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4/7/2017

Photo Voice: Nurturing community engagement through the creative process

To foster community engagement, pride and cohesiveness through an artistic project that puts digital cameras and training in the hands of residents in a Rutland, VT neighborhood struggling with drugs, crime and poverty.

4/6/2017

Building bridges to success for immigrants

Securing an affordable home is challenging for low-income people, particularly for immigrants, who can be exploited by unscrupulous landlords. Learn how one NeighborWorks network member created a bridge and provided opportunities.

4/5/2017

Changing culture: creating college-ready communities

More than a quarter of the students fail to graduate from high school in Woonsocket, RI, both a symptom and a cause of the city's overall decline. How do we get these poorly performing students to graduate, go to college and break the cycle of poverty?

4/5/2017

A ray of sunshine at an uncertain time: PEARLS and PRIDE

The 2008 housing crisis was devastating for Waco, Texas. As more houses went into foreclosure, residents were evicted and affordable housing and mortgage loans became difficult to find.

4/5/2017

Quixote Village: Tiny homes as permanent supportive housing

The tiny house concept, implemented to respond to homelessness in many communities, faces challenges including accessing both capital and operating financing; designing for community building and resident privacy, and overcoming land use, zoning, building and housing code barriers.

4/4/2017

Building community on rooftops

Avesta Housing needed a way to build and sustain community in its affordable housing complex. The nonprofit hit the mark by equipping its building with a rooftop garden and Healthy Living Center.

4/3/2017

Setting and meeting ambitious goals through collaborative leadership

Central Appalachia had an estimated 100,000 units of substandard or overcrowded housing. Fahe's network of nonprofits was challenged to increase its production of affordable housing, enabled by increased collaboration and more efficient systems.

3/31/2017

Paint The Town: Taking the lead on lead paint

For more than three decades, NeighborWorks Boise has painted thousands of houses owned by low-income, senior or disabled residents. But when new EPA lead regulations prohibited the organization from painting pre-1978 homes, it need a new approach to safely revitalize homes.

3/31/2017

Building a culture of finding a way

After the 1980s farm crisis agricultural communities in Minnesota sought investment of state and local resources to diversify their economy. Now job growth has outstripped the local workforce and available housing. Communities struggle to provide services and homes for new residents from elsewhere in the state and around the world.

3/30/2017

A new park pavilion brings community together

For more than 20 years, NeighborWorks Pocatello successfully revitalized communities, but without support from local residents it could never fulfill its goals. It sought a way to demonstrate its commitment to the community and raise awareness about the organization as it marked a significant milestone.

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