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Too cold to play? Not for kids in Fairbanks, Alaska

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"It is a happy talent to know how to play." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Janet Troutman Simmons: Stepping up when a leader is needed

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When the young lawyer for the owner of the St. Paul senior-housing community showed up to explain why the building was about to be sold for a luxury, market-rate development, she didn’t feel threatened by Janet Troutman Simmons. After all, in 2015, Simmons was 88! But that was a mistake.

Tips to turn down the heat on high energy bills

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In Aberdeen, Washington, NeighborWorks of Grays Harbor County is located 100 miles from Seattle, where several wild and scenic rivers converge into the bay and flow into the Pacific Ocean. Despite being the closest port to Asia, this rural community also is an economically depressed area, with an aging housing stock mostly dependent on electric heating.

Rural Neighborhood: Avoids Hurricane Irma's wrath and responds to resident needs

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Seventy-two hours prior to the arrival of Hurricane Irma — then a Category 4 storm that had carved a destructive path through numerous Caribbean islands — staff members at Rural Neighborhoods Inc. (RNI) worked to shutter nearly 1,000 rental homes on Florida's west and east coasts and urged residents to evacuate.

Centro Campesino provides affordable home for amputee athlete

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Cuban-born Lazaro Cordera, an avid swimmer, is used to overcoming challenges. As a cancer survivor, he and his parents relocated to the United States when he was 17 to seek medical treatment at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, to rehabilitate his left leg.

"After a few surgeries, the only solution was to amputate my leg," says Lozaro.

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Success in community development often is dependent on one word: comprehensive. When tackling an entrenched or systemic challenge, one approach applied one time simply isn’t enough. That’s why when NeighborWorks member Mutual Housing California decided to “bridge the green divide”—allowing lower-income residents to benefit from the state’s leadership in energy-efficient (and thus cost-saving) technologies—it knew it would have to employ multiple tactics.