NLDP Cleveland

🌟 NLDP 2026 Graduate Grantee Spotlight Series 🌟

Meet Delesia Robinson, graduate of NLDP's Cohort IX and founder of Pride Among Daughters and Sisters (PADS), an organization working to eradicate period poverty and restore dignity for women and girls. Inspired by a single story, Delesia transformed compassion into action—providing free menstrual hygiene products to those who need them most.

Through a new collaboration with UH Midtown’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Ahuja Center, PADS is expanding access to period products for patients, families, and community members navigating financial hardship. Rising costs have made menstrual supplies unaffordable for many, forcing impossible choices that affect health, education, and employment.

Delesia’s work removes stigma, reduces barriers, and ensures that access to basic care is treated as a right—not a privilege.

✨ We're in Recruitment Season for NLDP Cohort XIX ✨

NLDP exists to strengthen the leadership and abilities of grassroots, community-based leaders who are serving their communities daily. If you're looking for new skills and tools to continue improving your neighborhoods as well as your own leadership, you've come to the right place!

👉 Are you ready to take the next step? Apply to participate in NLDP's Cohort XIX today: https://loom.ly/UAUYFOY

📣 Shout-out to Jeff Mixon, graduate of NLDP's Cohort XVII 📣

Jeff was recently promoted to the senior administration team at Northern Ohio Recovery Association (NORA) Inc. NORA's mission is to empower individuals, families and communities to support lifestyles of recovery. Jeff attributed this recent victory to his time spent in NLDP and the support he continues to receive as a program graduate. Learn more about the work Jeff leads and contributes to here: https://loom.ly/rE-ag54

Congrats, Jeff! 👏