Economic Democracy

Our PowerUp congregations are using their collective spending power to negotiate better prices
for waste hauling, electricity and natural gas.

ACTIVE CAMPAIGNS

Community Engagement from Start to Finish

Our Lee-Harvard Healthy Villages Initiative is focused on organizing people on the ground in order to improve quality of life and enrich the vitality of this neighborhood while protecting its heritage, history and residents.

PowerUp

Economic power for better outcomes

Economic power for better outcomes.

PowerUp leverages GCC’s congregations’ spending power to negotiate better prices for electricity and natural gas, copiers, property insurance and accounting services, which disproportionately affect economically and socially vulnerable populations in Cleveland.

Since 2021, PowerUp has enabled more than 55 Ohio nonprofits to sign over 100 contracts for the facilities management programs we cover, saving the institutions we serve more than $50,000.

By joining PowerUp, members:

Amplify their purchasing power to gain an   economic advantage
Use our economic advantage to negotiate the best deals
Select quality vendors who represent our values

We are stronger when we work as one.

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legacy CAMPAIGNS

Community Engagement from Start to Finish

SEE OUR OTHER focus areas

VOTer
engagement

Fighting voter suppression, depression and regression by mobilizing people to vote in low-propensity voting neighborhoods.

Criminal
Justice

Working with prosecutors, judges and our community to create a new system of criminal justice by adding pretrial services and putting an end to cash bail and discretionary youth bindover.

health
equity

Connecting communities of color with primary and preventative care with the goal of creating health equity in Cleveland.

GUN
SAFETY

Reducing gun violence through responsible gun ownership.