"It's a new day in East Cleveland" is an expression of East Cleveland
Mayor Goggins that was clearly demonstrated from dawn until dusk
Saturday, June 4th, as the city held a neighborhood clean-up, hosted a
bicycle rodeo for kids, and welcomed residents to the MLK Civic Center,
on Shaw Avenue, for a terrific lunch and a Town Hall meeting to discuss
plans for revitalizing the community.

The 06.03.05 City Club debate on Social Security reform started on the sidewalks outside the City Club, where many activists opposed to privatization handed out literature and asked passer-by-ers to sign petitions expressing opposition, to be sent to our legislators. Inside the City Club, the audience appears of like sentiment, populating tables sponsored by the AFL-CIO, AARP, and Friends of Sherrod Brown.

Social Security Reform: The
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The City of Akron has taken the lead in Northeast Ohio to understand Generation Xers in their community, how to appeal to them, and how to transform their economy as a community inclusive of young and old for leadership in the New Economy. Related insight is posted here.

The Community Technology Centers'
Network (CTCNet) was founded on the recognition that in an increasingly
technologically dominated society, people who are economically
disadvantaged will be left further behind if they are not provided
access to and training on information tools. CTCNet envisions a society
in which all people are equitably empowered with these tools and is
committed to achieving this end.

Allah Made Me Funny, The Official Muslim Comedy Tour
Azeem, Azhar Usman, and Preacher Moss

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Dialogues on Leadership New Leaders Only - Dr. Edward Hundert
President, Case Western Reserve University

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June 7: "From the Ground Up in Glenville: Neighborhood Planning
& Community Development: Engaging Youth and Building Networks" - Tony Diggs, Glenville Development Corporation

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Spurred in part by the NAE Conference scheduled for June 2, REI's New Energy Roundtable and TransTech
have organized local energy fest to discuss sustainable mobility. A
number of interesting endeavors are taking off in Ohio - including the
design of a really efficient hybrid auto - and this is a chance to
discuss some of them with people directly involved.

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Please join your friends for the 4th NEO Excellence Roundtable,
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, May 24, 2005, at the City Club of Cleveland. We
shall review outcomes from the past roundtables, including developments
for East Cleveland, and discuss how to enhance the impact of these
brainstorms in the future. We shall then focus on advancing several
early stage initiatives introduced over the past few weeks, including:

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About the NEO Excellence Roundtable: an ad hoc group of people who care about Northeast Ohio are collaborating to make
NEO the world leader in social computing and openly
strategizing on how NEO as a region may achieve world-class status -
we are establishing benchmarks for success and taking action in pursuit
of measurable outcomes. Current pursuits include bridging the
digital divide in East Cleveland, deploying the optimal social
network for Northeast Ohio, and expanding understanding of the issues surrounding Whiskey Island.

In the interest of supporting open collaboration, we've established a virtual Community Of Interest Link (COIL) called NEO Excellence - please visit at http://neoexcellence.realinks.us. To access the community, you must
create an account using the link found at the home page - or, if you
have an account at another REALinks site... like here at REALNEO... you may log-in with your
username from that site, followed by @ that site's URL (e.g. your username [at] realneo [dot] us), and then enter your password from that site.

On March 31, 2005, the Greater Cleveland Lead Advisory Council (GCLAC) announced a significant initiative to eradicate lead poisoning in Greater Cleveland by 2010. On April 26th the GCLAC formally launched the initiative with a meeting of the membership held at Burke Lakefront Airport.

Very little critical reporting of economic development is happening in Northeast Ohio -- some may think this a good thing, while others see may see this as a fault in local media.  Roldo Bartimole, former Wall Street Journal and Plain Dealer reporter and a member of the Press Club Hall of Fame, is an exception.  For those interested in reading his reports, I'd like to share this link for alternative reading: ReadRoldo.com or www.ReadRoldo.com .

The topic of the 05.03.05 Tuesday at REI was "Exploring New Models of Funding the Civic Space" - a panel discussion at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History about what are the existing models, how can we improve effectiveness, and what are some of the challenges we need to address for the future? Attendees represented the community of practitioners, research and philanthropy.

Panelists were:
Ensign Cowell, Greenleaf Capital & Giving Back Gang, member
Henry Doll, Founder, The Giving Back Gang - a Giving Circle
Stuart Mendel, Assistant Dean and Co-Director, Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
Georgia Reash, CEO, Institute for Creating Community
Chris & Judy Schenk, Tinamou Consulting
Linda Springer, Executive Director, Cleveland Social Venture Partners

Wednesday's East Cleveland Extending Community Home Online (ECHO) meeting will be held from 9:30 to 11:00 AM at the McGregor Home - see http://www.mcgregoramasa.org/guest.asp and below for directions. We shall be the guests of McGregor CEO and President Rob Hilton, who will join us to discuss transforming the quality of life for seniors in this community.

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The REALNEO team is very pleased to anounce new COILs for the City of East Cleveland - http://eastcleveland-org.bryght.net - and their senior citizens department and Helen S. Brown Senior Citizens' Center - http://hsbc.realinks.us. In each case, these social networks provide valuable virtual services where there were none, to organizations and people excluded from the new economy by the digital divide. In launching these initiatives, the REALNEO team has collaborated with many inspiring East Cleveland community leaders who know and love their community well - in the process, the REALNEO team has been amazed by how remarkable a place is East Cleveland. How well do you know your region? Visit http://eastcleveland-org.bryght.net and http://hsbc.realinks.us  to observe much more!

"You can make yourself a force on any issue in the city," was how Jones Day's Steve Brogan set himself apart from Squire Sanders' Fred Nance at their rare face-off at the City Club Wednesday. "Do not wait for older leaders," Brogan exhorted his audience.

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An Invitation to Discuss Regionalism on April 21
Please share this
email with your email lists. Thanks!

Regionalism. What does it mean? And
what does it mean for the nonprofit

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