Commission 50


Members of the Commission 50 are recognized annually for progress in creating, enhancing and sustaining their diversity and inclusion strategies. This recognition is based on their responses to the Commission on Economic Inclusion’s annual Employers Survey on Diversity™. Their scores are tabulated based on four metrics:

  • Board Diversity
  • Senior Management Diversity
  • Workforce Diversity
  • Supplier Diversity

The organizations are ranked by each of the four metrics, and the rankings are combined to produce a final score. The 50 Commission-member organizations (25 for profit, 25 nonprofit/government) with the highest combined scores receive this distinguished designation. Here are this year’s honorees: 

Baker & Hostetler LLP KeyCorp
Breakthrough Charter Schools Lifebanc
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP The Lubrizol Corporation
Case Western Reserve University Medical Mutual  
Cavaliers Holdings LLC Mercy Health Partners
Cleveland Clinic The MetroHealth System
Cleveland Foundation NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland Indians Baseball Club Nordson Corporation
Cleveland Metropolitan School District Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Cleveland State University Ozanne Construction Company
Cuyahoga Community College Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority The Sherwin Williams Company
Dominion East Ohio Squire, Sanders (US) L.L.P.
Eaton Corporation Summa Health System 
Energizer Global Technology Center Thompson Hine LLP
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Time Warner Cable, Northeast Ohio  
Fifth Third Bank, Northeastern Ohio TLC Springwater LLC
FirstEnergy Corp. Tucker Ellis & West LLP
Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Turner
Gilbane Building Company  U.S. Bank  
Greater Cleveland Partnership United Way of Greater Cleveland
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority The University of Akron
Huntington National Bank University Circle, Inc.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Ohio University Hospitals
Kent State University WVIZ/PBS & 90.3 WCPN ideastream