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- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
take it to heart. Says Downing, a married father of three who has spent more than a decade volunteering in the poor urban neighborhoods of nearby Akron, “My true heroes are the pastors, social workers, doctors, and nurses who volunteer in... View Details
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Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald prefers not to make a big deal of his football-playing days as a cornerback. “We won a championship, we lost a championship – and I broke a few bones,” he says. But football became a bridge to Yale; an unexpected opportunity for a young man from the Oak... View Details
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Roniesha Copeland
legend, Magic Johnson. “He talked about his urban development enterprise,” Roniesha says. “He partnered with businesses that put storefronts in neighborhoods they previously didn’t think would be profitable. His talk gave me a window into... View Details
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In The Community | About
Donations & In-Kind Support In addition to donations and a variety of in-kind support, such as maintaining the grounds at Honan Library and providing neighborhood snow removal, many of our staff contribute to the community through their... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
City Advantage In 1994, Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit program to study and catalyze inner city business development. He and the group in ICIC define inner cities as urban areas with high poverty and high unemployment,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
follows children and their families from infancy into college). More recently, she organized a two-day conference for some 1,400 attendees who gathered to learn how the HCZ model works, discuss common obstacles and strategies, and hear more about Obama Admnistration’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
The Sky is Not the Limit Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) plans to change America—one community at a time. “In disadvantaged areas,” Cenat says, “if local businesses thrive, the neighborhoods flourish. There is a stronger tax base, parents have... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
was critical in getting the ball rolling for Relay Rides, a service allowing customers to rent neighborhood cars from private owners by the hour or by the day. (Clark also got some “Air Time” in the December Bulletin. By the fall of his... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
have been increasing their footprint of small urban stores. In February, Walmart announced plans to add 270 to 300 small stores during the fiscal year, adding to the existing stable of 346 Neighborhood Markets and 20 WalMart Express... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
if city regulators wanted to see the impact of licensing three new businesses on a particular block, they could monitor changes in Google Street Views, cross-referencing that data with online reviews in the neighborhood and housing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
mix of vendors, smoothed neighborhood relations, and hired logistical help on weekends. Greenflea will contribute nearly $500,000 this year to fund educational enrichment programs, and Gehrke says she could expand the operation to include... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
high school alma mater, Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island, he accepted the post of assistant principal. Then, during Klemmer's four-year tenure at Portsmouth Abbey, a visit to a charter school in a tough New York City neighborhood further... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
available to assist when calls come in,” Mendu says about the first priority of the initiative. “Feedback was overwhelmingly positive.” The second part was creating a crisis intervention team to partner with police patrols in View Details
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Tiera Brown
help a social-justice organization, Appleseed, grow its Massachusetts office. In the New Orleans immersion, she led a team of six that consulted with Neighborhood Housing Services. "They had been in the city for over thirty years and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
to 1972, as well as assistant professor of management at Simmons and Bentley Colleges, says he puts his MBA to use every day, both in running his church and serving as a management consultant (on a sliding-scale basis) to neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
work remotely during the pandemic, but for a huge swath of the population, working from home was simply not an option. This was especially true for many gig workers and small business owners – it’s tough to work from home when your day-to-day is driving an Uber,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
revolutionized the way Americans drink coffee. In his spare time, he enjoys golf and skiing, and names a Seattle Starbucks location in his Capitol Hill neighborhood as his favorite store. Customers might even enjoy a double-tall-nonfat... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
excited for the opportunity, spending three years as a manufacturing manager at Frito-Lay, but apprehensive about the cost of the MBA Program. “Everyone in my neighborhood and my community was so excited and I was just freaking out: ‘How... View Details
Keywords: April White