November 2022

Movers &Makers

Arts/Culture

American Sign Museum launches major campaign 5

Sam Martin: Cincinnati’s champion for art song 8 The A/C List 12

The Datebook 15

Social calendar with a spotlight on the movers and makers behind Greater Cincinnati’s fundraisers, friend-raisers and community events.

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National Philanthropy Day 22

Philanthropist of the Year: Bill Burwinkel 22

Volunteer of the Year: Stacey Meyer 24 Corporation: SugarCreek 25

Lifetime Achievement: John Olberding 26 Youth in Philanthropy: Joseph Kayne 28

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Gifts/Grants

Snapshots 34

Lighthouse raises $160K at fall event 34

United Way gathers Black changemakers 35

Life Learning Center raises $454K during gala 36 Great Parks opens bridge connector to trails 37 NKY chamber celebrates, installs new leader 39 PWC honors volunteers at annual celebration 41

Holocaust & Humanity center honors Sarah Weiss 42 Aviatra hosts a pitch competition 43 Bethany House celebrates grand opening 44

Architectural Foundation becomes Design LAB 44 Bloom raises over $264K for Stepping Stones 45 Dress for Success fashion show raises $245K 46 UC foundation names philanthropy award winners 48

The Last Word 50

Polly Campbell: Weir changing United Way as philanthropy shifts

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While we celebrate philanthropic contribu tions each week in our email newsletter and each month in print, once a year we stop to shine a big spotlight on those honored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals – those who provide the life blood of the nonprofit ecosystem.

Philanthropist of the Year for 2022 is Bill Burwinkel, a self-made man who never lost sight of his roots, and who recognized and understood how to tackle a problem and get people involved. The result was Adopt A Class. Our Ray Cooklis provides us with a peek under Bill’s fascinating hood. (Page 22)

Frequently, nonprofit volunteers are driven by a passion fueled by having been there. Meet Volunteer of the Year Stacey Meyer, whose own personal tragedy led her to reach out to help children cope with loss as she had learned to, thanks to caring programs provided by Fernside. Shauna Steigerwald shares Stacey’s story on Page 24.

This year’s Outstanding Corporation is SugarCreek, a food products developer and packager that has made meaningful contributions to Stepping Stones, La Soupe and other organizations, thanks to the thought ful investments of time and treasure by John and Julie Richardson. Learn more on Page 25.

This year’s Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy Award honors John Olderding of Chanticleer Consulting, who has worked with more nonprofits than we could list in the space of this letter. See what Cindy

Starr has to say about John’s life work guiding giving. (Page 26)

The Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy Award goes to Indian Hill High School student Joseph Kayne, who recognized the Power of Music and created a nonprofit to harness it. (Page 28)

And speaking of the power of music, Sam Martin, CCM grad with a penchant for entrepreneurship, has been working to promote one of the most intimate of musical forms – the art song. Sam is bringing the best to Cincinnati in hopes you will come to experi ence the quiet magic of singer and piano. David Lyman profiles Sam on Page 6.

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American Sign Museum launches campaign to fund major expansion

Cincinnati’s American Sign Museum is raising funds to double the size of its current building in Camp Washington.

The goal of the campaign is to raise $5.5 million for an expansion into a 20,000-square-foot unfinished portion of its current building.

The museum has surpassed 62% of its fundraising goal. Leadership gifts have been received from the Swormstedt Family, the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr. Foundation, the Foundation for the Advancement of the Sign Industry and Gemini Sign Products. The museum was awarded $750,000 from the state of Ohio, and has com mitted to self-fund 5% of project costs.

Construction on Phase I – staff offices, conference room, collec tions area and special events bar – is complete. Phase IA – a library and resource center and a new exterior along Monmouth Avenue – has an expected completion date of early 2023. Phase II will include an exten sion of the current exhibition space, interior sign “boneyard,” catering kitchen, storage area and a multiuse workshop. Phase II is expected to be finished in late 2023, completing the project.

Museum Director Cindy Kearns said, “A Campaign for the American Sign Museum will cement Cincinnati and Camp Washington as the historic signage center for the United States.”

Founded in 1999, the American Sign Museum was the vision of Tod Swormstedt to pay tribute to the craftsmanship and creativity of early American signage.

“We are off to a great start with the campaign,” said Dick Duval, ASM trustee and co-chair of the campaign. “But we will look to the larger community for critical support to build the museum’s future.”  www.americansignmuseum.org

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Sam Martin: Cincinnati’s champion for art song

By David Lyman

Thousands of lofty words have been writ ten about the Cincinnati Song Initiative. About how it was “founded to bring a concen trated and cohesive source of art song” and how its programming has been filled with “largescale thematic projects.”

They’re correct, mind you. But what those words fail to capture is the extraordinary joy that infuses almost every aspect of the CSI experience.

It’s understandable. To many people – most, perhaps – “art song” suggests a rarefied art form that is beyond the reach of all but the most elite music-lovers. At one time, the stereotype may have been deserved. After all, art song was born in the salons of the European gentry, where 10 to 20 people would gather to hear music –nearly always the partnership of a singer and a pianist – in the most genteel settings.

It’s that sense that art song is for “other” people that spurred Sam Martin to create the Cincinnati Song Initiative in 2016. Martin, a pianist who has a degree in collaborative performance from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, is a gifted musician and innovative entrepreneur. But his musical heart is as a proselytizer for art song.

“In my experience, if I can get people in the door, they are blown away by the music,” said Martin. “They feel a connection to the perform ers. It’s the simplicity of the environment. Just an artist onstage with a pianist and the vibrant energy between them. There is no elaborate lighting, no chorus behind them, no orchestra.”

It’s not unlike an actor performing an evening-length, one-person play. It is daunting and demanding. There is nowhere to hide. It is just the performer and the audience.

“It’s the equivalent of memorizing three or four opera roles,” said Martin. And then per forming those roles without any supporting cast other than a pianist.

But that very simplicity of song, as Martin refers to art songs, is something of an impedi ment to its popularity. The experience may be profound, but it doesn’t have the scale or the opulence of other musical formats. It’s like com paring the drawing power of an exhibit of van Gogh paintings with one of Indian miniatures. The levels of artistry may be comparable. But van Gogh comes with monumental popularity, while Indian miniatures have a much smaller, if no less fervent following.

“I think it is probably due to the ‘grandeur’ factor,” said Martin. “Song is music that is set to poetry or speeches or prose, even. That is different from a show that has a hard-and-fast story. One of the beautiful things about song is that the texts are often open to interpretation by the audience. At its best, song is going to make audience members think critically. Or perhaps be challenged and inspired by the text.”

Kenneth Griffiths recalls when Martin presented the idea of CSI to him. Griffiths is a professor of collaborative piano at CCM, as well as director of collaborative piano activities. Martin was his student.

“I didn’t think he was mad,” he said, laugh ing gently at the memory of their conversation. “But when he started talking about developing an organization that would present regular seasons of concerts, I told him I thought that it was wonder ful in theory. But what would it be like in practice? How could he actually make it happen?”

Good question. Martin had no money, no active supporters and no volunteers to help him. So like any good millennial – he’s 30 now – he ran a Kickstarter, an online, self-funding cam paign. He raised just $900, not the sort of nest egg you’d want on hand before starting a season of performances.

“Looking back, I cringe,” said Martin. He spent $400 on legal fees and to establish a not-for-profit organization. That way, he could pursue grants and charitable contributions.

“I was left with $500 to produce our very first concert,” he said. “I was so determined and so inspired that I came out screaming with a full, 3-concert season. But did I know how to fund raise or get more money in the bank? Hell, no.”

Fortunately, that first concert went well. The audience wasn’t large – just 40 to 50 people. But the people who were there were eager to hear more of what Martin had in mind. And some even backed up that desire with contributions to assure that the series had a future.

The key to the series’ success, Martin said, is themed programs.

“We ran a four-concert Spanish song series,” said Martin. “That brought in a lot of new people. And we did a ‘Les Six’ series,” he said, referring to the group of early 20th-century French and Swiss composers. “For that one, we partnered with the Alliance Française de Cincinnati. Later, we partnered with the Wagner Society.”

It is classic niche marketing. In these cases, Martin focused on varying cultures or eth nicities. Sometimes it has been cultural ideals. Whatever the specific group that he has concen trated on, though, the goal has been the same; to get people in the door.

He has been so successful with all of this that he has been able to commission new works, so that he has actually been adding to the art song repertoire.

“There are a handful of organizations across the country and in Europe that are devoted to the beauty and the intimacy of the art song,” said noted composer Lori Laitman, one of those artists who has received a CSI commission. “But I honestly don’t know of another song series that has been as innovative as CSI, especially during the pandemic. What Sam did was just extraordinary.”

She’s referring to CSI Digital. Most perform ing art groups found ways to stream some con tent. But for most groups, the quality of their content couldn’t begin to approach that of their live performances. But CSI’s performances were different. For one thing, the production quality was vastly superior to many others.

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Sam Martin

But the programming itself was different from the norm.

“I remember when he started the ‘Composers and Cocktails’ series,” said Laitman. Some of the success was due to Martin himself, who Laitman describes as “approachable and witty – the perfect host.” But the very idea of having cocktails with composers and inviting streaming viewers to do the same thing gave the series an informal and even playful quality.

Today, CSI maintains a hefty digital library of performances, webinars and composer/performer discussions featuring a wide array of artists, from Laitman and Jake Heggie to Jeanine De Bique and Anthony Davis. And because of their high quality, CSI Digital, as it is called, provides yet another income stream for the group.

CSI is now into its seventh season. And things are continuing to go so well that you might even call it a “well-established” arts group. Certainly, Martin has no shortage of either the energy or ideas that have built his pie-in-the-sky concept into a group offering seven or eight presentations every year.

“Art song is all about telling stories,” said Martin. “Sometimes you want to tell one story. Or bring together a group of them to tell a larger, overarching story. I think those limitless possibilities are what inspired me to start this concert series. I was just overflowing with dozens of ideas for programs. And all of that needed an outlet. I guess I found it. Seven years later, here we are.”

Upcoming Cincinnati Song Initiative events

Nov. 6, 4 p.m. Mercantile Library, Downtown

The Belletrists: Songs to poems by Friedrich Rückert Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Liberty Exhibition Hall, Northside Cincinnati songSLAM, throwdown competition of new songs

www.cincinnatisonginitiative.org

Accompanist Jonathan C. Kelly and soprano Jeanine de Bique with Sam Martin in March

The A/C List Also online at moversmakers.org

Cultural Exhibits/Tours

American Legacy Tours | 859-9518560. www.americanlegacytours.com

Historic tours in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

American Sign Museum | Camp Washington. 513-541-6366. www.americansignmuseum.org

Permanent collection: Historic sign collection

The Archaeological Research Institute | Lawrenceburg. 812-290-2966. www.exploreari.org

Hands-on educational experiences

Behringer-Crawford Museum | Devou Park, Covington. 859-491-4003. www.bcmuseum.org

Permanent collection: Artifacts and his tory of Northern Kentucky

Brewing Heritage Trail Tour Center | Over-the-Rhine. 513-604-9812. www.brewingheritagetrail.org

ƒ Nov. 3 & 5, 6 p.m. The Darkside of Brewing Tour – Tales of Cincinnati’s Haunted and Gruesome Past

Cincinnati Fire Museum | Downtown. 513-621-5553. www.cincyfiremuseum.com

Permanent collection: Firefighting arti facts and equipement

Cincinnati Food Tours | Findlay Market. 513-602-5602

Tours exploring Queen City food heritage

Cincinnati Museum Center | Queensgate. 513-287-7000. www.cincymuseum.org

Current exhibits: “A Year on the Edge” • “An Unfinished Revolution: Women and the Vote” • “Inspired by Nature: The Art and Activism of Charley Harper” • “Made in Cincinnati”

ƒ Thru Jan. 8. “America’s Epic Treasures” featuring “Preternatural” by Michael Scott

ƒ Thru Jan. 15. “Dinosaurs of Antarctica”

ƒ Opening Nov. 11. “Holiday Junction”: Duke Energy Holiday Trains

Cincinnati Nature Center | Milford. www.cincynature.org

ƒ 1,800 acres of forests, prairies, streams, ponds and wetlands

Cincinnati Type & Print Museum | Lower Price Hill. www.cincinnatitypeprintmuseum.org

ƒ Permanent collection: equipment, tools and artifacts

Cincinnati Zoo | Avondale. 513-281-4700. www.cincinnatizoo.org

ƒ Nov. 18-Jan. 8. PNC Festival of Lights

Friends of Music Hall | Over-the-Rhine. 513-621-2787. www.friendsofmusichall.org

ƒ Indoor tours of Queen City icon

German Heritage Museum | White Oak. 513-598-5732. www.gacl.org

ƒ Permanent collection: GermanAmerican contributions to Cincinnati

Great Parks of Hamilton County | greatparks.org

ƒ Nov. 17-Dec. 23. Holidays on the Farm (Parky’s Farm)

Greater Cincinnati Police Museum | Pendleton. 513-300-3664. www.police-museum.org

ƒ Permanent collection: law enforcement artifacts

Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Walnut Hills. 513-751-0651. www.stowehousecincy.org

ƒ Current exhibit: “Our Neighborhood Story: A Tour of this Walnut Hills Block” • “The Cause Dearer to Me Than Any Other in the World”: Isabella Beecher Hooker and Suffrage • “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence”

ƒ Nov. 2, 7 p.m. Power of Voice Discussion Group: A Voice from the Japanese Internment Camps (virtual)

ƒ Nov. 12, 11 a.m. Hard Hat Tour

ƒ Nov. 27, noon-4 p.m. Museum Store Sunday at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House

Heritage Village Museum | Sharonville. 513-563-9484. www.heritagevillagecincinnati.org

ƒ Wednesdays-Saturdays, Nov. 3-Dec. 9, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. A 19th Century Holiday Guided Tour

Holocaust & Humanity Center | Cincinnati Museum Center. 513-487-3055. www.holocaustandhumanity.org

ƒ Permanent collection: Media, artifacts, art and interactive exhibitions regarding the Holocaust

Krohn Conservatory | Eden Park. 513421-4086. www.cincinnatiparks.com/krohn ƒ Nov. 5-Jan. 7. “Celestial Holiday”

Lloyd Library and Museum | Downtown. 513-721-3707. www.lloydlibrary.org

ƒ Permanent exhibit: George Rieveschl Jr.: History of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Milford Historical Society | Downtown Milford. 513-248-0324. www.milfordhistory.net

ƒ Permanent exhibit: Historical displays of art, artifacts and more.

Mt. Adams Civic Association | Mt. Adams. 513-235-3957. www.mtadamscincy.org

ƒ Historic walking tours

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | The Banks, downtown. 513-333-7500. www.freedomcenter.org

Dinosaurs of Antarctica (exhibit and OMNIMAX film) on display at Cincinnati Museum Center through Jan. 15

ƒ Permanent collection: exploring themes of individual freedom

National VOA Museum of Broadcasting | West Chester. 513-777-0027. www.voamuseum.org

ƒ Permanent collection: History of Voice of America program

Raptor Inc. | Milford. www.raptorinc.org

ƒ Nov. 27, 1-4 p.m. Open House, birds of prey sanctuary

Skirball Museum | Hebrew Union College, Clifton. 513-221-1875. https://csm.huc.edu

ƒ Permanent exhibit: “An Eternal People: The Jewish Experience”

Valley View Nature Preserve | Milford. www.valleyviewcampus.org

ƒ Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m. Full Moon Hike

Dance

Cincinnati Ballet | Music Hall, Over-theRhine. 513-621-5219. www.cballet.org

ƒ Nov. 4-6. “Carmina Burana” and “Extremely Close”

De la Dance Center | Kennedy Heights. 513-871-0914. www.deladancecompany.org

ƒ Nov. 25-Dec. 11. “The Nutcracker Jazzed Up”

Northern Kentucky University | Greaves Concert Hall. 859-572-5464. https://sota.nku.edu

ƒ Nov. 21, 6 p.m. Emerging Choreographers Showcase

Fairs/Festivals/Markets

The Arts Alliance |

Manor House. Mason. 513-309-8585. www.the-arts-alliance.org

Nov. 6. Deerfield Handmade Market

Cincinnati Holiday Market |

Duke Energy Convention Center, downtown. www.cincinnatiholidaymarket.com

Nov. 11-13. 22nd annual, more than 325 vendors

Crafty Supermarket | Music Hall Ballroom, Over-the-Rhine. www.craftysupermarket.com

Nov. 26, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Grace Holiday Market |

Grace Green Acres Farm near Lebanon. www.facebook.com/gracegreenbeauty

Nov. 5-6. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. outdoor holiday market

Madeira Farmers Market | Madeira Silverwood Presbyterian Church, Madeira. www.madeirafarmersmarket.com

Thursdays, 4-6:30 p.m.

