The people of Cleveland have historically been one of the most generous per capita, and in aggregate, as any in the country and world. From the Cleveland Foundation to a plethora of smaller non-profits, Cleveland is known for its generosity.
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Values-in-Action Cleveland Kindland Leadership Awards
Started in 1994 as Project Love, Values-in-Action has been providing social-emotional and character education programs to schools in Northeast Ohio for 29 years. Now with programming in schools in all 50 states, its mission is to empower students and adults to build communities of kindness, caring and respect through programs that teach, promote, and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to make positive, values-based decisions every day.
Through the Kindland movement, Values-in-Action Foundation is bringing together communities, businesses, organizations, and schools by recognizing and sharing the acts of kindness around us in an effort to inspire a ground swell of positivity and goodness. Kindland relies on the power of the people to do, recognize, report, and share the acts of kindness happening every day.
The goal is to create communities that can sustain a unified sense of kindness, compassion, empathy and understanding. These values are the foundation we need for our community to have the strength to find solutions to our most prominent issues including poverty, social justice, racism, and political polarization.
On Wednesday March 19, 2025 they honored some amazing people at the Cleveland Kindland Leadership Awards in the Rotunda of Cleveland City Hall. The honorees were Cleveland Councilman Mike Polensek, Global Cleveland CEO Joe Cimperman, County Councilwoman Meredith Turner and Westlake Mayor Dennis Clough.
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Here are some Cleveland Non-Profit and Volunteer organization, resources and stories.
1,000 Ties empowers youth and their families in high-poverty communities by teaching essential life skills that foster lifelong success by creating a foundation for sustainable growth and shared achievement—beginning with the simple, impactful gesture of tying a tie.
Cleveland Foundation The Cleveland Foundation was the World’s First Community Foundation. Founded in 1914 it is today one of the largest with assets of $2.8 billion and annual grants of more than $100 million.
Computers Assisting People (CAP) Long before the term “digital divide” became ubiquitous, CAP volunteers were working to bring the life-changing power of technology to all the people of Cleveland and beyond. CAP volunteers have donated about 25,000 PCs (and countless peripherals and consulting hours) to over 550 schools and non-profit organizations in the Cleveland community.
Helping Hands Helping Hands is a project of the Federation of India Community Associations (FICA) that supports South Asians in Cleveland and NE Ohio who are trying to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence and take back control of their lives. They also provide Services to Seniors such as services and programs to promote health and independence for the elderly, information and referral services for medical, food, transportation, and meal programs. In addition, the Helping Hands-Aangan initiative aims to engage the 50+ in the community understand issues of importance to them and bring in domain experts to talk about those issues.
MedWish/Medworks MedWish Medworks is a humanitarian nonprofit dedicated to advancing health equity and environmental sustainability. They achieve this by providing essential care, redistributing surplus medical supplies, and connecting medically underserved communities with vital resources, in Northeast Ohio and around the world.
Shiksha Daan In 2013, FICA (Federation of India Community Associations) started a new service initiative called Shiksha Daan (Gift of Education). The objective of Shiksha Daan is to get the Indian community more involved in helping with the education and development of the under-privileged in the Greater Cleveland community. Shiksha Daan partners with various education and youth development organizations in the Cleveland area and identify specific opportunities for the Indian community to contribute towards.
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