GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS

What GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS does

Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith community-organizing coalition headquartered at 3558 Lee Rd, Cleveland, Ohio, operating exclusively in Cuyahoga County. The organization unites congregations—churches, synagogues, and other faith institutions—plus individual community members to run advocacy campaigns across six focus areas: voter engagement, criminal justice reform, health equity, economic democracy, faith and financial justice, and gun safety. Its operating model is relational organizing: GCC deploys member canvassers (for example, 57 members knocking on 335 doors ahead of the May 2026 primaries) into low-propensity voting neighborhoods, publishes voter guides, hosts GCC University training and HBI Health Fairs, and pursues strategic targets such as the Not With Our Money campaign that pressured Citizens Bank to exit prison financing.

GCC is not a technology company; the underlying "platform" is a community-organizing infrastructure and a relational database used for member engagement and tracking. The closest it comes to a product surface is its public-facing website, email newsletter (Mailchimp), and donation portal via Network for Good, alongside digital marketing channels (Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter) and earned media.

The business model is donation-based: as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with 1–10 employees, GCC does not charge for services. Revenue is generated through charitable donations and member contributions processed through the Network for Good "Give Today" portal, with no publicly disclosed pricing, contracts, or financials. Its customer segments are not purchasers but stakeholders—congregations, faith communities, communities of color, and residents of low-propensity voting neighborhoods—who participate in campaigns and advocacy efforts.

Name

GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS

Legal name

Greater Cleveland Congregations

Website

https://greaterclevelandcongregations.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Greater Cleveland Congregations is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith community-organizing coalition in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, that mobilizes congregations and residents around voter engagement, criminal justice, health equity, and economic democracy through relational canvassing and advocacy campaigns.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Organizing Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (813920), Civic and Social Organizations (81341), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Interfaith & Ecumenical Councils and Dialogue Organizations (BPAGAJAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Civil Liberties & Constitutional Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAA), Local Congregations & Worship Communities (Churches, Mosques, Temples, Synagogues) (BPAGAJAA)

Keywords

• Community organizing
• Social justice advocacy
• Voter mobilization
• Criminal justice reform
• Health equity initiatives

Headquarters

HQ city

Cleveland, Ohio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: GCC generates revenue through charitable donations from individuals and member congregations. The organization runs donation campaigns including 'Give Today' initiatives and has a Network for Good donation portal for processing contributions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Greater Cleveland Congregations is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith community organizing coalition that unites people across Cuyahoga County to take collective action on social justice issues. GCC delivers advocacy and organizing services across focus areas including voter engagement, faith and financial justice, criminal justice reform, health equity, and economic democracy, conducting campaigns, community events, and direct member engagement rather than selling any commercial product.

Product overview

Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith community organizing coalition focused on social justice advocacy. GCC is not a technology company and does not offer commercial software products. The organization operates as a civic engagement coalition that unites people from across Cuyahoga County to take collective action on social justice issues through focus areas including voter engagement, criminal justice reform, health equity, economic democracy, faith and financial justice, and gun safety. GCC conducts advocacy campaigns, organizes community events, and facilitates collective action but does not provide technology products or services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Voter Engagement Program

Quantifiable outcome

• 16% higher voter turnout in canvassed neighborhoods
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• GBIO (Greater Boston Interfaith Organization)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026GCC partnered with GBIO on the Not With Our Money campaign against Citizens Bank's prison financing. Together they announced over $23 million in combined deposit withdrawal pledges as part of the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition, demonstrating successful multi-city faith-based financial justice organizing.
• The Just Power AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGCC is a proud member of The Just Power Alliance, a collective of organizations from the Midwest and East Coast fighting for social justice through bold, relational, joyful, collective action. This alliance enables shared learning and coordinated campaigns across regions.
• Better Health PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the Dollars for Doses vaccination campaign, where Better Health Partnership collaborated with GCC to design and complete analyses of vaccine data, enabling GCC to vaccinate 1% of Cleveland.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network): Faith in Action is the largest US network of faith-based community organizing affiliates, sharing GCC's relational, congregation-based organizing model and focus on racial equity and justice reform. Functions as a broader incumbent that GCC-style affiliates connect into at scale.
• Gamaliel Network: Gamaliel is a national network of interfaith, multi-racial metropolitan organizing affiliates with shared methodology (relational organizing, leadership development, public action campaigns) closely matching GCC's operating approach.
• Center for Community Change: Center for Community Change is a larger national progressive organizing and advocacy intermediary supporting local and state-level racial-justice organizing work that overlaps substantively with GCC's voter, economic, and justice campaigns.
• Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF): IAF is the original broad-based community organizing network founded by Saul Alinsky, training and coordinating local affiliates that use congregational relational organizing — the same framework GCC operates within across its focus areas.

Regional players

• New Hampshire Council of Churches: NH Council of Churches is a regional multi-faith coalition convening congregations for social justice advocacy — comparable in its interfaith coalition structure but operating in a different (New England) geography than GCC.

Emerging players

• Voices for Healthy Kids (American Heart Association initiative): Voices for Healthy Kids funds and supports advocacy campaigns on child health equity, including community organizing around vaccination access — overlapping GCC's Health Equity focus area but as a funder/advocate rather than a direct grassroots organizer.

Direct peers

• The Just Power Alliance: JPA is the multi-state Midwest/East Coast coalition of which GCC is a core member. It coordinates joint campaigns across member orgs in a near-identical model (relational organizing, faith-rooted, multi-racial), making it a direct peer in operations and shared campaign infrastructure.
• Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO): GBIO is a broad-based interfaith community organizing coalition in Greater Boston, structurally analogous to GCC: multi-faith, multi-racial, member-congregation model running campaigns on housing, justice, and economic issues. Most directly comparable as GCC's coalition partner in the Not With Our Money campaign.
• Faith in New York: Faith in New York is a NYC-based, multi-faith, multi-racial broad-based community organizing coalition using congregational relational organizing on housing, criminal justice, and equity issues — a close functional peer to GCC operating in a different metro.
• Miami Valley Organizing Collaborative: MVOC is a Dayton, Ohio-region broad-based community organizing coalition using the same relational, interfaith, congregation-based model as GCC and operating in an adjacent Ohio geography with overlapping issue priorities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/greaterclecong
• Facebookfacebook.com/GreaterClevelandCongregations
• Instagraminstagram.com/greaterclevelandcongregations
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/greater-cleveland-congregations

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