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 $7,500 Cy Pres Directed By Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A. Slavic Village DevelopmentSlavic Village Development (SVD) is a non-profit community development corporation with over 25 years experience in neighborhood development and community building in Broadway Slavic Village, a community of 30,000 people in southeast Cleveland. Historically an ethnic blue collar community, Broadway Slavic Village has faced challenges in recent years from job loss and aging housing; the community is evolving into a diverse, affordable place for people of modest means to raise their families.SVD is entrepreneurial, creative, and committed to our vision of the Broadway Slavic Village as an "active vibrant community with strong sense of connectedness and belonging". We are focused and goal driven, and have the reputation of being one of the premier community development corporations in Cleveland, a city which is known nationally for the quality of its community development groups. Slavic Village Development has a long history of highly successful physical development and community building, with particular emphasis on complex real estate site assembly. SVD has rehabbed or built over 1,000 housing units, including a 200+ home planned community; several large multi-family buildings; and over 400 homes for low income families. Slavic Village Development's support of new and existing commercial businesses has contributed to an investment of $48 million in commercial properties in including over 110 storefront renovation projects. In recent years, SVD has refined its programming and has increasingly used community organizing and community building activities to address quality of life issues, such as activities for youth, safety, and recreation. Arts programming, including public art, concerts, festivals and parades have become more important as has the development of parks, green space and recreational amenities, SVD has been instrumental in the creation of several new parks, and in 2006 opened Morgana Run Bike Trail a 3 mile trail developed on an abandoned rail line. SVD leveraged the development of the trail and created a new park and history center capitalizing on the Mill Creek waterfall, and linked the Morgana Trail to the Ohio Erie Canal Towpath, an extensive trail system just south of the neighborhood. Cy Pres Award DonationThese funds helped initiate our workforce development strategy for Broadway Slavic Village youth. This strategy combines our strong relationships with local employers and with youth and schools to begin to re-connect neighborhood teens to career paths with local companies, particularly factories. We developed a job fair job shadowing, and intern/apprenticeships for local youth and young adults.Since receiving these funds, the workforce development initiative has expanded significantly, in 2009 we coordinated the employment of over 60 youth for summer jobs, and we are currently raising funds to do the same this summer, 2010. website: http://www.slavicvillage.org |
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