The first time I heard a white man cover Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, it wasn’t Luke Combs. It was last summer at a shopping center upscale enough to have a concert green and covered stage. My reaction was involuntary: “that man has absolutely no business singing that song.” Turned out the performance at the mall...
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Zulma Zabala honored as outstanding teacher at Case Mandel School nonprofit program
Zulma Zabala, our Senior Fellow, Community & Racial Equity and is the winner of the 2023 John A. Yankey Outstanding MNO Teacher of the Year Award! The Case Western Reserve University Masters of Nonprofits Organizations commencement award honors outstanding teaching, as nominated by students. “This professor is a tremendous addition to the MNO faculty! I...
Welcome Madison Van Epps, Communications Associate!
For the first time in a number of years, the Communications team at The Center for Community Solutions is growing! Madison Van Epps joined the team on May 8, working out of our Cleveland office. She will be contributing to our social media presence and developing graphics and media across the organization. We’re excited that...
Showing our work: does Community Solutions use ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like text based on input prompts. It has been used in a wide range of applications, from generating news articles to creating personalized responses in chatbots. However, despite its impressive capabilities, ChatGPT has several limitations that must be taken into account when using...
Our New Collaboration with Prognosis Ohio
We’ve been working on an exciting collaboration for some months now, and today it goes public! Our first episode with podcast Prognosis Ohio features Fellow Hope and our policy findings in the State of Ohio Health and Human Services fact sheets, released last week, in advance of the gubernatorial election. Listen to the episode Hosted...
Kyle Thompson joins the Policy Team at Community Solutions
Kyle Thompson joins Community Solutions as a Policy Assistant, with experience in policy analysis, community development, advocacy, and diversity education. Based in the Columbus office, he will support statewide policy work and the Greater Cleveland American Rescue Plan Coalition. Kyle will support statewide policy work and the Greater Cleveland American Rescue Plan Coalition. Graduating in...