Accelerate: Citizens Make Change helps entrepreneurs enact change in their communities
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
Two teens who want to build buddy relationships among refugee and non-refugee students captured the top $5000 prize at the 2019 Accelerate: Citizens Make Change, an annual civic pitch competition.
This year s event is all-virtual, with finals on Thursday.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio The seventh annual Accelerate: Citizens Make Change competition, a week-long virtual event presented by the Cleveland Leadership Center in partnership with Citizens, aims to help entrepreneurs improve their communities.
The Cleveland Leadership Center developed Accelerate in 2015 to offer civic entrepreneurs a public platform to develop a vision to improve their communities, share mentorship and support and create an environment overflowing with initiatives to make Northeast Ohio a better place.