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Nick Borchers

How I Spent My Summer: Nick Borchers

As over 250 young professionals departed Edgewater Park for BVU’s Summer of Service event, BVU’s mission of “linking businesses and nonprofits to foster excellence in the nonprofit sector” was running through my mind. Interns and young professionals...

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Colleen Halpin

How I Spent My Summer: Colleen Halpin

Everyone knows who Amelia Earhart was. Her disappearance is perhaps more widely known than her participation in the 1929 Women's Air Derby, but here at the International Women's Air & Space Museum it is her life and her contributions to women in aviation...

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Andrew Gotlieb

How I Spent My Summer: Andrew Gotlieb

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” - Sherlock Holmes I have had an amazing opportunity this summer to intern with Cleveland Housing Court and Judge Raymond L. Pianka. Cleveland Housing...

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Eric Vega

How I Spent My Summer: Eric Vega

I can vividly remember just like it was yesterday when Ciba Jones from the Cleveland Foundation called me and said, " Jeff of Ohio City wants to offer you the position. Do you accept?" I jumped up and down in excitement and said, "Oh my God, yes...of...

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Amber Zemek

How I Spent My Summer: Amber Zemek

The mission of The Gathering Place is to support, educate and empower individuals and families touched by cancer through programs and services provided free of charge. They have two locations: Beachwood and Westlake. Since I started here, I have been...

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Imani Allen

How I Spent My Summer: Imani Allen

The mission of Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry (LMM) is to promote shalom (peace, well-being) and justice (right relationships) through a Christian ministry of service and advocacy with those who are oppressed, forgotten and hurting. LMM serves clients in...

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Hannah Keelor

How I Spent My Summer: Hannah Keelor

As an intern with Cleveland Neighborhood Arts this summer, I am responsible for producing written pieces on the benefits of arts involvement to Cleveland residents. Two of my biggest loves are Cleveland and the arts, so I am very pleased to take on this...

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Ahmad Hamad

How I Spent My Summer: Ahmad Hamad

For over thirty years as a forerunner in the Housing First Initiative, Enterprise Community Partners has raised and invested over $11 billion toward building communities all across America, and has built and restored more than 280,000 homes to date (14,000...

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Cory Isler

How I Spent My Summer: Cory Isler

As I throw myself head first into the nonprofit arts sector for a summer internship at the Cleveland Orchestra, I find myself flooded with questions. Initially, the questions are manageable, easily conquered: Where do I park? Should I wear a tie? How many...

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Stephanie Pedicini

How I Spent My Summer: Stephanie Pedicini

I think I've heard the word "partnership" more in the past week and a half than I ever have in my entire life. Just to be clear, this type of "partnership" that I am referring to is defined as "a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to...

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