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Planting seeds to form strong foundations

December 26, 2021

Building relationships between educators, students, and families in schools is the foundation for student success — but it’s hard work even in the best of times. Throw in a pandemic, a year of hybrid learning, and a fall semester when everyone is learning how to be in person again, and building relationships might look like…

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I chose to bring my whole self, my identity, to what I do.

December 15, 2021

What’s it like to join a new school right before a pandemic, and then help some very little learners adjust to being in person five days a week, many of them for the first time? We recently caught up with Julia Cho — Maestra Julia to her students — who teaches Spanish to kindergarteners, first,…

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Resident Recipes from SCA West Side Market Challenge

December 7, 2021

For more than 100 years, the West Side Market in Ohio City has been providing the Cleveland community with fresh meat and seafood, fruits and vegetables, baked goods, dairy and cheese products, and so much more. Vendors offer local and global ingredients, some of which can be difficult to find elsewhere in the city.

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2021 SCA Giving Tree Project

November 29, 2021

Following the success of last year’s Giving Tree project, we’re very excited to introduce four more local nonprofits to our communities this holiday season. In 2020, our residents came together to donate over $2,500 worth of physical goods to four nonprofits that are doing great work in our neighborhoods.

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Polaroid Project: Chie, Shelli, and Stephanie in AsiaTown

September 21, 2021

OUR STORY For this installation of our Polaroid series, we asked three friends-Chichi, Shelli, and Stephanie-who met at Mueller Lofts to share their favorite things about AsiaTown with us. We’ll let them introduce themselves!     Chichi has been loving living in Mueller Lofts! Being Asian- American, living in AsiaTown is a huge perk. Her doggo…

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Sustainable Community Associates Welcome First-Time Business Owner, Marco Alexzander, to The Lincoln

September 3, 2021

OUR STORY After working in the industry for more than a decade and as an independent stylist for the last five years, Alexzander decided it was time to craft his own space. Helooked to his home neighborhood, Tremont, to put down those roots. “We really fell in love with the area because of where we…

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Polaroid Project: Taylor and Michael in Tremont

August 12, 2021

OUR STORY Hey guys, let us introduce ourselves! Michael and myself, Taylor, are both Cleveland natives. We moved away for a bit, but when deciding to move back to Cleveland in 2016 we landed on our spot at the Fairmont Creamery, and couldn’t be luckier to be a part of such a great community ever…

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Resident Volunteers: Advocacy in Northeast Ohio

August 5, 2021

OUR STORY Hey everyone, my name is Zach and I live over at The Tappan! When I’m not working my day job as a Project Manager at Progressive Insurance, I am doing a lot of political work throughout Northeast Ohio. I started my journey doing issues-based advocacy with Students and Moms Demand Action, an organization…

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Polaroid Project: Anabelle in Tremont

July 8, 2021

OUR STORY I’m originally from California, and I’ve spent the last few years exploring Cleveland. It’s a pretty cool city! If you’re a local, you have probably seen me with my dog Haley around Tremont. 1. Whiskey Island Everyone knows about Edgewater, but Whiskey Island around the corner is where it’s at for some sand…

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Community Resources for Cleveland Voters

July 1, 2021

As many of the members in our community know, we have two important elections coming up in Cleveland. On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, voters will determine who is on the ballot for the congressional seat left vacant by Marcia Fudge, who is now serving as the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in a Special Congressional Primary Election. Then, on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, voters will elect Fudge’s replacement and will cast their vote in the mayoral election.

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