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Gina Prodan Kelly reposted thisGina Prodan Kelly reposted thisInterviewer: “So, Pep. Beating Liverpool in today’s FA Cup Quarter-Final wins the club £477,000. Tell us just what a difference that will make to Man City and men’s football generally?” Pep: “???” 🙏 £477,000 to a women’s team Quarter Final winner would be TRANSFORMATIVE. #EqualFACup redistributes prize money to where it will make a difference (and Premier League teams wouldn’t even notice it). Link in comments…
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Gina Prodan Kelly shared thisAsk not what your library can do for you (because they’re probably already doing it), ask what you can do for your Cleveland Public Library. I'm a proud, card-carrying Library Loyalist 🥰 You can be one, too: https://lnkd.in/gziTbsDXGina Prodan Kelly shared thisToday is Library Giving Day! Your support helps keep Cleveland Public Library strong and accessible for everyone. Your gift makes a real impact. It supports programs, resources, and lifelong learning. Helping Clevelanders grow, share knowledge, and connect. This year, we’re also introducing Library Loyalists, a new way to make a monthly impact. Donate: cpl.org/donate
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Gina Prodan Kelly reposted thisSo how are you going to track credential and skill attainment? (And how long have we been asking this question in the education and workforce development space?!) Since being laid off last April, a small group of friends and I, led by technical architect and dynamo Matthew Sahagian, have been building Primd. We're a tiny cooperative startup that provides a platform for workers and learners to translate, own, validate, track and grow their skills/ credentials while building social capital and developing their own unique, values-aligned pathways. We're also building out an employer insights hub that will allow employers to understand the capabilities of their workforce for upskilling and identifying useful skills their employees possess outside of their job description and duties as assigned. Want to learn more about Primd and build with us? Check out https://primd.app/learn and reach out if you'd like to have a chat! https://lnkd.in/gcE6kfTJGina Prodan Kelly reposted thisStates, institutions, & workforce partners must rethink how they track, validate, and tell the story of credential attainment & skill acquisition. Self-reported surveys won't be enough. LinkedIn or resume self-assertions won’t be enough. Defaulting to Revolutionary War era parchment or electronic transcripts won’t be enough. Outcomes data, wage record access, cross-agency partnerships, and integrated learning and employment records are now a mission-critical part of the education and training data infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/em8YXQXf
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Gina Prodan Kelly reposted thisGina Prodan Kelly reposted thisAustin Rise saw what everyone else missed! Jillian Shimkin never needed the game to believe in her first. She needed the right environment. Austin Rise FC was that. Hard standards. No shortcuts. A culture that prepares you for a level before that level knows your name. Jillian went from Austin Rise to a professional starter at Tampa Bay Sun FC. That's the story women's soccer writes and keeps pushing the game forward!!! Women's History Month — Edition 1. ⭐ Diaza Football, New York City
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Gina Prodan Kelly reposted thisGina Prodan Kelly reposted thisIf San Diego FC can succeed in persuading Mo Salah to join them after he leaves Liverpool at the end of this season they will allow Major League Soccer to go into the post-World Cup period with three global superstars representing three different continents. Salah isn't just a big name and a star player, he is the most popular player from the MENA region ever. If you have ever been to the Gulf states, for example, you will know his personal fan-base goes well beyond his native Egypt. Just as Son Heung-min of LAFC is the biggest Asian soccer star of all-time, Salah moves the needle for MLS and in the Messi era it isn't easy to find such a player. That's why, on Thursday in Atlanta at the Sports Business Journal 'Business of Soccer' conference, MLS Commissioner Don Garber spoke so positively about a possible Salah arrival and San Diego owner Sir Mohammed Mansour named his fellow Egyptian as his favourite player of all-time. A potential deal may be a long way off (and Saudi competition would be hard to beat) but the mood music suggested there is strong support within MLS for the idea. The signing of Antoine Griezmann by Orlando City and the possible arrival of Salah are just two of the topics we discussed on this week's The Soccer Business Podcast after a busy week on the road for myself and Andre Da Costa. We also dive into some of the thought-provoking comments on women's soccer from Arthur M. Blank at the SBJ conference and touch upon the time we spent with the EFL (English Football League) at their owners workshop in Miami, as we review a busy but hugely rewarding week. The Pod is on all audio platforms: https://lnkd.in/eS6FitKT While we were out and about meeting so many subscribers and making new connections, there was also plenty of other news going on in the North American soccer business world and you can catch up with it all in this week's newsletter. If you aren't subscribed yet - you can sign up for free here: https://lnkd.in/esQVtfCH
