Cincinnati

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In a recent news story, Peter Block reflects on the greatest possibilities he sees in Cincinnati's citizen-driven, community-based, co-creation effort underway.

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Some of the specific initiatives prototyped in the design phase of the Cincinnati CoreChange summit included a wisdom academy promoting a new kind of learning, an alternative media for the city and a framework for creating 10,000 jobs in the urban core annually.

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More than 600 Cincinnati residents from many different walks of life gathered this past weekend in the grand ballroom of the Millennium Hotel on Fifth Street West for a kind of conversation that guaranteed has never taken place at such a scale in this city before.

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In a recent presentation Harvard University professor William Julius Wilson pointed out that behaviors in the inner city are in most cases beyond the control of the individuals involved. In situations of joblessness, failing schools and economic decline for example, a culture of drugs and weapons becomes normal for young people.

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William Julius Wilson, university professor at Harvard gave the second lecture in the CoreChange Speaker Series 2012 to an enthusiastic audience at the National Underground Railway Freedom Center in Cincinnati on Tuesday, February 7.

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The month of February promises to include some of the best and most inspiring experiences for everyone in Cincinnati.

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Collaboration and new connections among high points for participants

CINCINNATI – As the third and final day of the city-wide CoreChange Summit in Cincinnati was wrapping up, participants began to reflect on the experience and how they will stay involved in the  movement to build a new American city.

Stakeholder News

13 different organizations who support people who have a disability attending day’s events

What’s a hashtag? Well, if you’re attending an upcoming social media workshop to advance the inclusion of people who have a disability, it’s not only a valid question but a tagline that will allow you to follow the events remotely via Twitter.

Briefs

New CoreChange Cincinnati Site Now Live

Looking to learn more about and discover ways you can get involved in CoreChange, Cincinnati's grassroots transformation effort? The new CoreChange Cincinnati site is now live, providing background on the effort, specifics on the Feb. 17-19 summit, a discussion forum and much more.

Editorial

The outlook for many communities is increasingly bleak. In recent decades, commercial downturns have been buffered by the ability of our governments to provide stimuli, or even to simply keep our civil services healthy and employing people. This is no longer the case.

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The Cincinnati Herald stories CoreChange and upcoming summit. Read more here.

Harvard Professor Presents for CoreChange Speakers Series

Harvard University professor William Julius Wilson presented Feb. 7 at the National Underground Freedom Center as part of the CoreChange speakers series. Wilson is the author of numerous publications, including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the American Sociological Association’s Sydney Spivack Award; The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, and received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems’ C. Wright Mills Award.

WLWT features Dante Ingram, his transformation story and his vision for his city. Read and watch more here.

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