Renaissance Covington | Third and Greenup streets. 859-261-7111. rcov.org

Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Covington Farmers Market

Film

Cincinnati World Cinema | Garfield Theatre, downtown. 859-957-3456. www.cincyworldcinema.org

Nov. 6, 4 p.m. “Growing Up Female” • “Sparkle” • “Morningstar”

Nov. 13, 4 p.m. “Seeing Red”

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | The Banks, downtown. 513-333-7500. www.freedomcenter.org

Nov. 17, 6 p.m. “I Didn’t See You There”

OutReels Cincinnati | Incline Theater, East Price Hill. 513-2416550. www.outreelscincy.org

Nov. 4-6

Woodward Theater | Over-the-Rhine. 513-345-7981. www.woodwardtheater.com

Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. “The Center of Nowhere”

Literary/Lectures

Barnes & Noble | Mason. https://stores. barnesandnoble.com/store/3408

Nov. 15, 3 p.m. Discussion: Anthony Horowitz “The Twist of a Knife” and “Magpie Murders” (virtual)

Nov. 15, 7 p.m. Discussion: Jennifer L. Armentrout “A Light in the Flame” (virtual)

Books by the Banks |

Duke Energy Convention Center, downtown. www.booksbythebanks.org ƒ Nov. 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Celebrating all things literary, featuring authors local and national

Cincinnati Poetry Slam | Madisonville. www.cincinnatipoetryslam.com ƒ Nov. 12, 5-9 p.m. Season Finale, multiround poetry competition

Fitton Center | Hamilton. 513-863-8873. www.fittoncenter.org

ƒ Nov. 2, 11:30 a.m. Dr. Al Miller: Holocaust Survivor

Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Walnut Hills. 513-751-0651. www.stowehousecincy.org

Nov. 6, 4 p.m. “Escape of the 28 from Boone County KY” (virtual)

Holocaust & Humanity Center | Cincinnati Museum Center,. 513-487-3055. www.holocaustandhumanity.org

Wednesdays, 11 a.m. Holocaust Speaker Series (virtual)

Joseph-Beth Booksellers | Rookwood Commons, Norwood. 513-396-8960. www.josephbeth.com

Nov. 1, 7 p.m. Discussion: Amy Brownlee “Lost Treasures of Cincinnati: Restaurants, Drive-Ins, Concert Halls, and Other Favorite Places from the Past”

Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Discussion: Doug Schneider “The Risk Paradox: Life Lessons from 102 Amazing Risk-Takers”

Nov. 8, 7 p.m. Discussion: Lisa McMann “The Invisible Spy”

Nov. 9, 7 p.m. Discussion: Jeff Suess and Rick Pender “The Cincinnati Bengals: An Illustrated Timeline”

Nov. 15, 7 p.m. Discussion: André Darlington “Bar Menu: 100+ Drinking Food Recipes for Cocktail Hours at Home”

Northern Kentucky University | W. Frank Steely Library. https://civicengagement.nku.edu

Nov. 30, 6:30 p.m. Discussion: Sheila Williams: “Things Past Telling”

Sitwell’s Coffee House | Clifton. www.facebook.com/poetryatsitwells

Frequent poetry readings

Music

Bach Ensemble of St. Thomas | St. Thomas Episcopal, Terrace Park. 513-831-2052. www.bachensemble.org

Nov. 20, 5 p.m. Bach Vespers for Christ the King

Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony | Summit City Church, Montgomery. 513-549-2197. www.bamso.org ƒ Dec. 4, 7 p.m. Holiday Concert, Michael Chertock, conductor

Brady Music Center | The Banks, downtown. www.bradymusiccenter.com ƒ Nov. 4, 7 p.m. Mercyful Fate, Kreator, Midnight

Nov. 10, 8 p.m. Puscifer, Night Club

Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT Paramore

Nov. 12, 7 p.m. I Prevail, Pierce The Veil, Fit For A King, Stand Atlantic

Nov. 27, 6:30 p.m. Amon Amarth, Carcass, Obituary, Cattle Decapitation

Dec. 2, 8 p.m. Ryan Adams

Caffe Vivace | Walnut Hills. 513-601-9897. www.caffevivace.com

Most evenings, live jazz performances

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption | Covington. 859-431-2060. www.cathedralconcertseries.org

Dec. 4, 3 p.m. Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols

ARTS/CULTURE | The List

Chamber Music Cincinnati | 513-342-6870. www.cincychamber.org

Nov. 13, 4 p.m. The Ritz Chamber Players (Word of Deliverance Ministries)

Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. Encore of previous (Memorial Hall)

Dec. 4, 4 p.m. Escher String Quartet w/ Terence Wilson (New Prospect Baptist Church)

Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. Encore of previous (Memorial Hall)

Christ Church Cathedral | Downtown. 513-621-1817. www.cincinnaticathedral.com

First Sundays, 5 p.m. Choral Evensong

Nov. 27, 4:30 p.m. Advent Procession with Lessons and Carols

Tuesdays, September thru May, 12:10 p.m. Music Live@Lunch (Christ Church Chapel):

Nov. 1. Walnut Hills High School Choir

Nov. 8. The Brussels Sprouts –Music from Great American Songbook

Nov. 15. Rabbit Hash String Band –Old-time music

Nov. 22. Students of CCM harpsichord and organ studios

Nov. 29. Vincenzo G. Volpe, flute, and Michael Delfín, piano

Christ Church Glendale | 513-7711544. www.christchurchglendale.org

Nov. 3, 12:05 p.m. Kevin Jones, organ

Dec. 4, 3 p.m. Canterbury Brass: “Sounds of the Season”

Cincinnati Arts Association | Aronoff Center, downtown. 513-621-2787. www.cincinnatiarts.org

Nov. 7, 7 p.m. The Harry James Orchestra (Music Hall Ballroom)

Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. Black Violin

Nov. 18, 8 p.m. Atif Aslam

Cincinnati Community Orchestra | Church of the Savior, Montgomery. 513-317-0300. www.cincinnaticommunityorchestra.org

Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. “Symphonic Portraits”

Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra | 513-280-8181. www.cincinnatijazz.org

Nov. 17, 7 p.m. Big Band Series: 10-Year Anniversary Celebration (The Redmoor)

Nov. 20, 2 p.m. Jazz@First Series: The Birth of the Cool with Scott Belck (First Unitarian Church)

Cincinnati Metropolitan Orchestra | St William Church, West Price Hill. 513-941-8956. www.gocmo.org

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. “Evening of Elegance”

Cincinnati Song Initiative | Mercantile Library, downtown. www.cincinnatisonginitiative.org

Nov. 6, 4 p.m. “The Belletrists: Friedrich Rückert”

Cincinnati Symphony & Pops | Music Hall, Over-the-Rhine. 513-381-3300. www.cincinnatisymphony.org

Nov. 11-13. (Pops) “Get Happy: Judy Garland Centennial” Michael Feinstein, piano and vocalist

Nov. 18, 10:30 a.m. (Pops) Lollipops Concert

Nov. 18-19. (CSO) “Sibelius & Bartók Concertos” Dalia Stasevska, conductor; Esther Yoo, violin

Nov. 22, 10:30 a.m. (CSO) Young People’s Concert

Nov. 26-27. (CSO) ”Rachmaninoff Third Concerto & Enigma Variations” Elim Chan, conductor; Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

Dec. 2-3. (CSO) “Gershwin & The Planets” Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Michelle Cann, piano; Treble Voices of the May Festival Chorus, vocalists

Classical Revolution | Listing Loon, Northside. 216-407-4194. www.classicalrevolutioncincinnati.com

Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. Chamber music in casual bar setting

College-Conservatory of Music | University of Cincinnati. 513-556-4183. https://ccm.uc.edu

Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m. Classical Guitar Ensemble (Werner Recital Hall)

Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m. UC Choruses Fall Concert (Corbett Auditorium)

Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m. CCM Jazz Lab Band: “New York” (Corbett Theater)

Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. CCM Wind Symphony: “Dreamscape” (Corbett Auditorium)

Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili tackles

Rachmaninoff’s monster Concerto No. 3 with the CSO Thanksgiving weekend, with a side of Elgar’s Enigma Variations.

Ghost Baby | Over-the-Rhine. www.ghost-baby.com

Most evenings, live performances

Hard Rock Casino | Downtown. www.hardrockcasinocincinnati.com

Nov. 18, 8 p.m. The Jacksons

Nov. 26, 8 p.m. O’Jays

Dec. 3, 8 p.m. Styx

Heritage Bank Center | Downtown. www.heritagebankcenter.com

Nov. 19, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. TransSiberian Orchestra: “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve”

Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m. CCM Chorale (UC’s Probasco Auditorium)

Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m. Musica Nova: “Through the Looking Glass” (Corbett Theater)

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. CCM Philharmonia: “Mozart and More” (Corbett Theater)

Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. CCM Wind Ensemble: “The Places You’ll Go” (Corbett Theater)

Nov. 19, 2 p.m. Hinge Quartet (Cohen Studio Theater)

Nov. 20, 4 p.m. CCM Jazz Orchestra: “Jazz Holiday Extravaganza” (Corbett Theater)

Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m. CCM Brass Choir Showcase (Corbett Auditorium)

Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m. CCM Concert Orchestra: “Kodály and Dvořák”

Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m. Musica Nova: Vocal Chamber Showcase (Werner Recital Hall)

Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m. CCM Chamber Concert: Piano (Mary Emery Hall)

Dec. 3-4, 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Feast of Carols (Corbett Auditorium)

Collegium Cincinnati | Christ Church Cathedral, downtown. www.collegiumcincinnati.org

Dec. 4, 4 p.m. Handel: “Messiah,” Matthew Phelps, conductor

Concert:nova | Woodward Theater, Over-the-Rhine. www.concertnova.com

Nov. 12, 2 p.m. Paradise Winds

DownTowne Listening Room | Cincinnati Fire Museum, downtown. www.downtownelisteningroom.com

Nov. 6. Christine Havrilla and Mama’s Black Sheep

Fairfield Community Arts Center | Fairfield. 513-867-5348. www.fairfield-city.org

Nov. 4, 8 p.m. Scotty Bratcher

Holocaust & Humanity Center | Cincinnati Museum Center,. 513-487-3055. www.holocaustandhumanity.org

Nov. 9, 7 p.m. “Different Trains: An Immersive Concert Experience,” with 4-Way Quartet

Kentucky Symphony Orchestra | Greaves Concert Hall, Northern Kentucky University. 859-431-6216. www.kyso.org

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. “An Orchestral Puzzler,” music by Zappa, Bowie, Eno and Glass

Linton Chamber Music | First Unitarian Church, Avondale. 513-381-6868. www.lintonmusic.org

Nov. 6, 4 p.m. “Musical Explorations” Titus Underwood, oboe; Evin Blomberg, violin; Gabriel Napoli, viola; Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello

Linton Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions | 513-381-6868. www.lintonmusic.org/pbj “A Musical Zoo!” –ƒ Nov. 5, 10 a.m. (Immanuel Presbyterian Church)

Nov. 7, 6 p.m. (Boone County Public Library)

Nov. 12, 10 a.m. (Heritage Presbyterian Church)

Ludlow Garage | Clifton. www.ludlowgaragecincinnati.com

Nov. 3, 8:30 p.m. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and Cedric Burnside

Nov. 4, 8:30 p.m. Smithereens w/ Marshall Crenshaw

Nov. 5, 8:30 p.m. Larry Carlton

Nov. 10, 8:30 p.m. Fun Lovin’ Criminals

Nov. 11, 8:30 p.m. Yellowjackets

Nov. 12, 8:30 p.m. John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band

Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. Juan Carmona

Nov. 17, 8:30 p.m. Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown

Ludlow Garage (cont.)

Nov. 18, 8:30 p.m. Social Punk Invasion

Nov. 19, 8:30 p.m. Raydio • Damien Escobar

Nov. 26, 8:30 p.m. Eric Roberson

Dec. 2, 8:30 p.m. Ruben Studdard

Dec. 3, 8:30 p.m. Lotus LandA Tribute to Rush

Madison Theater | Covington. 859-491-2444. www.madisontheater.com

Nov. 1, 8 p.m. Boombox

Nov. 3, 8 p.m. Wheatus

Nov. 5, 8 p.m. ’90s Rock Tribute • Joan

Nov. 11, 8 p.m. Twiddle

Memorial Hall | Over-the-Rhine. 513-977-8838. www.memorialhallotr.com

Nov. 3, 8 p.m. Chris Smither & Tim O’Brien with Jan Fabricius

Nov. 10, 8 p.m. Majesty – A Tribute to Queen

Nov. 18, 8 p.m. The Eagles Project

Nov. 20, 8 p.m. John Waite & His Band

Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m. Christmas with the Celts

Muse Café | Westwood. www.musecafecincy.com

Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Phil de Greg Trio

Northern Kentucky University | Greaves Concert Hall. 859-572-5464. https://music.nku.edu

Nov. 2, 7 p.m. String Area Recital

Nov. 17, 7 p.m. Keyboard Area Recital

Nov. 29, 7 p.m. Jazz Combos

Dec. 1, 7 p.m. Concert Band & Symphonic Winds

Dec. 3, 3 p.m. Woodwind & Brass Chamber Recital

Dec. 4, 5 p.m. Choirs (St. Thomas Church, Ft. Thomas)

Schwartz’s Point | Over-the-Rhine. www.thepoint.club

Regular live jazz

Sorg Opera House | Middletown. www.sorgoperahouse.org

Nov. 4, 8 p.m. Rhonda Vincent and the Rage

Nov. 26, 8 p.m. Hotel California

Southgate House | Newport. 859-431-2201. www.southgatehouse.com

Nightly rock, alternative blues, etc.

Taft Theatre | Downtown. www.tafttheatre.org

Nov. 4, 8 p.m. Celebrating David Bowie

Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. An Evening with YES

Nov. 9, 8 p.m. Mania – The ABBA Tribute

Nov. 11, 8 p.m. The Mavericks

Nov. 19, 8 p.m. Danielle Ponder

Nov. 25, 8 p.m. Straight No Chaser

Nov. 26, 7:30 p.m. Trouble No More, w/ Rebirth Brass Band

Viva Voices | www.vivavoices.net

Nov. 19, 7 p.m. Mass for Troubled Times (Blessed Sacrament Church)

Nov. 20, 6 p.m. Children’s Choir & Youth Chorus Fall Concert (St. John’s United Church of Christ)

Vocal Arts Ensemble | Christ Church Cathedral, downtown. 513-381-3300. vaecinci.com

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. Sarah Kirkland Snider: “Mass for the Endangered,” Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

Woodward Theater | Over-the-Rhine. 513-345-7981. www.woodwardtheater.com

Nov. 8, 8 p.m. Too Many Zooz w/ Yam Yam

Xavier Music Series | Gallagher Theater. 513-745-3161. www.xavier.edu/musicseries

Nov. 2, 8 p.m. Spencer Myer, piano

Nov. 10, 8 p.m. Fred Hersch Trio (Bellarmine Chapel)

Nov. 19, 2 p.m. Jordan Dodson, guitar (Bellarmine Chapel)

Opera

Cincinnati Opera | Allen Temple A.M.E. Church, Roselawn. 513-241-2742. www.cincinnatiopera.org

Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Opera Goes to Church Cincinnati Opera artists, Allen Temple A.M.E. Church Choir and additional per formers. Free, but registration required.

College-Conservatory of Music | Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati. 513-556-4183. https://ccm.uc.edu

Nov. 18-20. Francis Poulenc: “Dialogues of the Carmelites”

Theater

Broadway Across America | Procter & Gamble Hall, Aronoff Center, downtown. 513-721-3344. https://cincinnati.broadway.com

Thru Nov. 6. “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical”

CenterStage Players | Lockland High School. 513-558-4910.

www.centerstageplayersinc.com

Nov. 11-20. “The Diary of Anne Frank”

Cincinnati Arts Association | Aronoff Center, downtown. 513-621-2787. www.cincinnatiarts.org

Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m. The Illusionists: Magic of the Holidays ƒ Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m. Sister’s Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold

Nov. 26, 8 p.m. Royal Comedy Tour

Nov. 26-27. “Girls Night: The Musical”

Dec. 2-4. Cirque Dreams Holidaze

Dec. 2-4. “C.S. Lewis on Stage: Further Up & Further In”

Cincinnati Landmark Productions | Covedale Theater, Price Hill. 513-241-6550. www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com

Thru Nov. 13. “Sister Act” ƒ Dec. 1-23. “A Christmas Carol”

Cincinnati Music Theatre | Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center, downtown. 513-621-2787. www.cincinnatimusictheatre.org

Nov. 4-12. “Wonderful Town”

cincymuseum.org/dinosaurs-of-antarctica

ARTS/CULTURE | The List

Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative | Fifth Third Bank Theater, Aronoff Center, downtown. 513-621-ARTS. www.cincyplaywrights.org

Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. Susan Medure Decatur : “Not Just Cousins”

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company | Over-the-Rhine. 513-381-2273. www.cincyshakes.com

Nov. 11-Dec. 3. “Little Women”

Clifton Players | Liberty Exhibition Hall, Northside. 513-813-7469. www.eventbrite.com

Nov. 5-6, 7:30 p.m. “Ages of the Moon”

College-Conservatory of Music | Cohen Family Studio Theater, University of Cincinnati. 513-556-4183. https://ccm.uc.edu

Nov. 3-6. “A Dream Play”

Drama Workshop | Cheviot. 513-5988303. www.thedramaworkshop.org

Dec. 2-18. “Sanders Family Christmas”

Ensemble Theatre | Over-the-Rhine. 513-421-3555. www.ensemblecincinna ti.org

Nov. 30-Dec. 30. “The Dancing Princesses”

Fairfield Footlighters | Fairfield. 513-867-5348. www.fairfieldfootlighters.org

Nov. 18-20. “Good People”

Falcon Theatre | Newport. 513-479-6783. www.falcontheater.net

Nov. 18-Dec. 3. “Betrayal”

Fitton Center | Hamilton. 513-863-8873. www.fittoncenter.org

Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. “Wonka’s Wondershow”

Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m. Paul Strickland: “90 Lies an Hour”

Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati: “A Seussified Christmas Carol”

Footlighters | Stained Glass Theatre, Newport. 859-291-7464. www.footlighters.org

Dec. 1-18. “Next to Normal”

INNOVAtheatre | Sorg Opera House, Middletown. www.innovatheatre.com

Nov. 10-13. “Tick, Tick, Boom!” • “The Last Five Years”

Know Theatre | Over-the-Rhine. 513-300-5669. www.knowtheatre.com

Nov. 18-Dec. 11. “Lizard Boy”

“Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art” gets the Cincinnati Art Museum on its feet beginning Nov. 11.

Lords of the Cremation Ground Dancing,” circa 1400–1500, Tibet, pigments and gold on cotton, H. 45.1 cm × W. 36.2 cm, Rubin Museum of Art, F1996.16.5

Visual Art

(FF) designates FotoFocus events

1628 Ltd. | Downtown. 513-320-2596. www.1628ltd.com

Thru Nov. 18. “Deeply Rooted, Deeply Held: An Exploration of the Natural World”

21c Museum Hotel | Downtown. 513578-6600. www.21cmuseumhotels.com

Thru August 2023. “Refuge: Needing, Seeking, Creating Shelter”

American Sign Museum | Camp Washington. 513-541-6366. www.americansignmuseum.org

Lebanon Theatre Company | Lebanon. 513-932-8300. ltcplays.com

Dec. 8-11. “A Plaid Christmas”

Loveland Stage Company | Loveland. 513-443-4572. www.lovelandstagecompany.org

Nov. 4-20. “Puffs”

Mariemont Players | Mariemont. 513-684-1236. www.mariemontplayers.com

Nov. 3-20. “The Gods of Comedy”

Mason Community Players | Mason. 513-398-7804. www.masonplayers.org

Nov. 10-20. “The Last Five Years”

Middletown Lyric Theatre | Finkelman Auditorium, Middletown. 513-425-7140. http://middletownlyric.org

Dec. 9-17. “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” A holiday Cabaret

Mount St. Joseph University | Delhi. 513-244-4387. www.msj.edu/theatre

Nov. 3-12. “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley”

Northern Kentucky University | 859-572-5464. https://theatre.nku.edu

Thru Nov. 6. “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” (Stauss Theatre)

Nov. 11-13. “Macbeth” (Stauss Theatre)

Dec. 2-11. “Peter & The Starcatcher” (Corbett Theatre)

Oxford Community Arts Center | Oxford. 513-524-8506. www.oxarts.org

Nov. 5, 8 p.m. Dennis Piper & Friends, comedy

Playhouse in the Park | 513-421-3888. www.cincyplay.com

Thru Nov. 6. “Frida … A Self Portrait” (at The Carnegie, Covington)

Nov. 12-Dec. 4. “The Lion” (at Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, Price Hill)

Queen City Vaudevillians | www.queencityvaudevillians.com

Nov. 5, 7 p.m. (Falcon Theatre)

Dec. 3, 7 p.m. (Artsville)

Royal Theatre Company | Mason. www.royaltheatrecompany.com

Nov. 11-13. “Oliver!”

