Become a Member of Northeast Shores

Why should you become a member of Northeast Shores? I am sure you may have asked yourself what the benefit of being a member of Northeast Shores will do for you. Instead of wondering what it will do for you, you should be asking what being a member of Northeast Shores will do for North Shore Collinwood.

What is Northeast Shores? It is a local Community Development Corporation.
What does Northeast Shores do? We help people and businesses in North Shore Collinwood.

How does Northeast Shores help people and businesses?
We provide access to the Weatherization program which heats houses in Collinwood and parts of Euclid.
We provide access to the Paint Program through a partnership with the City of Cleveland.
We provide technical help to businesses interested in the Storefront Renovation Program.
We help new businesses start up and succeed in North Shore Collinwood.
We help people write grants to support their volunteer activities and then help them manage their grants once they are obtained
We buy houses, rehab them and then sell them to qualified buyers.
We help start Community Gardens.
We help start Block Watches.
We are a partner in the rehab of the Lakeshore Village Apartment complex.
We just bought the LaSalle Theater.
We have parades down E.185th St.
We help promote the business districts and help them with branding projects which results in new banners in the business districts.
We have helped bring over 42 million dollars in neighborhood investment to this area in the last 5 years.

If you would like to have a say in what happens in the North Shore Collinwood area and want to get involved, please join Northeast Shores. To join, please follow this link or print out and complete the attached membership application:
http://www.northeastshores.org/membership.php

If you really want your voice heard, consider running for the board of Northeast Shores. Elections are in January at the General Meeting which is open to the public.

You have to be a paid member to run or vote in this election, so please use the attached application and become a member of Northeast Shores today. Please do your part to make North Shore Collinwood a better place to live, work and play.