Meet The Candidates

Friday, August 30, 2013

Introduction to Meet The Candidates Forums

"Informed citizens are engaged citizens and engaged citizens are informed citizens." - Gloria Ferris, Meet the Candidates Forum Organizer

Community Forums Inform Government Representation
Meet The Candidates is a public community forum to strengthen citizen engagement, democracy and inform voters.

The Cleveland City Council Ward 14 Candidate campaign in Cleveland, Ohio offers us a closer look into two August 2013 Meet The Candidates forums.

The slide show below introduces you to the people, places and convening spaces of the Ward 14 forums.

Shown in the video thumbnail above left to right: Ward 14 Candidates Nelson Cintron Jr., Brian Cummins, Janet Garcia, Brian Kazy and Gloria Ferris, Meet The Candidates Organizer on August 22, 2013.

Platform for Citizen-Government Engagement
Meet The Candidates forums provide a non-partisan platform for citizen and government engagement that guarantees a coherent educational experience of democratic political process and public issue discovery.

Introduction to Meet the Candidates Forum by Gloria Ferris by The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)

Ward 14 Forum Details
Cleveland City Council Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forums No. 1 and No. 2 were hosted Thursday, August 15, 2013 and Thursday, August 22, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 3389 Fulton Rd., (Map) and at the Simpson United Methodist Church, 8519 Clark Avenue (Map), both in Cleveland, Ohio USA.

Meet The Candidates Forums included Ward 14 candidates Nelson Cintron, Jr., Brian Cummins, Janet Garcia and Brian Kazy.

More Information

Watch the Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forum video play list No. 1 here and No. 2 here on the I-Open YouTube channel.

Visit the Meet The Candidates website here
Visit the Cleveland City Council Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forums here

How do citizens convene in your community to openly and respectfully discuss local investment issues and constituent concerns with perspective and elected government officials?

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Ward 14 Citizen Questions - Meet The Candidates Forum No. 2

Shown in the photo left to right: Ward 14 Candidates Nelson Cintron, Jr., Brian Cummins, Janet Garcia, Brian Kazy and Gloria Ferris, Organizer, Meet The Candidates Forum.

Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forum No. 2 was hosted Thursday, August 22, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Simpson United Methodist Church, 8519 Clark Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio (Map).

The Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forum No. 2 included Ward 14 Candidates Nelson Cintron, Jr., Brian Cummins, Janet Garcia and Brian Kazy.

Ward 14 citizen questions focused on the following topics:

Attracting residents
Community development investment
Youth programs
Civility
Local organization collaboration
Senior citizen low-income assistance programs
"Green" sustainability program development
Hispanic Village development
Residency of government officials
Universal local representation
Clark Avenue strategic planning
Council and police collaboration

Ward 14 Citizen Questions Meet The Candidates Forum No. 2 by The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)

Meet The Candidates is a public community forum to strengthen citizen engagement, democracy and informed voters.

Visit the Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Google website here.
Watch the Meet The Candidates Forum No. 2 YouTube play list here.

I-Open, Media Partner

Copyright 2013 I-Open. I-Open publishes under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license. The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), 2563 Kingston Road, Cleveland OH 44118 is a 501(c)(3) educational economic development organization. Founded in 2005. Visit I-Open on the web at http://www.i-open.org/

Ward 14 Citizen Questions - Meet The Candidates Forum No. 1

Shown in the photo from left to right: Gloria Ferris, Meet The Candidates Forum Organizer offers a Welcome and Opening; Helen K. Smith, Forum Moderator, looks on; and Jonathan Anderson, Translator for Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forums prepares to interpret for the audience.

Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forum No. 1 was hosted Thursday, August 15, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Family Ministry Center, 3389 Fulton Rd., in Cleveland, Ohio (Map).

The Ward 14 Meet The Candidates Forum No. 1 included Ward 14 Candidates Nelson Cintron, Jr., Brian Cummins and Brian Kazy.

Ward 14 citizen questions focused on the following topics: