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The Rhizome House

A radical social center and infoshop on Erie and Mississauga land based out of so-called Cleveland Heights, OH. We are independently hosted on OC and all proceeds go directly to the project.

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$6,000 USD since Jan 2023

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AUPE Campus

$2,000 USD since Nov 2023

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Joseph

$1,140 USD since Oct 2022

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$900 USD since Jul 2023

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Jonathan

$605 USD since Dec 2023

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Incognito

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al

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Joy David

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Sara G

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Rachel Kacenjar

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The Rhizome House is all of us

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Cait

Admin

$50 USD

Thustra

Admin

Guest

$6,000 USD

AUPE Campus

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$2,000 USD

Joseph

$1,140 USD

Guest

One Time Backer

$900 USD

Jonathan

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$605 USD

Incognito

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$560 USD

al

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$500 USD

Guest

$500 USD

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Total income

$19,729.55 USD

Total disbursed

$18,295.68 USD

Estimated annual budget

$9,332.38 USD

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News from The Rhizome House

Updates on our activities and progress.

Online monthly donations to RZH are now active again!

As you may know, online donations to The Rhizome House via our online fundraising platform, Open Collective, have been paused since this past March. Our fiscal host, the Open Collective Foundation, was dissolved, leaving us to either spend...
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Published on September 24, 2024 by TheRhizomeHouse

OCF Dissolving and Pause in Recurring Donations

Hello friends and supporters, First off, we want to thank you so much for all your generous financial support over the past year and a half, this space wouldn’t be the same thriving and nurturing environment without you all. Even as we come...
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Published on March 15, 2024 by Cait

Year End Update and Solstice Dinner Invite

Hello friends of The Rhizome House, First, we'd like to thank you for your support in our first full year! Y'all really showed up and remind us every day that sustaining movement infrastructure is work worth doing. To express our gratitude...
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Published on December 12, 2023 by Cait

About


In 2019, we formed a collective in Cleveland in order to open a social center. The social center concept is one that comes from European social movements, and refers to a space where a collective of people provides space and resources for political and community planned events.

Our plans were put on hold during the beginning of COVID, and for two years we have been organizing around social justice issues, making thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer (mainly for people protesting during the George Floyd Uprising), and planning our next steps.

Today we can announce that, due to the generosity of our lovely building owners, we have been able to sign a lease for a space in the Cedar-Lee neighborhood of Cleveland Heights. This space is located in a major commercial district, around the corner from a large high school, near independent theaters and galleries, and is an all around amazing place to provide services to the community.

The Rhizome House hosts a large open meeting space for reading groups, classes, lectures, open mic nights, or whatever one would want to fill the space with. There is a library with hard to find independent, underground, and radical books, pamphlets, and zines. The space is also home to a technology lab, where we will be teaching others how to 3-D print, solder circuits, make audio recordings, and use risograph machines for printing. Finally, we also host an enclosed classroom and meeting space, for groups that may want some privacy when meeting and talking.

We are now officially open and our event calendar can be found at https://rhizomehouse.org/event-calendar/ We also have open hours every Sunday from 1-4PM during our "Crafternoon"

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