November 2019
November 2 – Annual Service Project at Cuyahoga Community College
115 Caring Cubs volunteers participated in our annual service project at Cuyahoga Community College on Saturday, November 2! We were fortunate to be hosted for the 6th consecutive year by the Tri-C Early Childhood Education Program! Volunteers from the education program helped the cubs make 86 guiros (musical instruments made from paper towel rolls) that will be used in the next few weeks in local classrooms. Our families donated 382 children’s books, 63 gloves, 33 winter hats, 26 glove/hat combos,…
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October 20 – Halloween Fun with Seniors
Our Cubs visited the Danbury Senior Living Center to make some Halloween crafts. We had our own Halloween Costume parade for the residents and presented crafts we made as a "reverse" Trick or Treat. Some residents then joined our Cubs for some apple cider and cookies to end a lovely afternoon! View the photo album.
Find out more »October 19 – In Step with Horses
We spent the afternoon grooming horses, leading miniature horses through an obstacle course, making Thank You cards, cleaning pastures and making friends. Our cubs and families made 60 Thank You cards that In Step with Horses can use to thank their supporters. We cleared the large pasture of hanging branches. Our cubs were able to get up close and personal with horses, miniatures horses, a goat and chickens. In Step with Horses is driven by a single goal – to help…
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September 2019 – The Emergency Assistance Center + Cleveland Seed Bank
Theme: Kindness & Caring for The Environment The Emergency Assistance Center (TEAC) + Cleveland Seed Bank (CSB) & Mobile Meals of Summit County (MM) Cubs helped sticker bags for food distribution AND counting/sorting seed. We filled over 500 seed packets for CSB, bundled over 200 flyers/bags and collected 100 food/hygiene items for TEAC, and decorated more than 40 place mats for MM. Our amazing cubs and their parents worked hard to get a lot done in a short time! See…
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August 9 – Be My Neighbor Day
Caring Cubs will join ideastream and other community partners for this fun-filled day that focuses on what it means to be a neighbor. Families with young children are invited to this free, public event that encourages literacy and neighborliness. Caring Cubs will host drop-in volunteer activities that include: - Making bookmarks and literacy gift bags for hospitalized children - Making bookmarks and literacy gift bags for children obtaining their first library cards - Decorate gratitude banners for Cleveland’s first responders.…
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July 28 – Annual School Drive – Ben & Jerry’s – 5 – 8 p.m.
Caring Cubs continued our annual tradition of collecting school supplies for Shoe and Clothes for Kids. We collected NEW glue sticks, pencils, and crayons (24 packs). Shoes and Clothes for Kids’ mission is to improve K-8 school attendance by eliminating lack of appropriate clothing, shoes and school supplies as barriers. Shoes and Clothes for Kids (SC4K) is the only non-profit organization in Greater Cleveland providing new shoes, school uniforms, clothes and school supplies throughout the year at no charge to thousands of children…
Find out more »July 19 – A Special Wish/Shoes and Clothes for Kids/Kids’ Book Bank
Caring Cubs met at Cuyahoga County Public Library on Friday, July 19 at 10 a.m. for a morning of mindfulness, gratitude and support. Our cubs assembled busy bags, making fleece blankets, decorating book marks, and creating Thank You cards! A representative from a Special Wish Foundation spoke with the cubs about the organization in a child-friendly way. Caring Cubs supported Shoes and Clothes for Kids by bringing school supply donations of glue sticks, pencils or 24-packs of crayons to support their peers…
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June 2019 – Nature Center at Shaker Lakes
June 29 - Preserve our Urban Green Space - Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Our Cubs beat the heat by heading into the woods and helping local plants thrive by pulling vinca vines. We learned that vinca aren't "bad" plants, they just aren't very good at sharing space with the other plants in the forest! We also learned about the amazing urban oasis that the Nature Center provides in the middle of our city. Nice job cubs! Click here to view…
Find out more »June 2019 Cleveland Metroparks
June 19 - Caring for the Earth - Cleveland Metroparks A small but mighty group of Caring Cubs volunteers helped remove invasive mugwort from Cleveland Metroparks Watershed Stewardship Center in Parma. Our cubs pulled mugwort (some plants were taller than the cubs!) and helped give native plants room to grow. We filled 26 bags with mugwort! Each plant can contain up to 200,000 seeds...meaning that we helped remove MILLIONS of seeds this morning! Click here to view photos from the…
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May 2019 Appletree Books
Caring Cubs made friendship cards for veterans to be distributed at Cleveland’s VA Medical Center. Thank you to all the Caring Cubs for their messages of thanks, kindness as well as the imaginative artwork! We made approximately 40 cards. A big thank you to Appletree Books for allowing us to use their space. Appletree also provided books for story time that centered around being kind and giving thanks. View more photos from the event.
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