Jonathan Greer Email & Phone Number

Jonathan Greer, Founder of the MAN-UP Movement, is a community engagement leader in Akron. He is a loving husband and father. He is the founder and director for the iC.A.R.E. Mentoring® program, serving Summit County students with positive, purposeful, mentoring relationships.Jonathan has served as a special lecturer/part-time professor at the University of Akron’s LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education; teaching classes on Urban Mentoring. He is a trained facilitator, consultant, experienced coach and author of two youth mentoring curricula. Jonathan’s work in the community speaks for itself as he has helped to transform some of the toughest neighborhoods on Akron’s west-side from devastation to determination, providing weekly summer programs for kids, school supply giveaways and establishing an 8,000-square foot community garden space for residents in Ward 4. His non-profit organization, The MAN-UP Movement, used woodworking and mentorship to teach small groups of elementary and middle-school boys what it takes to be caring, well-rounded responsible men.Jonathan has been featured in the Akron Beacon Journal, Westside Leader, Channel 19 News, SGTV (Socially Good Television), WAKR Horner’s Corner an Akron Public School’s radio and video station, TCT Television Network and the United Way of Summit & Medina County’s quarterly newsletter for various programs and services performed by him and the projects he initiated.

Listed skills include Community Outreach, Public Speaking, Nonprofits, Social Services, and 37 others.

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