Uptown includes all the neighborhoods around the University of Cincinnati including Avondale, Clifton, Clifton Heights, Corryville, Fairview, Mt. Auburn and University Heights, so it's a diverse mix of students and residents in one of the city's most distinct and eclectic group of neighborhoods. Uptown is the home of the Cincinnati Zoo as well as multiple hospitals and the Ludlow shopping district where you can find trendy and unique shops as well as any scent of incense you need. Ethnic restaurants, including a curiously high concentration of Indian eateries, multiple taverns, coffee houses, music venues and the Esquire — one of Cincinnati's finest independent art house movie theaters all make Uptown a one-stop walkable bazaar of exciting entertainment options.
A local nonprofit will have the opportunity to win up to $20,000 dollars in office equipment through Blue Ash-based Modern Office Methods’ JUMP Start Your Nonprofit. “Local nonprofits put their […]
University of Cincinnati researchers are in the early stages of scaling a process that converts coffee grounds into biodiesel.
This year, the University of Cincinnati’s Taft Center has a new home in Edwards One, making it more visible and accessible to the public.
This fall, the University of Cincinnati is offering its first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)—and participants can earn free college credit for completing it.
As we continue to reprise our four-part Demand Better series, we take a look at innovations and ideas that empower and support neighbors here and around the country—and offer some key demands for Cincinnati's future as election day approaches.
After Chris Lewis traveled to Tanzania as part of his residency at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2003, he discovered his passion for helping the country's citizens get the medical care they were lacking, and established the Village Life Outreach Project.
The University of Cincinnati’s Morgens Hall, which sits at the corner of West Campus near the intersection of Martin Luther King and Jefferson Avenue, underwent renovations for the coming school year.
Cincinnati Zoo's jungle trails now give visitors the chance to swing like apes. Read the full story here.
As election day approaches, we're reprising our four-part Demand Better series in an effort to spark conversations and provoke thought about how we can demand more from our city's leaders. This week, we examine Cincinnati's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
This past weekend, community members and representatives from 25 local nonprofits came together to support the work of Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati’s member groups in the organization’s 10th annual Gourmet Grub for Good. The amateur chef competition raises awareness and honors the work that member groups are doing to promote environmental, economic and social justice. “There are folks providing services to those in need, but there are also organizers and advocates within those constituencies to make sure people have the right information about their civil and human rights—how they petition legislature if there’s a question about how policy would affect them,” says Jeniece Jones, chief executive officer of Community Shares. “If they’re educated through those agencies to take action, they can really do impactful things that change not only their lives but make the community better as a whole.” Jones, who grew up in a “very forward-looking type of family,” has cared deeply about the community and the various causes that impact its growth ever since she and her husband moved to Cincinnati 20 years ago, she says. “With our member groups, I knew I couldn’t work at all of them, but when I saw the list I just thought, ‘Wow, I’ll get to work where all these agencies involved,’” Jones says. “I really understood their missions, and anything I could do to help them grow or advance—that’s something I wanted to do.” Through Community Shares’ workplace and community giving campaigns, organizations that work on everything from women’s and LGBT issues to health care, affordable housing, animal welfare and prison reform—and the list goes on—are able to put unrestricted funds toward goals that would otherwise be more difficult to reach. “A number of the organizations have funding from other sources with a specific focus, but we’re kind of the grease in the wheel that allows them to use money to bridge between one program or another to help with an unexpected expense, new partnership or pilot initiative without funding set up,” Jones says. “It’s smart to be in the partnership because it can help them advance or explore things that may or may not be otherwise accessible.” Do Good: • Start a workplace giving campaign. • Volunteer with one of Cincinnati Shares' member groups. • Donate to Cincinnati Shares, or choose a specific member group to financially assist. By Brittany York Brittany York is a professor of English composition at the University of Cincinnati. She also edits the For Good section of SoapboxMedia.
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