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YPs |
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Shares YPs on Friday,
January 16 for a Meet &
Greet/Happy Hour.
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Members Are Doing! |
Holiday shopping in support of
Cleveland Jobs with Justice
Domestic
Violence Center's 5th Annual Stalking Awareness
Event: January
31, 2009
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| Greetings!
This month, Community Shares will bid
"farewell" to our executive director,
Jacquie Talbott. Jacquie
will take a well-deserved break during the coming
year to focus on family, healthy living and
community involvement. Her three-year tenure
with Community Shares has seen us through a
transition period following the retirement of
a long-term executive director and has brought
Shares many successes.
During
Jacquie's first year at Shares, despite a
difficult fundraising climate, our workplace
giving campaign reached $1 million in pledges for
the first time ever. Last year we reached
that milestone again and surpassed it. And
though the final results are not yet
in, this year's campaign looks surprisingly
healthy so far!
In addition,
Jacquie spearheaded a new format for our annual
meeting, boosting attendance and transforming it
into a true fundraising event. Our campaign
kickoff, held at Cleveland City Hall in 2007 and
2008, enhanced community awareness and media
coverage for Shares. Internally,
Jacquie increased the efficiency of
administrative systems and improved communication
with our members and other
stakeholders.
We wish Jacquie
the very best and sincerely thank her for
her leadership in the work of supporting social
justice organizations in
Cleveland! |
| Each Gift Matters,
Especially Now |
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By Deanna
Rankin
Director of Workplace Campaigns, Community
Shares
Remember to contribute to your workplace
campaign. Each gift matters, especially
now.
Sometimes people ask "Why
Community Shares? I already give to my favorite
charity." Think about this: if your
doctor prescribes blood pressure medicine, that
medicine is necessary. But it is also
necessary to address your body's system, e.g.
change your eating habits, exercise, maybe even
have surgery. Together, the medicine and the
systemic change will lead to a more healthy
you.
That's why we need Community
Shares. It addresses the system of our
community. Social services are like the
blood pressure medicine. We can't just keep
increasing the amount of medicine we prescribe; we
have to make changes, get at the root causes of
the issues facing our community. That's what
our member organizations do. Please help us
support this important work. Your
participation is
essential. |
| Member
Highlights |
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| Community Shares Member
Organizations
are harnessing the power of
participation to create positive change in your
neighborhoods, city and
region. |
| SLD Education
Opportunities |
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Learning Disabilities Association of
Northeast Ohio
You know what your child likes to eat and
what she likes to wear. You know what kind of
grades she gets. But do you know why she may not
have many friends? If you have a child
with an SLD in grades 3-5 who needs
guidance with his or her Social
Skills, we can help! Click
here for details.
Parents
and Teachers Together have a unique
opportunity to
learn about
SLDs. Gain an increased understanding
of SLDs, special education laws, evaluations and
IEPs. Ten professional development contact
hours will be offered through State Support Team
Region 3. Click
here for
details. |
| Heading for the
Emergency Room |
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NEOCH
and UHCAN
OhioIn the fall
of 2008, the Northeast
Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH),
with support from Universal
Health Care Action Network of Ohio (UHCAN
Ohio), surveyed 320 homeless people about
their experiences with the health care
system. The resulting report,
Heading for the Emergency Room: The
Harsh Reality of Northeast Ohio's Inability to
Care for Its Poor, presents for
the first time detailed information and statistics
on the health condition of Cleveland's
homeless population.
Those who
work in the field of homelessness see the problem
every day. The report appeals to those
outside the field to begin to take the issue
seriously. Click
here to read
the
report. |
| Cleveland
Supports Domestic Partner
Registry |
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LGBT Community Center
of Greater Cleveland and ACLU of
Ohio Foundation
Thanks in part to the energetic,
well-organized advocacy efforts of the LGBT
Community Center of Greater Cleveland, the ACLU of
Ohio Foundation and other supportive groups,
Cleveland City Council voted on December
8 to make Cleveland the third city in
Ohio to create a domestic
partner registry, joining Toledo and
Cleveland Heights.
While the registry does not create any new
legal rights, it can be an invaluable tool for
unmarried same and opposite sex couples to access
services such as employment benefits, child care,
hospital visitation and more. The registry is also
a revenue booster, as well as sending a
message to the community that all families
are valued and respected.
Click
here to thank the members of Cleveland
City Council who voted in favor of the
registry. |
| Health Care
Hero |
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The Free
Medical Clinic of Greater
Cleveland
The
Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland
won this year's Crain's Health
Care Heroes award in the Health
Care Advocate category. Finalists
were selected from 150 nominations in categories
such as allied health, advancements in health care
by an individual or a company, volunteer, nurse,
physician and health care advocate.
The Free
Clinic also implemented a
Health Literacy Program,
addressing both the delivery of information
by health educators/practitioners and efforts
to build the skills of patients to seek,
understand and use
health information. |
| What Makes a House a
Home? |
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Greater Cleveland
Habitat for Humanity
As part of
the American
Art Therapy Association (AATA) conference
in Cleveland, AATA members took part in a service
project benefiting Greater
Cleveland Habitat for Humanity. They
created a large-scale mural themed "What
Makes a House a Home?" for the Restore
at Habitat's new Cleveland headquarters. More
than 60 18-inch square canvases were sent from art
therapists around the country. On November 19, art
therapy volunteers worked all day to assemble the
works on six giant boards that now hang along
the "check-out" wall at the ReStore. Click
here for
pictures.
"We were
both blessed and overwhelmed by the beauty of the
project," said Jeffrey Bowen, Executive Director
of Cleveland Habitat. In addition to the mural
project, members of the Buckeye
[Ohio] Art Therapy
Association donated 100
art supply kits for the children of Habitat
Partner Families.
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| Act
Boldly, Live Gently |
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Preterm
Preterm is greening its building,
grounds and daily operations to become an
environmentally friendly medical facility and
achieve LEED-EB certification (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design for Existing
Building). Based on the principle that healthcare
facilities should be healthy for the planet as
well as people, this three-year effort includes
dozens of projects, among them
inspiring staff and visitors to reduce, reuse
and recycle.
The "Act Boldly,
Live Gently" capital campaign was enthusiastically
launched this fall. Despite the downturn in the
economy, Preterm is pressing on, making
renovations as funds arrive. For more information
on the greening of Preterm and the capital
campaign, contact Linda Jane, Director of
Development & Communications, ljane@preterm.org. |
| New Leadership
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Domestic Violence
Center
Domestic
Violence Center (DVC)
announced the appointment of a new executive
director in November. Linda Dooley
Johanek has been with DVC for 13 years,
serving as director of development for the past 6
years. She was chosen for the position after an
extensive nationwide search. With 20 years
of leadership and management experience in the
nonprofit sector, Linda brings a wealth of
enthusism, skill and dedication to the
role.
Hard Hatted
Women
Hard Hatted
Women (HHW) recently
named Terri Burgess Sandu,
interim director since April 2008, to the
position of excutive director. Terri
joined HHW as development director in 2001 and has
had a 20-year community service career in
Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Despite a
recent restructuring of operations in order to
decrease operating expenses, Terri stated, "When
an economic stimulus package is passed and new
efforts take shape in Ohio, HHW will be here to
make sure that women are ready to take advantage
of those
opportunities." | |
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