Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Barb Galbincea
Plain Dealer Columnist
New mentors: The Civic Innovation Lab has added seven volunteer mentors to help people develop their ideas to improve Greater Cleveland.
The organization awards grants of up to $30,000 and provides the opportunity for one-on-one mentoring. The newest mentors are Jon Adams, founder of Audiopack; Ron Copfer, chairman and chief executive of Fathom IT Solutions and chairman of Visual Evidence/eDiscovery; Lucinda "Cindy" Einhouse, president and chief executive of the Beck Center for the Arts; Ari Maron, partner, MRN Limited Partnership; James Marra, principal and director of business development, Blue Point Capital Partners; Mike Petrone, a musician and composer; and Alton Tinker, vice president and underwriting officer, KeyBank Community Development Underwriting Group. Supported by the Cleveland Foundation, the lab has given more than $900,000 in grants since it began in September 2003. <BACK TO NEWS AND EVENTS |