Akron’s Neotropolis TV program recently featured Eric Johnson. Eric Johnson has been executive director of University Park Alliance since July 2010 After only one year on the job, University Park Alliance’s executive director, Eric Johnson, is emerging as an Akron leader with a vision. His op-ed article in the Akron Beacon Journal offers insight into the promising future of […]
Article · September 1, 2011 by Jennifer Thomas
What do you love about Akron? from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Knight Foundation held a very successful Community Engagement Workshop in Akron this week. Drawing on his book, For the Love of Cities, and the Knight Foundation’s ground-breaking research project, the Soul of the Community, author Peter Kageyama led over 200 people in an interactive workshop […]
Article · August 25, 2011 by Jennifer Thomas
Akron’s Community Learning Centers will be transformed into spaces for engagement with a recently announced Knight Foundation grant to the Akron Neighborhood Trust. The $674,000 grant will train residents in a process called Deliberative Democracy, which will allow them to plan and implement needed services at the centers with input from many voices in the […]
Article · July 14, 2011 by Jennifer Thomas
The Civic Commons, a Northeast Ohio effort to create community conversation, is now helping to facilitate an engagement process for city development. With the launch of its Flats Forward project, the Commons will allow key business stakeholders, city leaders and citizens to engage in a master plan for the Flats Area of downtown Cleveland. Over […]
Article · July 8, 2011 by Jennifer Thomas
Jumpstart, Inc. a Northeast Ohio based organization which invest in entrepreneurial start-ups is receiving national attention for it’s model. Called “Ohio’s signature job producing nonprofit”, Knight Foundation has funded Jumpstart to help six Knight cities to create entrepreneurial support systems. Jumpstart is also working with the Obama administration’s Start-Up America Campaign to help entrepreneurs nationwide.
Article · June 27, 2011 by Jennifer Thomas
ABIA president and CEO Frank Douglas Today, the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron held a conference called Healthier by Design: Creating Accountable Care Communities. Over 130 medical, pharmaceutical, university and public health professionals from around the nation attended. ABIA plans to engage the community to create a model for health promotion and disease prevention and […]
Article · June 23, 2011 by Jennifer Thomas
Jennifer Thomas, Akron program director This afternoon, Jeannie Wilson and her friends and neighbors in Akron’s Cascade Village will gather to celebrate their new neighborhood. New is a relative term. For generations, the neighborhood was a dilapidated housing project considered one of the most troubled areas in the city. Its rebirth began in 2006, when […]
Article · May 5, 2011 by Jennifer Thomas