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Geraldine Ferraiz
Weekday lunch & dinner specialsJoin us Wednesday or Thursday for our $20 lunch special, featuring the choice of a tuscan white bean & kale soup or eden salad and your choice of avocado toast or the eden burger, and a side of rosemary fries. Treat yourself to a $50 three-course dinner, starting with abeet & strawberry salad or charcuterie board, followed by a mapo tofu curry or grilled salmon, and finish with a nichols farm carrot cake or roasted banana turtle brownie.
From the menu to the decor, a contemporary theme has been cultivated to create a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Savor seasonal flavors in the comfort of a unique space combining design elements from the California coast and European cafes.
A tenet behind the menu development is the curation and selecting of ingredients by our culinary team. With an on-site greenhouse and sourcing from local farmers and purveyors, access to the freshest and highest quality ingredients allow our kitchen to produce simple, clean cuisine.
While appointments are encouraged, vendors and visitors will be permitted at HQ or any EDEN site. Please call our main line 216-961-9690 for scheduling. Questions? Email edeninfoEDENcle.org and we will respond.
In 2023, EDEN programs provided housing assistance to 4,623 households / 8,089 individuals. This means that almost 8,100 individuals were not homeless because of EDEN housing programs. Norma Herr provided temporary shelter to 1,109 homeless women. Imagine the impact on the community if every one of those women could achieve housing in 2024.
In spite of EDEN serving a record number of households, our participants are experiencing skyrocketing rents, and reduced incomes. Simultaneously, EDEN has been forced to contend with greatly increased costs associated with service provision. Meanwhile, government funding of many of our programs will remain flat in 2024.
For example, the Mainstream Housing Voucher Program provides rental assistance to low-income households that include a person with disabilities. In 2019, the last time the waitlist for this program was opened, EDEN received 6,000 applications. In November 2023, EDEN opened the waitlist for this program for three days. We received more than 9,000 applications. Unfortunately, because of limited resources, only 350 households can be randomly selected and placed on the waitlist for this program. These statistics illustrate the stark reality of the affordable housing crisis in our region.
In order to continue to meet the surging demand for our services and expand upon the breadth of our programming, we must enlist additional partners in our work. We have big goals, but we cannot achieve them alone. Now more than ever, we need the support of generous donors like you. Please click here to help us achieve our vision of eliminating housing insecurity and homelessness in our community!
EDEN recognizes that housing is a basic right of all people and is the first step in helping them transform their lives. We believe housing serves as a foundation to build stable lives, advance independence, and fulfill aspirations. We envision that, through our efforts, homelessness will be brief and rare; and every family will have a safe, secure place to call home.
All of our participants are economically disadvantaged, with 89.3% meeting Federal guidelines for extremely low income. We serve young adults aging out of the foster care system and seniors who have fallen into homeless due to health issues and/or having little to no income. Other participants include veterans and survivors of domestic violence or human trafficking. The majority have mental health and/or physical disabilities.
Data confirms that homelessness is a condition that impacts people of color and other minorities a a much higher rate than their representation in the population. Working towards racial equity is an essential part of the mission and values of EDEN and our organization strives to promote racial equity, both among staff and among those we serve.
Along with our partners, YWCA of Greater Cleveland and FrontLine Service (FLS), we have been developing strategies to understand and address inequities that exist in our work. Our shared goal is to reduce the over-representation of young adults of color in the homeless system and end their homelessness by the end of 2021. We invite you to assist us in this worthy goal.
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