Community Heart & Soul Stories

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on March 15, 2022, which you can see here. The life and spirit of any town or city depend…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on March 8, 2022, which you can see here. The exodus of Galesburg, Illinois’ economic anchor in 2004 left the town in…

“Every town has a river walk, even if it doesn’t have a river”

The Heart & Soul Team in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania has found creative ways to engage the community despite challenges presented by the pandemic.

Like many small communities, Cambridge, Illinois suffers from Same Ten People Syndrome. When there’s a project to undertake in the village of 2,100, or a board position to fill, the…

The wake-up call for Winchendon, Massachusetts, came in 2017, when its only grocery store shut its doors. Farm land surrounds the former factory town, and yet Winchendon (population 10,900) qualified…

Community Heart & Soul brought residents together, then helped them take action On a balmy, blue-sky August night in 2019, a thousand residents of Thomaston, Georgia, crowded into downtown’s Courthouse…

This article first appeared on the Our Towns Civic Foundation website on August 18, 2021, which you can see here. If you’re in Maine, heading Downeast from Portland on coastal Route 1, you’ll…

When an old auto parts store was torn down in downtown Akron, Iowa (population 1,588) a few years ago, it left an eyesore of a vacant lot across from the…

In the next Heart & Soul Minutes video, hear from Star Poole, Community Heart & Soul Volunteer and School Board member in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Star has been a resident of…