Community of Hope

Mission:  Community of Hope is an interfaith, nonprofit organization that builds lasting relationships, nurtures hope, and restores dignity by creating family-like relationships for Cleveland’s youth.

We serve youth who have aged out of foster care in Cleveland by creating teams of mentors (called Communities) around youth 18-28. We help youth with housing, finances, jobs, education, parenting, life skills, health care and more.  

Our work helps break the cycle of poverty and interrupts the intergenerational repetition of homelessness, low educational attainment, under-employment, criminality, and early parenting.  Young adults who have experienced trauma, or who live in extreme poverty—adversities true of most youth who have emancipated from foster care----face a lack of equity and opportunity. Most of the services available to them lack the intensity and duration needed to change their, and their children’s, life trajectories. Our relationship-based service model addresses the needs of these most vulnerable young adults, empowering them to move beyond their circumstances to become healthy, contributing citizens. All of the youth we serve are current or potential parents. When we infuse services, equity, and opportunity in to their lives during early adulthood we are investing in the next generation—increasing the possibility of interrupting detrimental intergenerational patterns.

Your donation will help us in our work with youth.  We are also always looking for more volunteers interested in serving youth.  

For more information, please go to our website: www.hopeCLE.org or contact Amber at amberdonovan@hopeCLE.org.

Thank you for your support!