Angry at the arts: It’s the American way

“An artist with an instrument is every bit as 'shovel-ready' as a potential new highway. In fact, without some help maintaining jobs in culture in, say, struggling downtown Cleveland, there is one fewer reason to build another way to get there.” So says Chris Jones, theater critic for the Chicago Tribune, in his Feb. 9 blog post. As...

A renaissance in the making, but there’s so much more to do in Cleveland

By Ronn Richard President & CEO, Cleveland Foundation Last December, as the Cleveland Foundation prepared to commemorate its centennial, we invited Plain Dealer readers to celebrate this milestone with their community foundation, the world's first. More than 172,000 Greater Clevelanders joined the year-long birthday party that...

Summer of Purpose: Megan Goedeker

The summer of 2016 has been a summer of firsts: my first “big-girl” job; my first time working 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. days; my first time actually enjoying the work; but more importantly, the first time I feel like what I am doing is making a difference.Working at Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc. (BBC) has also brought me to the Kinsman...

LinkedIn Joins Key Northeast Ohio Stakeholders to Analyze Vital Health IT Talent Data

LinkedIn Joins Key Northeast Ohio Stakeholders to Analyze Vital Health IT Talent DataProject is a tactic within HIT in the CLE Regional Talent Initiative Release Date: 07.20.2017CLEVELAND – LinkedIn, which operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 500 million members in over 200 countries and...

Ulysses and Achilles, Fidel and Che

I have been amazed and enlightened by many things I have learned from the Cuban artists who have been in residence these past months as part of our Creative Fusion program. Last week, art historian Meira Marrero and visual artist Josè Toirac presented their work at a lecture in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic at the clinic’s...