Patch Picks: 5 Nonprofits in and Near Cleveland Heights

Looking for ways to get involved in your community? Cleveland Heights Patch rounded up five nonprofit organizations with a wide variety of missions in the area.

1. Home Repair Resource Center

Location: 2520 Noble Road, Cleveland Heights, 216-381-6100

Home Repair Resource Center provides a variety of programs and resources to help homeowners, including a financial assistance program for home maintenance and repairs, counseling and financial education, foreclosure intervention and a tool loan system. 

2. Open Doors Academy

Location: Administrative offices: 2460 Fairmount Blvd., Suite 202, Cleveland, 216-229-1900

Open Doors Academy is an after-school and summer academic, social and cultural enrichment program for middle school students. The organization continues outreach through their high school years to ensure students graduate and have post-secondary plans. There are four sites, two in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District for and . 

3. Reaching Heights 

Location: 1991 Lee Road #106, Cleveland Heights, 216-932-5110

Reaching Heights is dedicated to creating, enhancing and supporting arts education, volunteer tutoring and other programs in the public schools in the . The organization offers grants for teachers and other school personnel, encourages the community to connect with its public schools, organizes big community events like the 20th annual and the Reaching Musical Heights concert in Severance Hall and holds public forums to collaborate with residents on ways to maintain the excellence of their schools.  

4. 

Location: 2163 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, 216-320-1423

FutureHeights' mission is to engage community members in Cleveland Heights and University Heights to make a positive contribution to their neighborhood through activism and volunteerism. The organization publishes The Heights Observer to inform residents about local issues, opportunities to voice their concerns and opinions in public forums and other news in the cities. 

5. Cleveland APL — Animal Protective League 

Location: 1729 Willey Ave., Tremont, 216-771-4616

The Cleveland Animal Protective League provides shelter for homeless, abandoned, abused and neglected animals. People can volunteer, foster or adopt pets from the shelter.