Students and alumni have been reaching out to their Towards Employment career coaches. Over and over again, we hear “I need to talk to someone I can trust.” LB called to think through her next steps. She is 65 years old and a graduate of Towards Employment currently employed at an area hospital. Four weeks…
Due to COVID-19, Burning River Baroque postponed their entire spring season “Witches: Revered and Reviled.” This necessary decision has impacted the organization significantly in terms of personnel, lost revenue, and uncertainty about the upcoming season. Personnel: Postponing our spring 2020 season prevented us from continuing with our strategic plan of recruiting a permanent board treasurer as…
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted a traditional fundraising season into a season of immense service requests. Serving the medically fragile community and bridging the gap where children hospital resources end, we are assisting displaced families during the most difficult time of their life, next to their sick or dying child. We work directly with the…
Since 2004, America SCORES Cleveland has used a continuum of support to successfully build healthy and engaged learners. SCORES ensures that Cleveland youth, no matter their socioeconomic background, have access to free, quality programming using an evidence-based tri-curricular approach of poetry, soccer, and service-learning. Due to COVID-19, we had to pivot our programming to an…
At College Now, many of the programs we run for high school students are after-school, in-person programs designed to prepare students for life after high school. One of our most well-known programs is impact!, a standardized test-prep program that helps students prepare for the ACT, SAT, or PSAT and also exposes them to all aspects…
In early March as we became aware of the potential pandemic and the unknown future we all face, we wanted to make sure that all of our clients had food in their home pantry to sustain them for at least 2 weeks should our supply chain break down or if we found it necessary to…
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Every day, we receive multiple emails and calls telling us how much our students and volunteers miss coming to Fieldstone. They tell us how being around the horses grounds them and gives them purpose. They tell us how it helps them physically and emotionally in a way nothing else can. In fact several students and…
A driver picked up Mary from her home to take her to a long overdue medical appointment. During COVID many in-person doctor visits were cancelled. Mary had not left her home for four weeks, and was so very happpy to get out and have a conversation with the driver. She asked the driver to “take…
EYEJ amplifies youth voices for those that are silent and not only are we seeing an already brewing issue around connectivity to the Internet and access to devices dynamically increase our worries for our youth but we have learned that multiple persons in the EYEJ Youth Council who were experiencing toxic stress already have additional…