School for Creative & Performing Arts | Over-the-Rhine. 513-363-8100. scpa.cps-k12.org

Nov. 9-13. “The Wiz”

Taft Theatre | Downtown. www.tafttheatre.org

Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m. Daniel Howell, comedian

Nov. 2, 6 p.m. Peppa Pig’s Adventure

Nov. 5, 7 p.m. Joe Gatto, comedian

Nov. 12, 8 p.m. Kathleen Madigan, comedian

Nov. 18, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Channel 5 Live with Andrew Callaghan

Nov. 22, 6 p.m. CoComelon Live! JJ’s Journey

Dec. 3, 8 p.m. Rupi Kaur

Village Players | Ft. Thomas. 859-392-0500. www.villageplayers.org

Dec. 2-10. Holiday New Works

Xavier University | Gallagher Theater. 513-745-3939 xavier.edu/theatre-program

Nov. 18-20. “Our Town”

Nov. 1, 7 p.m. “Under the Big Top: Circus Banners from the 1940s and 1950s”

The Angelico Project | St. Francis Xavier Undercroft. www.angelicoproject.org ƒ Nov. 12-Jan. 12. Annual Greater Cincinnati Catholic Art Juried Exhibition. Reception: Nov. 12, 7 p.m.

Art Academy of Cincinnati | Over-the-Rhine. 513-562-6262. www.artacademy.edu ƒ Thru Dec. 9. (FF) Ian Strange: “Disturbed Home” & “Annex”

Thru Nov. 4. Halloween Art Show ƒ Nov. 4-Dec. 9. TBA. Reception: Nov. 4, 5-8 p.m.

Art Beyond Boundaries | Over-the-Rhine. 513-421-8726. www.artbeyondboundaries.com

Thru Nov. 4 (FF) “Back to Abnormal”

Arts Alliance | Sinclair College, Mason. 513-309-8585. www.the-arts-alliance.org

Thru Dec. 30. Rick H. Jones: “New Works”

ARTclectic Gallery | Silverton. 513-822-5200. www.artclecticgallery.com

Nov. 1-Dec. 23. Crazy 8’s Art Exhibit

ArtScape Lebanon | Lebanon. www.artscapelebanon.org

Thru Nov. 11. “Black & White”

ArtWorks | V² Gallery, Walnut Hills. 513-333-0388. www.artworkscincinnati.org

Thru Dec. 31 (FF) - “Perspectives”

Thru Dec. 17 (FF) “As We Bloom,” Asa Featherstone IV and youth artists, multi media stories

Avant-Garde Art & Craft Shows | RSVP Event Center, Loveland. 440-227-8794. avantgardeshows.com

Nov. 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center | Covington. 859-431-0020. www.bakerhunt.org

Thru March 4. Baker Hunt DBL

The Barn | Mariemont. 513-272-3700. www.artatthebarn.org

Nov. 4-30. Dave Laug: “MOVIDA”

Basketshop Gallery | Westwood. www.basketshopgallery.com

Thru Nov. 26 (FF) Diego Leclery: “One With Everything”

Carl Solway Gallery | West End. 513-621-0069. www.solwaygallery.com

Thru Nov. 18. An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions

The Carnegie | Covington. 859-491-2030. www.thecarnegie.com

Thru Jan. 28. (FF) “These Things Are Connected”

Caza Sikes | Oakley. 513-290-3127. www.cazasikes.com

Thru Nov. 26. Antonio Adams: “The Crimsõn Bãrred”

Cincinnati Art Galleries | Downtown. 513-381-2128. www.cincyart.com

Thru Nov. 19. Mark Daly: “The Joy of Art”

Cincinnati Art Museum | Eden Park. 513-721-2787. www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

Thru Jan. 15 (FF) “Natural World”

Thru Jan. 1. “Galloping through Dynasties”

Nov. 11-Feb. 5. “Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art”

Cincinnati Museum Center | Queensgate. 513-287-7000. www.cincymuseum.org

Thru Jan. 8. Michael Scott: “America’s Epic Treasures featuring Preternatural”

Clay Street Press | Over-the-Rhine. 513-241-3232. www.claystreetpress.com

Thru Nov. 12 (FF) “It Is What lt Is (Subject to Change)”

Clifton Cultural Arts Center | Short Vine, Corryville. 513-497-2860. www.cliftonculturalarts.org

ƒ Nov. 4-Dec. 2. “The Golden Ticket” Juried Exhibition

Contemporary Arts Center | Downtown. 513-345-8400. www.contemporaryartscenter.org

ƒ Thru Jan. 15. (FF) “On The Line: Documents of Risk and Faith”

Thru Feb. 12. (FF) Baseera Khan: “Weight of History” • “Images on Which to Build, 1970-90” • Cameron Granger: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Heaven”

DAAP Galleries | University of Cincinnati. 513-556-2839. https://daap.uc.edu

Thru Nov. 20 (FF) “Paul Briol: Passed Forward, a Selection from the UC Art Collection” (Meyers Gallery)

Essex Studios | Walnut Hills. 513-4762170. www.essexstudioscincinnati.com

Dec. 2-3. 6-10 p.m. Art Walk

Eva G. Farris Gallery | Thomas More University, Crestview Hills. 859-344-3300. www.thomasmore.edu

Thru Nov. 3. (FF) Sarah Hoskins: “The HomePlace”

Nov. 14-Dec. 2. 2022 Juried High School Exhibition. Reception: Nov. 14, 4-7 p.m.

Evendale Cultural Arts Center | Evendale. 513-563-1350. www.evendalearts.org

Thru Nov. 1. (FF) “The World Around Them”

Fairfield Community Arts Center | Fairfield. 513-867-5348. www.fairfield-city.org

Thru Nov. 13. Annual Community Artist Showcase

Fitton Center | Hamilton. 513-863-8873. www.fittoncenter.org

Thru Nov. 4 (FF) “Acknowledge Reveal Disclose”

Thru Jan. 6 (FF) “The Land and That Which Lives on It: Contemporary Photography and the Curious Nature of Our Planet” • (FF) “Unusual Character: Portraits and the Modern Eye”

Gallery 708 | Hyde Park Square. 513-551-8171. www.gallery-708.com

Thru Nov. 1. Donna Talerico: “My France”

Nov. 4-18. G. Lundgren, L. Martin, R. Barker

Glendale Heritage Preservation | Glendale. 513-771-8722. www.glendaleheritage.org

Thursdays & Saturdays thru Jan. 28 11 a.m.-3 p.m. “The Merchants of Glendale”

Haehnle Gallery - St. John’s Unitarian Universalist Church | Clifton. www.stjohnsuu.org/community/art-gallery

Thru Nov. 13 (FF) “Recording Hope, Images from ‘Flashes of Hope’ Photographers”

Indian Hill Gallery | Remington. 513-984-6024. www.indianhillgallery.com

Nov. 18-Jan. 7. Sister Honeysuckle, New Paintings by Lyric Morris-Latchaw. Reception: Nov. 18, 6-9 p.m.

Iris BookCafe and Gallery | Over-the-Rhine. 513-260-8434. www.irisbookcafeotr.com

ƒ Thru Dec. 31 (FF) “PhotOH2: Other Photographers from the Heartland”

Kennedy Heights Arts Center | Kennedy Heights. 513-631-4278. www.kennedyarts.org

ƒ Thru Nov. 12 (FF) “What’s Left Behind”

ARTS/CULTURE | The List

Lloyd Library and Museum | Downtown. 513-721-3707. www.lloydlibrary.org

Thru Nov. 19 (FF) “Visions of Nature Across Time and Place”

Manifest Gallery | East Walnut Hills. 513-861-3638. www.manifestgallery.org

Nov. 11-Dec. 9. “Arch” works explor ing made space • “Fourth Wall” art that challenges the frame • “Balance” exploring composition. Reception: Nov. 11, 6-9 p.m.

Miami University Art Museum | Oxford. 513-529-2232. www.miamioh.edu/cca/art-museum

Thru Dec. 10. “Miami Interconnected: Land | Identity | Community” • “Lens for Freedom: Civil Rights Photography by Steve Schapiro” • “PhotOH: Photographers of the Heartland”

Miller Gallery | Hyde Park Square. 513-871-4420. www.millergallery.com

Thru Nov. 12 (FF) Issac Wright: “On Top of the World”

The Mohawk Gallery | Over-the-Rhine. 513-381-5116. www.robinimaging.com

Thru Dec. 3 (FF) “Glacial Melt before Our Very Eyes”

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | The Banks, downtown. 513-333-7500. www.freedomcenter.org

Thru Nov. 27. “Beyond Guilt”: visual ly tells stories of those impacted by oversentencing and over-punishment

Thru March 6 (FF) ‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory

Northern Kentucky University | Highland Heights. 859-572-5148. www.nku.edu/gallery

Thru Nov. 4 (FF) “This is Kentucky” Reception: Nov. 3, 5-7 p.m.

Nov. 23-Dec. 9. BFA Senior Exhibitions. Reception: Dec. 1, 5-7 p.m.

Off Ludlow Gallery | Clifton. 513-201-7153. www.facebook.com

Thru Nov. 5. (FF) Steve Plattner: “Strangers in a Strange Land: Photographs of American Visionary Artists and Eccentrics”

Nov. 18-Dec. 23. Gallery Gifts IV

PAR-Projects | Northside. www.parprojects.com

Thru March 31 (FF) Susan Ferrari

Rowley: “Alterations in Dystopia”

www.ucclermont.edu

Thru Dec. 15 (FF) Virginia Kistler: “Illuminated Landscapes”

Visionaries & Voices | Northside. 513861-4333. www.visionariesandvoices.com

Thru Nov. 23 (FF) “Maketewah Dreamscape”

Warren County Historical Museum | Lebanon. www.wchsmuseum.org

Nov. 4-Dec. 31. The Paintings of Quaker Artist Marcus Mote

Wash Park Art | Over-the-Rhine. 513-291-3626. www.washparkart.com

ƒ Thru Nov. 12. (FF) Guennadi Maslov: “To Be Determined” • (FF) Tina Gutierrez and Larry Brown: “Phantasmagoria: The Fictitious Truth of 1666 Bruce Street”

ƒ Thru March 31 (FF) Billy Colbert: “Lessons are Learned”

Pendleton Art Center | Pendleton. 513-421-4339. www.pendletonartcen ter.com

Nov. 25, 5-9 p.m., open studios

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum | Hamilton. 513-868-1234. www.pyramidhill.org

Thru July 25. Melanie Yazzie Outdoor Exhibition ƒ Thru Nov. 12. Sarah Nguyen: “Broken Nature” • Ron Fondaw: “Drawing In-Between”

Thru Nov. 5 (FF) Patrick Wack: “Dust”

• (FF) Tiffany Sutton: “A Woman Named Vera”

Redtree Art Gallery | Oakley. 5 13-321-8733. http://redtreegallery.net

Thru Nov. 13. “My View”

Skirball Museum | Hebrew Union College, Clifton. https://csm.huc.edu

Thru Jan. 29. J. Miles Wolf: “Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic Record”

Studio Collection Sale | Clifton Recreation Center. 513-662-9382. www.studiocollectioncincy.com

Nov. 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Holiday Sale 2022

Studio Kroner | Downtown. www.studiokroner.com

Nov. 10-Dec. 10. Sunia Gibbs

Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery | Mount St. Joseph University, Delhi. www.msj.edu

ƒ Nov. 6-Dec. 9. “Parallel Visions”

Reception: Nov. 6, 2-4 p.m.

Summit Hotel | Madisonville. 513-527-9900. www.thesummithotel.com/about-us/art

Thru Dec. 31. (FF) “Better Close Than Never”

Taft Museum of Art | Lytle Park, down town. 513-241-0343. www.taftmuseum.org

Thru Jan. 15. (FF) “Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones”

Thru Feb. 5. “Fakes, Forgeries and Followers in the Taft Collection”

Tiger Lily Press | Evendale Cultural Arts Center. 859-760-6070. www.tigerlilypress.org

Nov. 12, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. “Local Ink,” annual market featuring regional print artists

University of Cincinnati Clermont College | Park National Bank Art Gallery, Snyder Building, Batavia. 513-558-2787.

Wave Pool Gallery and The Welcome Project | Camp Washington. http://wavepoolgallery.org

ƒ Thru Nov. 5 (FF) “Photography and Tenderness”

ƒ Thru December. 2022 “Welcome (M) Art,” Art/Food Residency: Ngoc Nguyen: “Room For Two Table For Ten”

Weston Art Gallery | Aronoff Center, downtown. 513-977-4165. www.cincinnatiarts.org/weston-art-gallery

Thru Nov. 6. Michael Coppage: “American+”

Nov. 18-Jan. 15. Candace Black: “Accoutrements” • Steven Thurston: “Lost in Translation – Deception and Desire” • Mary Jo Bole: “Family White Elephants”

Xavier University Art Gallery | A. B. Cohen Center. www.xavier.edu/ art-department/art-gallery

Thru Dec. 10 (FF) P. J. Sturdevant: “A Record of Disuse”

Artist Mary Jo Bole presents “Family White Elephants” at the Aronoff’s Weston Gallery, opening Nov. 18.

The Datebook

With a Spotlight on the Movers and Makers behind Greater Cincinnati’s Fundraisers, Friend-Raisers and Community Events

The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Diversity Leadership Symposium on Nov. 2 will feature keynote speaker Daisy Auger-Domínguez

Suzanne Burke, president and CEO of Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio, will be honored at 55 North’s North Star Soirée on Nov. 3 at the Hilton Netherland Plaza. Elizabeth Bangel-Stehlin is chair.

NOV. 1, TUESDAY

American Jewish Committee, National Human Relations Award | 5:30 p.m. Hilton Netherland Plaza. DETAILS: Cocktail hour, dinner, program honoring Dr. Stephen and Penny Pomeranz. Speaker: Dr. Colleen Hanycz, president of Xavier University. Tickets start at $115.  www.AJC.org/cincinnati/Pomeranz

Peaslee Neighborhood Center, Making a Way with Peaslee | 6 p.m. Woodward Theater, Over-the-Rhine. DETAILS: Tickets start at $75.  www.peasleecenter.org/making-a-way

NOV. 2, WEDNESDAY

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, Diversity Leadership Symposium | 8 a.m.-noon. Duke Energy Convention Center. DETAILS: Keynote: Daisy AugerDomínguez. Panel discussions, breakout sessions and comments from leaders and experts. Tickets $150.  www.eventbrite.com/e/412881257957

Salvation Army, Annual Civic & Awards Luncheon | Noon. The Phoenix, downtown. DETAILS: Signature fundraising event to kick off the upcom ing red kettle season, showcase pro grams that help area children and honor

community partner Givaudan Flavors Corporation. Tickets start at $275.  www.salarmy.us/luncheon2022

NOV. 3, THURSDAY

55 North, North Star Soirée | Hilton Netherland Plaza. DETAILS: Honoring Suzanne Burke, president/CEO, Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio.  www.55north.org

A Child’s Hope Int’l, Swing into Action | 6-9 p.m. Topgolf in West Chester. DETAILS: Family friendly event of fun and food. No golf skills required. Tickets start at $50.  www.thechildrenarewaiting.org/ swingintoaction

Caracole, Glow-Getter Gala: A Neon Night Out | 6:30 p.m. Coppin’s Restaurant, Hotel Covington. DETAILS: Dress in neon. Cocktails, hors d’oeurves and silent auction, followed by music and dancing by DJ Castle. Tickets start at $125.  www.caracole.org/page/gala

Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati USA, Gala | 6-9 p.m. TQL Stadium. DETAILS: 5:30 p.m. Registration and cocktail reception. 7 p.m. dinner.  https://business.hispanicchambercin cinnati.com/events

NKY Chamber, Women’s Initiative Regional Summit | 8 a.m.-4 p.m. MegaCorp Pavilion, Newport. DETAILS: The event’s theme, “Rocking Your Role: Amplify Your Power, Purpose & Goals,” aims to discuss real-life leadership expe riences and how attendees can care for themselves and their profession al teams, and simultaneously drive business results. Emcees: Catherine Salzman, director, Heartwood Strategies and Melissa Lutz, princi pal, Champlin Architecture.

www.nkychamber.com

Santa Maria Community Services, 125th Birthday Party Fundraiser | 6:30-10:30 p.m.

American Sign Museum, Camp Washington. DETAILS: Dancing, games, music, food, prizes and more. Guests should dress in the fashion of any decade between the 1890s and now. Free valet parking. Tickets: $125.

www.tinyurl.com/125thbday

NOV. 4, FRIDAY

Cincinnati Museum Center, Layers of Nature | 7-11 p.m. DETAILS: Adults only/21+ event. Light bites, cocktails, programming, live music and exclusive access to CMC’s exhibits. Plus, explore two newly opened exhibits: Made in Cincinnati and John A. and Judy Ruthven Get Into Nature Gallery (opening Fall 2022). Tickets $225.

www.cincymuseum.org/layers

Karen Wellington Foundation, Boots, Birdies & Booze Golf Outing & After-Party | 3-9:30 p.m. Devou Golf & Event Center. DETAILS: Come decked out in your country western best. Costume contests, raffle baskets, mission moments, fire-ball shots on the green, after party.

www.karenwellingtonfoundation. org/main

THIS COULD BE YOUR

Home for the Holidays

CABVI will present Dining in the Dark on Nov. 12 with a theme of “Superheroes Unite!” Stephen S. Eberly will receive a humanitarian award.

Cancer Support Community will host its Stronger than Cancer Celebration at Hotel Covington on Nov. 17. Honorary chair is Donna Salyers

NOV. 5, SATURDAY

Cancer Family Care, Annual Wine Tasting & Auction | 6-10 p.m. Manor House, Mason. DETAILS: Wine, dinner, silent and live auctions. Tickets start at $175.  www.cancerfamilycare.org

Disabled American Veterans, Annual DAV 5K | The Banks, downtown. DETAILS: Run, roll, walk and motorcycle ride. Virtual option available Nov. 5-30.  www.dav5k.org

Kindervelt, Kindervelt Krafts | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Seton High School, 3901 Glenway Ave. DETAILS: Homemade krafts and bakery items, games and raffles.  www.kindervelt.org/kindervelt-krafts

St. Vincent de Paul, Annual Turkeyfoot Trot 5K Run/Walk | Noon. Thomas More University. DETAILS: Virtual option available. Registration: 10:30 a.m. Early bird registration ends Sept. 15.  www.svdpnky.org

NOV. 6, SUNDAY

The Great Bridal Chase, 5K & AfterParty | Hotel Covington, Covington. DETAILS: In-person 5K and after-party. Combines elements of wedding with scenic run through Covington. Portion of ticket price goes to charity of runner’s choice.

 www.thegreatbridalchase.com

Sam Pate is chair of March of Dimes –

Signature Chefs’ “Feeding Motherhood” on Nov. 10 at The Phoenix.

