For the more than 600,000 friends and neighbors returning home from incarceration each year in the U.S., a fresh start is hard…
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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…
When Constantine Madias was attending The Ohio State University, he felt a divide between students with disabilities and the rest of the…
Cleveland has always been a city of makers. From the refugee farmers who founded the city, on through names like Case, Brush,…
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Cameron Cupar first learned about human trafficking from a European exchange student whose family had multiple survivors. “What surprised me the most…
At the end of a very long line one cold, January day, he waited patiently. Not ready to head back out into…
As we wake up to a new year, many of us are reflecting on what did (and didn’t) work in 2018 and…