A Focus on Innovation
 

We are proud of our work in our strategic focus areas to end homelessness, improve health and educational outcomes and support the ongoing social justice work of the Catholic sisters. But we consistently hear the troubling statistic that one in three  Clevelanders live in poverty, including more than 50 percent of the city’s children. Over the last three years, we have learned how innovation, equity, systems change and policy advocacy could be leveraged to help our community address the challenging problems related to poverty. To begin to disrupt our multigenerational cycle of poverty, we will launch special initiatives to create innovative solutions that augment our core grantmakingportfolio.

Our first of these initiatives, The Innovation Mission, opened up this problem-solving approach to individuals and their respective organizations to bolster their abilities to test and develop solutions to tough social problems.