ProKids named volunteer Amy Russert as its 2018 Merilee Turner Volunteer of the Year, while recognizing the Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation as its Community Builder of the Year recipient.
For the past decade, the nonprofit has partnered with high schools and middle schools by giving groups of students $1,000 and inviting them to invest this money in the local nonprofit community.
Patti Collins is between business calls and picking up her grandson at preschool. She is dressed in red boots and a pink hat. The wife of “bring on the funk” musician Bootsy Collins, she is quick to laugh and quick to get to the point: “I am married to a legend, but I’m just Patti: a little country girl from New Richmond.”
Many of Cincinnati’s finest performers will join students from the School for the Creative and Performing Arts onstage during “The Future of the Arts Gala,” following weeks of mentorship and collaboration.
This season, the company brings on a new ballerina, the world’s most famous hippo, Fiona.
Cincinnati Symphony Club began the year with its first Scholarship Dinner concert to benefit the Audrey Dick Scholarship Fund.
ProKids celebrated the work of its volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates, known as CASA volunteers.
Each year, the Association of Fundraising Professionals presents awards to several individuals or organizations at its National Philanthropy Day Luncheon… Rosa Nemec is in her sixth year of running the Year of the Girl program. It introduces girls in fourth through sixth grade to STEM-related fields and encourages their interest in STEM disciplines.
Abdullah Powell, creative director at Elementz, Cincinnati’s urban arts and hip-hop youth center, came to the University of Cincinnati from Columbus with the intention of being a computer engineer. Behind the scenes, though, another interest kept tugging at him.
During Labor Day weekend, Rockin’ at Riverfest offered a big way to celebrate at Anderson Pavilion in Smale Park. The location served as a prime viewing spot for the Western & Southern/WEBN fireworks. Dr. Elizabeth Cottingham, Eddie and Libby Tyner,…
