Day: September 11, 2010

  150 years of medical and social research has shown four factors to have the most powerful effect on the psychological, social and physical well-being

Kathy Szenda Wilson, Director of Neighborhood Programs for the Battle Creek Community Foundation, wrote this editorial for the Battle Creek Enquirer. In this time of limited

It was that summer when there was “nothing to do” that Betty Alonso’s future suddenly changed. A college student studying economics, she was coaxed by

What do you do when you step in to manage an established resident-led grassroots grants program that doesn’t reflect the voice and interests of residents

  “When we talk about capacity building, sometimes we’re really talking about confidence,” says Sarah McCarthy, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Resource Center of Colorado. Through her

Grassroots grants often serve as the first seed to broader resident community impact and involvement. This is true for the Battle Creek Community Foundation (BCCF),

In Youngstown, Ohio, a team of community organizers was recently canvassing the Newport neighborhood. The team’s leader, Kirk Noden, Executive Director of the Mahoning Valley

To best illustrate the mission of the Presbyterian Committee on the Self Development of People (SDOP) Margaret Mwale, associate for community relations, says that “we

About a year after Donna Newton left her former career as an insurance executive, she felt as if she had failed at retirement. “I bought a

Richard Rodrigues knows that many people see Hawaii as “mythological” – a place where the climate and beauty of the land have the power to