Community Happens Here

10/13/2026

Getting excited for our 6th Annual Fall Festival! October 24th. We're very excited to welcome back Kelli Domke and WhistleStop Music as our band, and to experience the kid-friendly Haunted House developed by our Teen Program. Free. 11-1

09/30/2026

Next one is on November 14th at the Deer Park branch of the Cincinnati Public Library!

09/30/2026

We’re excited that the teens are participating in our Fundraiser Yard Sale Saturday October 3rd with these hand painted necklaces!

09/20/2026

So glad to be part of the celebration at Madisonville Branch of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library on August 15th. We have been offering Sidewalk Hospitality since April 18, and will be there one more time this Saturday. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DxD1xF8y2/

08/31/2026

Starting Monday, August 31st, we are excited to introduce and invite you to our latest program at Community Happens Here. (Rolling Registration, start anytime!)

CHH Teen Afterschool Program
Monday through Thursday
4 pm – 7:30 pm
6238 Montgomery Rd

This is a Pilot Program that will launch its first cohort on August 31st of, 2026.
Community Happens Here recognizes the importance of connecting within our community and building relationships. We also have a track record of launching in-school entrepreneurship programs that support students' growth and development (for example, The Coffee Cup program at Pleasant Ridge Montessori). With this in mind, we developed a Teen Afterschool program to address the current lack of spaces for teens, explore their interests, lead civic engagement projects, and help youth in the community build a brighter future.
This program for teens focuses on art, fosters community and civic engagement, and provides a space for students in the Pleasant Ridge and greater Cincinnati area at CHH (Community Happens Here).
A space for students to voice their opinions.
A space to develop the change in their community that they want to see.
Learn how to be an active member of society with civic engagement projects through art.
Learn and explore artistic media such as painting, illustration, creative writing/poetry, sculpture, and mixed-media work.
A space for students to explore their interests outside of school!
A third space for students to have after school.

Details
*CHH will provide free dinners and, once a month, have college and career readiness meetings.

The program will run from August 31st, 2026 to December 10th, 2026. With active participation, the program will reopen January 11th, 2027 to May 17th, 2027.
To Participate:
Ages: 13 - 18 (exceptions may be made for 11 and 12 year olds after a non-formal interview )
Students must be enrolled in a CPS, Cincinnati Private school, or homeschooling in the greater Cincinnati area.
All students are welcome and supported!
Schedule:
Monday - Thursday
4:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Homework/dinner: 4 pm - 5 pm
Art/Activity: 5 pm - 7 pm
Cleanup: 7 pm - 7:30 pm
*Students are only required to be present from 5 pm to 7 pm, as long as students clean up after themselves before 7:30 pm. Additionally, students are not required to attend every day, and participation in the program can be used as volunteer hours.
The program is led by Georgia Mattingly, a BFA and Art Ed. student at DAAP (College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning).

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08/14/2026

Nobody arrives at Sidewalk Hospitality alone. We each bring the all the selves we've already been, tucked somewhere beneath the surface.

This truth about the human experience is the beginning of empathy.

And a little bit of empathy goes a long way.

Want to deepen your empathy and understanding? Join us at the Human Library tomorrow at Sidewalk Hospitality from 11am-1pm.

Nobody arrives at Sidewalk Hospitality alone. We each bring the all the selves we've already been, tucked somewhere beneath the surface. This truth about the human experience is the beginning of empathy. And a little bit of empathy goes a long way.

08/12/2026

This Saturday, one of our most popular events returns to Pleasant Ridge.

The Human Library
Saturday, August 15
11am – 1pm
6238 Montgomery Rd

At each Human Library gathering, the “Books” are people. You sit down with a volunteer “Book,” ask honest questions, and listen to them share from their own experience in their own words. There are no lectures or debates. Just real conversations with people you may never have met otherwise.

Each conversation lasts about 20 minutes, so you can stop by for one, or stick around for a few.

We're honored to host this event as an official Publishing Partner of the Human Library organization, alongside Together Cincy.

08/11/2026

It is with great sorrow that we mourn the loss of our dear friend Rev. Derek Terry, who supported and celebrated us since the very beginning of our journey. Thank you Derek for walking with us on our journey this far..... Rev. Derek Terry

07/31/2026

The last thing this neighborhood needs is more rain.

Still, the forecast shows possible rain tomorrow morning and stronger storms in the afternoon. So here's how we'll handle it.

As of right now, the Ridge Day Fun Run is still on. I hope to see everyone tomorrow at 10:30am at 6301 Parkman Pl (the lawn in front of All Saints Episcopal Church).

If it's cloudy, we run as scheduled. (One of our best Fun Runs ever happened on a cloudy day.)

If the weather looks unsafe, I'll call it off, and I'll make that call tomorrow around 9:00am, so you'll know before you'd leave the house.

I'll post tomorrow morning about our plans, right here on this page.

If we do cancel, our sign-up platform lets us issue refunds, and an email to registered participants will include a form for requesting one.

For now, though, would you please join me in an anti-rain dance?

I'd love to tomorrow the day celebrating this wonderful community together!

07/29/2026

In our earliest moments, someone older cares for us. Completely at first. Then less completely, as we learn to tie our own shoes and find our own way home. Then, the hands that steadied us are the ones that need steadying. Slowly, we begin to take our turn.

The truth is: No generation is exempt from the rotation.

It isn't only a family thing, either.

It happens here, too.

Care isn't a debt we pay back to the person who gave it. It only ever moves forward. We receive it from one set of hands and pass it along to the next. That movement is what makes any community worth living in. Because none of us carries any of it forever. We take our turn. Then someone takes a tur