Center for Service & Social Action

Several John Carroll University schools and centers of excellence are rallying around the challenge of how to end multigenerational poverty in Cleveland, where childhood poverty rates are some of the highest in the nation (48.7 percent of children under age 18 in Cleveland lived in poverty in 2017). The Boler School of Leadership and Social Innovation and the JCU Center for Service and Social Action look to go beyond episodic service projects to sustained, microenterprise investments and business start-ups. The initial focus is within Cleveland’s St. Clair Superior Neighborhood.