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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…

For the past two years, CLC has created and hosted a civic immersion day for University School teachers. This year, they were shadowed by The Plain Dealer reporter, Phillip Morris, who shared the day’s story. In it, he shares: “The tour wasn’t designed for casual voyeurs. It wasn’t an urban safari created to elicit temporary…

Accelerate 2019 presenter Allison Meyer was featured in an article by Case Western Reserve University’s The Daily electronic newsletter (issued daily to CWRU faculty, staff and students). The article highlights her project and upcoming Never Ever Give Up pitch at Accelerate, as well as some of her experiences as a law student at Case. According to the…

Four Cleveland Heights residents are among those who will present 28 visions of creating positive change in Cleveland at Accelerate: Citizens Make Change, a civic pitch competition, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m., at the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland, reports the Heights Observer, an online publication of the civic advocacy organization FutureHeights. Read the story…

Cleveland’s newest TV news station, on the Spectrum cable network, interviews a presenter who will pitch a civic vision to make Cleveland better at CLC’s annual Accelerate: Citizens Make Change event, which takes place February 27, 2019. Brittany O’Connor, a Vice President at event sponsor Citizens Bank, notes how Accelerate pitches create positive change in Ohio. Watch…