Print pageFrom flood to framework: Building collaboration across state lines
Don Patrick, President and CEO, North East Community Action Corporation
Don Patrick, President and CEO, North East Community Action Corporation
“In America today, we are living in two nations. I live about 20 blocks from ‘the corner’ I described in my 1998 book about West Baltimore, which is avoided by most of the city. But it’s another America entirely. It takes a lot of effort to make the journey across the chasm that separates them, but that must be our work.”
GROWing Rural America
Marcia Erickson and Lori Finnesand, Co-CEOs, GROW South Dakota
Expanding the reach of housing services via the internet
Jim Grenfell, Executive Director, Wyoming Housing Network
Event brings home message that ‘race matters’
Utah is not yet a very diverse state; as of 2013, nearly 90 percent of residents were white. Latinos are a distant second at 13 percent, followed by Asian-Americans, Native Americans, blacks and Pacific Islanders (each less than 3 percent).
Look at the classic stories we retell over and over again, at bedtime, around the campfire, on the stage and even on the news, and the common theme is conflict and contrast, good vs evil, perdition vs. redemption. (Think about some of the greatest stories of all time – The Wizard of Oz, Hamlet and even the way we spin our election coverage.)
Build pride among youth by celebrating the past
How do you engage youth in their communities, building character by connecting them to their area’s “roots”? It’s a challenge faced by all neighborhoods, and the Troy Rehabilitation & Improvement Progam (TRIP) has found a successful way to do it by partnering with two other community “anchors”: the local historical society and elementary school.
Maria Elvia Salazar: Breaking down barriers like a force of nature
Imagine you’re in a new country. You’re still learning the language. You’re trying to figure out who runs things. You don’t have a lot of money. Meanwhile, however, you see things that aren’t fair and need to be changed. What do you do?
Manfred Reid: Rising up like a human phoenix
In Greek mythology, a phoenix is a bird that dies in a “show of flames and combustion,” then arises from the ashes to live anew. And Manfred Reid of Louisville, Kentucky, is a modern-day, human phoenix.
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