George Nemeth · Northeast Shores Values

November 10th, 2008

From Brian Friedman, the director of Northeast Shores (my community’s (North Collinwood) community development corporation):

The mission of Northeast Shores is to create a better North Shores Collinwood to live, work and visit. But, what is our core goal? I believe our core goal is making North Shores Collinwood competitive.

What exactly is Northeast Shores trying to do? Our vision of a successful community is one where investment occurs as we witness homes being improved and businesses are open and thriving. Further, our residents are safe, educated and our children are happy. Further, our parks are active pleasant places which are known for being busy.

So, what are our underlying values? We believe that our community’s core values are equality, stability, freedom of choice, and that the community is a energizing/vibrant/dynamic area.

What do you think? Tell us what neighborhood and/or Northeast Shores success looks like to you. In your opinion, what are the core values of this community…?

I’m encouraged that Brian is fostering this sort of dialog (since it’s fundamental to the book Jack and I wrote together), though disappointed there aren’t any comments yet—but heck, it’s only been up there one day. I’m also interested to see if the dialog takes place offline as well. I know someone (me) who’d be willing to volunteer to facilitate these dialogs in the neighborhood. Might be a good question to toss into the hat at the Beachland Area Thinkrs & Drinkrs in the evening on 11/20. Contact me if you’d like details.

Northeast Shores News: Values of Northeast Shores.

Category: Collinwood, Thinkers and Drinkers

One Response to “Northeast Shores Values”

  1. George Nemeth Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    @rickpollack: I started up a local version (Bratenahl, North Collinwood, and Euclid) of Thinkrs & Drinkrs to try and catalyze a network that would have significant on my neighborhood. Really awesome people are involve, and I’m excited by the energy it creates.

    My first experience with Thinkers & Drinkers was one John Slanina convened here in Cleveland that included people from all over Northeast Ohio. Thomas Mulready did a video interview about the idea. You can see it here. A few months after that, Jack Ricchiuto traveled down to Youngstown to talk about “Instructions from the Cook” with them. It was an awesome, productive time.

    By the way, please consider becoming a fan of Instructions from the Cook on Facebook. You can also download a free PDF version of Instructions from the Cook here.