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Gina Prodan Kelly reposted thisGrateful to Jeffrey Stern for the opportunity to share about the topic that gets me out of bed every day (and often keeps me up at night) — building our Cleveland neighborhoods back better through brick & mortar businesses. I’d love to hear your thoughts if you happen to take a listen. PS. One of my most valued mentors, Josh McManus, I “met” via cold email I sent after listening to an episode with Eve Picker on Small Change. While it’s never comfortable to hear the sound of my own voice, I hope this episode can help pay forward the wisdom Eve & Josh shared with me many years ago.Gina Prodan Kelly reposted thisBrick-and-mortar entrepreneurship is community infrastructure and one of the clearest drivers of value for neighborhoods, but entrepreneurs creating that value rarely share in the upside. Anne Grady Hartnett is working to change that. In 2012, Anne founded Harness Cycle. In 2022, Anne co-founded HCO Partners, a real estate development and operating company focused on supporting independent brick-and-mortar entrepreneurs. Through HCO, she acquired and redeveloped The Vitrolite Building in #Cleveland Hingetown neighborhood. The building now houses a collection of locally owned businesses including Harness Cycle, Soul Yoga, Patron Saint, The Matriarchy, and LUUMA Wellness Suites, forming a collaborative centered around entrepreneurship and community. Lay of The Land Podcast 245th is a conversation about small businesses, real estate, what it actually takes to build a neighborhood, things resistant to AI, ownership, brick & mortar, and lots more. Full Episode in Comments. h/t Michael Schroeder Molly Schroeder Graham Veysey Jeremy Umansky Fisk Biggar Brent Zimmerman, MBA Roundstone Robert C. Smith Spencer Roule Cerity Partners Maia Hansen
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Gina Prodan Kelly shared thisLesson #7,423: Be lucky enough to have great partners. When we launched the Forest City Cleveland brand (Cleveland Pro Soccer men's team) on Tuesday, March 10, I already had time with Tony Dore, Founder of Arrivo Athletic Wear, scheduled for Thursday. By then, I thought, I'll have a decent sense of the response and how sales are going. I'd planned to do fulfillment until May-ish, when we launch our women's brand. After all: I fulfilled 16,000 season ticket pledge kits during our 2024 campaign. How hard could this be? Back then, I'd just work the day, have an evening. After the kids went to bed, spend a couple hours packing kits. I loved doing it because I could see the names of people supporting our effort. If I knew someone, I'd write them a note. When I had spare stickers, I'd add surprises to random packages. Our FC Cleveland brand was released at 7:30 a.m. By 8:15 a.m. we were already sold out of things and I knew I couldn't keep up. When I showed up on Thursday, I gave Tony the rundown (of how overwhelmed, but grateful we were by the extraordinary support). Without an ounce of judgment, he plotted out how Arrivo could get to work helping us catch up on this first wave of orders and put processes in place to have our operation running the way a pro club should. You can't put this kind of gushing in a partnership announcement. But I wanted to celebrate Tony and the whole Arrivo team out loud.Gina Prodan Kelly shared thisOh, when Cleveland builds together 🌳 We’re proud to welcome ARRIVO Athletic Wear as our official apparel and distribution partner for Forest City Cleveland. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gciRVUR7 Arrivo is already outfitting a growing footprint of teams across the region; we’re honored to be welcomed into this Northeast Ohio soccer family and have them outfit our fam too. Arrivo has been a true partner, through and through. When we were overwhelmed by the extraordinary support we received from our launch, they fast-tracked our partnership and have helped us get your orders moving. (If you’ve placed an order, we sent an email update earlier this week.) Not to mention: put processes in place for us to truly operate as a pro club should. We’ve launched a new online store featuring our Forest City Cleveland Capsule Collection I – celebrating our newly released name & identity. Visit forestcitycle.com/shop Now, to work on these hats...
