Caring Cubs and their families created place mats and cards for Mobile Meals of Summit County and decorated “Hungry Kate” pictures at the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank yesterday. Cubs also donated 68lbs of food to the foodbank. Thank you to all who attended!

Caring Cubs created spring-themed wreaths for residents of Malachi House to display on their doors.  Malachi House serves people who are terminally ill, without regard to race, gender, religion or national origin and without cost to resident or family.  Malachi House ministers to individuals who need a caregiver at the end of life, who have… Continue reading March 2019 Malachi House

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… Continue reading May 2019 Appletree Books

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… Continue reading June 2019 Cleveland Metroparks

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… Continue reading June 2019 – Nature Center at Shaker Lakes

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… Continue reading July 19 – A Special Wish/Shoes and Clothes for Kids/Kids’ Book Bank

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… Continue reading July 28 – Annual School Drive – Ben & Jerry’s – 5 – 8 p.m.

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… Continue reading August 9 – Be My Neighbor Day

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… Continue reading September 2019 – The Emergency Assistance Center + Cleveland Seed Bank

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… Continue reading October 19 – In Step with Horses