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Marianne Garvin, CEO, Community Development Corporation of Long Island
Marianne Garvin, CEO, Community Development Corporation of Long Island
Goshen: Fostering a sustainable community
Tom Collishaw, CEO, Self-Help Enterprises
Challenge: Many residents in the farmworker community of Goshen, CA, lived in substandard conditions. Their homes had no insulation, no indoor toilet, no city water.
Affordable housing and diversity transforming Chinatown
Norman Fong, executive director, Chinatown Community Development Center
Help for a family on the edge of homelessness
Billy Gibby is a father and husband, and has suffered with severe depression—a hallmark of his bipolar disorder—for a long time.
"I often felt I was a failure as both a father and a husband because I couldn't provide my family with a safe, affordable place to live," he recalls.
Homeless get the support they need with housing-services combo
Meeting the housing needs of the homeless requires persistence and collaboration. In Bismarck, Community Works North Dakota created partnered with Ruth Meiers Hospitality House to provide affordable housing units for this vulnerable population.
Single mom risked homelessness before 'saved' by NeighborWorks member
Becca Baladez turned to Neighbor to Neighbor in Ft. Collins, Colorado, for help when she realized her apartment lease was about to expire and she had to move.
Affordable housing comes to affluent New Hampshire community
Bow, a community of 7,500 residents in bucolic central New Hampshire, is a success story that shows how an affluent community can embrace affordable rental housing, thanks to CATCH Neighborhood Housing.
After a disaster, transforming neighborhoods into more resilient communities
Cynthia W. Burton, Executive Director & Jacqueline Standridge, Director, Planning and Development, Community Service Programs of West Alabama
“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.”
Park Falls, Wisconsin: A Chronicle of Northwoods Survival
Brett Gerber, President and CEO, Impact Seven
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