Environmental Health Watch

World Environment Day 2026: Inspired by Nature, for Climate, for Our Future.

Since 1980, Environmental Health Watch has been doing this work in Cleveland neighborhoods. Healthier homes. Healthier families.

We don't get to climate work through global slogans. We get to it through the homes and neighborhood blocks already here.

That's the climate work we know.

EHW does more than just lead.

Healthy Homes is our core program area. Assessment and mitigation that keeps Cleveland kids out of harm. It is the work that sits closest to the ground, and it built our model. But the work has never stopped there.

Since 1980, Environmental Health Watch has been working in the same Cleveland neighborhoods across every part of community health. Food justice through the Central Kinsman Wellness Collective. Resident leadership through Policy and Power. Community wellness across Healthy People and Healthy Communities. Cultural and economic gathering through Fresh Fest. Each lane reinforces the others, because that is how the work goes deeper.

One organization cannot do all of that alone. We never have. The strength of EHW has always been the strength of the people, partners, and neighbors who do the work alongside us.

Forty-five + years in. Same communities. Still building.

We’re hiring.

Environmental Health Watch is looking for a Healthy People and Healthy Communities Program Coordinator to support community-based health initiatives, outreach, organizing, and relationship building across Cleveland neighborhoods.

We’re looking for someone who is:
• Organized and community-centered
• A strong communicator and facilitator
• Passionate about environmental justice and public health
• Ready to support real community impact work

📍 Cleveland, Ohio
🕒 Full-time

Apply here:
Indeed Job Posting https://www.indeed.com/job/healthy-people-and-healthy-communities-program-coordinator-b74107bc4d832063

“Community is not just where we live. It is how we show up for one another, especially in moments when people feel unseen, unheard, or left behind. Real change happens when impacted people are respected, included, and empowered to lead the solutions shaping their own neighborhoods. We cannot continue to talk about communities without talking to the people who live there every day, who understand the challenges, and who carry the wisdom to create lasting change.

When we build relationships rooted in trust, consistency, and shared responsibility, we create more than programs or policies. We create opportunity, healing, and hope. Strong communities are built when residents, young people, leaders, and organizations come together with a common purpose and a commitment to action. Together, we can create healthier environments, safer homes, and futures where every child and every family has the chance to thrive.” — Kim Foreman

In 2015, EHW convened the Cleveland Health Department, Hispanic Alliance, Spanish American Committee, MetroHealth, Strategic Solutions Partners, and community leaders in Cleveland to ask a question that still drives our work: what does it actually take to make homes safe and keep people healthy?

That partnership became Engaging the Community in New Approaches to Healthy Housing, Build Health 1.0 and it produced real results. A case study. A model for cross-sector collaboration. And community leaders like Councilman Kris Harsh, who was part of that early work and went on to serve on Cleveland City Council.

Build Health 2.0 deepened the work. We partnered with the Cleveland Department of Health and Building and Housing, CWRU Poverty Center, University Hospital, MetroHealth, and Global Health Metrics to develop the Cleveland.Housing.Health app giving residents direct access to lead certification and violation data for their properties.

Now we're in our third round of Build Health 4.0 funding. The only city to reach that milestone. This time the focus is food justice in partnership with the Central Kinsman Wellness Collective.

Forty-five years of this work. 10 years with Build Health. The partnerships change shape, but the foundation holds.

Did you know?

EHW has trained more than 700 people - opening doors to new opportunities while improving homes across the region.

That's the kind of impact your support makes possible. Join us today.

Donate today at ehw.org/donatenow

Environmental Health Watch has been awarded both the Build Health and Kresge Foundation grants for a second time an unusual distinction that reflects over a decade of sustained community health work in Cleveland.

The Build Health funding is now focused on food justice connecting the systems that shape what communities eat to the systems that shape where they live. The Kresge grant supports healthy home electrification making homes safer and more energy efficient through upgrades like replacing gas stoves, improving air sealing, and modernizing electrical systems.

Electrification, in plain terms, means transitioning homes from gas-powered systems to electric ones reducing indoor air pollution and lowering energy costs. For EHW, it's the next chapter of the same healthy homes work we've been doing since 1980.

Two national funders. Two parallel tracks. One integrated approach to community health.

EHW has a long history of shaping responses to local issues, building trust at all levels, and collaborating with diverse partners to develop a thriving Cleveland.

Help sustain this mission and make a gift today.

Donate today at ehw.org/donatenow