News & Updates

Stores @ Storer Guillermo (Will) Sanchez 2019 Presenter Economic & Workforce Development category Presented in partnership with:     December 6, 2019 Will was profiled as part of The Plain Dealer’s Cleveland City Champions series, “which honors people and organizations that have done bold, innovative work to lift up a neighborhood or a community.” Read…

New fund’s continued growth will impact Cleveland’s future  Cleveland Leadership Center has raised just over $1 million in the first phase of the organization’s Endowment Fund campaign. “The endowment will enable us to apply resources to pressing community issues, convene leaders to address those issues, and explore innovative approaches to deepen the impact leaders can…

15 minutes with Jason Therrien (LC ’17) President of thunder::tech and CLC Board Member   What were your goals at the beginning of your career? I didn’t have a singular “big goal” at the beginning of my career. My beliefs then are the same as they are now – I want to make sure I’m…

Patrick Haggerty (LC2 2013, LC 2012) received the Legacy of Justice award from The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland on November 25. In a release by Frantz Ward, where he serves as Partner, he was honored for, “the devotion of his time and energy serving Legal Aid clients as a past Board Member, Chair of…

Cleveland.com recently recognized “Cleveland Champions: 25 people and organizations who are lifting up their communities.” The list includes: Donté Gibbs (CBB 2019) Erika Anthony (CBB 2014, CEBC 2013, CLI 2010)\ LaJean Ray (LC2 2019, LC 2012) Stephanie Morrison Hrbek (LC 2001) Tim Tramble (LC 2010) The list also included two past Accelerate presenters, Daniel Gray-Kontar…