Community Heart & Soul Stories

Community Heart & Soul towns across Maine are gaining attention! Maine Municipal Association, the organization serving local governments in the state, featured several municipalities’ adoption of Community Heart & Soul…

Community Heart & Soul® is a resident-driven process that makes room for everyone who wants to be involved in a community. Volunteers are vital to Community Heart & Soul, which…

Shelburne, Vt. (March 27, 2024) — In a joint effort to bolster small cities and towns in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, Community Heart & Soul and Innovia Foundation are…

Passing through this South Carolina town, one might only see shuttered mills. But stopping to meet the people, and listen to their stories, one will find a town that’s actively…

New Yorkers have a certain bold energy and efficiency that is striking, and not necessarily NYC-centric. It is exciting to witness that sense of purpose in action. Which makes the…

Shelburne, Vt. (December 6, 2023) — Building on the state’s success with Community Heart & Soul, a process for engaging residents in charting the future of their communities, South Carolina…

You can tell a lot about a community not only from their successes, but how they deal with setbacks. The residents of Mendota, Illinois, were well on their way towards…

The power of partnership yields a greater investment in residents’ ‘Heart & Soul’ Brian Treece has a mantra that guides his vision for and work at the Findlay-Hancock County Community…

‘We have the ingredients, but what kind of town are we?’ On a mid-summer Saturday morning, it is a relaxed ride to the center of Sanford, right to the grassy…

Initiated more than a decade ago, the Community Heart & Soul program relies heavily on the participation of an entire population of a municipality to define what matters most about…