The Gatewood Home/Share is a hyper-local hub that fuses work, play, and community in an innovative and authentic way. Help us start our programs to support youth development and get our space launched safely!
Leader
Robert Gatewood
Location
532 East 185th Street Cleveland, OH 44119
The Gatewood Home/Share is a culmination of a series of small business ideas and projects my family has been working toward for over 15 years. Everything you remember from our first space is coming back, supercharged and better than ever! Created by Marlene Gatewood-Allen and son Robert Gatewood, and supported by her husband and a number of other local partners, the Home/Share looks to support our community (particularly people of color and other marginalized groups) by being an inclusive incubator space for all people.
To begin our relaunch, we are looking to start two cornerstone youth engagement programs: 'Home/Share Lil' Entrepreneur' (HSLE) and GamerHaven Academy (GHA). Each program would engage at least 4 children per session and teach a variety of real-life skills and knowledge, using the breadth of our coworking and event resources at the Home/Share and East 185th Market Park. Every youth participant will walk away with something tangible (e.g. a t-shirt, a game they made, a certificate), something personal (skills to start a business, use a kitchen, a game design document), and some money in their pocket for their effort!
Your donations would cover the costs associated with operating the first 3 Lil Entrepreneur cohorts and the first 2 GamerHaven Academy cohorts, ensuring at least 25 local kids get the opportunity to experience hands-on education from people who grew up much like they did and from the where they live.
To learn more about these programs, click here.
To learn more about how GamerHaven grew and developed into the Gatewood Home/Share, click here.
We've already begun renovations with the resources we had left from 818 East 185th, and are on the path to a soft launch of the Gatewood Home/Share in mid-August 2020. With support from you, we expect to do the following to secure our launch through Lil Entrepreneur and GamerHaven Academy, which best allows us the opportunity to begin serving Greater Cleveland at the Home/Share:
Create a list of eligible youth participants from partners across Collinwood and other Cleveland Neighborhoods, with the goal of having a list of no fewer than 50 participants ready for enrollment (Week 1 after funding)
Complete purchase of necessary technical and kitchen related hardware and software to fulfill the goals of HSLE and GHA (Week 2/3 after funding)
Secure guest professionals for each cohort (Week 5 after funding)
Secure dates and times for each cohort and schedule sessions based on best availability for eligible participants (Week 5 after funding, use of our spaces will be primarily available to community users, as limited by proper social distancing guidelines, so we will block out time for each session to maximize safety)
Throughout completion of the campaign we will keep people abreast of progress on our website, this page, and social media.
As I said during the development of GamerHaven, I believe more deeply than anything, that most often what prevents people from achieving their goals is a lack of access to the resources that would get them there. Nothing about the place I'm from held me back, nothing about being a person from here held me back, and the people in my community are all equally or even more capable than I am when given the chance to be.
The Gatewood Home/Share brings together my vision for a creative coworking space, my mothers mission to provide authetic and all-inclusive support to people in our neighborhood, and years of refining our operations to fit the community we call home.These prgraoms for young people take everything we've worked toward and create a personal, one on one connection with young people to share what has worked for us and expose them to the possibilities life can offer them.
Thank you for all your support so far, and we are excited to see where we can go, together.
- Robert Gatewood