Civic Leaders Convene to Plot Economic Development, Inclusivity
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Growing Up Colored • Page 6 REALDEAL VOLUME 4/ISSUE 8 • DECEMBER 16, 2018 PRESS Civic leaders convene to plot economic development, inclusivity Don Graves, KeyCorp senior director of corporate community initiatives and relations, reports out for his group on Friday afternoon. By Taru Taylor initial mission as “Designing whole system, value.” in contrast to the static blueprint Special to The Real Deal Press a Greater Cleveland Econom- The process is designed to model of change. He suggest- ic and Collective Well-Being work in three phases, beginning ed that the Greater Cleveland Summit That Includes All with yesterday’s design plan- community could bring about The public conversation Voices, Unites Our Strengths, ning for a not-yet scheduled “change at the scale of the whole” about what are perhaps Greater and Propels Collective Action community Summit. The actual by amplifying strengths instead of Cleveland’s two most vexing for the Flourishing Future We Summit normally follows the fixing weaknesses. Cooperrider questions — how to modernize Want to Create.” design meeting in 3-6 months. said he learned this lesson from a stalled economy and how to The plan is to use a strategic Financier and former management guru Peter Drucker, create a more equitable commu- planning and change process — Huntington Bank regional who wrote: “The task of leader- nity — entered a new stage this Appreciative Inquiry — pio- president Dan Walsh moderated ship is to create an alignment of past Thursday with one and a half neered and developed by two a pre-meeting press conference strengths in ways that make a day work session to plan for a professors, David Cooperrider before the mostly closed-door system’s weaknesses irrelevant.” community wide summit that will and Ron Fry, at Case Western planning session began after a Cooperrider cited several take place sometime next year to Reserve University’s Weather- lunch for the 85 or so session AI success stories: improving find solutions to these questions. head School of Management. participants. Both the presser and Apple’s supply chains after The meeting was convened An Appreciative Inquiry [AI] the session were held at the Plain factory workers participated by a working group assembled is defined by its founders as “a Dealer building on Superior Ave. alongside management in following a much-discussed science-backed and game-chang- Walsh introduced the professors, Continued on Page 8 speech at the City Club June 8 ing large group strategic describing the panel as a “group NOTICE on Cleveland’s subpar perfor- planning, designing or imple- of stewards” of the “AI approach mentation meeting that brings that our community needs.” He The Real Deal Press is now mance in relation to its metro- published on Sundays. Start politan peers across the region a whole system of 300 to 2,000 emphasized, “Everybody should or more internal and external be able to say, ‘I see myself repre- your week with us. Text and around the country. realdealpress to 48421 The 15 member working stakeholders into the room in a sented at the table.’ ” concentrated way to work on the Cooperrider’s introductory and be the first to know group formed in the wake of when the new issue is up! Jon Pinney’s talk proclaims its task of strategic, and especially remarks described the AI concept CarTeCor Kitchens & Baths A Full Service Design + Build Company Showroom: 3649 Lee Road Shaker Hts. WEYOU LISTEN. GUIDE. IMAGINE… DESIGN. BUILD. AND MAKE IT REAL. Are you imagining a new kitchen, bath or other improvement for your Shaker home? CarTeCor specializes in kitchen and bathroom transformations – from full remodeling to renovations and repair. Let’s talk! We’d love to hear your ideas. We’ll listen, share our expertise, and show you how we can guide, design, build, and make your dreams become a rewarding reality. 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Woodmere mayor Ben Holbert & Betty Halliburton will moderate. • The annual Famicos annual Young Professionals party will be Friday, December 21 from 6-10p at Third Space, 1464 East 105 [44106]. The mood was convivial at the annual Joint Minority Bar Asso- ciation holiday party which took place outside the courtroom of US Chief District Court Judge Solomon Oliver this past Friday. Pictured here are, clockwise from bottom left Judge Oliver and his law clerks; Norman S. Minor Bar Association president Valis- sa Turner Howard and James W. Oliver Jr., president of the Na- tional Association of Black Accoutants; and Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Charles Patton and his son, attorney Cyrus Patton. The Real Deal Press is now Reuben Harris Jr. an online Agent 23360 Chargin Blvd, Suite 101 WEEKLY! Beachwood, OH 44122 Bus 216 731 611 Fax 216 731 6836 Call 216.282.5111 for ad [email protected] inquiries. Rates start as low as $18.75*/week. 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However this the steering committee for were invited to participate current exercise plays out Read the latest its elevation of the ques- in the initial phase of this — we hope it turns into a tion of inclusion and equi- process. roaring success — there Real Deal Press ty to primacy in the effort Those who gathered will likely be a changing of issue online every to envision a new future outside the Plain Dealer the guard in both the civic Friday here. for Greater Cleveland. building on Thursday and political spaces, cer- Ours is a city where were right to feel exclud- tainly by the next Cleve- the town fathers have for ed. Their networks are land mayoral election, if generations privileged disconnected from those not before. publicly subsidized brick- The Real Deal and-mortar projects over investment in human Press is now development. 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Even the esteemed Would Have tal health professionals and matically prompted after he Justices of the Ohio Supreme criminologist have, for de- plead guilty to and was con- Court gave Mason some Hired Such A cades, engaged in the inex- victed of attempted felonious slack. They reduced the find- Controversial act science of attempting to assault and a misdemeanor ings of the panel and gave predict criminal behavior.