Since becoming United Way CEO a year ago, Jaime Saunders has shown a willingness to take risks. “We’re going to make mistakes, we’re going to learn and course correct and grow,” she says.
Guest Opinion
A fight that can be won
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Although the latest data show Rochester’s poverty rate remains among the highest in the nation, the communitywide effort to tackle the problem at its root causes has made significant progress.
Guest Opinion
On statues, history and ignorance
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Is a statue always more than art? What is the relationship between a statue and a community’s evolving beliefs, values, and principles?
Community
Rochester’s imperiled heritage
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The Rochester Historical Society, home of artifacts that tell the community’s stories, is in danger of losing these treasures.
Community
Driven to make a difference
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As a student in the Rochester city schools, Rachel Barnhart saw firsthand the “incredible waste of human potential” that resulted from poverty, crime and educational inequality. The journalist and political activist spoke with Beacon publisher Alex Zapesochny about journalism, politics and her motivation to hold government accountable. Listen to their conversation.
Community
Memories of a little girl from a long time ago
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You don’t have to be famous or powerful to inspire people. You just have to go about doing ordinary things in an exemplary manner.
Culture
Who will write its next chapter?
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Writers & Books, one of the nation’s oldest and most active community-based literary centers, is searching nationwide for a new executive director with the soul of a literary artist and the brain of an entrepreneur.
Community
How young professionals see Rochester
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When Rochester native Andrew Brady returned here in 2012 after going to college at Cornell University and living in Boston for a few years, he found the city undergoing a transformation. In an wide-ranging audio interview with Rochester Beacon publisher Alex Zapesochny, the Rochester Young Professionals president talks about why Rochester now is a magnet for a growing number of young people, and other topics. Listen to their conversation.
Education
Running out of time
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The Rochester City School District has less than two months to formally respond to Distinguished Educator Jaime Aquino’s call for change. If there is no meeting of minds, the district could face a state takeover or cede control to the mayor.
Education
Steps forward by schools in receivership
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Nine Rochester schools in receivership have met targets set by the state Department of Education, showing signs of improvement. In the receivership program, management of schools whose students have failed to meet minimum standards set by the state is put under control of a specially appointed receiver.
Community
Behind bars, parents work to build a family bond
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For the last 12 years, through her nonprofit, New York State Literary Center, Dale Davis has helped inmates at the Monroe Correctional Facility in Brighton become more engaged with their community, and with their families, through reading and writing.