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A small, grassroots 501C3, Concerned Citizens Community Council is the de facto second, third and fourth responder serving the impoverished residents of the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Headquartered in a house rehabbed and gifted by the Cleveland Land Band, CCCC:
• Offers continuous free classes including computer skills, arts and crafts, cooking and sewing,
• Runs a free clothing and house wares thrift shop,
• Is a certified emergency food pantry for crisis situations, and regularly feeds a dozen children who fall between social welfare cracks,
• Represents seniors and all residents weekly at Cleveland Housing Court so they may remain in their own homes,
• Hosts a free summer day camp for kids whose parents are incarcerated, addicted or worse,
• Shows Saturday morning children’s movies and provides art classes year-round,
• Annually packs and distributes 200 book bags filled with school supplies and hundreds of Christmas stockings and food baskets,
• Supplies area elementary school children and all who need with personal hygiene products,
• Coordinates street and house cleanups, and distributes Big-Hearted Blooms to neighborhood nursing homes,
• Manages a free community garden and greenhouse,
• Sponsors frequent educational events and community meetings,
• Partners closely with the Fourth District Police, nine churches and two mosques to keep the peace, and collaborates closely with multiple other responsible community groups to prevent programming duplication, and
• CCCC’s award-winning Executive Director, M. Anita Gardner, speaks truth to Cleveland politicians and non-profit funders thus directly influencing Mt. Pleasant social welfare policy.
• Perhaps one of its smaller ongoing projects is the most touching: CCCC has a fully stocked and spanking clean bathroom available to neighborhood girls and women who cannot bathe safely at home where the bathrooms don't have locks. Without fear of molestation, these residents may luxuriate in a clean tub or shampoo their hair with the door locked.
• CCCC has no paid staff, its volunteers are mostly retired seniors, and it survives on a truly shoestring budget entirely funded by individual donations and occasional small grants. All supplies and thrift shop items are donated.
THANK YOU for helping CCCC to keep its doors open. Every contribution – no matter how small – raises up Mt. Pleasant residents, provides care for those who fall between the social welfare cracks, and helps us to pay the utilities and keep our doors open.
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A small, grassroots 501C3, Concerned Citizens Community Council is the de facto second, third and fourth responder serving the impoverished residents of the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Headquartered in a house rehabbed and gifted by the Cleveland Land Band, CCCC:
• Offers continuous free classes including computer skills, arts and crafts, cooking and sewing,
• Runs a free clothing and house wares thrift shop,
• Is a certified emergency food pantry for crisis situations, and regularly feeds a dozen children who fall between social welfare cracks,
• Represents seniors and all residents weekly at Cleveland Housing Court so they may remain in their own homes,
• Hosts a free summer day camp for kids whose parents are incarcerated, addicted or worse,
• Shows Saturday morning children’s movies and provides art classes year-round,
• Annually packs and distributes 200 book bags filled with school supplies and hundreds of Christmas stockings and food baskets,
• Supplies area elementary school children and all who need with personal hygiene products,
• Coordinates street and house cleanups, and distributes Big-Hearted Blooms to neighborhood nursing homes,
• Manages a free community garden and greenhouse,
• Sponsors frequent educational events and community meetings,
• Partners closely with the Fourth District Police, nine churches and two mosques to keep the peace, and collaborates closely with multiple other responsible community groups to prevent programming duplication, and
• CCCC’s award-winning Executive Director, M. Anita Gardner, speaks truth to Cleveland politicians and non-profit funders thus directly influencing Mt. Pleasant social welfare policy.
• Perhaps one of its smaller ongoing projects is the most touching: CCCC has a fully stocked and spanking clean bathroom available to neighborhood girls and women who cannot bathe safely at home where the bathrooms don't have locks. Without fear of molestation, these residents may luxuriate in a clean tub or shampoo their hair with the door locked.
• CCCC has no paid staff, its volunteers are mostly retired seniors, and it survives on a truly shoestring budget entirely funded by individual donations and occasional small grants. All supplies and thrift shop items are donated.
THANK YOU for helping CCCC to keep its doors open. Every contribution – no matter how small – raises up Mt. Pleasant residents, provides care for those who fall between the social welfare cracks, and helps us to pay the utilities and keep our doors open.
