Stories bring community together. Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership (SMHP) learned this years ago, and has used storytelling and the arts to educate and share experiences of the wide variety of people who live in Worthington, Marshall, Wilmer and points between. 

Last year, when The Unity Council couldn't put on the annual Dia de los Muertos festival in person because of the pandemic, the Fruitvale community felt their losses more acutely, says Itzel Diaz-Romo, interim director of development and communications for the NeighborWorks network organization.

In Boston, leaders are calling the mural a "love letter to Roxbury." Created in conjunction with Madison Park Development Corporation's 55th anniversary, a mobile mural is helping bring a cohesive spirit to the Nubian Square corridor. And that, says Kay Mathew, resource development manager, is exactly what public art is supposed to do.
 

At Daimaru, once a hotel and more permanent housing run by Little Tokyo Service Center, residents were struggling. Many of them worked in the restaurant industry, and the pandemic hit their places of business hard. "So many closed," says Nancy Alcaraz, director of resident services. 

Growing up in New York, Jessica Padilla Gonzalez watched the way her parents fostered community. The two of them had come to New York's Washington Heights from Puerto Rico as teenagers. When he was in his early 20s, Padilla Gonzalez's father, Porfirio, opened a meat market. "Everyone knew his

When a group of residents from NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) attended NeighborWorks America's Community Leadership Institute, a training event aiming to strengthen the voice and skills of community and resident leaders, they already had an idea of what they wanted to do. Their project idea?

In 2019, Gloria Ortiz-Fisher, executive director of Westside Housing, was considering new ways to help clients. That's when she learned about a program helping residents establish credit by formally reporting on something they already did each month: Pay rent.

The Truist Foundation is setting course to strategically invest in historically excluded communities and address systemic inequities. The Foundation was formed in 2020 with a mission to inspire and build better lives and communities by giving everyone the equal opportunity to thrive.