Happy Giving Tuesday!

Together We Care: How Can You Participate Today?

Cleveland Compassion Tour

On Saturday, November 27, Community Shares embarked on the Cleveland Compassion Tour-- a city-wide celebration of compassion and generosity led by Global Giving Tuesday Youth Ambassadors Logan Williams and Lauren Turos, joined this year by 17 youth from the nonprofit girl group, Queen IAM.

After meeting at Queen IAM headquarters in Garfield Heights, the group began their day-long journey to learn about five different social justice nonprofits that are members of Community Shares in different Cleveland neighborhoods:

• Lake Erie Ink: a writing space for youth in Cleveland Heights, to learn about writing expression
• Burten, Bell, Carr Development Corporation and its community radio station, WOVU, and Cornucopia Place in Garden Valley. While at Cornucopia Place, the youth learned about Cleveland MOTTEP and had a hands-on fresh food activity led by Veronica Walton of Food Depot to Health
• Neighborhood Pets Outreach & Resource Center in Slavic Village for pet food packing and tips on how to safely approach animals
• LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland in Detroit Shoreway for a lesson on self-esteem and identity 

Make sure to follow our journey all day today on Facebook and Instagram to see the girls learn about the community issues they are solving, because anyone can be a philanthropist! 

If you would like to give to the Cleveland Compassion Tour project, to support Greater Cleveland Community Shares, Queen IAM, and the Youth Giving Circle, text GOODCLE to 41444.

Give Where You Live

Check out local causes that you can support for Giving Tuesday! Click here to see some of the amazing nonprofits participating this year! 

You can even choose to give to Community Shares directly, by clicking here.

Get Your 2021 DO GOOD Gear!

Don't miss out on the limited edition 2021 DO GOOD hats and tees! 

All profits from the #GivingTuesdayCLE gear sales will go directly to Community Shares' Youth Giving Circle, featuring Global Giving Tuesday Ambassadors, Logan Williams and Lauren Turos, along with youth from local girl empowerment organization, Queen IAM! The girls will give microgrants to community-based social justice nonprofits in Cleveland in 2022!

Click here to purchase your gear, made this year by Cosmic Bobbins and local workforce development nonprofit, Cleveland Sews!