NOV. 8, TUESDAY

Impact 100, Equity Conversations: “Race and Racism in Cincinnati”

Docuseries (Part 3) | 5:30 p.m. Peaslee Neighborhood Center, Over-the-Rhine. DETAILS: Explores Cincinnati’s history from the racial margins, describing how race and racism have shaped the city.  www.impact100.org

NOV. 9, WEDNESDAY

Mental Health America, The Costs & Gifts of Caring | 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Virtual. DETAILS: Explore neuroscience of mindfulness and meditation and practice new ways to harness energy. Discuss personalized care plans and identify steps for implementation. Tickets $65.  www.mhankyswoh.org/Events

NOV. 10, THURSDAY

Kindervelt, Kindervelt Krafts | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital DETAILS: Homemade krafts and bakery items, games and raffles.  www.kindervelt.org/kindervelt-krafts

March of Dimes, Signature Chefs: Feeding Motherhood | The Phoenix. DETAILS: Auction. Event chair: Sam Pate  signaturechefs.marchofdimes.org

NOV. 11, FRIDAY

Cincinnati Art Museum, Let’s Pop! Gala | 6 p.m. CAM. DETAILS: Inspired by the iconic Pop Art movement and the colorful lens of the 1970s. Cocktails, dinner and dancing.  www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/ events-programs/fundraisers/gala

Cincinnati Preservation Association, Annual Fall Forum | Noon. Hilton Netherland Plaza. DETAILS: Keynote: Carl Elefante, principal emeri tus, with Quinn Evans. Virtual option available.  www.cincinnatipreservation.org

NOV. 12, SATURDAY

Boy Scouts of America Dan Beard Council, Scouting for Food | DETAILS: Food collection day in support of Freestore Foodbank. Sponsored by Skyline Chili.  www.danbeard.org/scouting-for-food

Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired, Dining in the Dark | 6-10 p.m. Hard Rock Casino. DETAILS: Theme: “Superheroes Unite!” Hosts: Natalie Jones and Freddy Mac from Q102. Barney H. Kroger Humanitarian Award Recipient: Stephen S. Eberly. Blindfolded dinner experience, signature cocktail, silent auction, split the pot and superhero games.  www.cincyblind.org

Cincinnati Fire Museum, Firefighter Cook-Off | 7-11 p.m. DETAILS: Local firefighters compete for title of Best Firefighter Chef. Taste firefighters’ dishes and vote. Beer and wine, raffle and firehouse chow.  www.cincyfiremuseum.com

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 65 Roses Gala | 6:30 p.m. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. DETAILS: Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction, dinner, live music by Zack Attack. Guest speakers: Stephanie Filigno, pediatric psychologist, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Aaron Stocks, operations manager, Compass, CF Foundation. Tickets start at $230.  events.cff.org/65RosesGalaOh

Lucky Tales Rescue, Woof and Wiggle | 6-11 p.m. Highland Country Club, Ft. Thomas. DETAILS: Dinner, silent auction, live music. Tickets $55.  www.luckytalesrescue.org

NOV. 16, WEDNESDAY

Allied Construction Industries, Construction Career Award

Luncheon | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Delta Hotels, Sharonville. DETAILS: Honoring individuals and companies making a difference in the Greater Cincinnati com mercial construction industry. Tickets start at $79.

www.aci-web.com/events

Six nominated for American Heart Association campaign

Six Greater Cincinnati leaders are joining the American Heart Association’s Leaders of Impact campaign in an effort to combat health inequi ties in the community. Studies show a 16-year life expectancy gap in ZIP codes across the Greater Cincinnati region.

The Leaders of Impact initiative engages commu nity leaders across 150 cities to take part in a sevenweek challenge to improve health by raising aware ness and funds to support the lifesaving work of the American Heart Association. Greater Cincinnati nominees were selected to take part because of their passion and drive to make a difference.

This year’s nominees are: Ashley Afya, manager

of client services, Innovative Healthcare Institute; Katie Gough-Edwards, first aid and safety sales director, Midwest, Cintas Corp.; Michele Kenner, assistant vice president, physician services and en gagement, St. Elizabeth Healthcare; Kenny LaRose, business development manager, Maxim Healthcare Staffing; Oliver Rhine, vice president, strategic planning, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Shawn Young, director, global training and education, AtriCure.

A winner of the Leaders of Impact program will be announced soon after National Philanthropy Day on Nov. 15 and will be celebrated at the Heart Ball on Feb. 4, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency.

NOV. 17, THURSDAY

Association of Fundraising Professionals, National Philanthropy Day Luncheon | 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Music Hall Ballroom. DETAILS: Honors Philanthropist, Volunteer, Youth and Organization of Year, plus Lifetime Achievment in Fundraising.

www.afpcincinnati.org

Cancer Support Community, Stronger than Cancer Celebration

| Hotel Covington 6-9 p.m. DETAILS: Reception, auction, raffles, mission program, dinner by-the-bite and fashion show. Honorary chair: Donna Salyers. Emcee: Bob Herzog. Tickets: $125.  www.mycancersupportcommunity.org

European American Chamber of Commerce, Beaujolais Nouveau Première | 6:30-9:30 p.m. Hilton Netherland Plaza. DETAILS: Business/ cocktail attire recommended. Live music, silent auction. Admission $150; EACC Members $125.

www.europe-cincinnati.com/ overview-events/

NOV. 18, FRIDAY

Rosemary’s Babies, Annual Legends Showcase and Benefit Gala | 5 p.m. Woodward Theater, Overthe-Rhine. DETAILS: Special guests The Manhattans, featuring Gerald Alston. Valet parking, drinks, lite bites, desserts, games, raffles.

www.rosemarysbabies.co/ legendsshowcase2022

Oliver Rhine, Kenny LaRose, Michele Kenner, Ashley Afya, Shawn Young

Regina Carswell Russo and James D. Stapleton are chairs of Cincinnati Opera’s “Operaganza.”

This “(un)traditional” event takes place Nov. 19 at Hilton Netherland Plaza.

Crayons to Computers hosting cold-weather clothing drive

Tuesday, Nov. 1, to Thursday, Dec. 3, Kenwood Towne Centre

Crayons to Computers is host ing its second Keep Our Kids Warm Drive from Nov. 1 to Dec. 3, seeking donations of coldweather gear for area elementary school students.

To donate:

• Nov. 1-Dec. 3. Drop off handmade or storebought hats, scarves and/or mittens in the designated donation bins at the inside mall entrances at Macy’s.

• Dec. 3, 1 a.m.-1 p.m. Bring them to the main entrance (next to The Cheesecake Factory). Curbside drop-off will be available.

• Donations can also be made at the website.

www.crayons2computers.org

NOV. 19, SATURDAY

Cincinnati Opera, “Operaganza,” Experience the Fandom | 5 p.m. Hilton Netherland Plaza. DETAILS: Celebrating real MVPs of opera – the fans. Wine, cocktails, dinner and live auction in Hall of Mirrors, followed by cocktails, desserts, dancing and perfor mance in The Pavilion, focusing on the “(un)traditional.” Chairs: Regina Carswell Russo and James D. Stapleton.  www.cincinnatiopera.org

Montgomery Woman’s Club, 70th Anniversary Luncheon and Fundraiser | 12:30 p.m. Montgomery Inn-The Original, DETAILS: Luncheon, raffle baskets, silent auction. Reservations by Nov. 9. Cost $40.

www.montgomerywomansclub.org

NOV. 24, THURSDAY

Western & Southern, Thanksgiving Day 10K Run & Walk | 8:30 a.m. Paycor Stadium. DETAILS: Kids run, 1 0K run and walk. Gift bags for partici pants. Virtual options available.  www.thanksgivingdayrace.com

NOV. 26, SATURDAY

Kindervelt, Kindervelt Krafts | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. West Side Holiday Market. DETAILS: Homemade krafts and bakery items, games and raffles.

www.kindervelt.org/kindervelt-krafts

DEC. 2, FRIDAY

Friends of Music Hall, Holiday Fete | 5-8 p.m. Krohn Conservatory. DETAILS: Unveiling of botanical model of Music Hall and holiday kick-off. Open bar, dinner by-the-bite, tour of Krohn exhibit “A Celestial Holiday.” Music by Cheryl Renee. Tickets: $100 or $150 for patron level. Funds benefit Music Hall education programs. Rosemary Schlacter: 25thhour@fuse.net

DEC. 3, SATURDAY

HealthCare Connection, 55th Anniversary Celebration | 6-9:30 p.m. Sharonville Convention Center.

DETAILS: Cocktail reception, dinner, live music. Keynote: Karen Bankston, professor emerita, College of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati and presi dent and CEO of KDB and Associated Consulting Services, LLC. Attire: cocktail.  www.healthcare-connection.org/ events

DEC. 4, SUNDAY

Cincinnati Preservation Association, Annual Meeting and Preservation Awards | 4-6 p.m. ARCO, 3301 Price Ave. DETAILS: Awards to be presented for Preservation Leadership, Education, Restoration, Rehabilitation, Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability.  www.cincinnatipreservation.org/ annual-preservation-awards

JAN. 20, FRIDAY

School for Creative & Performing Arts, Future of the Arts Gala |  scpa.cps-k12.org

FEB. 4, SATURDAY

American Heart Association, Greater Cincinnati Heart Ball | Hyatt Regency. DETAILS: Chair: Beverly A. Grant. Honorees: Kay and Jack Geiger. VIP reception, silent auction, dinner, live auction, after party, late night bites. Tickets $500.  www.heart.org/en/affiliates/ohio/ cincinnati

FEB. 11, SATURDAY

The Victorian @ Riverside, Gala Dinner-Dance | Time: TBA. The Cincinnati Woman’s Club, Clifton. DETAILS: Ellen Batelle Dietrich Awards, plus live and silent auctions.  www.victorianatriverside.org

FEB. 25, SATURDAY

Clovernook Center, Vision Over Sight | National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. DETAILS: Honoring visionaries and advocates for the blind and visually impaired community. Dinner, awards celebration, live and silent auctions.  www.clovernook.org

MARCH 14, TUESDAY

Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, Women of Distinction “Girls

Change the World” | Queen City Club. DETAILS: Emcee: Sheila Gray, WKRC-TV.  gswo.org/en/donate/ women-of-distinction.html 

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Net Raised for Stepping Stones $264,000

Thank you to our generous sponsors for supporting children, teens & adults with disabilities as they Bloom in Stepping Stones’ programs!

Platinum Sponsors: Brendamour Warehousing/ Beth & Doug Brendamour Rendigs Foundation

Diamond Sponsors: Susie & Neil Bortz Chemed Foundation

Jeanne & Bob Coughlin Huntington Bank

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Gold Sponsors: Facial Plastic Surgery/ Dr. Alexander S. Donath Kim & Kelly Conway McCloy Family Foundation Barb & Mike Ricke Anne & Jim Shanahan SugarCreek/ Julie & John Richardson Dina & Chris Taylor

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Community foundation zeroes in on Black women as economic growth strategy

By Doug Bolton

Greater Cincinnati Foundation has staked out support for Black women as its most meaningful way to contribute to robust economic growth and a thriving community.

To do that, GCF, the region’s leading com munity foundation serving eight counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, is investing in programs to fund research and address barri ers to improve the upward economic mobility of Black women in Greater Cincinnati.

“Smart communities need to advance an equitable growth strategy that creates quality jobs, increases human potential and expands opportunity for everyone,” said Ellen Katz, the foundation’s president and CEO. “Pursuing an equitable growth strategy will make us stronger.”

rate of 78.3% in the region. According to the Harvard Business Review, 17% of Black women are in the process of starting or run ning new businesses nationwide.

“Black women present the best opportu nity for economic mobility and growth in the Greater Cincinnati region,” Heath said.

Among GCF’s investments to lift the Black woman and her family:

• UpTogether provides low-income fami lies with cash to achieve their goals in exchange for contributing their data to a national platform that tracks progress. This data has shown meaningful increases in income and savings with corresponding decreases in dependence on public assistance.

• Queens Village, an initiative of Cradle Cincinnati, focuses on supporting Black women, reducing Black infant mortality, and driving awareness of racial health disparities. With an extensive reach and growing list of partnerships, it has become a key organization for reducing inequities experienced by Black women.

• Economic & Community Development Institute (ECDI) and Women’s Business Center of Greater Cincinnati (WBC) provide access to coaching, workshops, mentorships, networking opportunities, and co-working spaces for Black womenowned small businesses. This effort expands job creation, revenue and tax dollars for our region.

The National Equity Atlas found that had there been no gaps in income by race, Greater Cincinnati’s GDP – gross domestic product, or the total of all goods and services created, bought and sold in the region – would have been $9.2 billion stronger in 2019.

Adding to the reasons why GCF has chosen to focus on helping Black women, other data from credible sources shows that:

• Nearly half of employed Black women make less than $15 an hour compared to 27% for white women and 24% for all women.

• Black women are not seeing the economic returns for increased educational attain ment, as 32% of employed Black women with a bachelor’s degree are making less than $15 an hour compared to 13% of white women, 10% of Black men and 11% of white men at the same education level.

Source: University

A study by the Alpaugh Family Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati sup ports GCF’s strategy.

“Center researchers conducted an in-depth evaluation through historical analysis of Black female labor trends, an economic as sessment within the Cincinnati region, and interviews with Black women to under stand their economic mobility journeys,” said Julie Heath, the center’s director. “To our knowledge, this is a first-of-its-kind research project in our region to completely center on Black women and their economic circumstances.”

According to Katz, “By 2040, people of color will be the majority in Hamilton County. Unlocking the potential of this diverse work force will be a boon to our regional economy.”

UC’s study found that Black women have a high desire to participate in the workforce, with a prime-age labor force participation

These investments are intended to close the health care, wage, employment and wealth gaps in race that have been bad for people of color in our region, but also for the economy at large.

• With the highest unemployment rate of the gender-racial cohorts, Black women have a disproportionately harder time gaining employment.

• 26% of Black women have annual earn ings below the federal poverty level.

• Black women are predominantly in jobs that do not pay a living wage.

• Within occupations that employ the high est number of Black females, there is a high concentration in health care, retail, administration and food service support, which are four of the five top industries in our region by number of employees.

With these challenges facing the Black women in Greater Cincinnati, GCF knows that it cannot do the work alone.

“We need the collective wisdom, will and action of the community to create a vibrant and equitable region for everyone,” said Katz. “We hope others will join us in the move ment.”

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GCF Annual Fund impact bigger, bolder

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to Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s Annual Fund goes to work in our region a whole lot more than it used to. The Annual Fund is driven by the belief that change in our community requires leaders who can inspire and convene changemakers to collaborate and create solutions. Annual Fund giving provides GCF with the financial ability to take on a greater leadership role in the community and address the region’s most critical and persistent needs. Through a contribution to the GCF Annual Fund, a donor plays a pivotal role in realizing the goal of a more vibrant, equitable region for everyone.

“Over the last few years, a lot of energy has been put into our role as a changemaker in our community,” said Meghan Cummings, the foundation’s vice president of civic advancement. “When folks contribute to their community foundation, it’s really how they can amplify and accelerate change for the whole community.”

Cummings said the GCF Annual Fund allows the organization to invest in its community leadership, most notably around its mission of achieving racial equity.

One of those levers is helping the Greater Cincinnati community with its vocabulary around racial equity. WIth its Racial Equity Matters program, GCF has trained over 2,500 local leaders.

Another big area of focus is public policy.

“We are not going to grant our way out of poverty,”

Cummings said. “We are not going to grant our way out of racism. But one of the things that can make a big difference in those two areas is policy change. How can we protect our investments by keeping a close eye on policy in the areas of housing, poverty alleviation, police-community relations, among others.”

Cummings was named to her current role last April, the first person at the foundation to focus exclusively on public policy.

But Cummings said what has most motivated her in her new role is the ability of the foundation to contribute to and lead on solving Greater Cincinnati region’s complex problems, whether it’s racial justice, economic mobility or housing.

“The complex problems cannot be solved by the philanthropic sector alone,” she said. “When we think about these problems, people typically turn to the nonprofit sector. But that’s leaving really important players out of the conversations. Government has the power and resources. And one of the most important sectors to be involved, the business sector, can be activated in a way that speeds progress to create community prosperity.”

GCF sees its role as a convener to bring all those sectors together since no one sector can solve our region’s problems on its own.

“When we have a robust Annual Fund, it helps us bring all these sectors together,” Cummings said. 

DONATE NOW OR LEARN MORE

By Ray Cooklis

Opening vistas and fueling dreams through Adopt A Class

You don’t have to convince Bill Burwinkel, winner of this year’s National Philanthropy Day Philanthropist of the Year award, about the importance of a good educa tion and career guidance.

After quitting high school to join the Army (he later got his GED), Burwinkel bounced from job to job, never able to get a promotion because he lacked a college degree. Finally, he started his own company in 1983 – National Marketshare Group, a consumer-products brokerage firm anchored in the renovated West End Bank building in Lower Price Hill – but struggled for years, sometimes sleeping in an old Buick and showering in truck stops while on the road, selling items such as automotive air fresheners and melamine ashtrays.

So it’s fitting that Burwinkel, 72, is best known these days as the founder and driving force behind Adopt A Class, a highly successful mentoring program that puts teams of business workers into classrooms, especially in highpoverty neighborhoods. The idea is to open students’ eyes to career possibilities – and show them what it takes to get there.

The program serves more than 6,500 K-8 students in 37 schools throughout Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, with more than 3,500 active volunteers. More than 90 percent of teachers surveyed said their students have shown noticeable improvement in writing and social skills.

Burwinkel and his team at National Marketshare started the program in 2003 at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill as a one-onone tutoring program, but quickly discovered that “adopting” a class as a group – with team mentoring and career guidance – worked better.

“We sat down as a team and came up with the idea,” Burwinkel said. “The program has evolved from a pen-pal program and a couple of parties to a group career mentoring and role model program.”

Adopt A Class is “built by business people for business people,” he said. “We know the most valuable thing a person has is their time. So we can take and help you maximize your time and maximize your input, and your impact is going to be a life-changing experience for many of these kids. You’re going to be the person sitting there and telling them, you know, if you work hard and get good grades you can do anything you can put your mind to.”

An impressive resume

But Burwinkel’s involvement in the com munity goes way beyond Adopt A Class. It’s an impressive resume that shows why he’s been chosen Philanthropist of the Year:

He was involved on the Dan Beard Council of Boy Scouts of America board for 21 years, fundraising and managing the organization’s na tional jamboree, and earning the Scouts’ highest award given to non-Scouts.

Seven years ago, he was appointed a commis sioner of Great Parks of Hamilton County, one of Adopt A Class’ partners, pushing for strong community engagement, a solid infrastructure plan and expansion of facilities.

He’s joined long-time friend and neighbor Buddy LaRosa to help lead Golden Gloves for the past 12 years, building its board and increas ing its fundraising to work with 3CDC on a new recreation center in Over-the-Rhine.

And he’s been a tireless advocate for West Side communities, especially Lower Price Hill, where he has worked on various initiatives for nearly 30 years with the goal of helping it “not to be treated like the stepchild nobody wants.”

A member of Leadership Cincinnati Class 31, Burwinkel has received the Rotary Club of Cincinnati’s Jefferson Award for community service.

“I spend all my time today involved with pay ing back by paying forward and sharing some of my successes,” he said.

It’s a concept impressed on him by Marty Harrity, the manager who hired him for a key sales job with Pioneer Products that led to his starting National Marketshare.

Years later, after both had left Pioneer, Burwinkel ran into Harrity at a trade show. “So I asked Marty, how can I pay you back? And he said, ‘Bill, you don’t pay back, you pay forward. And it’s really not an option, it’s an obligation.’ That was the first time it really impacted me.”

Almost a West Sider

Many who know Burwinkel would be surprised to learn that though he’s lived on the West Side since getting his first job out of the Army – “I’ve been here for over 50 years now, and probably another four or five years, I might even be considered a West Sider,” he said – he grew up in Forestville, a community in Anderson Township.

