Stories

In many minority communities, access to healthy foods can be a challenge. Residents are sometimes forced to forgo healthy options due to cost and convenience. Network member Madison Park Development Corp. worked with its community to renovate a 50-year-old grocery store into a supermarket.

Coachella Valley Housing Coalition has discovered that partnering with “unlikely bedfellows” has multiple benefits for residents.

Coachella Valley Housing Coalition has discovered that partnering with “unlikely bedfellows” has multiple benefits for residents.

When youth and other community residents feel confused and disenfranchised by racial strife and cultural debates, how can you bring them together? In Utah, a unique forum has emerged: Race Matters.

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 has found a successful way to do it by partnering with two other community “anchors.”

Homelessness is a critical problem for many former service members. Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Berks brough together a coalition of nonprofits, government agencies and volunteers to provide help for veteran homeowners in need. 

A refugee from Somalia who fled during the country's civil war, Deeqo Jibril helps fellow "transplants" integrate while celebrating their culture--as well as works with local police to help them relate to her community.

When the manufactured-home community in which Don Feist lived was rapidly sliding into disrepair, Don Feist took the lead to enable resident ownership and lead its rehabilitation.

Erika Cooper has weathered more adversity than most of us can even begin to imagine--ranging from the murder of her brother to breast cancer. But she has committed herself to improving the quality of life for children in her impoverished neighborhood.

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.