Brush Foundation records, series II, 1969-2003.

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Brush Foundation records, series II, 1969-2003.

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Consists of brochures, budgets, business cards, correspondence, grant proposals, journal articles, manuals, newspaper articles, notes, pamphlets, reference guides, and speeches. This collection is of value to researchers studying philanthropy in the Cleveland, Ohio, area and nationally, specifically in the realm of family planning and birth control. It is a source of information on late twentieth century birth control issues, particularly relating to various organizations involved in researching and implementing methods of birth control and women's health issues. The Brush Foundation funded academic research, particularly the support of researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Johns Hopkins University where studies were done regarding the health of adolescents and birth control issues in Africa and Haiti. The foundation also supported organizations taking action to utilize those academic studies, such as the International Women's Health Coalition and Planned Parenthood. Funding from the Brush Foundation was focused on numerous areas of interest dealing with health and population, promoting AIDS research and awareness, seeking methods to prevent teen pregnancy, teaching others how best to control when and if they wish to produce children, and generally promoting healthy lifestyles for people by funding research on the effects of hunger, domestic abuse, rape, and hygiene through both community efforts and developing new technologies.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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International Planned Parenthood Federation.

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Brush Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio)

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The Brush Foundation was created in 1928 by Cleveland inventor Charles F. Brush (1849-1929) to promote "research in the field of eugenics and in the regulation of the increase of population." His initial bequest of $500,000 to establish the foundation derived from the fortune that Brush had amassed through investments and his many patents, most importantly the arc light. The foundation was intended as a memorial to his son, Charles F. Brush, Jr., who had died at the age of thirty-four in 1927. H...

Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland

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Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland opened its first clinic on March 20, 1928 in the Osborn Building, located at Huron Road and Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Before the organization was recognized for its affiliation with Planned Parenthood Federation of American Inc., it was known as the Maternal Health Association (MHA). The MHA was started by Dorothy Hamilton Brush, Katherine Bingham Fisher and Hortense Oliver Shepard, a group of women who wanted to help families who ne...

Brush, Charles Francis, 1849-1929

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Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1869 and returned to Cleveland as a mining engineer. Worked as an analytical chemist (1870-1873) and then began to experiment with electricity. By 1877 he devoted all his time to the study of electricity and developed the Brush electric dynamo and the Bursh Electric Arc Light. In 1880 he founded the Brush electric company. He was active in philanthropy and endowed the controversial "Brush Foundation" for the study of Eugenics, when, within a week, he ...