He wound up in the Army at age 17, with the help of a little Social Security number trickery, “because I was stubborn. And my dad (a school teacher) was a strict disciplinarian. I didn’t do well with that. So I ran away from home. Dad said, ‘You finish high school and go to college, or you go into the Army.’ So I said, ‘Sign me up.’ ”

He served three years in Vietnam as a chef. Back in Cincinnati, he got his GED and “had probably six or seven different jobs but could never get promoted because I didn’t have a col lege degree.”

After being laid off from one of those jobs, Burwinkel found himself looking at the want ads in the paper, where it seemed every position was either for a car salesman or an insurance agent.

“I don’t look good in plaid, so I went for the insurance,” he said.

Finally, when his wife Beth (they celebrated their 43rd anniversary on Sept. 15) was settled into a job at Drackett with good benefits, “I pursued this idea about starting our own company. She said, you need to do it. And if it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have started the company.”

At first it was rough – long sales trips, no money for hotel rooms, a cooler of food in the trunk of the old Buick.

“Three or four years into it, I wasn’t sure I had made the right decision, but Beth kept

PHILANTHROPIST OF THE YEAR: Bill Burwinkel

Bill Burwinkel

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National Philanthropy Day 2022

National Philanthropy Day is set aside by the Association of Fundraising Professionals to recognize individuals, organizations and businesses inspiring change through nonprofit organiza tions. AFP Greater Cincinnati Chapter helps members and nonprofits practice ethical and effective fundraising to improve our community.

Area nonprofits can nominate exceptional donors, volunteers and friends. Honorees are selected by a diverse committee of AFP stakeholders. This year’s honorees:

• Philanthropist of the Year: Bill Burwinkel

Volunteer of the Year: Stacey Meyer

Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy: Joseph Kayne

Outstanding Corporation: SugarCreek, John & Julie Richardson

• Lifetime Achievement in Fundraising: John Olberding

National Philanthropy Day Luncheon Nov. 17, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Music Hall Ballroom

www.afpcincinnati.org/2022-national-philanthropy-day

A boon for businesses

But here’s the twist: Adopt A Class can help the participating businesses as well.

“What I’ve seen consistently is that when an adopter starts with the program, their thought is, ‘We’re going to have an impact on the kids.’ But when they get into the program, they start to realize what it does for their company and their teams.”

In short, it fosters communica tion and team-building within busi nesses, especially when they “reach across departments and cross-popu late the program,” Burwinkel said.

That’s especially valuable in the COVID era with many employees still working remotely. Burwinkel recalled visiting one business re cently in an impressive office build ing full of employee amenities – but virtually empty of employees. The firm’s head of HR told him it had 375 people on the payroll.

encouraging me, and today I’m chairman of the board. Next year, the company will be 40 years old.”

Beth Burwinkel has been trea surer of the firm since 1988.

More than writing checks

When Oyler School first ap proached Burwinkel’s company, “we were fresh meat. Nobody had moved into Lower Price Hill with a business in 20 years until we moved in. Initially, I just wrote some checks to the school ... but finally, as a team, we decided we were going to sign up for tutoring.”

That volunteer effort, and its evolution into Adopt A Class, has helped transform students’ educa tional experience. Adopter teams make monthly visits to classrooms, devise various educational projects and sponsor field trips to partici pating businesses. Some examples Burwinkel cited:

Great Parks walks students through the process of plan ning, designing, managing and maintaining a park, then takes students to a park with the plans and drawings they’ve created to see how they’d work in real life.

Merrill Lynch divides a class

into teams, each of which manages a portfolio during the school year.

Neyer Holdings divides a class into “communities,” each of which has a “vacant building” in it and must decide what the community can do with the building while making money at the same time.

The experience can open new vistas for students. Burwinkel said he’s been told that before Adopt A Class came to one school, students would talk about becoming, say, a hair stylist, an NBA player or a rapper.

“Today, they say things like, I want to be a data analyst for P&G. I want to be a research chemist. I want to be a medical tech. I want to be an accountant. Now they have so much more to dream about than they had before.”

“The schools that we go into are over 75 percent Title I,” he said. “That means 75 percent of kids are below poverty level. … They don’t have all the resources, all the things that other kids do who aren’t in that environment. But you know what? They’re as smart as any kid. They just don’t have the opportunity.

“And that’s what drives me.”

“I said, ‘Where are they?’ He said, ‘Bill, here’s our dilemma. I have people I hired back in 2020,

but I still haven’t seen them.’ They see Adopt A Class as a way to help re-engage their people and bring them together. And it worked. They had 30-some people sign up.”

Burwinkel’s next goal is ambitious: “100 percent coverage for Adopt A Class. We’re serv ing about 60 percent of kids in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. So there’s 40 percent of kids out there that aren’t involved in the program yet.”

He said that any student, regard less of neighborhood or income, can benefit from the program.

Learning he was to receive the Philanthropist of the Year award left him feeling “embarrassed and humble,” he said. “But I’m excited about the recognition, because Adopt A Class is a well-hidden secret. We’re working to change that, and this will dramatically in crease our visibility. Businesses are seeing first-hand what the results are. That’s what I’m most excited about.”

Cheers to Stacey Meyer FROM

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR: Stacey Meyer

By Shauna Steigerwald

Tragic loss, and help she received, led to life of volunteering

Stacey Meyer knows about childhood grief firsthand: At age 9, she lost her mother to suicide.

That tragic loss led her to Fernside Center for Grieving Children, where she felt safe talking about what she was going through. Having that outlet made a huge difference in her young life.

“I don’t feel like I would have been as suc cessful through high school without having gone through Fernside. I would probably have remained kind of lost,” Meyer said.

By the time she started college at the University of Cincinnati, where she earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in German studies, she felt ready to help other children experiencing a loss. She started volunteering at Fernside that same year, first as a group facilita tor and then with camps.

That was in 1996. Aside from some time away from Cincinnati – Meyer lived in Switzerland and then in Germany, where she was a Fulbright scholar – she has volunteered with Fernside ever since. Twice a month, she serves as a group facilitator for children who’ve lost a significant adult.

“It’s hard sometimes because it breaks your heart,” she said. “You don’t want to see them hurting.”

Meyer often sees the positive outcomes she herself experienced reflected in the kids she now serves.

“Some of them will come in and don’t want to be there, don’t want to say a thing,” she said. “And then they’ll end up starting to talk after a few groups. And then somewhere in the middle, they end up becoming the leader in the group almost, the Type A person doing all the talking.”

She has heard of grades improving and watched kids get through nightmares and other challenges after coming to Fernside.

Over the years, her volunteer duties there have expanded into helping with fundraising, and she volunteers in that way with other orga nizations as well. That evolved, in part, because of her career: Meyer is fine wine manager for Heidelberg Distributing Company and can leverage her relationships with wineries – and make use of her own wine expertise – to help raise funds.

Among her commitments is serving as a com mittee member and past chair for the Fernside Classic, an auction dinner and golf outing, since 2009. Meyer works on both aspects of the event,

soliciting large sponsorships and donations for the golf outing, as well as auction packages for the dinner.

Fernside is an affiliate of Hospice of Cincinnati, and Meyer has been on the com mittee for that organization’s annual Gourmet Melodies event since 2012. She now chairs the event’s food and beverage committee, lending her expertise to help with things like pairing wine and beer with the food.

Katherine Buescher, events and commu nication development officer for Bethesda Foundation, oversees the committees for both the Fernside Classic and Gourmet Melodies. (Hospice of Cincinnati is part of Bethesda Hospital; Bethesda is part of TriHealth. The Bethesda Foundation is their fundraising arm.)

“(Meyer) is the moving force that gets people going to donate,” Buescher said. “I don’t think our events would be as successful without her.”

As a committee member for the Cincinnati International Wine Festival, Meyer has been heavily involved with the planning of that event since 2009.

“It’s so great to be able to raise money by creating a fun event for people,” she said.

Meyer also volunteers at Hyde Park School, where her daughter, McKenna, attends.

A big part of what Meyer brings to her vol unteer commitments is the ability to get others on board.

“She’s passionate about the charities she par ticipates in, and her passion becomes infectious. You just want to be part of what she’s doing,” said Mary Horn, vice president of fine wine sales and education at Heidelberg, who has known Meyer for 20 years and brought her into the company.

“Generosity and philanthropy come easily for her,” Horn added. “It’s just intrinsically the core of her being, that passion and that drive to do good and help others. It’s inspiring.

Meyer said she saw the volunteer spirit mod eled in her own family, from her father who always helped at her school or extracurriculars (and to pick up and serve pizza at Fernside), to her grandfather, who always worked the board of elections or volunteered at church.

Meyer has obviously followed suit, but always wishes she could do more. She said the time she gives back to Fernside in particular feels “minis cule” compared to everything the center did for her family – at no charge to them.

“There’s no way that my sister or I would be

as OK as we are now without the help we got,” she said. “Fernside covered psychologists for both of us, then just the regular group night sessions – it was just huge. I want to say I feel like we got special attention, but we didn’t. They take care of everybody as well as they can. It’s just incredible.”

Vicky Ott, executive director of Fernside, has worked there since Meyer started volunteering in the ’90s and has seen her impact over the years.

“There’s no way I could quantify the impact she’s had,” Ott said. “She’s probably touched literally hundreds of people’s lives at Fernside, and that’s directly, not indirectly by fundraising … that enables us to keep our programs free.”

“I can’t say enough positive things about her,” Horn said of her friend and colleague. “She’s just an incredible person, and I’m so glad that she’s being honored. I can’t think of anyone who’s more deserving.” 

Stacey Meyer

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It’s hard sometimes because it breaks your heart. You don’t want to see them hurting.

– Stacey Meyer

OUTSTANDING CORPORATION: SugarCreek, John & Julie Richardson

Saving masses of food for those who need it most

Rescuing nearly 1 million pounds of food annually – almost all of it highly valuable protein – is part of what makes SugarCreek the 2022 National Philanthropy Day corporate winner.

But why do the company’s own ers, John and Julie Richardson, give back so generously?

“To whom much is given, much is expected,” Julie said. “And there are so many generous people in the Greater Cincinnati region, we en joy being part of that community.”

Since taking over the com pany in 1990 when his father, John S. Richardson, retired, John Richardson has transformed the family-owned business from a raw bacon manufacturer with $50 million in annual sales to a widely diversified company with more than $1 billion in annual sales and seven facilities.

The Richardsons have con tributed to the community for years, helping local sports teams, building low-cost housing and day care centers and being a consistent supporter and sponsor for various fundraising events and campaigns, especially for Stepping Stones and La Soupe.

In recent months, the company has supported new foundations formed by Cincinnati Bengals stars Sam Hubbard and Joe Burrow. And while separate from SugarCreek, the Richardson fam ily has also now become involved in redevelopment of historic properties and iconic brands in Cincinnati.

WCPO Channel 9’s Dan Monk reported that Hamilton County records show a corporate affiliate of SugarCreek paid $3.8 million since September 2021 for 40 Overthe-Rhine properties, including seven parcels where breweries thrived in the 1800s. Monk wrote that Richardson plans to invest more than $30 million to restore

the buildings and revive some of Cincinnati’s most iconic beer brands in the process.

Separate from the real estate purchase, Richardson also bought Cincinnati Beverage Co., whose portfolio of brands includes Moerlein, Little Kings, Hudepohl and Burger beers.

John was born in Chicago and had lived in several places before settling in Washington Court House, Ohio, where his dad built the first plant in 1966. At that time, SugarCreek was strictly a bacon business. Today, that legacy remains a big part of its base, but the company has expanded.

SugarCreek is a diversified food manufacturing co-packing compa ny with 3,000 employees and John is now chairman of the company’s board of directors.

Among its many innovations was the implementation of a cook ing process known as sous vide, which expanded its offerings of ready-to-eat food products for its retail and food-service custom ers. Sous vide cooking involves prepping and vacuum packing food so it can be slow-cooked in a circulated water bath. SugarCreek operates North America’s largest sous vide manufacturing facility in Indiana, while also expanding to Kansas to reduce shipping times.

Prior to the launch of its program that rescues 700,000900,000 pounds of food annually,

if a customer wanted to change the flavoring from maple to hickory smoked, for example, all the inven tory the company had of the maple flavored went to a landfill.

In early 2017, SugarCreek des ignated its Cincinnati facilities as the best locations to begin a rescue initiative. A process was created by

its quality assurance team to rescue products that could not be sold, but were still safe. Once a product is deemed acceptable, the items are converted to rescue inventory and shipped to places like La Soupe and Master Provisions. In 2018, in an effort to continue to reduce waste, Sugarcreek began rescuing all of its “ends and pieces” that formerly went to landfill. In 2020, the com pany continued its communityimprovement push, becoming a member of Green Umbrella, Cincinnati’s regional sustainability alliance that enhances the environ mental health and vitality in the region. 

Julie and John Richardson

A career of turning on the lights in donor’s hearts and minds

Researchers have identified more than 60 reasons people donate to non profit organizations. Those reasons include “mortality, legacy, guilt, true altruism or an emotional reaction to something,” according to John Olberding, a principal at Chanticleer Consulting and this year’s recipient of the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Lifetime Achievement Award.

For Olberding, whose career in nonprofit development has spanned four decades, the rea sons for giving were intuitive, imbibed simply by growing up in a home devoted to the greater good. At age 15, Olberding was already assisting his father, the first development director at St. Xavier High School, by organizing index cards for the parents’ fund drive.

“He was new in the fundraising profession at the time, 1969, so I saw what it was like first hand,” Olberding recalled. “He loved interact ing with people, inspiring them, helping them give. When I had the opportunity to move into that profession, after going into sports early in my career, I had a mentor, a model and a cheer leader in my dad.”

The Olberding family’s connection to philanthropy extends far beyond the father-son bond. Meg Olberding, one of John’s younger sisters, was a long-term spokesperson for the City of Cincinnati, a publications director for the Cincinnati Museum Center and executive director of JDRF. David Olberding, an uncle, as an early and longtime president, helped make the Dater Foundation a major force. Don Olberding, another uncle, and Don’s wife, Irma, founded the Reggae Run as a positive re sponse to the loss of their 26-year-old daughter, Maria, who was stabbed to death while jogging. For 20 years, John Olberding ran check-in for the run, which became the second largest run in Cincinnati before being incorporated into the Flying Pig’s half-mile event.

Olberding, who caddied at Cincinnati Country Club throughout high school and col lege, experienced the fruits of charitable giving as an Evans Scholar at Miami University. The Evans Scholars Foundation, which covered his tuition and housing, was one of the first chari ties he donated to as a young adult.

Caddying also shaped Olberding’s under standing of people who have the means to give.

“It was an interesting way for someone who didn’t come from a lot of money to get comfort able with people who did and to understand

they’re good people – not ‘the others’ – and they have the same qualities, good and bad, as any body else,” Olberding said. “Years later, I ended up working on charitable campaigns with many of the people I had caddied for.”

Olberding believes the desire to give is innate. “Philanthropists are born in the sense that the inclination to give and the reward that we get from it is pretty universal. That said, I think philanthropy itself – giving – is something that requires help. People don’t know how to do it as well as they could. They don’t know what’s needed. They don’t know what their role is in the universe. When I think of the great families I had the privilege of working with, they all needed help, whether they were a Herschede, a Rosenthal, a Corbett, a Lindner, a Durr, a Fath or a Budig. Many of the great families who have given so much had to learn how to do it by teach ing themselves or getting help along the way.”

Not everyone who can give actually does. Olberding estimates that a quarter of wealthy older adults give generously. What holds the others back?

“Fear is the visceral answer,” Olberding said. “Older folks who have gone through ups and downs may have a reluctance to face their mor tality and what they want done with their assets after they die.”

Others might shy away from the commit ment that comes with making a major gift. “We fundraisers can be pesty,” Olberding added, with a laugh.

It is one of the ironies of philanthropy (and perhaps human nature) that, according to statis tics, the wealthier a person is, the smaller their giving is as a percentage of their wealth.

“I’ve never personally seen a sacrificial gift –which I define as lifestyle-changing – made by a rich person,” Olberding said. “The greatest philanthropists I’ve known have not been the wealthiest people.

“African Americans give a higher percentage of their income than other people. It’s a degree of sacrifice when you can say, ‘I’m willing to put the common good above my fears of having my life taken care of, my children’s lives taken care of, my grandchildren’s lives. I saw a lady in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, whose appliances were stored on her porch, who gave $100,000, her life’s income. I saw a janitor at seminary who cared enough that he had saved to give a six-fig ure gift. Those are the philanthropists – the mil lionaire next door, or the not-even-a-millionaire

– who are significant to organizations.”

Then again, nothing is more satisfying for Olberding than when “the light goes on” in a donor’s heart and the financial floodgates open.

Olberding views the late Marge Schott as one of those individuals. Schott gave donations over

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John Olberding

Philanthropists are born in the sense that the inclination to give and the reward that we get from it is pretty universal. That said, I think philanthropy itself –giving – is something that requires help.

– John Olberding

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN FUNDRAISING: John Olberding

By Cindy Starr

the years, but her first milliondollar gift, which Olberding took part in seeking, came near the end of her life.

“And once she started giving in a major way, she couldn’t stop,” Olberding said. “After a lifetime of being fearful and all that comes with it, Marge Schott began to give especially generously later in life. And I think she started changing for the better as a person.”

To those considering taking the first steps toward a philanthropic future, Olberding advises ap proaching the move as you would any other investment. He mentions Otto Budig as an example of some one who educated himself about the arts organizations he wanted to support by engaging with them and serving on their boards.

“He has become a generational force,” Olberding said. “He’s some one who followed his instincts very well – for the benefit of the arts and for himself. He’s one of the happiest people I know of.”

Olberding’s own personal legacy likely will be in the world

of fundraising. Although he isn’t sure how that legacy will look, he knows that the fundraising profes sion needs help.

“The major challenge fac ing philanthropy has been for many years, and continues to be, turnover,” he said. “The average life-expectancy in a fundraising job is only 20 months. The result is that in a relationship-based world, those relationships don’t have time to take root and grow.”

His legacy, he added, will be “a considerate philanthropy.” His big-money philanthropy – the gift of commitment and rare talent over a period of four decades – is still accruing.

Although Olberding is reluctant to take personal credit for gifts made to organizations that he has worked with – some of those gifts could have happened without him – we do know this: The hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and bequests that he has helped to inspire and coax across the finish line will be paying dividends in perpetuity. 

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The Power of Music congratulates Joseph Kayne and the 2022 National Philanthropy Day award winners for their commitment to building a strong, united and joyous community for everyone.

Our mission is to enhance the lives of people who are isolated or detached from the broader community by connecting with them and bringing them the joy of live music performed by high school students. www.powerofmusicih.org

OUTSTANDING

Power of Music brings joy to the disconnected

It started with an idea inspired by Joseph Kayne’s grand mother: Enrich the lives of people who are in need through the power of music.

It grew into an official Indian Hill High School student club: The Power of Music.

Now, POM is a fully operational nonprofit organization with an of ficial mission: Enhance the lives of people who are isolated or detached from the broader community – people seeking shelter, people seeking medical care and people in nursing homes – by connecting with them and bringing them the joy of live music performed by high school students.

The student who founded it, Indian Hill High School senior Joseph Kayne, is the Outstanding

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Youth in Philanthropy for the 2022 National Philanthropy Day.

