Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry recognizes the importance of equity, inclusivity and treating everyone with respect and dignity, no matter what they look like, how they identify, or who they love.

Tune into LMM's #PrideMonth campaign on social media as we explore how discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community may impact the people we serve at LMM, highlight the work we are doing as an agency to be inclusive of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, and share community resources.

Emma Arrighi, Advocacy Intern

Kylie Gillespie, Communications Intern

Alexia Miracle, Communications Intern

Please join us in welcoming LMM's newest cohort of advocacy and communications interns; Emma Arrighi, Kylie Gillespie and Alexia Miracle!

Click the button below to learn more about LMM's summer interns.

The Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently asked organizations and advocates to provide insight into the ways tenant screening processes including background checks, credit checks, and eviction history impact renters and property managers. LMM submitted a comment letter based on feedback and insights that were raised in a conversation with staff partners at the Men’s Shelter at 2100 Lakeside Avenue in May. Topics highlighted in the conversation and shared in this letter include the barriers that individuals with criminal records, low or no credit scores, and an eviction history have when looking for housing. The letter also highlights how these barriers have furthered the legacy of redlining, and made finding housing for people of color incredibly difficult.

This letter will be shared with LMM’s Congressional Delegation and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge. Read the full letter below.

It's warming up in Cleveland, which means Metro45 Mobile Kitchen & Catering is back! Click the link below to visit the food truck at a location near you throughout the month of June or to book the truck for your next event.

Karenda Hutsenpiller (left) alongside C4C student Gina Miller (right), photo by The Land

"Gina Miller, who has been incarcerated for six years and has since earned her GED at the prison and associate’s degree through Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, said at the ceremony that she plans to continue to work with Ohio Means Jobs until the day she leaves. Miller, who currently lives at NERC while working a job out in the community, is getting ready to move to a halfway house (a residence for people transitioning from prison to the community) and has trained Hutsenpiller to take on her role."

Learn more about Chopping for Change student Gina Miller and her trainee Karenda Hutsenpiller's amazing work while finishing out their sentences in this article from The Land:

People's Budget Cleveland (PB CLE) is pushing for a participatory budget in the City of Cleveland and has unveiled a new plan for getting its initiative on the November ballot.

The grassroots organization aims to have 6,000 signatures collected in support of participatory budgeting from registered Cleveland voters.

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