Visitor to B-N: Arts keep at-risk kids on right path
Bill Strickland is the founder and CEO of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, an innovative nonprofit agency in Pittsburgh, Pa., that uses the arts to inspire inner-city teenagers. He visits with Greg Reed with the Lawrence Irvin Neighborhood Center in Bloomington during an open house at the Western Avenue Community Center on Monday afternoon, June 21, 2010. (The Pantagraph/LORI ANN COOK-NEISLER)
Success story touts benefit of arts
By M.K. GUETERSLOH The (Bloomington) Pantagraph
4:01 a.m. CDT, June 24, 2010
Bill Strickland thinks he can convince the Bloomington community to support arts programs to help at-risk youths on the west side simply by being an example of what can be accomplished.
"You get the community behind it by example," said the president of the Manchester Bidwell Corp. "At Manchester Bidwell in 20 years we haven't had any fights, any drugs, any arrests, we have a 98 percent graduation rate, six of our former students are teachers and three (have doctorate degrees)." Read More
Bill Strickland Featured in Delta Sky Magazine as one of Pittsburgh's Most Prominent Leaders
June 2010 issue
Delta’s Sky Magazine, the airline’s inflight publication, features a 20-page special supplement entitled “People. Progress. Pittsburgh.” The supplement focuses on five city neighborhoods that are being revitalized thanks to investment by innovative, global organizations – as well as on the arts and cultural assets that “put the ‘it’ in Pittsburgh.”
Robert Lekites | Our next step -
Courier-Journal.com
June 2, 2010
" Bill Strickland, another speaker who addressed our group in Pittsburgh, founded Manchester Bidwell Corp., which provides alternative school programs to inner-city high school students..." Read More
"The Art of Ministry"
UrbanFaith.com
In his memoir, Make the Impossible Possible, entrepreneur Bill Strickland (left) describes the images of his earliest memories. He writes, "What I saw as I walked to school each day was an unbroken landscape of decay that taught me indelible lessons about hopelessness and defeat no matter where my gaze fell."... Read More
Make the Impossible Possible, Selected as one of the TOP Books Corporate is Reading
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Strickland profiled on Global News National, in Halifax, Nova Scotia:
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Strickland profiled on CNN.com
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GOES ONE ON ONE WITH PITTSBURGH'S BILL STRICKLAND...CEO OF MANCHESTER CRAFTSMAN'S GUILD
Bill Strickland turned his love of ceramics into a creative outlet for disadvantaged city kids.
Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host- Bev Smith Interviews Bill Strickland,
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http://www.bevsmithtalks.com/interviews/billstrickland.html
Bill Strickland featured in the May 2009 issue of Black Enterprise Magazine, providing words to strive by:
"Don't waste precious time chasing someone else's definition of success, look for the things that inspire you, trouble you, make you feel most alive, and trust in those things to shape your future," Strickland says in the magazine.
Click here to read article: http://www.zinio.com/pages/BlackEnterprise/May-09/416078758/pg-84