REI has scheduled a REALNEO orientation session from 2 - 4 PM for anyone interested in becoming more familiar with our Regional Economy Action Links for North East Ohio. We'll walk through basic site administration, like setting up a user account and adding content, and setting up a Drupal site from scratch. We'll discuss how to best use this transformational technology to transform the NEO economy. This is of course free and open to the public - when you sign in with the security desk at the PBL building (the Gehry) the guard will tell you how to find the session... room 401

Immediately following is Tuesday@REI: "Unique
Value: Cleveland & Northeast Ohio,"
with
Guest Moderator Charles D. Weller, Cleveland Author, Lawyer
and Health Care Entrepreneur. Chuck is Editor and Contributor of the new book
(Released 12/04) "Unique Value:
Competition Based On Innovation Creating Unique
Value

Any questions, please email norm [at] icearth [dot] com

Tuesdays@REI...a
platform for civic engagement and collaboration

12.7.04 "Unique
Value: Cleveland & Northeast Ohio,"
with
Guest Moderator Charles D. Weller, Cleveland Author, Lawyer
and Health Care Entrepreneur. Chuck is Editor and Contributor of the new book
(to be released 12/04) "Unique Value:
Competition Based On Innovation Creating Unique
Value

for
Antitrust, the Economy, Healthcare, Education and Beyond" with chapters by
Michael Porter, Peter Staudhammer and Scott Stern.

 Dialogues on Leadership - Thomas Mulready - Editor, Cool Cleveland

New Leaders - Members Only - learn about joining here 

As
creator of the Cool Cleveland.com e-mail newsletter, which goes out
weekly to tens of thousands of people around the country, Thomas
Mulready has lead the development of a multi-media network dedicated to
economic development and the promotion of arts, culture and technology.
He is a writer, a multi-media performance artist, and director and
founder of Performance Art Festival+Archives, the largest festival of
performance art in the world.

After the Death of Yasser Arafat, What’s
Next for Israel and Palestine?

Feel free to join the Friendship Foundation of American-Vietnamese (Hoi Ban Huu Viet-MY), this Friday evening, Dec. 10th, as we welcome Ambassador Ton Nu Thi Ninh and her high level delegation from Vietnam.

Interior Design Annual Senior Thesis
Show 2004: CIA Interior Design
Department: Elisabeth Betzen, Dana Bohack, Patrick Finegan, Joshua
Green, Samantha Hydrew, Otelia Jurca, Susanne Mueller, Joseph Stanley

Hotel Bruce in the OC: Come and celebrate as Hotel
Bruce releases Issue No. 3, the all-Ohio City issue, on December
10th - 6 - 9 PM. Enjoy wine, cheese and refreshments; take in an exhibit of local

Martha's signed up, anybody else want to help with the recount?  They need more volunteers.  Register by sending an  e-mail to cuyahoga-recount [at] systemsforchange [dot] com" target="_blank">cuyahoga-recount [at] systemsforchange [dot] com .  Please pass info along to others who may be interested. 

REI has scheduled a REALNEO orientation session from 2 - 4 PM for
anyone interested in becoming more familiar with our Regional Economy
Action Links for North East Ohio. We'll walk through basic site
administration, like setting up a user account and adding content, and
setting up a Drupal site from scratch. We'll discuss how to best use
this transformational technology to transform the NEO economy. This is
of course free and open to the public - when you sign in with the
security desk at the PBL building (the Gehry) the guard will tell you
how to find the session... room 401

Topic for
tomorrow, December 14th: "Sustainable Transportation: An Important Driver of Economic Development"

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Civic entrepreneur Herb Crowther, and representatives and
entrepreneurs from private companies, port authorities and other transportation
oriented economic development organizations come together during a 90
minute interactive discussion about freight-related sustainable
transportation opportunities. Shifting freight transport to rail and water can
improve freight mobility and reduce transportation costs while using cleaner
transportation modes. The purpose of the conversation is to raise the
community's consciousness of how much activity related to sustainable
transportation and freight mobility is already going on in Northeast Ohio, and
brainstorm strategies for leveraging collaboration and integrating
transportation initiatives to drive job creation and economic development.

Can Nonprofits Rebuild the Trust of Their
Giving Communities? 

United Way Chief Brian Gallagher tackles
this issue at The City Club of Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, OH—Brian A. Gallagher,
president and CEO of United Way of America, will address the topic “Accountability,
Transparency and Results: Calling on the Nonprofit Sector to Rebuild Trust� at noon on Friday, December 17, 2004, at The City Club of Cleveland.

THIS FRIDAY DECEMBER 17th, from 8pm - 11pm, 1300 Gallery will be
carrying on the tradition of offering the public a chance to get great art on
the cheap. Our annual Holiday show is a chance to give back to the artists that
have exhibited at 1300 throughout the year with the No Commission show. Each
artist will be presenting work which 1300 will take no commission on. What does
this mean? Original artwork that is 30 – 40 percent off typical prices.

Participating artists include: Brian Kelly, Bask, Bob Sek, Ali Calis, Vicky Semarjian, Chako Suzuki, Lesley
Reppeteaux, Nick Zaremba, Laura Brink, Jeff Gilligan, Kiki Maclean, Derek Hess,
Valerie Mayen, Dolan Geiman and Grant Smrekar.

In addition to the exhibition, 1300 will be hosting a Holiday Party featuring
the sounds of misterbradleyp. 1300 will also be holding a raffle for a chance
to win a piece of art from Derek Hess or Bask. Both artists have donated their
work and everyone who buys a ticket will have a chance to win one of the pieces
valued at over $500.

<>Celebrate Holiday Jingle Bells at REI! - Join us Tuesday for a Network Celebration!

We would like to show our appreciation for the wonderful
work that everyone has devoted to REI. Stay and join us for a REALNEO orientation around 3 and an important Tuesdays@REI
following at 4:00PM.

· 12.21.04 "Eliminating Impoverishment: Innovative Models to
Improving Job Placement and Retention" with Walter Ginn, Executive
Director, Towards Employment and its new national model ACHIEVE; Yvonne Tufts
Jeans, Workforce Manager, ShoreBank Cleveland/Jobs Partnership in Cleveland, an
innovative faith-based model first developed in North Carolina with Moderator,
James Harris, HL/Communications

Speakers
> Congressman Sherrod Brown

Friday, January 07, 2005 12:00 PM Congressman Sherrod Brown Ohio's 13th Congressional District

Reservation

Ohio’s
13th Congressional District representative since 1992, Sherrod Brown
will discuss his latest book "Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade
Policy Has Failed," a critical examination of free-trade policies 10
years after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Mayor-Elect  Frank Jackson is throwing a party for all of Cleveland.

Jackson, who will be sworn in as Cleveland's 56th mayor Jan. 2, will hold his inaugural party Saturday, Jan.7 at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. The event is free, as are the food and entertainment, but admission is limited to 5,000. There will be a cash bar.

Mayor-Elect  Frank Jackson is throwing a party for all of Cleveland.

Jackson, who will be sworn in as Cleveland's 56th mayor Jan. 2, will hold his inaugural party Saturday, Jan.7 at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. The event is free, as are the food and entertainment, but admission is limited to 5,000. There will be a cash bar.