Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Today, the members of the EMY team met with professors at Bosphorus University, one of Istanbul’s premier universities, to share research, learning and our experiences using the arts to work with youth, and engaging in violence...
Read MoreEarlier this spring, I was asked by our friendly nonprofit association, Ohio Grantmakers Forum, to review a book on nonprofit management for the spring issue of their newsletter. I used the opportunity to track down the latest publication from the folks at...
Read MoreMonday, April 13, 2009 A delicate third-grade girl wanted to know if we knew anything about NASA. She wanted to become an astronaut. Her classmate, a vocal young man wearing the blue and white sweater of the school uniform, asked if we knew anything about...
Read MoreSaturday, April 11, 2009 I’m on my second visit with a group of Cleveland artists to Istanbul, Turkey. Our job is to complete a year-long exchange program that shares how we use the arts to work with at-risk youth. "Engaging Marginalized Youth" (EMY) is the...
Read MoreWhile watching Run DMC's 1986 Walk This Way video I started to think about collaboration. It starts out with a rock band, Aerosmith on one side of the wall and a rap group, Run DMC, on the other side. The rock group start to warm up and the guitarist lays...
Read MoreThink about the YMCA, Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity. What do they all have in common? (Besides, of course, the fact that each organization has made significant contributions to society.) Each of them was founded as a faith-based organization. In...
Read MoreWell, the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) is over for another year, it’s 33rd. And despite the economy – or just maybe because of it – it broke every record from previous years. More than 60,000 people attended over the 11 days of the...
Read MoreI am privileged to be a judge for the Independent Shorts Awards for the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) this year. This is the 33rd festival and, as anyone who has gone knows, it is a fabulous event for the city, as it grows each year. Two...
Read MoreLights. Camera. Action! Join us on March 23 for the Cleveland premiere of the film MANChild, written by Cleveland MLK high school student, Earlaina Kemp and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (yes, the writer/director of Dodgeball: A True Underdog...
Read MoreAs I reported last month, the foundation is pleased to join with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Creative Leadership to support 30 community and public health fellows in the Ladder to Leadership program. The initiative is geared to...
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