News and Events
August 31, 2010
Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America
The
Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America exhibit at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage closed over the weekend. Maltz officials said it was one of their most successful exhibits, bringing in nearly 20,000 people to the Beachwood museum see and hear the stories of the pioneering women who established schools, hospitals and other enduring institutions and continue to work for peace and social justice.
August 23, 2010
Harlem Children's Zone founder Geoffrey Canada spoke in Cleveland on the perils to America if urban schools aren't improved. Canada told the audience of some 1,400 that an entire generation of children could be lost.
Read more about what he told the audience about his vision for ensuring children succeed academically. The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland is waiting to hear about it's planning grant application to the U.S. Department of Education to replicate a Harlem Children's Zone in Cleveland's Central Neighborhood. The Foundation is one of nearly 340 who applied for a "Promise Neighborhood" grant. The department is awarding up to 20 grants. The announcement is expected by the end of September.
Read more about a Promise Neighborhood in Central.
July 26, 2010
Four New Board Members Elected
The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland is pleased to announce that four new members have been elected to its board of directors.
The Reverend Abraham D. Allende, Sister Evelyn Flowers, Robyn N. Gordon and Felton Thomas, Jr., begin their three-year terms in September.
The four new Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland directors have diverse and unique backgrounds.
July 7, 2010
A
story on the new Central Community Co-Op, opening Saturday, July 10, appeared in a piece in the Plain Dealer's website Cleveland.com. The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland has been a partner in helping to get the program get started. Residents who join the co-op (which costs $50) will get discounts on fresh fruits and vegetables as well as information on free fitness, nutritional and dental programs. The membership drive for the co-op runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Alanbe Food Outlet, 3400 Carnegie Ave.
June 24, 2010
Local public radio station WCPN 90.3 highlighted the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland's
efforts to get a Promise planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education to replicate a Harlem Children's Zone in the Central Neighborhood.
Read about it or listen to the piece
here. In September the education department will announce which U.S. communities are awarded the grants.
June 18, 2010
The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland awarded six second-quarter grants totaling $170,710 for community efforts, health literacy and religious communities.
The grants, approved by the board on June 18, 2010, were awarded to:
Hispanic Round table of Cleveland ($15,000) for programming efforts for the upcoming Hispanic Convention (El Convencion Hispana 2010)
ideastream ($15,000) towards expanding the Cleveland public radio station’s health programming
Cleveland Department of Public Health’s MomFirst program ($57,710) to continue and expand the “Baby Basics Initiative” that serves high-risk pregnant women and adolescents
Project: LEARN ($37,500) for implementing and expanding a program at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center aimed at improving communication with patients
Conference of Religious Leadership ($20,000) to create a local exhibit on Sisters in Northeast Ohio to accompany the Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America exhibit at the Maltz Museum of Jewish History in Beachwood
Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina ($25,500) to co-sponsor events of the Collaboration for Ministry Initiative including its annual gathering of all women religious in South Carolina
WOmen & Spirit
In Cleveland closes
Exhibit Reveals Role of Courageous Women in Shaping U.S. History
Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America presents the stories of pioneering women who established schools, hospitals and other enduring institutions and continue to work for peace and social justice. Direct from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., this fascinating compilation of first-person accounts, rare artifacts; compelling films and important photographs reveals a new perspective on American history.
Sue Krey, President of the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, Lynn Berner, Program Officer of Religious Communities, and Judi Feniger, Executive Director of the Maltz Museum at the opening reception of Women & Spirit
Women & Spirit includes the stories of 2 Sisters from northeast Ohio:
Sr. Ignatia Gavin, CSA worked with Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Dr. Bob Smith. At St. Thomas Hospital in Akron and later, Rosary Hall at St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland, she opened two of the nation’s first hospital-based programs for alcoholics.
Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU was martyred in 1980 while serving on the diocesan Cleveland Latin American Mission Team in El Salvador.
At the Maltz Museum, visitors will notice an interreligious approach presented in part through a film created exclusively for the Museum, Women with Spirit. This insightful look at the role of spirituality in the lives and work of area women of various faiths includes interviews with U.S. Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-OH) and
Sisters of Charity Health System President & CEO Sr. Judith Ann Karam, CSA.
The national exhibit is produced by the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in association with the Cincinnati Museum Center. LCWR has more than 1,500 members, who represent more than 90 percent of the 59,000 women religious in the United States.
The contributions of sisters in the Dioceses of Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio are spotlighted in a supplemental display coordinated by the Conference of Women Leaders in the Diocese of Cleveland. Women & Spirit will remain in northeast Ohio through August 28 when it moves to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum at Liberty Island, NY. The exhibit travels the United States through 2011.
To date, key sponsors of the Cleveland presentation include Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, Notre Dame College, Ursuline College/Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, National City/Now A Part of PNC, Cleveland Clinic/Marymount Hospital, the Cleveland Foundation and Mt. Sinai Foundation.
READ about the Women & Spirit exhibit in The Plain Dealer, Sunday, June 20, 2010 edition
here.
Regina Brett
wrote about the exhibit in her column on May 6. 2010.
WOMEN & SPIRIT is a project of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. The Conference has more than 1,500 members, representing about 95% of America’s 68,000 women religious.