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WEBOct 3, 2024 · September 25, 2024. At the corner of East 79th Street and Hough Avenue, a grass lot is all that remains of the Seventy-Niners Café, the bar where the spark of the 1966 Hough Uprising was ignited. Fifty-eight years later, a new Cleveland Civil Rights Trail marker stands in its place, commemorating the uprising and its significance in Cleveland ...
What Cleveland’s LEED certification means for the city’s future
WEBSep 23, 2024 · In October 2021, Cleveland received a silver LEED for Cities certification for its efforts toward making the city more sustainable for residents and businesses. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a global certification program for rating the “green” quality of buildings and cities. This achievement was the result of ...
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WEBThe Land is a local, nonprofit news organization that reports on Cleveland’s neighborhoods. Through in-depth solutions journalism, we aim to foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action. During the early days of 2020 as the world was coming to grips with a global pandemic, our founding team realized a new ...
A year of in-depth, local reporting: The Land’s top 20 stories of 2021
WEBFollow the $500M: Cleveland’s ARPA budget includes $2M for problem-plagued NEON Health Services. By Lee Chilcote. NEON Health Services is requesting $2 million from the city’s ARPA budget to provide community health programming and repair the Hough Medical Center, which suffered a fire in May of this year.
Government Archives - The Land
WEBAug 12, 2024 · Cleveland’s Hough Uprising – A marker, a memory, a movement. By Taylor Wilson Social Equity September 25, 2024. At the corner of East 79th Street and Hough Avenue, a grass lot is all that remains of the Seventy-Niners Café, the bar where the spark of the 1966 Hough Uprising was ignited. Fifty-eight years later, a new Cleveland Civil Rights ...
Can Cleveland finally close its digital divide? A local nonprofit says ...
WEBSep 26, 2024 · Today, DigitalC is only serving 1,160 households, a far cry from the 130,000 it envisions serving. Cleveland has roughly 170,000 households according to the latest Census figures. To reach that goal, the nonprofit is implementing a plan that includes reaching 40,000 households. The organization used June to November of last year to find ...
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WEBNovember 2020. The Land brings nonprofit journalism model to Cleveland (CoolCleveland.com) October 2020. How colleges are stepping up to help students during Covid-19: WKSU interview w/The Land’s Asha Fairley. August 2020. The Land accepted into first cohort of Nonprofit News Springboard program (INN) July 2020.
Crowdsourcing ARPA: Here’s how participatory budgeting ... - The …
WEBMayor Justin Bibb endorsed PB CLE’s campaign in June of last year when he was running for mayor, and implementing participatory budget is listed as a goal of the mayor’s transition plan.However, Cleveland City Council must approve any ARPA spending over $50,000, and few city council members have publicly committed to supporting PB CLE.
Full circle: Local initiative aims to rev up circular economy in ...
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Shelton is an ambassador for Circular Cleveland, a new initiative led by the nonprofit Cleveland Neighborhood Progress (CNP) and the city of Cleveland. Its goal is to promote the circular economy as a way of helping the environment and creating jobs and economic opportunity for residents. The circular economy aims to keep materials in ...