Community Heart & Soul Stories

Christian Science Monitor Story Focuses on Orton Orton Family Foundation Executive Director David Leckey was recently featured in the Christian Science Monitor’s “People Making a Difference” series. David talks about…

Did you miss our webinar about Millennials who chose to live in towns and small cities? Hear how they are defying conventional wisdom about so-called “brain drain” from rural America. Ben…

Bucksport, Maine | The Town That Refused to Die This article first appeared in Yankee Magazine, November 2018. When the paper mill that had defined Bucksport, Maine, for eight decades…

Congratulations Meadville! The northwestern Pennsylvania city (pop. 13,338) was recognized for its Community Heart & Soul project, My Meadville, by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association. The award…

This post first appeared on the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation blog. Can I tell you about something that gives me chills and sends me running? October is Arts & Humanities Month.…

Whitney Kimball Coe is coordinator of the National Rural Assembly, a rural movement made up of activities and partnerships geared toward building better policy and more opportunity across the country.…

As many young people do, Brittany Grimes left her hometown for college and to start her career. Then she decided to return. She is director of public relations and marketing…

In Community Heart & Soul city Galesburg, Illinois, schoolchildren are discovering an active alternative for getting to school. Since September, elementary school students have had the chance to get on…

Bree Henderson owns Polished & Proper Barbershop & Shave Parlor in Laconia, New Hampshire (pop. 16,500). She chose to start her business in the struggling downtown in this former New…

Community Heart & Soul® town Paonia (pop. 1,500) is in northwest Colorado with its roots in coal mining and agriculture. For most of the 20th century the local economy was…