Who We Are Our Mission & Vision We believe adventure is riding a bike for the first time, feeling mud shift under your boots, or falling over your skis. The outdoors is one of the greatest learning environments of all. Nowhere else can you find this precise mixture of adrenaline and peace. Through Adventure Crew,…
A Teachers’s Vision In 2012, a teacher at Hughes High School in Cincinnati Public Schools had an idea: what would happen if he took students on an outdoor adventure? Soon after, a small group of local teens and teachers from Hughesl ventured out on the Little Miami River for a five-mile float, sharing canoes, lunch,…
Caracole is Greater Cincinnati tristate region’s nonprofit AIDS Service Organization, devoted to positively changing lives in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Founded in 1987, we started as a small, non-medical hospice for people dying of AIDS. Today, while treatment and prevention are available, the HIV epidemic has not gone away. It remains a significant humanitarian, public health and economic…
Kinship Connections from Beech Acres Parenting Center helps grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other family and friends who find themselves unexpectedly raising a loved one’s child. We help these caregivers find financial resources, navigate complex paperwork & connect them with other families. And their stories are extraordinary. See how Beech Acres Parenting Center was able to help…
We’d like to introduce you to Maddie. Her story demonstrates how important your support is to allow us to provide the care and intensive therapy to survivors of child abuse and neglect. Your support works. Your support is changing lives. Maddie thanks you for your support! Little Miss Maddie has been a challenge to say…
Keeping Over-the-Rhine’s St. Francis Seraph Ministries dining room open throughout the pandemic took a lot of work—and faith. It takes a small army to keep this soup kitchen running and so many people fed… https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/st-francis-seraph-ministries-feeds-the-homeless-and-the-hungry/
Over the last year, Crayons to Computers pivoted time and again in response to the rapidly changing conditions during COVID-19. From drive-through distribution of standardized kits (in August) to a brief time of shopping by appointment (new) and from the Mobile Outreach Program being used for deliveries (a pivot) to the advent of online ordering…
At a time when COVID-19 makes each day’s events uncertain, many people are turning to a place of comfort — music. “Music is who we are. It is how we breathe. It is how we live. It is what we work out to,” said Kick Lee, CEO and executive director of the Cincinnati Music Accelerator.…
It’s an essential and costly piece of equipment, but the Cincinnati Computer Cooperative is working to make the technology more accessible. Executive Director Frank Adams spends his day performing mechanical surgery on hundreds of used computers and laptops. He uses his delicate touch to get those old computers ready for new users, but only the…
Three individuals and a nonprofit were recognized with the Leadership Legacy Award at the 2021 Securing the Future conference. In 2020, Leadership Council for Nonprofits created the Leadership Legacy Awards to recognize nonprofit leaders and organizations whose leaders demonstrate efforts to “secure the future” of the organizations they serve and support allowing these nonprofits to…