The Greater Cleveland Food Bank
continues to support over 1,000 local food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other programs such as child‐care centers and homes for the elderly in six counties including Cuyahoga, Ashland, Richland, Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, they also deliver over 9,000 Grab n Go lunches (with the help of the Ohio National Guard) to schools in Cleveland, Parma and Garfield Heights to be picked up by families needing their support. They also coordinate the distribution of fresh produce and shelf-stable items, weekly from the Cleveland Muny Lot.
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The Literacy Cooperative
was founded in 2006 and works on behalf of the community to improve literacy levels among children, youth and adults in Greater Cleveland.
They work in conjunction with the Ohio Governor's Imagination Library and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to deliver books monthly to children 5 and under. It's a unique early-year book gifting program that mails a brand new, age-appropriate book to enrolled children every month from birth until five years of age, creating a home library of up to 60 books and instilling a love of books and family reading from an early age. The Greater Cleveland Literacy Cooperative works to grow the number of families that are enrolled in the program in Northeast Ohio. More than 25,000 children are currently enrolled, here and they hope to double that number in 2020.
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Disability Dream & Do (D3)
...is an organization that conducts sports camps to encourage people to look past their disability and turn it into an ability. Their events, called "D3Day" are held all over the country and the Wenk Foundation has sponsored one in Northeast Ohio with the Lake Erie Crushers until the pandemic altered our plans (for 2020). Now we're working to help author Doug Cornfield, supplement their fundraising by encouraging the sale of his book,
"A Pound of Kindness"
, the story of his partner, Dave Clark and his amazing growth from a child stricken with polio and the stigmas he dealt with in the 1950s - to a professional baseball player, coach, owner and motivational speaker. Check out his story by clicking on the photo of the book, above!
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