“When Bobby Taylor started the “Humans of Lorain County” Facebook page, he had an idea what he wanted to do.
But he had no idea what to expect.
With only two posts online and just a few weeks up and running, the page has already been seen by more than 25,000 people.
The idea grew from a challenge sparked by Taylor’s recent participation in Neighbor Up.”
“NEOCH, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM), Neighborhood Connections, and the Fair Housing Center for Rights and Research are hosting the Teach-In—a community conversation about renter issues and imagining housing justice in Cleveland—to help people learn about their rights as renters and how to stay in their homes.” Read the full story here.
Check out this story from WKYC-TV about our most recent grantmaking. It includes a link to the Neighbor Up episode of “We The People” featuring members talking about their work across the city.
Check out this article in The Land written with an assist from a team of Cleveland Documenters who requested the public records of residents’ feedback and turned it into a database.
We’re working with neighbors in North Broadway on Operation Groundhog. Read more about it in this cleveland.com article.
Why is Cleveland one of the five least connected cities in the U.S. for internet? Can it be solved – quickly, effectively, inexpensively, and equitably? These questions, and others, brought a team of people connected to the Neighbor Up network together over the past year to understand the pressure points and craft a change theory that became, ConnectedNEO. Read more about ConnectedNEO here.
We are working with the team at Cleveland Rocks to offer microloans of up to $2,000 to Northeast Ohio musicians and music professionals. Find out more and apply at https://clevelandrocksppf.org/music-incubator-program/ and read about the first participant in this new project here.
Find out more about our new microloans for grassroots entrepreneurs in West Park here.
Cleveland Documenters partnered with The Cleveland Observer to publish a three-part series done by Documenters who interviewed more than 40 friends, family members, neighbors and residents from across the city over the past several weeks to understand their views about the Covid-19 vaccines, which in some cases were still evolving.. Read the series here.
Read The Land’s story about our work around equitable vaccine access stewarded by Neighbor Up member Christina Keegan:
Keegan said the goal of Neighborhood Connections is to provide support to these grassroots groups. At first, they did that by providing PPE and hygiene supplies. Then as vaccines became available, they realized there was a need for assistance to ensure grassroots groups could help community members who wanted to get vaccinated.
Keegan said the first step was to partner with the Greater Cleveland Rapid Response Fund, which provided vaccine access codes to Neighbor Up, allowing them to directly register people for vaccines at the Wolstein Center. Read more…Ch
This ideastream story included Neighbor Up members who are combatting social isolation like Gordon Martin and his work in the Stockyards neighborhood. Find the full story here.
We’re thrilled to receive more funding from the Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund to provide grants to small nonprofit organizations and grassroots group. Read the full story here and check our our grants here.
Neighbor Up member Dawn Arrington talked with News 5 about her project Comics at the Corner, which was recently funded through Neighbor Up Adult Literacy Grants. Watch the story here.
Neighbor Up member Kaela Geschke was part of a discussion on The Sound of Ideas about making inclusive public spaces. Listen in by clicking here. And find out more about Neighbor Up’s work around equity and public space here.
ideastream did great story on our Cleveland Documenters work . Click here to listen.
Neighbor Up member Carol Malone talked with News 5 about the podcast “Neighbor Up Spotlight” that she created to highlight Neighbor Up members making positive change in the community.
Click here to watch the story.
And find all of the podcast’ episodes at https://neighborupcle.org/spotlight/