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While others might have used the enforced isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic to learn how to bake sourdough bread or play the ukulele, the staff and volunteers for United Way of Central Florida developed new ways of finding support and helping local residents amid a global health crisis. “I’m just so proud of our staff and our partners because while other people may have picked up a hobby or picked up a new skill during this COVID time, they really were working overtime to make sure that we could serve as many clients as possible,” said Christina Criser Jackson, president and CEO of Uni...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Success has never been guaranteed for the city-led Opportunity Corridor project, a public-private effort to redevelop scores or hundreds of acres around a new, 3.6-mile boulevard that will traverse the economically devastated “Forgotten Triangle” to link Interstate-490 to University Circle. The rap on the $306 million boulevard, funded primarily through bonds backed by Ohio ...

CLIHC releases report debunking ineffective affordable housing proposals Published Thursday, Apr. 29, 2021, 5:54 pm Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© Tach – stock.adobe.com) The Charlottesville Low-Income Housing Coalition has released a report highlighting why Charlottesville faces an affordable housing crisis, who is most affected and the most important tools available to address the growing need. “Economic arguments that m...

Article content Building a new path to prosperity for B.C. after the devastating impacts of COVID-19 won’t be easy, but the new generation of top talent coming out of our post-secondary institutions can make it happen more quickly and smoothly. Young innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs with post-secondary degrees are ready to have an outsized role in the recovery, bringing new knowledge and creative thinking to our high-potential businesses. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Joy Johnson and John Hepburn: Investing in talent of new pos...

On March 6th, I published a Quillette article describing how Robyn Bourgeois, the newly installed vice-provost for Indigenous engagement at Canada’s Brock University, had been seeking to mobilize her peers against the anonymous operator of an obscure (and by then, defunct) Twitter account called @BrockCivis. On her social-media channels and at the university’s “Two Row Council” (a body tasked with managing Brock’s efforts at “Indigenization, reconciliation, and decolonization”), Bourgeois accused the account of operating a racist and “criminal” program of “cyber harassmen...