Community Heart & Soul Stories

Initiated more than a decade ago, the Community Heart & Soul program is a proven resident-driven model that engages the entire population of a town to identify what they love…

Armada, Michigan, is the kind of place where, as you cross the street at a downtown four-way intersection, the only oncoming car is likely filled with friends who exuberantly recognize…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on January 5, 2023, which you can see here. Residents, coaches, reporters discuss local-level community revitalization initiative at Jefferson…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on December 14, 2022, which you can see here. When community members can’t, or don’t, or won’t, go to…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on November 8, 2022, which you can see here. A train depot that’s a museum. A former bank branch…

There is a sense of relief, and joy, in Bridgton, Maine, this fall. Its hometown ski mountain figuratively returned home when new owners agreed with the community that the name…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on October 24, 2022, which you can see here. Small is Big in Mount Blanchard, Ohio. Growing up in…

“If revitalization was something we were doing TO our residents, they would resist, but if it was something we were doing WITH them, they would embrace it.” It’s not easy…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on September 1, 2022, which you can see here. In 2015, Dillsburg, Pennsylvania relocated the town’s library to a…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on August 1, 2022, which you can see here. As Isaac and Heidi Tucker saw it, there was no…