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Waste not: ‘Circular economy’ programs aim to reduce trash, build jobs
As local rents spike, Hough’s Chester 82 plans “affordable market-rate” apartments
Can a $500,000 Huntington program help City Hall reach minority businesses?
Small businesses on the southeast side aren’t getting same resources as other parts of town. Huntington National Bank has partnered with the city to create a $500,000 Entrepreneur in Residence program that will target minority-owned businesses.
How Cleveland is salvaging old buildings to create a new circular economy
When two Cleveland-area nonprofits, MetroHealth and MAGNET, embarked on major building projects, they also set the lofty goal of going green. They used deconstruction, or the practice of carefully dismantling old buildings for reuse, to reduce the amount of waste going to a landfill.
Fitness entrepreneur advances ‘Rippin Roller’ with assists from Cleveland’s MAGNET, Mspire
After his ‘Rippin Roller’ won MAGNET’s 2020 Mspire pitch contest, local fitness entrepreneur Tom Fowler has a real object that soon could be rolling into living rooms, basements, and fitness studios everywhere.
Basheer Jones’ bold approach lifted Ward 7. But will that energy win him the election?
In the multifaceted race to replace Cleveland’s status-quo mayor Frank Jackson, there may be no other candidate as passionate as Basheer Jones. The second youngest candidate after 34-year-old Justin Bibb, Jones has garnered a dedicated base of the majority Black Ward 7 with fervent religiosity and a youthful ambition. Such energy has spurred numerous development badges just as it has doubts from his critics.
Church van program gives workers a lift out of poverty
There were more than 8,000 open manufacturing jobs in Northeast Ohio last year, according to the nonprofit organization MAGNET. One of the more intractable problems facing manufacturers is the mismatch between the location of jobs and where entry-level workers live. Many low-income and Black workers live in Cleveland and don’t own cars, but many jobs are in the suburbs, far from public transportation. The church van program aims to bridge that gap.
Hungry for workers, factories are touting their jobs as careers
According to MAGNET, a nonprofit organization that works to grow Northeast Ohio’s manufacturing economy, there are some 8,000 open manufacturing jobs in Northeast Ohio. Many of them are entry-level positions, but companies are having a hard time filling the, and COVID-19 is making it worse.
ACCESS to real jobs: Uncommon training program gives the formerly incarcerated a second chance
There are more than 8,000 open manufacturing jobs across the region, according to MAGNET. The ACCESS to Manufacturing Careers program is a workforce readiness initiative that gives returning citizens a second chance, helping them find good-paying jobs in the manufacturing sector.