“My grandma is a 92-year-old living testament to the power of music,” said Kayne. “She spent her life as a professional singer and mu sician. She taught me to love music and the joy it brings to everyone who listens to and participates in it. She lives alone in New York now, and I will often Facetime with her and sing her songs, bringing her joy and breaking up her time alone. I want to bring that joy to the mil lions of people in our country who are isolated and feeling lonely. The Power of Music is a vehicle to orga nize high school students who want to be part of the solution, provid ing joy and human interaction to our isolated and lonely neighbors through in-person music.”

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Kayne’s nomination was sup ported by Jeff Clark, Indian Hill High School vocal music director and The Power of Music board member, along with leaders of various organizations including Inter Parish Ministry Food Pantry and the Cincinnati Academy of Performing Arts.

“What Joseph has inspired is quite unique, and it absolutely deserves to be celebrated on this prestigious stage,” said Clark.

The need is greater than ever as larger numbers of people experi ence social isolation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, POM disseminated video recordings of solos, duets and ensembles. POM has now performed for many non profits in-person.

The need is real. Using data

from the nationally representa tive U.S. Health and Retirement study, Perissinotto et al. found that 43 percent of Americans aged 60 and older reported feeling lonely.

Studies show that such feelings increase the risk of dementia, heart disease and stroke. Studies show that any communication with people experiencing loneliness is vitally important to their wellbeing, but live music is even more special.

STUDIES

“The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living.”

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Joseph Kayne

Joseph Kayne

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Proven program to prevent evictions coming to Hamilton County

GreenLight

Cincinnati is launching its fifth local initiative – this one aimed at fixing a big problem in the region’s affordable housing crisis.

The 18-year-old Boston-based nonprofit venture philanthropy fund, which began its work in Cincinnati in 2016, is leading a partnership to bring a proven initiative to Hamilton County to prevent non-payment evictions.

The Renew Collaborative was created by 25-yearold Massachusetts-based HomeStart, which is dedicated to ending homelessness by as sisting individuals and families in obtaining and stabilizing their housing situations by developing strategies to prevent homelessness before it starts.

GreenLight identifies national programs that can be expanded across its 11-city footprint and then works with local funders and other partners to bring the national ideas to its local markets.

“We recognize this as a unique time and oppor tunity for Cincinnati to increase local, cross-sector capacity and this model was identified through our community-driven evaluation process as the most effective eviction prevention program in the country,” said Clare Zlatic Blankemeyer, executive director of GreenLight Fund Cincinnati.

The Renew Collaborative will expand the capacity of a team at United Way of Greater Cincinnati to keep families housed at Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority. The collaborative will help tenants facing eviction develop a financial blueprint to pay back a portion of their debt while keeping current on rent payments.

Non-payment is the most common cause of eviction in Hamilton County – caus ing trauma, interrupting employment and impacting children’s learning, health and mental health. Before the pandemic, the local evic tion filing rate was higher than the national average and is steadily rising back to pre-pandemic levels due in part to the end of federal COVID emergency rental assistance.

The collaborative is expanding nationally and identified Cincinnati as an important expansion region. In the next four years, the Renew Collaborative will scale up to preserve tenancies in 300 households in CMHA while also exploring expansion with other largescale property owners. It is anticipated that a minimum of 90% of families will retain their housing after three years due to Renew Collaborative’s ongoing support services for

Ignite acquires data provider Blue Fox

In a world where data is king, a fast-growing Cincinnati-based consulting firm for nonprofits and foundations has greatly expanded its crown. Scott Provancher’s Ignite Philanthropy has acquired Will Lester’s Blue Fox LLC. Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2017 by 20-year arts data veteran Lester, Blue Fox studied patron and customer behavior to uncover action able data-driven insights and delivered data analytics customized to each of its clients. After operating his own philanthropic consulting firm since 2013, Provancher acquired Ignite from local fundraising legend Susan Ingmire in 2016. Now, Lester will run a data division for Ignite, continuing the work the two organizations have done together informally for the last five years. “With the acquisition of Blue Fox,” Provancher said, “we are doubling down on leveraging civic data to inform and support the continued success of our clients and the nonprofit sector as a whole.”

renters who faced eviction.

The Renew Collaborative was created by HomeStart because the expense of a property owner executing a non-payment eviction is three to five times more costly than the expense of stopping the eviction and keeping the tenant housed. The cost-benefit of eviction prevention is so compelling that property owners can save money by financially supporting the Renew Collaborative eviction prevention program. The cost savings have been calculated at over $16 million to property owners since 2008 in other cities.

GreenLight Fund Cincinnati identified the benefit of expanding the Renew Collaborative to Hamilton County after it conducted a rigorous, year-long selection effort to find an initia tive with a proven track record of preserving tenancies while also unlocking new financial resources for a major issue that is much larger than any private or public funding could sup port alone.

Renew joins GreenLight Cincinnati’s four other portfolio organizations:

• Center for Employment Opportunities,

• UpTogether (formerly Family Independence Initiative),

• First Place for Youth’s My First Place pro gram at NewPath and

• The Literacy Lab’s Leading Men Fellowship.

The HomeStart Renew Collaborative is fund ed by GreenLight Fund Cincinnati and Fifth Third Bancorp’s Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.

Sisters of Charity severing deep ties to Cincinnati nonprofits

A nearly 200-year-old ministry of the Catholic church in Greater Cincinnati is ending its sponsorship of five well-known organizations throughout the region, citing a shortage of volunteer leaders and other resources. The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati will end its support for Mount St. Joseph University, DePaul Cristo Rey High School, St. Joseph Home, Seton High School and the Bayley over the next several months.

The severing of the sponsorships will loosen the ties the Sisters of Charity have had with Cincinnati since four sisters came here in 1829, 20 years after the women’s congregation was founded by St. Elizabeth Bayley Seton in Maryland. There are 206 members of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati serving in 17 U.S. dioceses (10 states) and one foreign country. Currently, 184 sisters serve in the Cincinnati Catholic archdiocese.

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Clare Zlatic Blankemeyer, executive director of GreenLight Fund Cincinnati

Provancher

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The leader of Ohio’s oldest continu ously operating public market and one of Cincinnati’s most cherished institutions, Joe Hansbauer, has been named president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati, a nonprofit Christian housing ministry. Hansbauer was president and CEO at Findlay Market for a decade.

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The event business at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber has a new leader. Maddie Regan, previously managing director of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Co., will join the chamber’s leadership team as the vice president of experiences and events.

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Travis Nipper has been named Marketing and Communications Director for Master Provisions. He directs all marketing operations, communications, events, special fundraising and grants. He currently serves as president of Northern Kentucky Youth Athletics, which provides sports and growth opportunities to over 600 families. Nipper also taught adult and traditional students for over eight years as an adjunct associate professor at Thomas More University. He is a former president of the American Marketing Association-Cincinnati Chapter. As Master Provisions’ new marketing and development specialist, Nikki Herrmann supports a wide variety of communications, public relations, development and donor rela tions projects. Herrmann started at Master Provisions as a communication intern from the University of Cincinnati in the fall of 2021.

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The Hamilton Community Foundation named Amy K. Berlean as its director of communications. Berlean has extensive experi ence in marketing and communications in the nonprofit sector and more than five years of community foundation experience. After spend ing three years in radio news, she was recruited to the nonprofit sector and has since accumu lated more than 25 years in the field.

LifeCare Consultants, advocates for seniors and their loved ones, and has worked with seniors most of her career.

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The Center for Great Neighborhoods said its longtime staff member and associ ate director, Shannon Ratterman, will assume the role of interim executive director. Ratterman joined the center in April 2013 as a community development specialist.

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The Cure Starts Now Foundation hired Jim Getgey as its director of marketing. Getgey recently launched a new leadership company called G2 Leadership Institute Inc., focused on elevating aspiring young executive leaders. Getgey has had roles with the Hearst Corp., the PGA Tour and the Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Club.

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Greater Cincinnati Foundation CEO Ellen Katz announced she will leave the organization early next summer.

Central Clinic Behavioral Health promoted Kimberly Mages to the new role of chief clinical officer. The CCO’s role is to work collaboratively with senior leadership and provide support to clinical programs across the agency. Mages joined Central Clinic in 2008 as a case manager.

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Christ Hospital Foundation has filled four positions: Rachel Fausz , executive di rector of development and Gabriel Trieger, di rector of development, have both been added to source and manage major gifts; Jodi Zerbe will manage yearly campaigns and bolster individual giving; and Joe Creaghead joins the team as the grants and communications manager.

91.7 WVXU has added two new report ers to its team. Former Cincinnati Edition assistant producer Nick Swartsell is joining the staff as a full-time reporter. Zack Carreon, former content editor and photojournalist at WTOL-TV in Toledo, is the new educa tion reporter. Four new staff members joined the content team at Cincinnati Public Radio, home to 90.9 WGUC, 91.7 WVXU and 88.5

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55 North, a community-based nonprofit designed to empower adults 55 and older to age in place at home, named Rachel Hodesh as its interim community resource manager. Hodesh is the president and owner of Senior

WMUB: Elizabeth Asgian, community events and volunteer coordinator; Kahvah Whittaker, program coordinator; Brittany Mayti, social media coordinator; Nikea Randolph, WGUC classical music host.

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Center for Addiction Treatment , a nonprofit inpatient and outpatient sub stance use disorder treatment facility, named new board members Dorothea Langsam and William Everett Gibson. Langsam, deputy general counsel and senior vice president of Fifth Third Bank, is an experienced litigator who previously served as a clerk for judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals in San Francisco and Delaware. Gibson has been a billing operations manager for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for 10 years.

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The American Heart Association named Beverly A. Grant , a long-standing sup porter of the AHA and passionate champion for health equity, as chair of the Heart of Greater Cincinnati campaign. Grant will lead the cam paign, culminating in the 30th annual Greater Cincinnati Heart Ball. Grant has been actively involved with the Greater Cincinnati AHA for many years and shared her personal journey with heart disease at the 2022 Heart Ball.

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Mitchell Meikle was named program manager at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum

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Ha bitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati named Tracy Wells its new vice president of development and communica tions. Wells joins Habitat from the YWCA, where she was vice president of development for the last five years.

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Northern Kentucky Tri-County Economic Development Corp. named three new business and community leaders to its board, and named three members to new officer positions. Changes to the board’s officer slate in clude DBL Law partner Jim Dressman moving from treasurer to vice chair, Brandstetter Carroll Inc. President Ben Brandstetter taking the po sition of secretary and Fifth Third Bank Senior Vice President Carey Sanders taking the role of treasurer. Tom Banta , chief real estate officer at Corporex Companies LLC, will remain board chair. Joining the board are Newport Mayor Tom Guidugli, retired Duke Energy executive Jim Henning and LB Industries Inc. President John Mocker

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Cincinnati Preservation Association named Lindsey Armor its engagement and development director. Armor joins CPA from the Cincinnati Waldorf School, where she was development director.

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The board of Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries will elevate Mark Hiemstra to president and chief executive officer effec tive Jan. 1. Hiemstra will replace longtime CEO Joseph S. Byrum, who will move into an advisory consultant role when he retires after 45 years with the agency. Hiemstra has served as Ohio Valley Goodwill’s chief operating officer since 2020 and previously served in the same role for Goodwill Industries of Central Texas in Austin as well as vice president of the organiza tion for more than 10 years.

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The board of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra said its music director, Eckart Preu , signed a four-year contract extension through the 2026 season. Preu is CCO’s fifth music director, a position he has held since October 2016.

Aviatra Accelerators, the Cincinnatibased nonprofit accelerator devoted to empowering women-owned startups and small businesses, named Jill Morenz as its new chief executive officer. She was formerly the director of community initiatives and communications for the Catalytic Fund. She takes over from Aviatra founder Nancy Aichholz.

Margo Spence , president and CEO of First Step Home women’s addiction treat ment agency, announced her retirement effective Jan. 20, 2023, after leading the agency for over 21 years.

Cincinnati Works named Wendy Kobler as vice president of development and exter nal relations. As vice president of philanthropy and engagement at Ithaca College, Kobler increased private donations by 50 percent and launched numerous student and alumni engage ment campaigns.

NKY Chamber of Commerce hon ored Diane E. Whalen with the NKY Community Award. The mayor of Florence was recognized for her professional and civic contri butions to the community.

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Gifts/Grants

PNC’s largest grant goes to Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

The Cincinnati Youth Collaborative has received a two-year, $450,000 grant from the PNC Foundation. This is the largest grant given to a local nonprofit from the PNC Foundation. The funds will support financial literacy, money management and organizational initiatives in 10 schools in the Cincinnati Public, North College Hill and Winton Woods school districts. The grant also has established and will support CYC PNC Scholars, a corporate group mentoring pro gram dedicated to exposing 20 students to career pathways in the banking industry. The program will include workshops, field trips, role-playing, shadowing and paid summer roles.

Scripps raises $1 million to give $200,000 books to kids

The Scripps Howard Fund’s 2022 “If You Give a Child a Book…” campaign raised $1 mil lion during its seventh annual childhood literacy campaign, which will provide 200,000 books for kids across the country. For every $5 donation, the Scripps Howard Fund will give one book to a child in need. The books will be distributed to nonprofits and Title I schools with high percent ages of children from low-income families.

With the funds raised through this year’s campaign, the total number of books distributed since 2016 will surpass 1 million.

The childhood literacy campaign is supported by The E.W. Scripps Co. and its employees, the communities it serves and Scripps fam ily members. The campaign’s primary focus is on reaching children living in poverty, with a special focus on distributing books to kids in kindergarten through third grade, when they are learning to read. Through the fund’s partner ship with Scholastic, Scripps’ local stations and national networks distribute the free books dur ing book fairs held annually January-May. The fund’s goal is to ensure every student in partner Title I schools receives 10 books each year.

History trust gives grant to preserve Civil War weapons

Behringer-Crawford Museum received a Kentucky Local History Trust Fund grant for local history organizations to preserve and share Kentucky stories. The award of nearly $2,500 is being used for the purchase of gun safes from

Tri-State Lock in Florence to better preserve Civil War weaponry and valuable artifacts. As the administrators of the fund, KHS has awarded nearly 50 local history organizations to date, with a total of $65,522 distributed across the commonwealth.

Matching gift to help Cystic Fibrosis fight

Dayton’s Dr. Bart Barthelemy and an anony mous donor have offered a $50,000 matching gift opportunity for Ohio’s Cystic Fibrosis central and southern Ohio chapter. Half of the match will support new or increased gifts in the amount of $1 to $9,999 to the annual fund of the Cincinnati/Dayton Office. The other half will support the same approach to the Columbus office’s annual fund. The match period ends Dec. 31 or when the match is achieved.

St. Vincent de Paul NKY gets $20,000 for microloans

St. Vincent de Paul Northern Kentucky re ceived an anonymous $20,000 grant to support its microloan program. This unique program provides a low-interest loan to neighbors who need assistance with reliable transportation, home repairs, medical and education expenses, or retirement of predatory loans. The program is administered through Kemba Credit Union to provide an alternative to high-interest loans when crises arise.

The loan is coupled with financial counseling provided by a volunteer mentor. The mentor not only works with the recipient to meet loan obligations but also offers support and advice to reach financial stability through budgeting and saving. St. Vincent de Paul NKY has provided 40 loans valued totaling over $60,000 since the program started in 2019. Of these 40 loans, 17 have been paid off in full.

Jason’s World Tour aims to help St. Joseph Home

Jason’s World Tour, which brings waves, smiles and honking horns to places around Sharonville, Blue Ash and beyond, is looking to improve on last year’s success, when it doubled its goals of 10,000 honks for $10,000, and raised more than $23,000 for St. Joseph Home.

Jason is a young man with cerebral palsy who primarily uses a wheelchair for mobility. He is well known throughout his hometown of Blue Ash, and beyond, for spreading joy by waving at passersby who honk in response.

Jason’s dad, Pete White, wanted to share Jason’s gifts with the world and that’s how the Honks for Jason campaign was born. For 2022, they aim to raise even more to benefit St. Joseph Home, a local provider of residential and support programs for individuals with complex physical and developmental disabili ties and the adaptive ball field campaign for Mason Challenger League, a baseball league for children with disabilities. Jason attends one of St. Joseph Home’s adult day programs and participates in Mason Challenger baseball. White credits “super community partners” for growing the Honks for Jason campaign from a family’s quest to a community-based cause. Now businesses are reaching out to the Whites and asking if they can be involved in supporting Jason, his friend-making and fundraising.

Connor Group provides Matthew 25 with flights

Dayton-based Connor Group has donated transportation for Matthew 25 Ministries’ disas ter response team. The first of several flights took place Oct. 8. The donation will enable Matthew 25 to move quickly and efficiently into the disaster area, rotating staff members to en sure maximum effectiveness with their response activities.

Blue Ash-based Matthew 25 is responding to Hurricane Ian. Due to the severity of the disaster, Matthew 25 anticipates an ongoing response to meet the challenges of relief and recovery and has established a rotating schedule of team members. Connor Group Managing Partner Larry Connor has stepped up before when disaster struck, supporting post-Hurricane Dorian (2019) and Maria (2017) relief, evacua tion efforts in Puerto Rico in 2017 and airlifting medical supplies to earthquake victims in Haiti in 2010.

“We have a unique opportunity to help people and make a difference during situations like these,” Connor said.

In addition to deploying their disaster response team, Matthew 25 is also shipping truckloads of relief aid (nearly 400,000 pounds through mid-October) to help meet the imme diate and ongoing needs of those impacted.

Faths pledge $3 million to support Springer School

Cincinnati philanthropists Harry and Linda Fath have pledged $3 million to Springer School and Center in Hyde Park, hoping to leverage a final $400,000 in giving to help the school hit its $15 million capital fundraising goal. For 50 years, Springer has helped students with learning disabilities. Springer offers a school for students aged 6-14 and outreach programs and learning disability resources for students, par ents and teachers in the Greater Cincinnati area.

RDI helps Meals on Wheels recover from van vandalism

After four vans from Meals on Wheels Southwest OH & Northern KY were vandal ized late last month, the community, led by RDI Corp., stepped up to ensure local seniors who need transportation were able to get it. On Sept. 28, Meals on Wheels discovered cata lytic converters had been removed from four passenger vans used to take seniors to doctor appointments, grocery stores, recreational trips and more. That left Meals on Wheels with half its available fleet, and more than $8,000 in repairs. RDI Corp. acted quickly to help Meals on Wheels, ensuring that services to seniors continued after only a brief interruption. Meals on Wheels transports 80+ seniors daily to critical medical, grocery, adult day centers and other appointments that keep them safe and out of nursing homes. With RDI’s donation and other community help, Meals on Wheels raised $10,000 – enough to cover the catalytic converter replacements, repairs, and installation of anti-theft devices that will prevent them from being stolen again. In the first six months of 2022, Meals on Wheels provided 20,413 trips to seniors in Hamilton County.

Wine Festival gives $261,000 to help 31 local nonprofits

The Cincinnati International Wine Festival said it has now raised more than $6.75 million in total for local nonprofits since its inception 31 years ago, including $261,000 donated to 31 organizations as a result of this year’s $520,000 in fundraising. The festival is a nonprofit orga nization founded in 1991 to celebrate the wine industry and raise funds for charities focused on the arts, education, health and human services. The annual celebration is one of the Midwest’s largest festivals.

