We had the opportunity to tour the Zone with Margaret May, Director of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Community Center and David Warm, Executive Director of the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC).
Another accomplishment for CCIP was in 2005 when the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation awarded a grant to launch a neighborhood planning initiative for a neighborhood community on the eastside of the City.
Economists have even succeeded in quantifying the value of the neighborhood stability and community involvement fostered by homeownership.
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He started at a city job building neighborhood projects such as community centers for the poor in Little Havana.
This fund would target only small community and neighborhood banks, and it would help these institutions increase lending to small businesses.
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She made disc donations easy by placing Tunes 4 the Troops collection boxes at football games, churches, neighborhood events, and community centers.
On Halloween in 1975, Martha's body was discovered lying beneath a pine tree on her parent's property in Belle Haven, an affluent neighborhood in the affluent shoreline community of Greenwich, Conn.
They thought about their neighborhood, they thought about their community, they thought about their country.
She plans on becoming both a middle school English teacher and a community organizer in her neighborhood, the Mission District.
An experiment in industrial order and community planning, the neighborhood features a design that was intelligent in 1880 and "smart" today.
We also visited a residential neighborhood in southwest Detroit where the community is using art to battle problems with gang graffiti.
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The decision by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office has shocked relatives of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger, a Holocaust survivor and a leader of the Satmar Hasidic community in the Williamsburg neighborhood, said Isaac Abraham, a close family friend.
Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were using a car service to go to the hospital when another vehicle crashed into the side of theirs at an intersection in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, said Hasidic community activist Isaac Abraham.
Now -- now, I know that the price of tuition is higher than ever, which is why, if you are willing to volunteer in your neighborhood or give back to your community or serve your country, we will make sure that you can afford a higher education.
She installed community chalkboards in the Diepsloot neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa, that gave people a medium to self-organize and share information.
Start a forum for neighborhood improvement to transform the lot for some interesting purpose--a community garden, a playground, a recycling center, introducing something new in your neighborhood, school, or anything else.
Ms. Gillespie's death shocked her neighborhood, bringing an outpouring of support from community leaders, residents and businesses who helped her family.
Shapinga's football journey began some two decades ago, playing with the boys of her neighborhood despite the disapproval of her family and community.
For example: in South Los Angeles, the Community Coalition has created a safer neighborhood by working with residents to shut down a troublesome liquor store and connecting families to jobs resources.
In 1983, he founded the Korean Community Development Services Center in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia.
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One talk Adebolajo attended was at a community center in Woolwich -- the neighborhood where Rigby was killed -- recalled Bakri Mohammed, who noted the group met in such locations because they were not welcomed in mosques.
The experience that people have of guns in an urban neighborhood may not be the same as in a rural community.
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"Most cities are having a tough time, " said Esserman, who added that his department is dedicated to community policing and has a strong partnership with neighborhood watch groups.
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In September 2011, the pacified Cidade de Deus favela, widely known for the movie that bears its name, became the first neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro with a community bank.
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One is a new independent living community that is explicitly opening itself up to the surrounding neighborhood.
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Our community kitchen initiated a culinary training program with local unemployed neighborhood residents.
And videogame systems with a mesh node could connect all the kids in a neighborhood, allowing them to easily play games in an online virtual community.
So, I began studying maps of my inner city neighborhood and realized that many of the vacant historic buildings in my community were built along street car lines that traversed the city.
In the Jobs session, the Department of Labor Faith-based Center shared information with participants on Job Clubsand employment and skills training grants, and the SBA Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnership Office shared information about the role faith-based and community nonprofits can play as microloan intermediaries.
Ms. INGE: The Lincoln Community Health Center sits in the middle of a mostly minority neighborhood near downtown Durham.
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