poverty

Ideastream senior host and producer Rick Jackson interviewed CLC’s Marianne Crosley and Karla Wludyga about the recent humanitarian mission to Puerto Rico. CLC and The City Club of Cleveland organized a mission of 28 Clevelanders, including several families, to do hands-on relief work, learn what still needs to be done, and meet with the island’s…

Chris Quinn (LC 2015) is leading the charge at Cleveland.com for A Greater Cleveland’s Open Table project. On Wednesday night, over 250 community members showed up to learn more and find out how they can help. Chris’ LC classmate, Akram Boutros (LC 2015), stepped up to lead a center for the initiative. Read the full…

Career Closet Shayla Ivezzy 2017 Finalist Economic & Workforce Development category Presented in partnership with: February 19, 2018 Shayla was featured in a WISH Cleveland blog post about Accelerate as a previous finalist who is bringing her project to life and helping under-served youth on their paths to careers. In less than one year, workshops…

Getting our Babies to College 101 Jowan Smith 2017 Finalist Educating for Tomorrow Presented in partnership with: October 1, 2018 Jowan was featured by The Plain Dealer/cleveland.com for her work. She discussed how she beat the odds and worked her way out of poverty and how she’s trying to help other families do the same through…

Chris Quinn (LC 2015), President and Editor, Advance Ohio/cleveland.com, enlisted a cadre of his LC classmates to help A Greater Cleveland – a series intended to spark the community to help identify and remove that barriers to success faced by children living in poverty in Cleveland – come up with ways for community members to help….