In this week's My Soapbox, Eric Avner shares his thoughts about urban philanthropy in the Queen City. Avner oversees economic development grantmaking for the Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation and will be moderating Soapbox's Speaker Series this week.
Give Back Cincinnati celebrates its 10th anniversary this Thursday. Soapbox asked Joe Hansbauer, Ryan Rybolt and Jamal Muashsher to share their thoughts on the celebrated young professional volunteer organization they founded a decade ago and why Cincinnati was the perfect fit.
Tom Lunney was inspired by his work with local business owners and wanted to create a better way for them to connect and prosper. Enter Buy Local Cincy.
Local filmmakers Joe Brinker and Melissa Godoy talk about their documentary film "Rebirth of Over-the-Rhine."
Emphasizing style over fashion, Artfully Disheveled, sets out to help young professional men find their inner outlaw.
New METRO CEO & General Manager, Terry Garcia Crews, takes time from packing her belongings in Austin to talk with Soapbox Managing Editor Sean Rhiney about public transportation in Cincinnati.
The first Downtown skyscraper in 20 years gets her crown, a contemporary theatre group creates Cincinnati's first LGBT Theatre Festival, a pioneering vegetarian eatery gets a new life and the completion of the nation's first K-12 arts school are just some of the things Soapbox will be watching in 2010.
In this week's My Soapbox, Managing Editor Sean Rhiney talks with Interkultur founder and President, Gunter Titsch, who's organization created the World Choir Games coming to Cincinnati in 2012.
TEDxCincy's inaugural event was successful in sharing big ideas, 21 of them in fact, from national and local leaders across multiple disciplines. Soapbox Managing Editor Sean Rhiney debriefed after the event with event organizers Michael Bergman, David Voelker, Mary Riffe, and Emily Venter about their personal highlights from the day, what worked best, and the possibility of TEDxCincy returning in 2011.
Dhani Jones, Cincinnati Bengals Linebacker and star of the Travel Channel's "Dhani Tackles the Globe," will speak at TEDxCincy this Thursday on his passion for sports and its ability to provide individuals with a common ground to communicate and understand each other across language and cultural barriers. Soapbox Managing Editor Sean Rhiney talked with him about his many passions, what scares him, a new business venture, and what he'd like to see more of as a cyclist in Cincinnati.
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