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Wed 7/21 @ 6 – 7:30PM

Mingle w/ fellow young professionals as you embark on a tour of downtown’s cool public art projects. Bring an umbrella and ditch your dress shoes for something more pedestrian-friendly. More details…

Join other area young professionals for an expert look at some of downtown Cleveland’s public art projects and the inside scoop on new initiatives for improving Cleveland’s public spaces. This walking tour will be led by Deanna Palermo and Vince Reddy of Cleveland Public Art and is being co-hosted by YNPN Cleveland and Cleveland Young Arts Professionals Network.

[Pictured: "The Verdant Walk"]

Tour begins at the Fountain of Eternal Life b/tw St. Clair and Rockwell Aves.

http://YNPN.org

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Educate. Collaborate. Act.

These three words are both philosophy and mission of the Cleveland Coalition, a civic organization of Clevelanders working to create a more connected, vibrant community.

The Cleveland Coalition takes one issue (the new casino, for example) and examines it in depth (educate), talks to other organizations about it (collaborate) and makes a plan to affect change (act).

CoolCleveland’s Sarah Valek caught up with two of the Coalition’s founding members, Fran DiDonato and Gauri Torgalkar, at that peerless 1890 Cleveland venue, The Arcade, during the Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE) Conference where they spoke on citizen-led visioning. Here they talk about what they do and what gives them hope in an often cynical environment.

Watch the video here.

Get more information here: http://www.ClevelandCoalition.org.

Cool Cleveland events editor Sarah Valek graduated from Ithaca College with a double-major in arts and writing. After graduation, she came back to her beloved city and served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA with the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless. She currently spends her days chasing after her toddler-age son, drinking soy lattes and digging up the coolest events around town.

Educate. Collaborate. Act.

These three words are both philosophy and mission of the Cleveland Coalition, a civic organization of Clevelanders working to create a more connected, vibrant community.

The Cleveland Coalition takes one issue (the new casino, for example) and examines it in depth (educate), talks to other organizations about it (collaborate) and makes a plan to affect change (act).

CoolCleveland’s Sarah Valek caught up with two of the Coalition’s founding members, Fran DiDonato and Gauri Torgalkar, at that peerless 1890 Cleveland venue, The Arcade, during the Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE) Conference where they spoke on citizen-led visioning. Here they talk about what they do and what gives them hope in an often cynical environment.

Watch the video here.

Get more information here: http://www.ClevelandCoalition.org.

Cool Cleveland events editor Sarah Valek graduated from Ithaca College with a double-major in arts and writing. After graduation, she came back to her beloved city and served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA with the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless. She currently spends her days chasing after her toddler-age son, drinking soy lattes and digging up the coolest events around town.

Kathy Hexter and Claudia Coulton have produced a good report on the home foreclosure crisis in Greater Cleveland.


Greater Cleveland Facing the Foreclosure Crisis June 2010


Over on EDPro Weblog, I highlight both the incubators in Cleveland and Youngstown.

Here’s a note from Youngstown:

As the national media spotlight continues to shine on downtown’s emerging high-tech cluster, the success of the Youngstown Business Incubator has caught the attention of three longtime industry professionals eager to be a part of the city’s changing business landscape.

Inspired by the incubator’s enterprising spirit and open-source culture, Marv Schwartz, Jeff Hermann and Jack Scott — successful businessmen with more than a half-century of combined experience — have become fixtures at the downtown tech campus in the last year.

The Northeast Ohio natives have been sharing their expertise with the incubator’s budding entrepreneurs to help the eight portfolio companies commercialize their ideas and bring their products to market.

At YBI, they share wealth of knowledge

This week, the Brookings Institution will be releasing an important report on the importance of exports to economic prosperity. The report should be released tomorrow. The launch event is scheduled for Tuesday.

The report presents valuable insights for NEO on the importance of exports to the regional economy. I was surprised at how deeply the Youngstown metro is tied to exports. As a percent of the economy, exports play a bigger role in Youngstown than they do in either Cleveland or Akron.

Fri 7/30 @ 6 – 9PM

Celebrate Cleveland fashion at one of the coolest biz events in the 216: FLASH Friday. Don the fashion trend of the month — white attire, and head out to XO for hors d’oeuvres, games, and prizes. Read more about it below…

FLASH (Fashion Leaders Achieving Social Harmony) Cleveland is an organization that supports and promotes the local fashion industry by uniting fashion industry professionals and those wanting to break into the industry, through a series of special events and business development opportunities. Our goal is to build a social network for the Cleveland fashion industry that will in turn positively impact the local economy.

Currently, FLASH Cleveland hosts a monthly fashion industry networking happy hour “FLASH Fridays“. Our guests have included fashion industry professionals, boutique owners, salon owners, fashion design and merchandising students, teachers, journalists, models, photographers, makeup artists and fashion enthusiasts that live and work in the Metropolitan Cleveland community including Westside, Eastside and Downtown.

XO Prime Steaks — 500 W. St. Clair Ave.

http://FLASHCleveland.com/FlashFridays.html

Washington Post opinion writer Katrina vanden Heuvel singles out Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives as a visionary project likely to be replicated in other cities. She writes: “At a time when so many jobs are being slashed or outsourced, the Cleveland cooperatives show us how we can create local jobs and reinvest in our communities.”

Read the rest here.

Shandong Province is part of China’s economic powerhouse, one of the leading manufacturing provinces. It’s the home of two famous brands: Tsintao beer and Haier appliances. Shandong is China’s third largest provincial economy. This is a potentially big deal for the Valley.

Regional Chamber, China Trade Council to Sign Economic Cooperation Agreement

Earlier this month, Med City News published a very good summary on Cleveland Clinic’s cardiovascular technology incubator that opened in April. The lab space is 75% leased; office space is 95% occupied.

Cleveland Clinic-led cardiovascular technology incubator aims high