Cincinnati Magazine
December 14, 2020
It’s not an exaggeration to say Roger Grein is always doing something for someone else. Even as he shuffles into Magnified Giving’s Evendale offices on a sunny summer morning Grein has been living with cerebral palsy for all of his 78 years he’s carrying a large cardboard box and a stack of mail.
Photograph by Chris Von Holle
As he talks about the nonprofit headquartered here, his life’s major work, he makes his way through the halls, pointing out a series of thoughtful drawings from former campers here, dropping off the package and letters there. Sometimes he stops, pointing out photos of kids presenting checks to local nonprofits or packing sack lunches in tie-dye T-shirts. Once, he’s overcome with emotion after hearing from two staffers that, even despite the pandemic, Magnified Giving is still going strong, with 100 schools signed up for the organization’s programs this year, basically on par with last year.
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