Community Groups Use Art to Beautify Construction Fence (Press Release)

COMMUNITY GROUPS USE ART TO BEAUTIFY CONSTRUCTION FENCE The West Atlantic Redevelopment Coalition (WARC) and Milagro Center to install children’s artwork on fence banners of CRA-owned site DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), West Atlantic Redevelopment Coalition (WARC) and the Milagro Center will unveil a collaborative project of artistic fence…

New director named for MainStreet DeLand

MainStreet DeLand Association has found its successor for the executive director who is leaving the organization June 15. Beginning July 1, D. Wayne Carter will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mary Beth Harris, who is relocating to South Florida with her family. Carter was selected from 12 “qualified candidates,” said Savannah-Jane Griffin,…

AmeriCorps and Habitat seek to revitalize Pensacola neighborhood

 AmeriCorps and Habitat seek to revitalize Pensacola neighborhood Habitat for Humanity staff and AmeriCorps volunteers kicked off the 2013 AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon in Pensacola today, a week of community development projects in the Westside Garden District Neighborhood in Pensacola.About 80 AmeriCorps volunteers from across the country along with about 20 Pensacola Habitat for Humanity volunteers and…

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest growing poor population in the country and more than half of the metropolitan poor. Yet the place-based antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. Confronting Suburban Poverty in America paints a new picture of poverty in the United…