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Initiatives​

Cleveland Connect

CLE “Connects” convening monthly gathering that bring together marketplace and ministry leaders to connect, engage, and invest time through supporting the needs of ministries and the passion of the marketplace to serve with their time, talent, and resources. This initiative will also include building out the NEOLF website for promoting partners, connecting volunteers, communicating the value of benchmarking regional/national leadership initiatives and more.

Charity to Change
 

CLE “Charity to Change” will be led by pastor Dr. Ron Morrison in collaboration with Leadership Foundations involving 10 area pastors who will convene over the course of fourteen months which will culminate in them formulating and executing a catalytic initiative in their communities. For further information, click the link below.

Housing

Cleveland “Housing Collaborative” will be a joint initiative in collaborating with the Cuyahoga County Land Bank and the Land Bank Charities. We will be focusing on transformative housing related projects across Greater Cleveland in combination with building the capacity of their partner organizations and leaders. 

Rise-Up Cleveland
 

CLE “Rise-Up Roadmap preparing a Strategic Roadmap for community and spiritual transformation over the next three years incorporating insights gained during the 2021-22 and ongoing NEOLF Listening Tour and related benchmarking, engaging and conferring with NEOLF charter members, adopting and contextualizing best practices from other Local Leadership Foundations in the global Leadership Foundations network.

Rise Up.....Cleveland!

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A Proposal for Increased Connectivity, Outreach, and Impact

Cleveland holds the most beautiful and broken aspects of humanity. Weighed down by overarching poverty, devastating crime, and rampant substance abuse, families struggle to survive and thrive. Together, we believe we can bring healing, hope, and the promise of a better future to the streets of Greater Cleveland. Join us!

The Goal

NEO Leadership Foundation (NEOLF) is reaching out to a core group of visionary leaders who have a calling to Connect, Engage, Invest and Mobilize a network of community leaders who: 
 
Are committed to seeing Greater Cleveland transformed into a place of Shalom, peace...from battlegrounds to playgrounds! The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets (Zechariah 8:5). 
 
And embrace the mission to develop, connect, and unite leaders of good faith and goodwill across cultural boundaries to transform our communities and advance the Kingdom.
 
There is a sense of urgency for NEOLF to be a catalyst to mobilize leaders to better address the profound needs that surround us.
 
America is projected to have 66% of its population living in urban cities by 2050, which also holds true for Greater Cleveland. This offers enormous opportunity for lasting impact:

Our inner city holds the most beautiful and broken aspects of humanity. • Urban environments face many complex issues: poverty crime, human trafficking, and gangs housing shortages and inadequacies drug and alcohol addiction ... and more Cleveland now has 30.8% of its residents living below the poverty level, which is more than twice the poverty level of 13.1% across the state of Ohio. Enough said!

Rise Up Cleveland
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