The Power of Imaginations Running Wild Goodwill delivers the reality of a ‘Community Campus’
G 2010 Downtown Event Schedule Downtown Canton’s stre etscape comes alive with fun fe stivals!
oodwill will ask you to imagine the possibility of a community campus – a unified group of service organizations dedicated to helping people. Many helping hands, one roof. Well, imagine no more.
The Community Campus at Goodwill became a reality in October of last year in downtown Canton. The Campus is an allied collective of organizations that are sharing space and resources. But the organizations that have made their homes inside the 90,000 square foot facility share more than an address and an electric bill. They share those they care for, those who need them most. Right now, individuals in need can walk through one set of doors to be served by more than a dozen organizations, some of which they may never have had access to in the past.
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“The Community Campus at Goodwill is what we envisioned as the solution for a very real dilemma,” said Ken Weber, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio. “On the one side we have rapidly shrinking resources. On the other, a growing demand for these resources. Our board devised the Community Campus at Goodwill to best serve these opposing issues.” Goodwill believes that by consolidating services and the agencies that provide them, there is greater exposure for and access to each of the individual agencies at the campus. How does it work? When all 90,000 square feet have been developed, there will be room for more than 20 agencies. Each agency has a low-cost office space that they occupy and all of the other space in the facility is shared, including meeting rooms, rest rooms, lobby and reception. A non-profit renting 2,500 square feet of space for $7.50 a square (gross) would conservatively save 800 square feet of space and $500 per month in rent by moving into the Campus. At $500 per month for 20 agencies, the savings realized from shared space would equate to $120,000 per year!
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First Friday Tidbits
SPECIAL FEATURES • Goodwill Community Campus • First Friday Tidbits • CIRV hosts first ‘call-In’ • IlluminArts Celebration • Fe d e ral Center Progression • Downtown Cat Mural
Art Works for the March 5 First Friday, where all facets of the arts will be celebrated! ArtsinStark kicks off their 2010 fund drive campaign with live performances at the Canton Palace Theatre beginning at 5:30 p.m. Also at the Palace will be Celtic music and dancing as part of the St. Pet’s Day festivities. Downtown gallery Acme Artists will celebrate their third anniversary and new art will be on view at the galleries and studios. The Players Guild Page to Stage traveling troupe will perform the audience participation play Alice in Wonderland. Matthew Brown, assistant conductor for the Canton Symphony Orchestra, will set poetry to music, followed by a poetry showdown and contest at the Kathleen Howland Theatre. Whatever your arts pleasure – whether dance, theatre, music, visual arts or written word – you are sure to find it downtown at the March First Friday!
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