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Gina Prodan Kelly reposted thisGina Prodan Kelly reposted thisCuyahoga County is part of a special basketball event happening downtown immediately following the Charge game Saturday. A $20 ticket is required for entry, and proceeds will support youth initiatives and violence-prevention programs across Northeast Ohio. https://lnkd.in/gDz3pUdy #WeAreCuyahoga
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Gina Prodan Kelly shared thisNailed it 🎯 I loved the first concept we fleshed out for our women’s pro soccer team brand. It featured a female cardinal, whose beautiful colorway of tomato, beige and a faded chartreuse was a subtle act of subversion. The team wasn’t the “Lady Cardinals”; we were asserting that THIS is what a Cardinal looks like. Period. Welp. Maybe it was too subtle. We took the concept through focus groups. Reactions were uniformly positive – but in the way no one hates mashed potatoes. “It’s good.” But when you’re birthing the first women’s pro soccer brand in Ohio, “good” is the worst. No one was offended. But no one was inspired. No one was energized. So… we scrapped it. We went back to zero. It took a while to let the concept go. It wasn’t mediocre by any measure, but it was clear it would have been IGNORED. This wasn’t as far as we were capable of going. And I’m grateful that by talking to our community we learned that long before launch day. May 4 will not be a day to ignore. Cleveland Pro Soccer ⭐️Gina Prodan Kelly shared thisIn a new conversation with Manifest, Liz Taylor, our Global Chief Creative Officer discusses the discipline of pursuing creative excellence, the nuance of bravery in modern advertising, and the challenges faced by working mothers in the industry. Read the full conversation: https://okt.to/nFuPoO
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked this8 years. 9 seasons. 1 incredibly meaningful chapter with MLS. Since 2018, we built real momentum—particularly in player development—helping establish a stronger, more connected professional pathway across North America. I’m incredibly proud of and grateful for the club leaders, colleagues, and partners across MLS, NEXT Pro, and NEXT who believed & invested in the potential and made this progress possible. With that foundation in place, I’m excited to apply my experience in new ways to continue delivering long-term value for the game. The mission doesn’t change. Next chapter loading…
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked thisMake your thoughts known about the future of the 450-acre Burke Lakefront Airport. 5 minute survey LAND studio, Inc. North Coast Waterfront Development Corporation City of Cleveland - City Hall Cuyahoga County Chris Ronayne Cushman & Wakefield | CRESCO Real Estate https://lnkd.in/gEbBs5BD
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked thisIT'S A BAD DAY FOR THE "NO ONE WATCHES WOMEN'S SPORTS CROWD." 🙂↕️ 18,006 fans sold out the first-ever PWHL game at Madison Square Garden in New York, breaking the U.S. women's hockey attendance record as the New York Sirens hosted the Seattle Kraken. 🏒 The previous attendance record in the U.S. was set earlier this year in January, when 17,228 fans showed up to Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. for the Takeover Tour matchup between the Montreal Victoire and New York Sirens. 👏 #womenssports #hockey #pwhl #sportsbiz
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked thisInterviewer: “So, Pep. Beating Liverpool in today’s FA Cup Quarter-Final wins the club £477,000. Tell us just what a difference that will make to Man City and men’s football generally?” Pep: “???” 🙏 £477,000 to a women’s team Quarter Final winner would be TRANSFORMATIVE. #EqualFACup redistributes prize money to where it will make a difference (and Premier League teams wouldn’t even notice it). Link in comments…
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked thisYour hometown Richmond Kickers hope to see you at City Stadium on April 15 when we host the Columbus Crew from Major League Soccer at 7:30 pm in the US Open Cup. Tickets can be purchased here: https://lnkd.in/eV3nyk6R
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked thisBrooklyn Centre is the latest neighborhood featured in our “Love Cleveland Neighborhoods” campaign! See how the arts are in bloom here around the Cleveland Zoo. Thank you to Metro West Community Development Organization for your storytelling help and all your work in this community. https://lnkd.in/e47rfkFk
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked thisOne thing I’ve realized leading in a remote environment: Trust doesn’t happen by default—you have to build it on purpose. You can’t rely on proximity or quick check-ins. So it comes down to how you show up: Clear direction. Consistent communication. Following through. It’s made me more thoughtful about how I lead—and honestly, more intentional in the best way.
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Gina Prodan Kelly liked thisGina Prodan Kelly liked this🚧 The collaboration between 311 and Public Works on a hot topic - potholes - has been truly special this year. It was a tough winter, with ups and downs in temperature that create tough conditions on our Cleveland roads. 311 handles intake of these requests. I, myself, use the web portal to put in bad potholes when I encounter them. Public works leans on 311 data for identifying hot spots and prioritizing patching. They use creative methods - like hot patch recycled asphalt - to keep roadways safe during the tough late winter/early spring months. The work of keeping our roads safe for all users is never-ending, and it's great when City services work for Cleveland residents. Thanks John Laird & Commissioner Randy Scott for your leadership on this issue. This piece from ideastream highlights what a busy year it has been for potholes: https://lnkd.in/g2jmrJinCleveland pothole complaints up 50% this year after harsh winterCleveland pothole complaints up 50% this year after harsh winter
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