Annoucing the new E4S Connection and Learning Center

On Thursday June 8th, 2006, the E4S Network celebrated the grand opening of its new networking hub.  For the past five years, the Tasting Room at Great Lakes Brewing Company has served as the gathering place for the E4S community. Every month on the Third Tuesday (except July and December) we have come together to connect and learn from each other. With award winning beers in hand, we exchanged our product, business and community design ideas and developed relationships. As long as we don't grow out of the Tasting Room, it will forever be the E4S clubhouse.

We have long known that our network needed more than a place to gather once a month. We know you need more and better connections and a place to access the information you seek. That is why we created the E4S Connection and Learning Center, located in the Glenville Enterprise Center, a business incubator operated by our strategic partner, Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland. The new space is a place where the E4S Network can connect, collaborate, learn new skills and ultimately put sustainability into action!

We are very grateful to the following organizations, businesses and foundations who donated labor and materials as well as much needed funds to establish The E4S Connection and Learning Center:

• Atlas Architectural Services, Inc.
• Business Interiors and Environments, Inc.
• Blue Sky Energy
• D & R Carpet
• Doty and Miller
• Forbo Flooring
• Great Lakes Brewing Company
• Green Clean
• Horizon Construction Co., Ltd.
• Interface
• Lighting Sales, Inc.
• Mustard Seed Market and Cafe
• Oatey
• Phoenix Coffee
• REpower SOLUTIONS
• SBC Excelerator
• Sherwin Williams
• ShoreBank Enterprise Cleveland
• The 1525 Foundation
• The Cleveland Foundation
• The George Gund Foundation
• The John P. Murphy Foundation
• The Sherwick Fund
• Yurich Creative