Community Heart & Soul Stories

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…

On our Heart & Soul Talk in May we heard from researcher John Friedman, associate professor economics and international affairs and public policy at Brown University and co-director of Opportunity…

Editor’s note: On Nov. 6, 2018, Golden voters rejected the measure to give teens the right to vote on municipal ballot items and local candidates. This article first appeared in…

Five years ago, James and Deborah Fallows, writers for the Atlantic magazine began travelling to small cities and towns across the country. After receiving more than 1,000 recommendations for places…

Summer in small-town Maine means gardens overflowing with produce—lettuce, squash, tomatoes, beans, and more—and avid gardeners can often be overwhelmed by the fruits of the season. People like to joke…

Diamond Park may not have served as the setting for a new world record Friday, but it certainly provided the perfect location for an event unlike any other in recent…

Community Heart & Soul® towns in Iowa and Illinois have been in the limelight lately. Cascade and Bellevue in Iowa were featured on an Iowa Public Radio story about how…

Galesburg on Track is the Community Heart & Soul® project for Galesburg, Illinois (pop. 31,000) After two years spent engaging residents, Galesburg on Track created an Action Plan for the…

As Galesburg on Track, a Community Heart & Soul® project in Galesburg, Illinois, came to a close, leaders wanted to find ways to maintain community connections and continue to engage…