As a fellow in The Innovation Mission at Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland and an attorney at The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Hazel Remesch is exploring ways to provide legal counsel to Cleveland residents facing eviction. The foundation will be sharing the fellows' journey over the course of 18 months. First up in its fellows series is Remesch. Her article is titled "Facing Eviction, Good Luck Getting a Lawyer." [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland (SOCF) has been awarded a $750,000 three-year grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to expand Generative Spirit, an SOCF-led effort to develop the next generation of leaders for sister-led ministries in Northeast Ohio. [More]

Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland Program Officer Angela D’Orazio and two leaders who have seen the end of chronic/vet homelessness in their communities joined Funders Together to End Homelessness to share insight on ending homelessness during a recent webinar. [More]

National Catholic Sisters Week runs from March 8-14 and the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland is helping celebrate through involvement with the “Celebrate Catholic Sisters: Turning to Each Other” event March 10 at Magnificat High School in Rocky River. The intercongregational, intergenerational event is open the public and will celebrate the contributions of women religious in the community and explore news ways for Catholic sisters and lay partners to be companions to one another. [More]

Grantmaking organizations and community partners, including the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, sat down recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) to discuss the ongoing success of Housing First and reflect on the benefits of collaboration. [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland recently announced that the Housing First initiative is on pace to end long-term homelessness in Cuyahoga County by 2020. The announcement garnered significant media coverage. [More]

Housing First, a collaboration of community organizations in Cuyahoga County, recently announced that it is on pace to end long-term homelessness in the county by 2020. The collaboration includes the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland. [More]

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, in partnership with Cleveland Leadership Center, introduced The Innovation Mission: Fighting Poverty with Big Ideas last spring. In October, the foundation chose five fellows to explore their big ideas to fight poverty. The Plain Dealer recently published an article about The Innovation Mission. [More]

Grantmakers In Health recently published a “Views from the Field” perspective of philanthropy from Erica Chambers, program officer for health at the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland. In the article, Understanding Community Engagement: An Outsider-Turned-Insider’s Perspective of Philanthropy, Chambers discusses lessons learned as a community organizer over the last decade working in the nonprofit and public sectors. [More]

Five Cleveland-area professionals will begin this November to research their ideas to disrupt the cycle of poverty as the newly announced fellows of The Innovation Mission, a ground-breaking initiative launched by the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland. [More]