Urban Issues
Block party celebrates start of school, calls for end to violence
July 21, 2019
Just more than a week after Springfield marked its eighth homicide of the year, hundreds of residents flocked to Jaycee Park for a street festival celebrating the upcoming start of the school year and calling for an end to the... Read more...‘Health & Housing’ center proposed to better respond to homelessness
July 21, 2019
To more effectively prevent homelessness and intervene in the lives of people living on Springfield’s streets, a local social-service agency is proposing a $3 million Center for Health & Housing where mental-health, health-care and emergency shelter services would be offered... Read more...Movie Night
July 12, 2018
REAP has joined forces with SHARE United and the Springfield Park District to present movie night at sundown featuring Black Panther at Kiwanis Park on August 3rd. Come early for pre-movie popcorn, games, and more. Read more...
When Green Infrastructure Is an Anti-Poverty Strategy
July 21, 2019
In Portland, inspiring stories of how resident leaders – mostly lower-income, non-English-speaking, stay-at-home mothers- push for change in their community. Read more...5 ways social entrepreneurs are trying to cut food waste
July 21, 2019
Drought and heat waves are decimating crops around the world in countries like Afghanistan and South Sudan, driving rising hunger crises. The problem of hunger may only get worse as the global population reaches almost 10 billion people by 2050, making it more... Read more...What if you and your neighbors resdeisgned your town’s worst intersection?
March 13, 2018
We’ve all got one. That particularly awful intersection in your neighborhood that you can’t avoid passing through every single day. Read more...
How Community Development Lenders Work Around the Legacy of Redlining
July 21, 2019
In Highland Park, a small hamlet surrounded entirely by the city of Detroit, 2014 was not the best time to be thinking about expanding primary care and behavioral health services. Detroit had recently declared bankruptcy, and the broader economy was... Read more...Your Local Library May Have A New Offering In Stock: A Resident Social Worker
July 21, 2019
Trish doesn’t have many places to turn. She’s living at her elderly father’s home without a job because she can’t afford the care he needs. And every day she says the balance sheet seems stained with more red ink. Read more...‘White Flight’ Remains a Reality
March 13, 2018
Stereotypes and prejudice may persist, even despite the socioeconomic attainments of minority groups. Read more...