Greetings, This past week has been eventful. Just like so many of you, we are adjusting daily to uncertainty of this crisis. Due to growing concerns about COVID-19, Birthing Beautiful Communities offices will be closed effective March 17, 2020. The main office line will be answered during regular business hours. However, the physical office will not…
2019 was an historic year for us. Thanks to community and leadership support, we marked our 50th anniversary by launching free admission in March 2019, alongside our OPEN HOUSE platform. We designed OPEN HOUSE to enhance engagement and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). Expressed through staffing, governance, visitor experience, communications, and community programming,…
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We are now accepting monetary donations for the Cancer Compassion Care Pantry. In hopes of lessening the burden to patients and their families undergoing cancer care at SOMC, the pantry provides food and household items to those in need. To protect those who would like to donate, we have provided a link below where you…
Freestore Foodbank has bought more food as the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools and businesses. Through April, when CEO Kurt Reiber addressed the public at a city of Cincinnati news conference, the nonprofit had shelled out $3 million to keep up with rising demand from people whose livelihoods had become pandemic casualties. That’s 30 times…
Karena Cash, 1N5 intern, talks about her battle with depression and wants people to know they are not alone when they are stuck at home.
In any normal year, the Freestore Foodbank’s Hunger Walk would pack the streets in Cincinnati on Memorial Day. Usually, the walk raises about $200,000, but the walk has only raised about $80,000. Since the Freestore Foodbank started the walk in 2004, it has raised more than $2 million, which is equal to about 6 million…
The neighborhood of Lower Price Hill was slated May 1, 2020 to emerge from a food desert with the opening of Meisers Fresh Grocery & Deli, a social enterprise initiated by the non-profit organization Your Store of the Queen City. Selling affordable fresh products based on community demand, the store was slated to bring money…
The Reds Community Fund is a unique organization in many ways, focusing on baseball, softball and education and connecting with urban neighborhoods and families. These efforts and our activities at the P&G MLB Cincinnati Reds Youth Academy are made possible only by the generosity of fans in Reds Country and our many fundraising events tied…
Greater Cincinnati Tri-State Region, American Red Cross As the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) impacts our communities, the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the American Red Cross is working with public health officials to ensure the safety of our clients and workforce while providing continued delivery of the Red Cross mission. We are focusing special…