Author: Kelly

Over 100 volunteers helped to make a difference in our community through a variety of projects. Caring Cubs was able to host a large number of volunteers due to a wonderful partnership with the Educators of Today and Tomorrow (ETT) student club at Cuyahoga Community College Western campus. ETT students as well as additional education majors volunteered at the project and worked directly with our “cubs”.

Caring Cubs collected nearly 750 books, toys, stuffed animals, and puzzles toys to donate to the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS). These items will go into the “Treasure Chest” and will be available at any time for social workers to pick out gifts for the children they are working with. Children could receive an item for a good report card, during a visitation with their parents, or a day when they could use some cheering up.

Our children and parents also signed and decorated over 250 holiday cards for the American Red Cross of Greater Cleveland and their Holiday Mail for Heroes program. The cards will be delivered to veterans and military families in our community as well as local military service members currently deployed.

The children especially enjoyed and had fun making 145 musical shakers! The shakers will benefit local inner city children that the Educators of Today and Tomorrow work with. ETT club members advocate for keeping music in the school curriculum and demonstrate that commitment by teaching appropriate songs, chants, rhythms, and games that the children can actively engage in to enhance their learning. Thank you to all of our volunteer families and the Tri-C Early Childhood Education Program for hosting Caring Cubs for the fourth year! We are especially appreciative of the Educators of Today and Tomorrow Club who volunteer at our service project.

You can view more pictures from this project on our Facebook page!

Caring Cubs collected over 50 canned goods and 20 boxed goods for the Food Bank. We also made ghosts, pumpkins, and mummies for the residence doors and common area at Hattie Larlham, as well as treat bags for their annual fall party.

More photos can be found on our Facebook page here!

Caring Cubs partnered with Cosmic Foundation to up-cycle fabric and foam into 17 pet beds and 42 chew toys for pets awaiting adoption at Rescue Village. We got to meet a therapy dog and hear about the great work Rescue Village does!

More photos from this great project can be found HERE!

Thanks to all the families that spent their rainy Saturday morning with us at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center decorating cards and assembling dreamcatcher craft kits for patients at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Caring Cubs put together 80 bags of all the supplies needed to create your own dream catcher, a craft that will surely bring comfort to young patients while staying overnight in an unfamiliar bed. These kits will soon be donated to the Family and Child Life Services Department at Rainbow to be distributed throughout the entire hospital.

More pictures from this great service project can be found HERE!

Caring Cubs is thankful for the generous and encouraging support of our University Heights Ben & Jerry’s scoop shop!

Our families had a great time bringing together a large collection of school supplies for Kids In Need Resource Center, while also decorating stationery for their staff … all supported by a nice, cool sugar high with proceeds benefiting Caring Cubs! Very grateful for the support, Jim and Haley!!!

More pictures from this great day can be found HERE!

Caring Cubs — at both east and west side locations — made fleece tie scarves and assembled toiletry bags that will be delivered by Bellefaire staff to youth on the streets of Cleveland.

Caring Cubs spent a beautiful day making nearly 200 thank you cards at both the Beachwood and Westlake locations of The Gathering Place! These cards will be used throughout the year to send appreciation – we’re sure they’ll think of our Cubs each time they reach for one! The Beachwood location enjoyed working in and exploring the beautiful, tranquil gardens and were treated to a story time by the Children’s Program director. We are grateful, as always, for the hospitality shown to us by The Gathering Place!

You can find pictures from this fun service project here!

Support Caring Cubs while feeding your family an easy, healthy dinner! Grab your Tuesday evening (June 21) dinner at the Chagrin Highlands Chipotle (at Richmond & Harvard).

Mention/show this flyer and Caring Cubs will receive 50% of the proceeds!

Chipotle Flyer June 2016

Caring Cubs was excited to again partner with the amazing biology department to maintain and add to the natural habitat located at Berea-Midpark High School! Our cubs got to plant some native species, move some mulch and get dirty! We also got to check out the rain garden we helped create 2 years ago and see how well the plants are thriving!

There were multiple stations set up for the kids to enjoy, including a fun environmental themed game, side walk chalk to encourage visitors to the school to think green, planting a sunflower seed to take home for our yards and, of course, reading Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax” and coloring pages from the book!

You can view pictures from this fun event here!

Thank you to the families that joined us at the ElderCenter near UH Parma Medical Center for crafts and BINGO! Caring Cubs visited with participants at the ElderCenter while putting together stationary kits! Cubs learned about day care for adults and played a big role in today’s entertainment. After all the kits were made, everyone enjoyed a few games of BINGO – a favorite for all ages! Caring Cubs families generously donated some new items for the ElderCenter’s prize bin so participants will have plenty to choose from, as they play BINGO every week! 

Check out additional photos from this here!