
Noah Toumert is a community organizer, nonprofit leader, and strategist focused on building equitable access to soccer in Cleveland and beyond. As the founder and executive director of the Cleveland Soccer Group Foundation, Noah has led efforts to reimagine soccer as civic infrastructure including turning parking lots and public parks into free-to-play fields, empowering newcomer youth through sport, and creating citywide mini-pitch networks that make the game more accessible to all. His work bridges grassroots programming with city planning, philanthropy, and systems-level change.
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