For some Clevelanders, just staying warm or keeping the water running is a daily challenge. While Terrance Dewalt never had COVID-19, he felt just as much a victim of the pandemic, finding himself out of work and out of answers.
A group of young people committed to action over talk, to addressing and solving the profound problems they and others face every day, this elite wing of Cleveland’s social justice nonprofit may be the region’s own “greatest generation” in the making.
The disconnect between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) students and the surrounding Cleveland community led Delaney Jones to start Know Your Neighbors, a student-led initiative at CWRU striving to create connections between Case students and their neighbors.
CareSource, the state’s largest Medicaid managed care organization, will invest $5 million to help Cleveland families and property owners protect children from lead hazards in their homes.
The revelation last spring that Cleveland had been secreting its recyclables to a landfill for months may have finally met its match: Groups of residents on the city’s near west side are starting their own, albeit much smaller, recycling program.
Tonya Griffith Bullard started selling food this year in a parking lot on Buckeye Road to raise money to help fix up her mother’s home, damaged by fire. Now she and her husband, Marvin Bullard, plan to open a takeout restaurant there.
By the end of a 15-hour day I was impressed with the process, exhausted and unsure if I would do it again. But everyone should experience this once.
How Black health care providers are trying to build back trust in their community for a critical need: to have adequate representation for clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine.
With Cleveland Metropolitan School District soon returning to school in a remote-only format, the District is currently in a mad dash to prepare students, teachers and families for their first week of school with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging.
By Lee Chilcote
Change doesn’t happen quickly at Cleveland’s West Side Market, where vendors and city officials have been wrangling for years about whether the city-run institution should be overseen by a dedicated nonprofit. Yet during the Covid-19 crisis, the city and vendors came together quickly to roll out curbside pickup, and now it may offer a model for moving forward as the market seeks to adjust to this new reality.
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