Tech High School 50 MC2STEM-11th and 12th Grades 76 Washington Park Environmental Ingrid Tolentino, Hyatt Legal Plans, Inc. 24 Firelands High School 51 New Tech Collinwood Studies Academy David Turner, FirstEnergy Corp. 25 Garfield Heights High School 52 New Tech East 77 Wellington High School Susan M. Tyler, Community Leader 26 Garrett Morgan High School 53 New Tech West 78 Whitney M. Young Leadership Academy Deborah Vesy, Deaconess Community Foundation 27 George Washington Carver K-8 54 Normandy High School 79 Wickliffe High School Jeffrey Wasserman, Oswald Companies 80 Wilbur Wright K-8 School Christopher Williams, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP Please call 216.241.5587 for a community location near you. Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, U.S. Ambassador to Malta (ret.) 24 College Now Greater Cleveland 50 Public Square, Suite 1800 Cleveland, OH 44113 216.241.5587 www.collegenowgc.org

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