Deadline: 11/20/2019
Amount: Unspecified
Description:
The purpose of this program is to help cohorts of grassroots community leaders revitalize neighborhoods that are struggling with serious challenges related to vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. Each year, this program engages six grassroots resident leaders from three communities for a yearlong fellowship. Over the course of the fellowship, fellows visit each other’s communities and learn from each other’s efforts. They build stronger relationships with local leaders at home and they tackle important projects and push for positive changes in their neighborhoods. In 2020, this program will focus on helping residents lead community-based efforts to improve vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties through creative placemaking.