Editor’s note: Mary K. Williams recently completed classes in the Cleveland Neighborhood Leadership Development Program, which trains and encourages emerging neighborhood leaders…
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Father’s Day is just around the corner. Like Mother’s Day, it has a way of sneaking up on us. If we aren’t…
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We’ve always known that Cleveland is awesome, right? Now, the newly-formed Cleveland chapter of the worldwide Awesome Foundation is eager to expand…
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Where others may not see opportunity when they visit Bob Deskins Park, Myrline Barnes, a long-time community activist in the Union-Miles neighborhood,…
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Part two of a two-part community building series, adapted from The Practical Minister Now that you’ve begun the work of engagement and…
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To think, an eight-year strong conservancy movement all started with one woman’s desire to spruce up a plain, ugly, rain barrel. Mural…
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When there are overwhelming needs in a community, its residents can do a few things: They can abandon hope and move somewhere…
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Part one of a two-part community building series, adapted from The Practical Minister Sometimes, it can seem as if the problems in…
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Two women seated at a small table in a crowded west side Panera Bread appear to be visiting and enjoying lunch. If…
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Nathan Walden had already been feeding folks without homes in Akron for a couple of years when he realized a way to…