Past Recipients of the Charles Eisenman Award
1924 Anna B. Beattie, William Telzrow
1925 Lawrence L. Jewell, John Slawson, J. Paul Buckey
1928 Anthony Wieczorek, George Effinger
1929 Lessing-Mendelsohn Bi-Centennial Commission
1930 Samuel Mather
1931 Adult Education Association
1933 Community Fund
1935 Dr. Benjamin S. Kline
1936 Leo Weidenthal
1937 Dr. Henry J. John
1938 George A. Bellamy
1939 Edward M. Baker
1940 Rowena & Russell W. Jelliffe
1941 Bertha Herzog
1942 James Rudolph Garfield
1943 Dr. Harry Goldblatt
1944 Salmon P. Halle
1945 Joseph M. Berne
1947 Judge Maurice Bernon
1948 Judge Daniel E. Morgan
1949 Nathan Loeser
1950 Elizabeth & William C. Treuhaft
1951 Lucia J. Bing
1952 Claud H. Foster
1953 I.F. Freiberger
1954 Margaret Ireland
1955 Alfred A. Benesch
1956 Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver
1957 John A. Green
1958 Harold Terry Clark
1959 Max Freedman
1960 Herman Moss
1961 Charles F. McCahill
1962 The Ratner Family
1963 Welfare Federation of Cleveland
1964 Ruth Einstein
1965 Myron E. Glass
1966 Ralph M. Besse
1967 Bellefaire
1968 Anne & Alex Miller
1969 Kent H. Smith
1970 Eugene H. Freedheim
1971 Edward Ginsberg
1972 David N. Myers
1973 Maurice Saltzman
1974 James C. Davis
1975 Jewish Family Service Association
1976 E. Mandell deWindt
1977 Morton L. Mandel
1978 University Circle, Inc., Martha & Frank E. Joseph
1979 Henry L. Zucker
1980 Free Medical Clinic of Cleveland
1981 Menorah Park – Jewish Home for Aged
1982 Sidney Z. Vincent Montefiore Home
1983 Allen C. Holmes
1984 Irving I. Stone
1985 William E. MacDonald
1986 Albert B. Ratner
1987 The Cleveland Foundation
1988 Henry J. Goodman
1989 Richard B. Tullis
1990 Amb. Milton A. Wolf
1991 United Way Services, James R. Stover
1992 Hebrew Academy of Cleveland
1993 Samuel H. Miller, Bishop Anthony Pilla
1994 National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section
1995 Elaine G. Hadden
1996 Claire E. Freeman
1997 victor gelb, Peter Rzepka
1998 The Hon. Louis Stokes
1999 Stephen H. Hoffman
2000 Robert S. Reitman, Herbert E. Strawbridge (posthumously)
2001 Bennett Yanowitz
2002 Steven A. Minter
2003 Partner agencies of Federation
2004 Richard J. Bogomolny
2005 Charles A. Ratner
2006 The Sullivan Family
2007 Robert Goldberg
2008 Sally H. Wertheim
2009 Kol Israel Foundation, The Hon. George Voinovich
2010 Milton and Tamar Maltz
2011 Jerry Sue Thornton
2012 Tim and Sandy Wuliger
2013/ 2014 Thomas W. Adler, Greater Cleveland Food Bank
2015 Harley I. Gross
2016 Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr.
2017 Michael Siegal
2018 S. Lee Kohrman
2019 Richard W. Pogue
2020 Enid Rosenberg
2021 The Staffs of Cleveland Clinic, The MetroHealth System, and University Hospitals
2022 Reneé Chelm
2023 Global Cleveland
2024 Gary L. Gross