Miami University halfway to $1 billion fundraising goal

Miami University has gone public with a fundraising goal of $1 billion – the largest in the university’s history – using two transformational gifts as part of its announcement.

The university surpassed the halfway mark, raising more than $564 million since fundrais ing efforts began in July 2016. John Metz and his husband, Ali Khan, have made a commit ment to bequeath Miami $46 million upon their passing. This is the largest individual gift in Miami’s history. The school announced a $2 million gift from Miami board member Dinesh Paliwal and his wife, Ila, to endow a deanship for the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) and fund scholarships.

Duke Energy Foundation gives $115,000 for environment work

Duke Energy Foundation awarded $115,000 in grants to 12 organizations in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky to fund local wildlife conservation, healthy habitats and environmen tal projects, as well as environmental programs to help communities protect their natural resources and mitigate the effects of climate change. This funding is a long-standing invest ment for the Duke Energy Foundation. Over the past four years, the foundation has sup ported over 70 regional nonprofit organizations with more than $780,000 in grants to propel their environmental resiliency projects.

Bengals Hubbard and Burrow support families in need

Two of the Cincinnati Bengals’ most popular players made announcements signaling deeper support for the Greater Cincinnati community. Cincinnati native and Bengals defensive end Sam Hubbard is teaming up with Crayons to Computers and the Cincinnati/Dayton division of Kroger to provide students nutritional and educational support through his foundation’s first program, Hubbard’s Cupboards.

Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow announced the launch of a nonprofit foundation – along with his parents, Robin and Jimmy Burrow –to help meet the needs of families working to overcome food insecurity and childhood mental health issues. The Joe Burrow Foundation will provide resources and support to the underprivi leged and underserved in Ohio and Louisiana.

Chase gives $500,000 to link Black women to tech careers

JPMorgan Chase is granting $500,000 to expand a Cincinnati regional chamber talent program aimed at connecting Black women to technology careers, with two local nonprof its and a foundation providing key support. The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber is collaborating with local nonprofits Brighton Center and Mercy Neighborhood Ministries to identify candidates for the Google program and support them while they participate in the classes. Brighton and Mercy already provide occupational training for their clients, leading to placements with area employers. The nationwide Google program includes 150 companies that hire people with Google certificates, broadening the potential employ ment opportunities for program participants. Greater Cincinnati Foundation will provide community relations support and data bench marks for the grant.

Impact 100 gives $101,000 to each of four nonprofits

Four local nonprofits were awarded $101,000 each from Impact 100, the women’s collective-giving organization that has now granted $6.4 million to more than 50 local organizations since its creation in 2001. City Gospel Mission, Found Village, Life Learning Center and Price Hill Will were selected from seven finalists in a vote Sept. 20 by the organi zation’s members.

Wolfs give Chase law school $1 million for chair in ethics

Cincinnati philanthropists David and Nancy Wolf have extended their commitment to justice and fairness through a $1 million gift to Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law to endow a faculty chair in legal ethics and professionalism. The David and Nancy Wolf Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity is the first endowed faculty position in the history of the 129-yearold law school. David Wolf, whose professional career has focused on real estate development, is a 1965 graduate of Chase. 

Who, what, where & why

Lighthouse raises $160K at fall event

Lighthouse Youth & Family Services raised more than $160,000 at its annual fall event. Allison Kahn, the event chair, and Eric Kahn hosted the annual fundraiser at their historic Indian Hill home. More than 250 guests enjoyed lunch, browsing pop-up shops and a silent auction.

Michelle Hopkins, co-host of WCPO’s Cincy Lifestyle, served as emcee for the program featuring Roni Hyman, a Lighthouse foster parent and board member. Proceeds from the fall event support the services Lighthouse provides for young people in need.

Allison and Eric Kahn hosted the fall event, and Allison served as event chair.

Carole Rigaud, Merri Gaither Smith and emcee Michelle Hopkins, cohost of Cincy Lifestyle

Libby Callan, Justin Hucke and Amy Peterson

Allison Kahn, Allison Kropp, Sarah Carmichael, Wendy Hammond, Janet McMillan and Sia Ruppert

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Jenny Munafo, friend of Jenny’s, Tina DiSanto, Kelly Westfall, Lindsey Levental and Jessica Levine

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Cori Silverstein, Patricia Hensley and Eileen Wilson

Jerry and Roni Hyman are Lighthouse foster parents. Roni is a Lighthouse board member and was featured speaker during the fall event program.

Eileen Chalfie and Tammy Chalfie look at silent auction offerings.

United Way gathers Black changemakers

For the third consecutive year, United Way of Greater Cincinnati gave grants to Blackled organizations to fund creative ideas and impactful projects that help Greater Cincinnati communities address poverty and systemic inequality.

In partnership with bi3 and P&G Always, United Way announced the investment of $1.3 million into 60 Black-led projects and programs promoting social mobility, economic prosperity and systemic change through its Black Empowerment Works program. The organizations selected will provide a range of services to improve health, education, employ ment and economic well-being. The 2022-23 class includes a mix of community coalitions, nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses and individuals.

Grants range from $10,000 to $25,000. Eighteen grantees are returning from the class of 2020 and/or 2021 to continue growing. A panel of 45 community reviewers, who came together with the program leaders at an event to celebrate the program, spent a combined 1,300 hours selecting organizations they be lieve exemplify the mission of the initiative.

United Way says Greater Cincinnati has a wealth of Black social changemakers, as indicated by the 215 applications received for the program. Since its inception in 2020, the program has invested $2.9 million in 100 Black projects. The support goes beyond the grant. Grantees connect with other resources to support their ideas, including having access to volunteers and mentors, training and oppor tunities to share their knowledge with others.

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Life Learning Center raises $454K during gala

Covington-based Life Learning Center hosted over 300 attendees at its eighth annual fundraiser, the 2022 Life Learning Center Seasons Change Gala, presented by MCF Advisors. The organi zation raised a record $454,413 to support its work to reduce recidivism and promote a healthy workforce.

Life Learning Center’s 12-week program Foundations for a Better Life provides “at-risk” individuals tools and support they need to sustain a living-wage career in the wake of overcoming pov erty, incarceration and/or substance use disorder.

The gala was held at MegaCorp Pavilion (formerly PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation) in Newport. Emceeing was Evan Millward, anchor at WCPO Channel 9. H. David Wallace, CEO and board chair for Heritage Bank, served as the live auctioneer. The highlight of the evening was the celebration of the many community contribu tions of Robert (Bob) B. Sathe, chairman of MCF Advisors.

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Great Parks opens bridge connector to Little Miami and Ohio River Trails

Great Parks of Hamilton County has opened the new Beechmont Bridge Connector, a halfmile link that connects multiple trail systems throughout Greater Cincinnati.

“The connector will be a major leap forward in our growing regional trail system, enhancing multimodal transportation options and bringing us all closer together,” said Todd Palmeter, CEO of Great Parks. “In our comprehensive master plan, the public’s top priority for Great Parks is trail expansion and connections. We are thrilled to address that priority with this crucial addi tion to the buildout of our trail network.”

The $7.9 million connector is a half-mile stretch that connects to the existing Little

Miami Scenic Trail terminus near Ohio 32 and will allow trail users to safely travel for the first time from the Little Miami Scenic Trail to the Ohio River Trail. The connector crosses over the Little Miami River on a new bridge extension adjacent to, but separated from, the eastbound lane of the Beechmont Avenue bridge. The trail will turn north under Beechmont Avenue and pass through a new tunnel under the Ohio 32 westbound ramp to Beechmont Avenue where it will connect to the Little Miami Scenic Trail.

The connector becomes a critical link in the regional shared-use trail network, joining four existing or planned trail systems that would otherwise end at the Beechmont Avenue bridge

over the Little Miami River.

On the east side of the river, the connector joins with the 78-mile Little Miami Scenic Trail, one of the longest multiuse trails in the country. To the west, it meets the ArmlederLunken Trail, which continues on to the shareduse trail at Armleder Park, which will eventually connect with Wasson Way.

Also to the west, the connector links with the Lunken Trail, now operated by Great Parks. The Lunken Trail then connects to the Ohio River Trail, which eventually will go to downtown Cincinnati via the Oasis Trail, also to be con structed and operated by Great Parks.

CEO of Great Parks Todd Palmeter and Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval (with shears) and other community leaders at the ribbon cutting to open the Beechmont Bridge Connector

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Partners come together to provide 75 children beds

Seventy-five children in Greater Cincinnati now have a safe, comfortable place to sleep after receiving a new bed through “Hope to Dream,” a partnership between St. Vincent de Paul, Morris Furniture Co., Ashley Furniture and WCPO Channel 9.

Children were selected to participate based on need. The children and their fami lies arrived at the P&G Cincinnati Reds Youth Academy in Roselawn for a morning of activities and a meal from Chick-fil-A. Then, as over 100 volunteers cheered, a curtain lifted, revealing rows of dozens of beds – each marked with the name of a child selected to receive it.

A men’s volunteer group at Crossroads Church delivered the beds to each family’s home. Through an awareness campaign and a phone bank hosted by WCPO, over $20,000 was raised for St. Vincent de Paul to provide even more beds for children throughout the year. Donations of $175 can provide a full bed set and may be made online anytime at SVDPcincinnati.org.

Master Provisions raises $60K through golf outing

Master Provisions hosted its 21st annual Larry Nelson Master Pro Golf Classic, welcoming 128 golfers to play 18 holes at Triple Crown Country Club in Union, Ky. Dole Inc. was presenting sponsor, helping the event to achieve $60,000 in proceeds for Master Provisions programs, which provide food and other resources to local soup kitchens, shelters, food pantries, churches and school programs.

Three chefs winners in Baker Hunt program

Baker Hunt hosted its annual fundraiser, Twilight in the Gardens, with the theme “Battle of the Chefs.” The event featured seven local chefs who teach classes at Baker Hunt.

Attendees of the event were encouraged to taste each dish and vote for their favorite. Andrew Vogel took first place, followed by Candice Jones and Andrew Alcid.

Vogel has been in the Cincinnati culi nary scene for over 15 years. He has worked in various kitchens across the Tristate and taught at the Midwest Culinary Institute, The Learning Kitchen and Baker Hunt.

Jones is a registered dietitian and dietetic program chair at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. They completed the culinary program at Cincinnati State and are currently enrolled in a culinary medicine program. Alcid is the master chef for the Great Wolf Lodge.

Established in 1922, Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center is a nonprofit organization offering professional instruction in nearly all art media, serving more than 3,500 students from school age to adult through art, cooking and movement classes and workshops each year.

beds, donated by Morris Home Furniture, were assembled at the Cincinnati Reds Youth Academy in Roselawn.

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Master Provisions President Roger Babik, Cindy Nelson, Master Provisions Development Director Megan Jackson

Chris Lally, Tim Lally, Master Provisions President Roger Babik, John Mocker and Jerrod Babik

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Chef Andrew Vogel

NKY chamber celebrates community, installs new leader

The Northern Kentucky metro region came together at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center for the NKY Chamber’s annual dinner. Kyle Inskeep of WKRC-TV Local 12 served as emcee for the event, which welcomed 900 guests and recognized many of the region’s top business leaders.

The dinner marked the official passing of the gavel from outgoing NKY Chamber Board Chair Garren Colvin, president and CEO of St. Elizabeth Healthcare, to John Hawkins, presi dent and CEO of MPI Consulting.

The 2022 award honorees were:

• Walter R. Dunlevy/Frontiersman Award, spon sored by Duke Energy: Paul Verst , Verst Group Logistics

• Walter L. Pieschel (MVP) Award, sponsored by Humana: Kristen Smitherman-Voltaire , Turner Construction

• Northern Kentucky Unity Award, spon sored by PNC Bank: The Cincy Region Collaboration by meetNKY & Visit Cincy

• Northern Kentucky ImageMaker Award, sponsored by St. Elizabeth Healthcare: NKY’s World Champion Robotics Teams from Ignite Institute and Covington Catholic

• Devou Cup, presented by The Greater Cincinnati Foundation: Bob and Dell Ann Sathe

• Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III Northern Kentucky Economic Development Award, presented by Northern Kentucky Tri-ED: Rep. Sal Santoro

• The Horizon Award, presented by Horizon Community Funds: Leo Calderón, Esperanza Latino Center of Northern Kentucky

Brent Cooper and John Hawkins pose with Kristen Smitherman-Voltaire and her Pieschel Award.

Paul Verst accepts his Frontiersman Award from Amy Spiller of Duke Energy.

Julie Kirkpatrick of meetNKY and Julie Calvert of Visit Cincy received the Unity Award. Pictured with Brent Cooper, NKY Chamber President and CEO, Warren Weber and Jay Wuest

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Hawkins receives the ceremonial gavel from outgoing Board Chair Garren Colvin.

Ellen Katz, President and CEO of Greater Cincinnati Foundation, presents the Devou Cup award to Dell Ann and Bob Sathe.

Chuck Scheper presents Leo Calderon with the Horizon Award.

Lee Crume presents Rep. Sal Santoro with the Robinson Award.

Wave Pool among 11 nonprofits at NY’s Javits Center Armory Show

Wave Pool exhibited works for the second year in a row at The Armory Show at the Javits Center in New York City, a cornerstone fair showcasing the world's leading international contemporary and modern art galleries. The show welcomed 42,000 visitors this year to see exhibits by 240 inter national galleries. Wave Pool was one of 11 nonprofits exhibiting, alongside such contemporaries as the Aperture Foundation and the Tate Museum. Outside of Chicago, Wave Pool was the only gallery in the Midwest to exhibit at The Armory this year.

Works featured included Welcome Editions by Vanessa German, Welcome Editions by Baseera Khan and prints by Lorena Molina. Wave Pool raised $76,900 gross income in art sales at the fair this year, which will support programs and operations of their campus in Cincinnati as well as to fund future Welcome Editions. Welcome Editions employ Cincinnati-based refugee and immigrant artisans at an above-living wage for their talents in creating these works.

Raptor hosts first run/walk to fund conservation

More than 140 people participated in Raptor Inc.’s first 5K run/walk at Miami Meadows Park in Milford. Miami Township Fire & EMS personnel were honored during the Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony and assisted with the release of a red-tailed hawk rehabilitated at the Raptor Center. The event included a raffle and after-party featuring personal encounters with the rap tors. Proceeds support local bird of prey conservation at Raptor.

PWC raises $15K at new event

The People Working Cooperatively Emerging Leaders Board and the Samuel Adams Cincinnati taproom invited area homebrewers to brew their best for a good cause for the inaugural Boards & Brews Homebrew Competition.

The winning beer was an American Kolsch ale created by Matt Barczewski and Zach Ahting. The team brewed its recipe with Sam Adams head brewer Chris Siegman at the taproom for release at the competition. The tapping was followed by a cornhole tournament, won by Tia Coleman and Zeke Coleman. The competition and tournement raised $15,000, with proceeds benefiting PWC programs.

Cornhole tournament champions Tia Coleman and Zeke Coleman

Homebrew competition champions Matt Barczewski and Zach Ahting pictured with Jock Pitts from PWC and Keith McEly from Sam Adams during the beer tapping

Ron Henlein, Chris Hahnel and Caleb Kingsley at the cornhole check-in booth

Firefighter/ Paramedic Luke Palmer releases a rehabilitated redtailed hawk before the event.

5K winners included Amber James (women’s third place), Andrea Glassmeyer (women’s second place), Karoline Schultz (women’s first place), Anthony Brown (men’s first place), Jason Meyers (men’s third place), Colin Reusch (men’s second place).

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The Wave Pool’s booth at The Armory Show with works by Lorena Molina, Baseera Khan, and Vanessa German

PWC honors volunteers at annual celebration

People Working Cooperatively hosted its annual recognition celebration at Newport Aquarium to honor individuals and organiza tions that have made an impact on its mission to save homes and restore pride. PWC provides professional, critical home repair, weatheriza tion and accessibility modification services for low-income homeowners throughout Greater Cincinnati. It relies on the support of a dedicated corps of volunteers, in addition to its staff of licensed and trained employees, to help residents remain living independently.

In addition to individual awards, the agency inducted nine people into its Dan Ober Volunteer Hall of Fame: Greg Bishop, Cynthia Blocksom, Steve Herbold, Kevin Hicks, Teresa Huxel, Rick Kramer, Jim Ramsey, Bill Sedwick and Greg Shumate.

Nina Creech, senior VP of operations for Whole Home, with the recipients of the Chairman’s Award, Melynda Arent and Pam Blais from the Ohio Department of Health

PWC Director of Corporate-Community Partnerships Ron Henlein with Bucky Cooper from Decal Impressions, recipient of the Friends of PWC Award

Dan Ober Volunteer Hall of Fame 2022 Inductees included Jim Ramsey, Cynthia Blocksom, Greg Shumate, Kevin Hicks and Bill Sedwick.

PWC Operations Director Brian Weichert, PWC Employee of the Year Kevin Hicks and PWC President Jock Pitts

PWC Volunteer Program Manager Brian McLaughlin and John Hart, who was named Volunteer of the Year.

PWC Development VP Chris Owens with Susan Johnson, winner of the Friends of the PWC Award

Bill and Helene Sedwick received the Dick Castellini Philanthropy Award.

Holocaust & Humanity center recognizes outgoing CEO Sarah Weiss

The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center honored outgo ing Chief Executive Officer Sarah L. Weiss at its 2022 annual meeting at Union Terminal.

Weiss stepped down as the CEO of the center after 18 years with the orga nization. A standing-room-only crowd filled the Reakirt Auditorium to thank her, to welcome incoming board chair Phyllis Jackson and to meet a new slate of board members.

Board chair David Wise has assumed interim CEO duties while Weiss will serve as a senior adviser. Together, they will lay the groundwork for the future CEO to maximize the potential of an $18 million donation given to HHC.

The featured speaker of the evening was Pastor Chris Edmonds — son of WWII hero Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, whose extraordinary courage saved the lives of more than 200 Jewish American soldiers in a prisoner of war camp in Germany.

Guests celebrate Sarah Weiss with a dessert reception in the rotunda of historic Union Terminal.

Staff members of the Holocaust & Humanity Center

Keynote Speaker Pastor Chris Edmonds shakes hands with constituents.

Interim CEO David Wise greets constituents.

Interim CEO David Wise and outgoing CEO Sarah Weiss

Danielle Minson, CEO of The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, and Interim CEO David Wise

Phyllis Jackson and Holocaust survivor Zahava Rendler

Interim CEO David Wise thanks outgoing CEO Sarah Weiss for her 18 years of service to the organization. HHC Board Chair Phyllis Jackson looks on.

Nancy Wolf embraces Sarah L. Weiss.

Aviatra hosts a pitch competition

Aviatra Accelerators, a 12-year-old nonprofit accelerator devoted to empowering women-owned startups and small busi nesses, held its annual pitch competition at Northern Kentucky University’s Griffin Hall Digitorium. The competition showcased local female-founded businesses that have recently completed Aviatra’s Launch class.

Launch is a 10-week, 30-hour program designed specifically for newer, revenue-positive businesses – those in business for one to three years who want to take their business to the next level. The event, sponsored by Alloy Development, First Financial Bank and Blue North, awarded $10,000 to the women with the best business plans.

