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The Land is a local, nonprofit news organization that reports on Cleveland’s neighborhoods. Through in-depth solutions journalism, we aim to foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action. During the early days of 2020 as the world was coming to grips with a global pandemic, our founding team realized a new ...
Reviewing The Land’s coverage ahead of Election Day 2024
1 day ago · Cleveland VOTES wants Northeast Ohioans to get time off to vote in the 2024 election. A challenge for Cleveland VOTES this year is to convince businesses to offer time off for employees to vote. The organization suggests that employers either give the day off, offer a half-day, or give employees a couple of hours to visit their polling place.
A year of in-depth, local reporting: The Land’s top 20 stories of 2021
Oct 8, 2024 · Follow the $500M: Cleveland’s ARPA budget includes $2M for problem-plagued NEON Health Services. By Lee Chilcote. NEON Health Services is requesting $2 million from the city’s ARPA budget to provide community health programming and repair the Hough Medical Center, which suffered a fire in May of this year.
Stories - The Land
6 days ago · The Land recently worked with students at the Mastery School of Hawken, in University Circle, on their month-long challenge course. Over the course of three weeks, students from the high school worked on short documentary films focused on finding “under-reported and over-reported stories in Greater Cleveland.”.
News - The Land
November 2020. The Land brings nonprofit journalism model to Cleveland (CoolCleveland.com) October 2020. How colleges are stepping up to help students during Covid-19: WKSU interview w/The Land’s Asha Fairley. August 2020. The Land accepted into first cohort of Nonprofit News Springboard program (INN) July 2020.
What Cleveland’s LEED certification means for the city’s future
Oct 14, 2024 · In October 2021, Cleveland received a silver LEED for Cities certification for its efforts toward making the city more sustainable for residents and businesses. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a global certification program for rating the “green” quality of buildings and cities. This achievement was the result of ...
Redrawing Ohio’s future with Issue 1 - The Land
6 days ago · Opposition to Issue 1. Ohio Works outlines its argument against Issue 1, claiming the amendment would allow “out-of-state special interests” that “want to create a commission that will have virtually unlimited power to spend Ohio tax dollars – with zero accountability to Ohio voters.”. The full amendment text, which the Ohio Works ...
Cleveland's libraries ready for next chapter as $100 million …
Oct 8, 2024 · Rendering by Moody-Nolan of the new Hough Branch Library. Dwayne Price will miss the old Hough Branch library, but he’s looking forward to the new one, coming soon in a roughly $100 million project to upgrade every Cleveland Public Library branch. Price has visited Hough about four times a week for the past 17 years.
The Land receives funding from Press Forward as part of its Open …
Aug 27, 2024 · More than 900 news organizations from around the nation applied to receive this funding. The Land is part of the first cohort of 205 news organizations, a bright mosaic of independent, nonpartisan sources that reimagine what local news looks like.