OUR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

Click on member names listed in red for links to their websites.

ACLU of Ohio Foundation
(216) 472-2200
Ensuring civil liberties for all persons through education and litigation, the ACLU defends everyone’s constitutional rights and individual freedoms.

Adoption Network Cleveland
(216) 881-7511
Educates, supports and advocates for adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and youth in foster care. Pursues openness and truth in adoption practice, policy and law.

Cleveland Jobs with Justice
(440) 333-7007
Engages in issue-based campaigns that protect workers' rights to organize and promote a higher standard of living for all working people.

Cleveland MOTTEP (Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program)
(216) 295-7007
Empowers minorities to play a vital role in improved health care through public education that will increase awareness and participation in organ/tissue transplant programs.

Cleveland Public Theatre
(216) 631-2727
Inspires, nurtures, challenges, educates and empowers artists and audiences in order to make the Clveland public a more conscious and compassionate community.

Cuyahoga Community Land Trust
(216) 334-1620
Develops affordable housing; helps clients secure sound mortgages; and maintains the community’s investment by ensuring that Land Trust homes remain affordable for future homebuyers.

Deaf & Deaf-Blind Committee on Human Rights
(440) 801-1998
Educates and organizes Deaf people and the larger community around the economic human rights to housing, health care, education, communication and living wage jobs.

Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization
(216) 961-4242
A neighborhood-based organization on the near west side of Cleveland engaged in affordable housing, community organizing and a range of other neighborhood improvement activities.

Domestic Violence Center
(216) 651-8484 office/ (216) 391-HELP hotline
Provides shelter, supportive services, justice system advocacy, support groups, counseling and a 24-hour HELP-line for women and their children who are victims of domestic violence.

ESOP
(216) 361-0718
Uses community organizing methods to address banking, education, predatory lending and safety issues in Cleveland.

Environmental Health Watch
(216) 961-4646
Provides information, assistance and advocacy on household and community environmental health concerns and conducts special projects on childhood asthma, lead poisoning and chemical accident prevention.

The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland
(216) 721-4010
Provides quality health care and related services free of charge to those who lack appropriate alternatives and advocates for policy changes that make health care available to all.

Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity
(216) 429-1299
Creates partnerships among low-income families, corporations, congregations, foundations, civic groups and individuals to eliminate substandard housing, improve lives and strengthen neighborhoods by building homes.

Hard Hatted Women
(216) 861-6500
Empowers women to achieve economic independence by creating workplace diversity in trade and technical careers.

Heights Community Congress
(216) 321-6775
Promotes social justice and equality through monitoring and advocating for an open, diverse Cleveland Heights-University Heights community.

Housing Advocates Inc.
(216) 391-5444
Provides legal assistance to victims of housing discrimination, tenants whose landlords fail to make repairs and home buyers who have complaints against housing suppliers.

Housing Research & Advocacy Center
(216) 361-9240
Works to eliminate housing discrimination and assures choice in Northeast Ohio by providing those at risk with effective information, intervention and advocacy.

Independent Pictures
(216) 651-7315
Dedicated to freedom of expression through the art of independent media; it’s the part we play in the larger struggle for social justice and equality.

League of Women Voters of Cleveland Educational Fund
(216) 781-8375
Strengthens democracy by increasing citizen knowledge of and participation in government and civic affairs through non-partisan voter information, public forums, programs and publications.

Learning Disabilities Association of Cuyahoga County
(216) 642-8512
Provides information, individual case advocacy and programming for children and adults with learning disabilities. Works persistently to advocate for state and national level service.

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland
(216) 651-5428
Works toward a society free of homophobia and gender oppression by advancing the respect, dignity and human rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community.

Living in Cleveland Center
(216) 781-5422
Works to promote homeownership in the City of Cleveland's 36 neighborhoods. Offers information and technical assistance to prospective homebuyers and neighborhood-based non-profit groups.

NAMI Greater Cleveland
(216) 875-0266
Empowers persons affected by mental illness and their family members to achieve a better quality of life by providing them with mutual support, practical information, referral, advocacy and educational resources.

NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation
(216) 283-2180
Works to ensure that all women have access to all of their reproductive health options, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing safe and legal abortion.

Near West Theatre
(216) 961-9750
Offers professionally directed theatre arts activities for children, teens and adults, regardless of skill level or experience, with affordable performances for the community.

Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH)
(216) 432-0540
Empowers and organizes homeless men, women and children through advocacy campaigns, public education and the creation of nurturing environments.

Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund
(216) 861-5200
Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund, the research and education affiliate of the state's largest environmental group, organizes grassroots campaigns to protect public health and the environment.

Organize! Ohio
(216) 431-6070
Works to advance, encourage and build a system of support for community organizing as a strategy for progressive change in Ohio.

Planned Parenthood of Northeast Ohio
(216) 961-8804
Advocates and provides reproductive health care and sexuality education services. Provides outreach programs for teens, parents and professionals.

Policy Matters Ohio
(216) 361-9801
Cleveland-based non-profit, non-partisan policy research institute, dedicated to bridging the gap between research and policy on issues facing working people.

Preterm
(216) 991-4000
Provides medically excellent reproductive care to women, encouraging each to notice her importance and capacity to make choices. Provides educators for schools.

Reading Enrichment For Adult Development (R.E.A.D.)
(216) 721-3223
Works to increase literacy among African-American adults and youth in Greater Cleveland, stimulating hope and motivating young adults to aspire to higher education and employment.

Slavic Village Development
(216) 429-1182
Redevelops the Broadway neighborhood through community organizing, housing rehabilitation and services, new construction, code enforcement, property management and development of parks and open space.

St. Clair Superior Development Corporation
(216) 881-0644
Builds sustainable communities through: community involvement and leadership development; real estate and business development; and housing services such as lead safety, code enforcement and service referrals.

Union Miles Development Corporation
(216) 341-0757
Maintains a strong community by rehabilitating vacant homes for low and moderate income families, weatherizing homes, promoting commercial development and organizing for a safer community.

Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio (UHCAN Ohio)
(216) 241-8422
Promotes health care justice - universal coverage, accessible and affordable health care for all Ohioans, quality care and public accountability - through education, policy work and grassroots organizing.

Women's Center of Greater Cleveland
(216) 651-1450
Provides comprehensive services for medically indegent wormen and their families. Provides opportunities for women to take greater control over their lives - physically, emotionally and economically.

Associates
Associate members receive only designations
South Lorain Community Development Corporation
(440) 277-6142
Promotes and develops a stable neighborhood economy and creates a better place to live through housing development, community outreach and commercial revitalization.