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The third round of the Neighborhood Marketing Program is off and running. In 10 communities across the country, marketing teams comprised of residents, business owners and other partners are moving to the logo design phase of the process. But, how did they get there? Where did they start?
Building better community in a day at the fair
Deborah White, Executive Director, Mid Central Community Action
Challenge: In Bloomington, Illinois, West Bloomington lags economically. After years of disinvestment, the area suffers from complications related to housing, education, unemployment, crime and overall neighborhood quality.
Challenge: In Bloomington, Illinois, West Bloomington lags economically. After years of disinvestment, the area suffers from complications related to housing, education, unemployment, crime and overall neighborhood quality.
Giving residents a voice door by door in Idaho
Resident surveys carried out by NeighborWorks Pocatello in its Old Town neighborhood successfully strengthened the organization’s community engagement efforts and created an effective platform for marketing the neighborhood to new and prospective homeowners.
When this resident sees ‘room for improvement,’ she gets to work
As a resident of the College Park neighborhood in Las Vegas for 54 years, RaeAnn Peterson with NHS of Southern Nevada didn’t stand around and wait for someone else to fix problems in her neighborhood.
Within NeighborWorks and among professionals who look to us for training and support, the debate rages about the extent to which we should be defined as “housers.” After all, providing housing that is affordable to those with lower incomes was NeighborWorks’ founding “reason to be,” and is the basis of continued funding by the U.S. Congress.
Boom goes the oil and population
In the housing industry, typically a boom in population is a great thing, unless that population growth somehow edges out certain sectors of the population. That’s what happened when an oil boom in western North Dakota caused a 17 percent increase in population, putting a severe strain on available housing stock across the state.
Experience the next reinvestment in Edgewood
NeighborWorks member Community Preservation and Development Corp. (CPDC) has long worked to transcend boundaries to improve the lives of Washington, DC, residents.
Residents learn how to positively impact their neighborhood
As part of its commitment to help stabilize and revitalize the communities it serves, Community Housing Partners (CHP) hosted five residents from The Summit Apartments in Hopewell, VA, at NeighborWorks America’s October Community Leadership Institute in Louisville, KY.
Youth build skills while providing affordable homes
In May of 1997, NeighborWorks Great Falls approached local school district officials with an idea for a construction-skills training opportunity for high school students. The thought was to build homes using the students from the advanced building trades classes, starting in the fall of 1998 to provide plenty of time for planning.
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