Movers & Makers reached out this month to regional organizations working to project positive cultural attributes on a year-round basis. We asked them to help us showcase their Notables as part of M&M’s continuing effort to recognize individuals making a difference in the appreciation and acceptance of varied cultures and in Greater Cincinnati’s nonprofit ecosystem.
An emphasis on collaboration is helping make Cincinnati a leader in cancer research, according to two local experts. We sat down with those doctors – Dr. William (“Bill”) Barrett and Dr. Andrew Frankart – to learn about the current state and future of cancer research here, and how changes in funding might impact that future.
Movers & Makers reached out this month to regional organizations working in the field of medical research. We asked them to help us showcase their notables as part of M&M’s continuing effort to recognize individuals making a difference in medical research and in Greater Cincinnati’s nonprofit ecosystem.
“Humanity in Harmony” is more than just a catchy tagline. It’s a philosophical turn of phrase that signals a shift in the way the May Festival hopes to connect with the community. Festival leaders are seeking to recreate some of the community fervor that brought the May Festival into existence in 1873.
I do my best thinking when I’m walking. There are two special walks in Cincinnati that really inspire thoughts. I mean big thoughts. Like the mystery of time. That we’re all going to die. That human beings are specks in the greater scheme of things.
Todd Palmeter doesn’t want buildings named for him. The CEO of Great Parks of Hamilton County is building his legacy outdoors. As he approaches his seventh anniversary in the system’s top job, he’s overseeing a major overhaul of its facilities and a refinement of its mission.
Despite their reputations, these programs have led distinctly separate existences. Now after two years of planning, designing, casting, rehearsing and building, Sweeney Todd will soon swing his bloody razors at UC’s Corbett Auditorium. The production features a newly constructed trick barber chair for the “demon barber” to dispose of his unfortunate victims.
Movers & Makers reached out this month to organizations that work to enhance our regional water resources. We asked them to help showcase their notables as part of M&M’s continuing effort to recognize individuals making a difference in Greater Cincinnati’s nonprofit ecosystem.
It was pure emotion that led my husband and me to donate money to the Immigrant and Refugee Law Center early last year. It was a sort of general outrage over policies that seem unnecessarily cruel, like family separation, a desire to line up on the side of the long-standing American tradition of welcoming new residents.
I’ve had a cartoon from The New Yorker pinned to my bulletin board for a long time. Two men, with hard hats and clipboards, are looking at a big hole in the ground with a skyscraper foundation. One is saying to the other, “I don’t know – seems like a lot of work.”
