More money needed to seed growth of refugees’ businesses
US Together’s successful support of immigrant and refugee enterprises helps build the local economy, but the agency needs funds to keep the effort going into 2023.
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How Coit Road Farmers Market is encouraging entrepreneurship among urban farmers
The Coit Road Farmers Market is helping East Clevelanders cultivate their own crops with its beginning farmers apprenticeship program. This program comes just in time for the market’s 90th anniversary and the start of the 2022 growing season.
Cleveland nonprofit upcycles computers to bridge the digital divide
PCs for People isn’t just a warehouse full of your dad’s old junk. This company is upcycling old computers and other technology to help bridge the digital divide. They bring power to the people or, at least, their computers, monitors and wifi routers.
Local arts group celebrates Cleveland’s Mexican culture
Comité Mexicano de Cleveland brings the beauty of Mexico to Cleveland through art, music, educational workshops, and neighborhood initiatives. The organization’s 25 artists and leaders have big dreams for the future and fill a much needed spot left by Club Azteca and the Hispanic Alliance.
How can Cleveland’s nonprofits improve access to healthy food?
Rite Aid Healthy Futures is supporting three Cleveland food access programs: the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, The FARE Project, and Food Strong. With nearly 14 percent of Cuyahoga County food insecure, these efforts are fighting hunger in our area.
Much work remains to ensure Cleveland rentals are safe from lead paint
Cleveland has just a year left to roll out its new lead-safe requirements. Nearly 9,200 rental units out of an estimated 100,000 in the city have been lead-safe certified so far.
Why write? How the pandemic reinvented Literary Cleveland
The pandemic put the future of Literary Cleveland in question. That was until its executive director Matt Weinkam started teaching online writing classes.
A year of in-depth, local reporting: The Land’s top 20 stories of 2021
The Land has been around for more than one year now. In our brief lifetime, we’ve published hundreds of stories, some of which have had rippling impacts through Cleveland.
Haste makes waste: Is Cleveland rushing to spend its ARPA money?
Just three Cleveland City Council meetings remain this year if the Jackson administration wants to pass its proposed ARPA spending plan for the first half of the city’s $511 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding.
Waiting for relief: ARPA survey responses provide window into what Cleveland needs now
Cleveland officials have spent months hashing out how to spend a portion of the $511 million in federal stimulus money from the American Rescue Plan Act. But what do residents want the money used for? The Land and Cleveland Documenters put in a public records request to find out.