The first-place winner, Abbi Rettig with Tickety Boo Treats, received $5,000 from Alloy Development and $3,000 of in-kind public rela tions and social media support from Scooter Media. The second-place winner, Helen On with The Nail Salon Network, received $3,000 from Truist Bank and $3,000 of in-kind legal services from Ulmer; the third-place winner, Molly Hoying with Vale Technologies, received $2,000 in cash and a oneyear membership to the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Davis honored with leadership award

Sister of Charity S. Barbara Davis was honored with DePaul Cristo Rey High School’s Founders Leadership Award at the school’s annual Founders Day Mass.

The award honors those specially connected to DePaul Cristo Rey who demonstrate the inspiring qualities of St. Vincent de Paul, the school’s namesake, and the school’s founders, the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati – service, charity and a passion for the mission. Davis has been a member of the school’s

board since 2017 and is a liaison between the school and the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati.

DePaul Cristo Rey is a Catholic, college-preparatory high school with a mission to educate young people who have the potential but limited financial means to go to college. This is accomplished through an academic program partnered with a corporate work study program, not available at any other local high school.

Sisters of Charity S. Barbara Davis, DePaul Cristo Rey President Siobhan Taylor

Molly Hoying makes her pitch.

Nancy Aichholz, Aviatra; Abbi Rettig, Tickety-Boo Treats; Molly Hoying, Vale Technologies; Helen On, the Nail Salon Network; Julie O’Neill, WCPO Channel

Bethany House celebrates grand opening

After a successful campaign raised more than $20 million, Bethany House Services celebrated the completion of its new 58,000-square-foot family homeless shelter and comprehensive services center with a ribbon cutting. Previously, services were scattered across seven locations.

The new facility at 4769 Reading Road centralizes all programs into one site. Now, families experiencing homelessness will have access to a wide spectrum of services in one location, including a family shelter with 43 individual rooms, medical and mental health care, and assistance with long-term housing stability.

“Our vision to consolidate into one location began in 2015, and thanks to more than 200 generous donors, today it became a reality,” says Peg Dierkers, CEO of Bethany House. Contributions included nearly $12 million from private dona tions, over $5 million in public funding, and $2.8 million in New Markets Tax Credit financing. Donors of $1 million or more include the city of Cincinnati, Day 1 Families Fund, Farmer Family

Foundation, Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile Jr. Foundation, Heidt Family Foundation and an anonymous donor.

With recent news that rent in Cincinnati is up 25.8% from last year – the largest increase among the top 50 U.S. metro areas – Bethany’s expan sion is critical to the growing number of families in need of housing stability.

The project architect was SHP, and the construction companies were TriVersity and Jostin.

Architectural Foundation changes name to Design LAB

Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati, a nonprofit focused on kindergarten-eighth grade design/building education programs, held its annual fundraiser, Dine with Design, unveiling a new name, Design LAB Learn and Build. The event took attendees to three “surprise” restau rants around downtown Cincinnati for food and drinks, starting and ending at Schmidlapp Lawn.

AFC has hosted construction tours of new builds and historic renovations, among other programs, to support its signature program, Design LAB. The program is a free K-8 program that annually teaches 2,000 local students financial literacy, building basics and career opportunities in the built environment. Students partner with architects, engineers and construction professionals to solve real-world problems and build scale models using sustainable materials.

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Alex Scharfetter (representing U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup), Cincinnati City Manager Sheryl Long, Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus, Commissioner Alicia Reece, Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas, Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, Ohio statehouse representatives, including Sen. Cecil Thomas, Rep. Catherine Ingram, Rep. Bill Seitz, Sen. Steve Wilson and Rep. Sedrick Denson

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Executive board members Nick Proffitt, Gregory Hammond, David Wright, Ali Hubbard, Christopher “Kit” Houston, Michael Collins, Jason East, Christen Lubbers and Obi Nwankwo

Executive Director Christen Lubbers with Apple awardees, Design LAB teachers Cynthia Tisue, Dana Ball, Jackie Bonfield, Kathy Grimm and Leslie Burklow.

Volunteer of the Year Chase Eggers and board president Gregory Hammond unveil the new name for the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati.

Bethany co-founder Dee Sizler and Bethany CEO Peg Dierkers

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Dress for Success fashion show raises $245K

Dress for Success surpassed its goal, raising over $245,000 at its annual fashion show, held at the Hard Rock Casino. It featured a fashion show by three clients, a fashion show by designer Daniel Wingate and a special tribute to Dress for Success Cincinnati founder Mary Ivers.

Before the doors opened, guests browsed through raffle packages and shopped at Dress for Success’ Portaluca pop-up shop. To start the event, the co-chairs Lisa Massa and Lali Minocha introduced Angie Hayden, a DFSC client who shared her story of resilience.

The honoree this year was Danielle Lewis Jones, head of com munications at Kroger Health. Lewis Jones is involved with a diverse group of organizations, all with a passion for helping others.

To honor Mary Ivers, who died in February 2022, DFSC Executive Director Lisa Nolan brought Ivers’ daughters, Carrie Ivers Reeuwijk and Kate Ivers, to the stage. They presented the Mary Ivers Success award to this year’s recipient, Domonique Broomfield.

The client fashion show included Arielle Plogman, Gwen Kelly and Stella Pfirrman. After a video presentation of their journeys, they walked the runway in Portaluca clothing.

The money raised at the fashion show is the lifeline of Dress for Success Cincinnati’s three programs – StyleHER, HigherHER and EmpowerHER – that benefit clients through clothing, career train ing and networking.

Zoo, Cincy Shirts collaborate to boost Real Men Wear Pink campaign

Cincy Shirts and the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden joined a team of prominent men and Cincinnati’s famous hippo, Fiona, to support the American Cancer Society’s annual Real Men Wear Pink campaign, presented by TriHealth. Throughout October, Real Men Wear Pink ambassadors encouraged community members to act in the fight against breast cancer and to raise funds for ACS.

The zoo and Cincy Shirts are selling “Save the Melons” T-shirts fea turing Fiona – with a portion of sales donated to the society.

“Some design concepts are too perfect to deny; with Breast Cancer Awareness month gaining more and more popularity year after year, Fiona ‘Saving The Melons’ just made too much sense,” said Cincy Shirts co-owner Darin Overholser.

Real Men Wear Pink, founded in 2016, has raised more than $1.2 million to support Cincinnati cancer warriors and their families. Chair of the campaign is Jeanette Altenau, director of community relations and government affairs for TriHealth.

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Cincinnati Zoo CEO Thayne Maynard and Jeanette Altenau

Mary Ivers Award recipient Domonique Broomfield and Mary Ivers daughter Carrie Ivers Reeuwijk

Co-chairs Dr. Lali Minocha and Lisa Massa, DFSC Executive Director Lisa Nolan

Client model Gwen Kelly

model Arielle Plogman

Jennifer Holladay and guide dog Lulu

Danielle Lewis Jones

Client model Stella Pfirrman

Miss Ohio USA Sir’Quora Carroll

Stella Pfirrman, Gwen Kelly, Arielle Plogman

Sold-out golf classic supports DePaul Cristo Rey tuition assistance

The 11th annual DePaul Cristo Rey Golf Classic at Western Hills Country Club raised $70,000 to support the school’s tuition assistance fund. In its 11 years, the golf event has raised over $650,000 for tuition assistance.

University competition, Munoz event raises $100K

Over 130 golfers participated in Cincinnati Cancer Advisors Bearcat vs. Musketeers Golf Outing and an “Evening with Anthony Munoz.” About $25,000 was donated to both the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University, with about $50,000 benefiting Cincinnati Cancer Advisors.

LaRosa's donated food for the golfers and Hellman Clothiers donated a cer tificate for one golfer to receive a custom-made blazer with a value up to $1,500.

Cincinnati Cancer Advisors, which helps cancer patients with a second opin ion, combined its annual golf outing with a dinner event featuring Bengals Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz. Earlier this year, the organization hosted a similar event featuring Reds star Pete Rose.

DPCR students Sofia ’24 and Kylah ’24 volunteered at registration.

Bill McCloy and Brandon Baum were in the winning foursome.

Representing gold sponsor FHLB Cincinnati were Tania Bishop, Damon Allen, Dan Tully and Brian Comp.

The winning women’s foursome were Sue Meiszer, Carla Matteucci, Kim La Bar and Betty Stenger.

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DPCR President Siobhan Taylor and Golf Classic Chair Dave Deye

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Mark Thesken created a painting that was signed by Munoz and auctioned off.

Anthony Munoz and Dave Lapham interview

Cincinnati Cancer Advisors founder Dr. Bill Barrett with Bengals mascot

Anthony Munoz, ready to golf

Bloom raises over $264K for Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones hosted its 18th annual Bloom fundraiser at the Valley View Foundation in Milford. The event raised more than $264,000 to benefit year-round programming for children, teens and adults with disabilities.

Event chair Nancy Aichholz hosted the “Boot, Scoot and Bloom” themed evening with Texas two-step dance lessons, knife-throwing, a silent auction featuring premiere packages, dinner by Cincinnati’s best food trucks and live music by Bluewater Kings Band. Supporters wore their best western country-style clothing and showed off their favorite dancing boots.

The event’s diamond sponsors were Susie and Neil Bortz, Chemed Foundation, Jeanne and Bob Coughlin, Huntington Bank, Pettengill Family, Rendigs Foundation and Mendy and Dr. Andrew Ringer. Platinum sponsors were Beth and Doug Brendamour of Brendamour Warehousing.

Generation NOW hosts YP block party

Generation NOW Cincinnati Network hosted a YP Block Party at the Banks to celebrate young professionals and honor community leaders work ing to uplift younger generations through employment, community impact and entrepreneurship. The nonprofit launched in 2015 to build and leverage a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval was the guest speaker. The organization recognized “Guiding Lights for YP Leadership”:

• Jorge Perez , president & CEO of YMCA

• Alandes Powell, founder of Black Arts Speak

• Kabrella Clark , talent connections manager at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber

• Ashley Snowden, diversity and inclusion program leader at RDI Corp.

The event was sponsored by RDI, United Way, Cincinnati Compass and the Haile Foundation.

Guests enjoying cornhole

Block Party guests

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Black Art Speaks administrator Alexis Patton, with niece of Alandes Powell, Generation NOW founder Renika Smiley, Ashley Snowden and Jorge Perez

Event chair Nancy Aichholz and Dr. David Aichholz

Women playing cornhole

Bloom decor included bourbon barrel tables and bottles

Olivia Sparks, Kacie Sparks, Karen Sparks and Lisa Klein

Silent auction tables

Block Party guests

Santa Maria event returns after 2-year hiatus

Santa Maria Community Services Inc. hosted its annual fundraiser, The Sharing Table, after a two-year hiatus. Over 150 supporters of Santa Maria attended the event, hosted at ARCO Cincy.

Special guest speaker, Dr. O’dell Owens, gave a presentation raising awareness of childhood poverty in Cincinnati. WLWT’s Courtis Fuller was the emcee. Nehemiah Manufacturing is Santa Maria’s 2022 presenting sponsor.

UC foundation names philanthropy award winners

The University of Cincinnati Foundation recognized phi lanthropists and volunteers at its annual George Rieveschl Recognition Dinner Oct. 6. The individuals received the founda tion’s highest accolades for phil anthropic and volunteer commit ments to UC and UC Health.

The honorees were: Larry and Rhonda Sheakley ; Myron “Mike” Ullman III; the advisory council for the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Cincinnati; Dr. Sian Cotton; and student Andrew Niese.

Long-time faculty member, researcher and inventor of the an tihistamine Benadryl, Dr. George Rieveschl Jr. also founded the UC Foundation.

“George Rieveschl’s influ ence on our community, our

university and the UC Foundation was transformational,” said UC Foundation President Peter Landgren. “He fostered a culture of philanthropy that continues today. It is an honor to recognize our award winners. Each selflessly supports our university and health care system.”

The Sheakleys were recognized with the chairman’s award, the foundation’s highest recognition for a volunteer who has made a significant philanthropic impact. The Sheakleys have supported numerous academic colleges and athletic programs.

The foundation’s trustees award recognized Mike Ullman’s con tribution to philanthropy for sup port and naming of UC’s design school in honor of his late father.

A group philanthropy award was given to the advisory council for

UC’s Osher Center for Integrative Health. Osher combines tradi tional medicine with therapies that focus on healthy lifestyles.

The staff award recognized Dr. Sian Cotton, a licensed clinical psychologist and founding direc tor of Osher and the Turner Farm Foundation Endowed Chair. Cotton, a professor in the depart ments of family and community medicine, has an active research lab with clinical studies focusing on mindfulness-based interven tions and integrative medicine practice-based research.

The student award went to Andrew Niese, a fifth-year UC student. Niese has been a resident adviser and co-founded Pride at Lindner (PaL), a rebranding of the former “Out in Business” program to better support LGBTQ+ individuals.

Santa Maria President/CEO H.A. Musser addresses guests.

Dr. O’dell Owens was guest speaker.

The Sharing Table guests at dinner

Mike and Cathy Ullman

Larry and Rhonda Sheakley

Dr. Sian Cotton

Andrew Niese

Best Point raises nearly $500K during Riverfest event

It’s been called the Tristate’s “Largest Party for a Cause.” Best Point Education & Behavioral Health hosted its an nual Rockin’ at Riverfest and the Carousel Deck Party, sponsored by the Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation.

As guests arrived at the Anderson Pavilion and Carousel, they were treated to hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and music blasting from D.J. Nate the Great. Tanya O’Rourke, Evan Millward and Julie O’Neill from WCPO Channel 9 helped make the event extra special by leading a live auction, and afterwards guests enjoyed views of the Western & Southern/WEBN Fireworks.

Cincinnati Zoo and MadTree team up on new beer

MadTree Brewing and Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden created a special beer that tastes somewhat like a Mai Tai cocktail and pays tribute to Mai Thai, the oldest elephant at the zoo. The new brew is called “Oh Mai”! Proceeds from sales of the ”Oh Mai” beer at MadTree benefited elephant conservation.

“Oh Mai has some really nice citrus notes with that subtle spice character in the background,” said MadTree head brewer, Ryan Blevins. “It’s super refreshing, and I think it’s going to be a hit.”

Many Reds fans remember Mai Thai the elephant throwing out the first pitch, with her trunk, decades ago. Over the last 40-plus years, she has served as an ambassador animal for the zoo, representing all of her Asian elephant counterparts in the wild.

Oh Mai is on tap at the zoo’s craft beer garden, Hops, as well as the MadTree taproom in Oakley.

James Free hosts benefit for Arthritis Foundation

A Ferrari “Cruise-In” in Montgomery benefited the Arthritis Foundation in an annual event that alternates between James Free Jewelers’ Cincinnati and Dayton area locations. The event is presented with the Ferrari Club of America Ohio Chapter. Club members dis played 15 to 20 Ferraris and other high-end sports cars and answered questions about their vehicles.

Money for the Arthritis Foundation was raised through entry fees for radio controlled (RC) model cars racing at the Cruise-In and through raffles for a piece of fine jewelry donated by James Free Jewelers and two private rides in a Ferrari. The adult winner of a Ferrari ride was Lawrence Ellena. The child winner was Ajax Wegenhart, age 10. Both rides were provided by Michael Kelly, past president of the Ferrari Club of America-Ohio chapter.

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Guests at the Carousel Deck Party

Late-night selfie at Rockin’ at Riverfest

Mai Thai, the Cincinnati Zoo’s oldest elephant

Ryan Blevins, Chad Yelton, Val Nastold, Greg Hanson, Anna Miller, Sara Parsons, Brian “Twitch” Morris.

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Ferrari Club of America Ohio Chapter President Aric Hersch, Will Rechtin, Kelly Lambert, Samantha Tino, Chris Bauer, FCA Ohio Chapter Past President Michael Kelly and Arthritis Foundation Executive Director David Rhoad.

Weir changing United Way as philanthropy shifts

recent evening, a woman knocked on my door, com plimented me on the flowers on my porch, told me she was desperate and depressed and asked for money.

I could have told her to get lost. Or decided she was scamming me. Or I could have given her a little money to get something to eat, or recommend she go somewhere with more help.

Or I could have said: I’m not going to give you money, because it won’t help you at all until we actual ly undo historic economic and racist structures that perpetuate inequality and generational poverty.

That response is really the right one to her problems, but not in that situation. I gave her some money, though I knew nothing would be different tomorrow.

The next week, I was talking to Moira Weir, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Cincinnati, who has dealt with these same choic es on a much larger scale during her

career as a social worker and director of Hamilton County Job and Family Services. JFS’s job, as dispenser of state and federal assistance money, is to give help to people who need it to live on right now. Their immedi ate problems are helped. But the problems persist, and the money continues to be doled out.

So, since early 2020, when Weir started at the United Way, she has concentrated on longer-term solu tions. The organization has changed its goals to focus on one important thing: addressing income inequal ity and the barriers to economic stability and building wealth. “We are focusing on the poverty rate, which has remained flat since 2016,” she said. “We all want to be a tier 1 city, a place where kids stay, or come back, where it’s equitable and inclusive, and everyone has the same opportunity.”

The new approach is to support nonprofits focused on the work of changing systems. Many are new to the United Way, and many are Black-led. Many of the traditional, old-line United Way grantees will be losing funding if their goals are different.

“You have to wake up every morning and demonstrate that you’re thinking about real economic change. If you don’t want to roll up your sleeves and think about change in the whole region, maybe this isn’t your time, and we can work with you in a different way,” she said.

It was not shocking to take a new approach. The United Way model of giving is going out of date every where. The organization began as a way to simplify fundraising by spon soring workplace donation drives, then funneling money to commu nity organizations. But now, people

with reporting and accountability. The United Way is now working on a dashboard that will collect all the economic and social data relevant to the goal of reducing poverty, in order to see whether the needle is being moved.

Weir is uniquely qualified to lead this change. She spent years sitting across from people in need, helping them get benefits, or resolving child custody cases. “I know the stress, trauma and fear that hang over families in crisis,” she said.

But before that, at the beginning of her career, she had an MBA and a job in the financial sector. When she became a mentor to a Black girl in the foster care system, she found that so much more rewarding that she got a social work degree, quit her job and began over again.

So she has the compassion and the savvy to take on these changes, which do take from some and give to others. “It involves a shift in power, and that’s uncomfortable and scary for everyone,” she said. “But it wasn’t as bumpy as I thought it would be. The board is behind the program.” They gave the organizations that are not being funded in this cycle six months to make adjustments.

“We want to think from a growth, not a scarcity mindset,” she said. “There is enough work for us all to do.”

Polly Campbell covered restau rants and food for the Cincinnati Enquirer from 1996 until 2020. She lives in Pleasant Ridge with her husband, and since retiring does a lot of reading, cooking and gardening, if that’s what you call pulling weeds. She writes monthly on a variety of topics, and she welcomes your feedback and column suggestions at editor@moversmakers.org.

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Krishna Dances to the Accompaniment of Female Musicians, Personifying the Musical Mode Vasanta Ragini (detail), circa 1675–1700, India; Rajasthan, Marwar, opaque watercolors and gold on paper, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter, M.81.280.3