What is a Community Learning Center (CLC)? The goal of school-based Community Learning Centers is to help re-engage the broader community with the school to support student and family success. By providing a variety ofacademic and family support services and enrichment programs for children and families, teachers and principals can focus their attention on academics – improving student performance and graduation rates. Each CLC identifies, assembles and coordinates a variety of nonprofit and business partners to offer a unique menu of programs before and after school, during the evenings and on weekends and throughout the year. As a result, CLCs often become the neighborhood’s center of activity.
Why is this important? Stronger schools equal stronger communities. Research shows the health, safety, and stability of families and neighborhoods are inextricably linked to student success. Beyond access to health, safety and social services, children need opportunities for recreational, educational, cultural and social opportunities to enrich their lives and help them be successful in life. Those opportunities are often not available to children in urban districts. GCF made a four-year, $1 million commitment to support CLCs because we believe that the best way to reduce racial disparities is through public education.
How you can help Join GCF by investing in CLCs. Use your donor advised fund at GCF or make a secure online donation with a credit card, using the button at left. You may also send a check to our donation address: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, P.O. Box 5200, Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-5200. If you have questions, please contact a member of our Giving Strategies Group at 513-241-2880.
Where you can go for more information. The Cincinnati Public School Web site has information and evaluation results for CLCs. Please click here to take a look.
The goal of school-based Community Learning Centers is to help re-engage the broader community with the school to support student and family success. By providing a variety ofacademic and family support services and enrichment programs for children and families, teachers and principals can focus their attention on academics – improving student performance and graduation rates. Each CLC identifies, assembles and coordinates a variety of nonprofit and business partners to offer a unique menu of programs before and after school, during the evenings and on weekends and throughout the year. As a result, CLCs often become the neighborhood’s center of activity. 
Stronger schools equal stronger communities. Research shows the health, safety, and stability of families and neighborhoods are inextricably linked to student success. Beyond access to health, safety and social services, children need opportunities for recreational, educational, cultural and social opportunities to enrich their lives and help them be successful in life. Those opportunities are often not available to children in urban districts. GCF made a four-year, $1 million commitment to support CLCs because we believe that the best way to reduce racial disparities is through public education. 
