Inspiring Innovation

MindPeace prompts rest on a windowsill overlooking downtown Cincinnati. The view is a reminder that most youth will return to the community; the question is how prepared will they be.

In a place built for youth confinement, this space offers calm release

Hamilton County Youth Center's new de-escalation space changes the script for juvenile justice.  

Latest in Inspiring Innovation
NEOMED launches dental program to improve statewide oral health access

NEOMED's new Bitonte College of Dentistry will embed dental students in Ohio communities to improve access and address shortages in rural and urban oral health care.  

Brandon Z. Hoff, founder of RUDI, Responsible Use of Digital Intelligence.
The AI sherpa will see you now

Cincinnati AI researcher, practitioner and deep thinker, Brandon Z. Hoff shares insights for a path into the future of AI through Mercantile Library series.

This news story contains two AI-generated images. This feature image was created with Ideogram.
AI adoption is a mindset shift

Invite it to collaborate on whatever you’re doing today. Be it a professional task or a personal endeavor, AI can likely lend a helping hand.  

Paul Kroner at Studio Kroner in Cincinnati's Court Street Plaza development area.
Climate change data pushes buttons. Climate change art influences perspective.

Paul Kroner has mixed a blend of global artists, scientists, and presenters to prompt thought and action about the environment in multi-disciplinary exhibition All Else Pales 2.

Girls Health Period celebrated the women of the future during International Women's Day.
Girls Health Period equips community with menstrual health education and period products

A high school intervention specialist created a hygiene closet for students to visit whenever they needed. It was vital research to reveal a widespread issue.  

It’s not so bad to be stuck in the middle with AI

For Jorge Perez, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, and an early ChatGPT adopter, it all started with an agent named Yasmin.

How an unused dental chair sparked an inclusive clinic at a Cleveland juvenile detention center

MedWish Medworks turned an unused dental chair into pop-up dentistry for youth at the Cuyahoga Juvenile Detention Center to care for long-neglected health needs.

New Montessori school in the works as Xavier’s longstanding program is set to end

A group of parents is organizing the Martha McDermott Montessori School, named after a Cincinnati educator who was instrumental in expanding Montessori education.

SonLight has handled installations of solar panels in third-world countries for more than a decade. When COVID precluded traveling abroad, they took the opportunity to fulfill their mission of providing energy for local schools and nonprofits.
Cincinnati Zoo expands regional solar energy with nonprofit collaborators

A Cincinnati Zoo/SonLight partnership illuminates BLOC Ministries’ Horses on the Hill.  

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