The Detroit Shoreway's Fast Forward Fund, established in June to help small businesses in the Gordon Square Arts District, has now raised more than $55,000 and helped 19 businesses.
In 1923 entrepreneur Jim Brown built a house on Lake Erie in Euclid. The six-bedroom home, with accents imported from around the world, still stands proudly today and is on the market for $1.2 million.
The Documenters began in Chicago in 2016 as a way for civic reporters to track business at local government meetings. Now, the Documenters comes to Cleveland, looking to train people for jobs reporting on what's going on in local government.
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Community activists Chanell and Donald Boyd initiated the creation of a new mural in the Waterloo Arts District that unites the diverse Collinwood community.
Tom Sarago founded Trialogue to pair nonprofit organizations with freelancers who can fill contract job needs.
Looking out for the health and safety of both his staff and customers, Visible Voice Books owner Dave Ferrante is booking private book-browsing events through this fall.
Michael Sanbury, a self-proclaimed historical renovation fanatic, knew when he saw the abandoned turn-of-the-century house on Daisy Avenue that it was the right home. After nearly two years of restorations, Sanbury and his wife, Bridget, own the pride of Daisy Avenue in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.
The 1965 Chesterfield apartment building has been renovated and rebranded as the Luckman—a stylish modern day downtown living option complete with rooftop pool lounge and second-floor outdoor courtyard.
As Parma small businesses began to suffer in the pandemic, Polish Village Parma stepped in this summer to organize a COVID-19 cash mob—offering raffle tickets for every $10 spent in neighborhood stores.
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After a successful launch this past June, The Buckeye Flame online weekly news publication covers both the struggles and the celebrations affecting the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.
During the coronavirus quarantine, many out-of-work performers took to their own front yards to entertain their neighbors. Two Greater Cleveland entertainers turned the quarantine gigs into regular performances.
After receiving a $50,000 grant to build the African American Civil Rights Trail in Cleveland, the Cleveland Restoration Society is starting to choose sites for the 10 historical markers that will comprise the trail. But the organization needs your help in choosing which 10 sites should be included on the trail.
The Cleveland Leadership Center in September will honor six innovators during the Spark 2020: Grit to Great leadership symposium. These six people accomplish amazing feats while often going unnoticed.
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A select group of Clevelanders has already fallen in “love” with the sport of platform tennis (aka paddle). Now, thanks to a new public facility in the Flats, the rest of Cleveland is set to embrace it, too.
In an effort to find a healthy snack for her three children, Amy Witzigreuter mastered the art of making a tasty, easy-to-digest granola. Two years after launching Witzi's Raw Granola, customers throughout Ohio can't stop eating the five varieties she cranks out of her St. Clair Superior neighborhood kitchen.
Amazon's three new delivery stations to facilitate the "last mile" in the delivery process will mean hundreds of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for Northeast Ohioans.
Small businesses in Gordon Square, like Superelectric Pinball Parlor and Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, are adapting their models during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to money from Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization's Fast Forward Fund.