Investing in The Foundry
Today, the Foundry is home to a CMSD School of One – a specialty school for challenged urban students who use the facility as a classroom, learn about the discipline and teamwork that are inherent in the sport of rowing, and, at the end of the school day, are transported to the Old Brooklyn technology center where they engage in a “learn and earn” program that we hope will give them a entry-level pathway to careers in high-demand field of technology. Those same students will return to the Foundry to join rowing teams made up of a diverse group of students from schools throughout Northeast Ohio.
We are equally proud to say that, in less than three years, the Foundry Community Rowing and Sailing Center has introduced nearly 18,000 youth and students to rowing on the Cuyahoga River, including youth from Cleveland Parks and Recreation, Urban Community School, and other students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, many of whom were being introduced to the river for the first time.