Seven finalists announced for Impact 100 grant
Seven area organizations were recently named finalists for the Impact 100 grant. Grant recipients will be named Sept. 13 at Impact 100’s Annual Awards Celebration.
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Keep Cincinnati Beautiful does its part to spread One Bag of Trash Challenge
One Bag of Trash is gaining traction, as Keep Cincinnati Beautiful has accepted the challenge and now wants to spread it across the country.
Bold Fusion to focus on how disruptors and mavericks can help big companies thrive
Greater Cincinnati’s largest annual YP gathering will explore the emerging concept of "intrapreneurship" as keynote speaker Chitra Anand extols the benefits of entrepreneurial thinking within large organizations.
Whispering Beard founders look beyond festival weekend to “build a lifetime”
Five friends explain how they developed an annual folk festival in an Indiana campground to "rear" area musicians and fans into a movement and a community.
Free festival brings bikes, music, art to Boone County August 20-21
Broken Spoke Festival is a two-day event hosted by Riding Forward, a local nonprofit group that promotes outdoor activity through bike riding.
Only NKY homeless shelter keeping families together reopens
Family Promise of Northern Kentucky — the only shelter program in the state that is able to keep entire families together as they experience homelessness — has reopened.
Learning to treat nonprofits as more than charity cases
Author Dan Pallotta and local nonprofit leader Tom Callinan are trying to change public perceptions of nonprofit organizations in order to improve their effectiveness and "change the world."
Neighborhood Irish pub expanding in Covington
The owners of Molly Malone's in Covington are expanding to a space next door to better serve customers, including the area's growing legion of soccer fans.
Bad Girl Ventures now accepting fall applications
Bad Girl Ventures is now accepting applications for its fall 2016 "explore" and "launch" phase classes.
Food innovation scene helps feed Cincinnati’s urban renaissance
For many, the entrepreneurial explosion across Cincinnati’s urban core (especially in Over-the-Rhine) is driven as much by food innovators as it is by startups.
