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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 from 26 different organizations (including the Cleveland Foundation...
In articles linked through ArtsJournal this week, I was interested to read that Philadelphia’s mayor, Michael Nutter, has announced the appointment of a chief Cultural Officer for the city and the re-establishment of the Cultural Affairs Office within City government, re-naming it the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative...
This is a second posting from my experiences at this year’s Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Brooklyn, but I want to start it from an unusual place – a quote by our own Mayor Frank Jackson, overheard in a recent interview on Cleveland Public Radio: WCPN ideastream. It’s probably the most brilliant and insightful thing I have...
by Walter Wright [email username="wWright" link-text="Email"]
Project Director of the Greater University Circle Community Wealth Building Initiative
Some years ago, I was meeting with a national expert on community building and a group of community activists from Central, one of Cleveland’s poorest neighborhoods. The activists were...