new foundation was to be called the Greater Cleveland Association of Foundations. On December 8, 1961, the Ford Foundation informally notified the Distribution Committee that it was giving the new foundation $1.25 million. Edgar A. Hahn, treasurer of the Louis D. Beaumont Foundation, subsequently urged a changed in the name of the new foundation to avoid the appearance that it wanted to become the sole source of charitable giving in Cuyahoga County. He suggested using the word "associated, and on December 12 the Distribution Committee notified the Ford Foundation that the new foundation would thenceforth be known as the Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation. Operational history On November 16, 1961, Harold Clark, Kent Smith, Elmer Lindseth, and Ellwood Fisher (president of Fisher Foods) organized themselves as the first Board of Trustees of the Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation. Smith was elected chairman of the board, and Dolph Norton was appointed president. An 11-member Board of Directors was appointed by the Trustees, which included the four trustees, the president, three prominent local businessmen, and representatives from four of the sponsoring foundations. Seth Taft, a prominent local attorney and general counsel for The Cleveland Foundation, drew up the articles of incorporation. With the name change on December 12, the new foundation was established. On December 15, 1961, the Ford Foundation formally notified GCAF that it had won its $1.25 million grant. The Ford Foundation grant went entirely to grantmaking, because operating expenses were paid for by a $1.25 million grant from the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Special Purpose Fund. Initial grantmaking GCAF made just $300,000 in grants to just seven organizations in its first year. About $200,000 went to the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, a coalition of groups which dominated anti-poverty efforts in Cleveland in the fields of income support, job training, education, and similar areas. Two grants—one for $7,000 to the Greater Cleveland Youth Services Planning Commission and one for $18,000 to a coalition of citizens' groups in education—augured the direction GCAF would take in the next nine years. Grantmaking in GCAF's first year was not well-planned, as the board and President Norton struggled to find a common vision. In December 1961, Norton threatened to resign when the Board of Directors declined to give him a pay raise, a sign that the board had found extensive fault with his leadership of GCAF. A compromise was reached, in which the pay raise was granted