We need help promoting corporate and individual donations for our inclusive playground for children with mental health and developmental disabilities. Check out the new report about our playground.
Have you heard the news?! iSPACE camps are both in-person and going virtual this year! While our in-person camps start June 15th, our first-ever virtual camps are starting the week of June 22nd, there’s a camp for all ages and interests!! Here’s a list of some of the super cool virtual iSPACE camps: Science of…
Cleanliness is next to friendliness! Our Wishlist this week are brooms, mops, and items to help keep your home nice and clean. These items are more important right now than ever as we live through a global pandemic. Our moms and children are still exiting shelter into their new home and families need these supplies…
Many of you are looking for ways to help our neighbors during this unprecedented time. While we must be socially distant, we are eagerly anticipating days together again. We are working with our community partners to provide books to children through their meal distribution efforts and anticipate our blood inventory will be depleted shortly. While…
It would be a big help to run drives for in-kind donations of cleansers (Lysol, Comet, SpickNSpan) and Toilet Paper to help our 150 families served weekly. Future drives might include kitchenware and tools (i.e, pots, pans, spatulas, crock pots, toaster ovens, etc.) We’re using our supply chain to obtain and donate these hard-to-find cleansers,…
The Y is experiencing a movement altering event, and we will need your patience and partnership as we lean in to support our achievement, relationships, and belonging. For a better us. We haven’t really been closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sure, some Y programs and services were put on hold and the general public has…
By David Holthaus A drive down Beekman Street is a drive through the heart of Cincinnati and a drive through neighborhoods that have endured decades of decline. Along three miles or so of Beekman sit communities that have lived through more than their share of population flight, housing loss, unemployment, poverty, and environmental hazards. For…
When we, the Governing Board of Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF), embraced racial equity as the core of our mission, we did so understanding that the road would be long. We have centuries of deeply entrenched systemic racism to address. Today we are called to accelerated action by the people of our community and nation who…
Karena Cash, 1N5 intern, talks about her battle with depression and wants people to know they are not alone when they are stuck at home.
During the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Maslow’s Army sheltered over 229 individuals, families, and veterans experiencing homelessness. The individuals that were placed into hotel rooms also had regular health screenings, daily temperature checks, and 3 meals a day served by our amazing volunteers. We don’t know how many lives this program saved but…