In its Sunday, July 13, opinion page editorial, the Plain Dealer noted an important requirement for the future success of this region in the shrinking world of the 21st century. A number of local civic organizations were chided for not moving aggressively to attract international business and talent to this end. Through its mission to...

I just returned from conferencing and vacationing in the Southwest. While there, I got a jolt when someone mentioned that Taos, N.M., had recently celebrated its TRI-centennial.  That’s 300 years to Cleveland’s 200-plus-a-few. We forget – or at least I hadn’t thought much – about how this country was settled by historic...

Well, we’ve jumped with both feet into the 2008 presidential race, with Iowa and New Hampshire behind us and Super Tuesday, the conventions and the long march to November ahead. While Americans for the Arts has documented those candidates who have made formal statements supporting the arts, I note that nowhere in the array of issues...

Here’s a fact little known by the public but very well understood by everyone who works in the nonprofit sector:  Government funding can put programs and even nonprofit organizations themselves at risk.   How?  Kathleen Enright, executive director of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations  says it quite economically in her recent...