Community Heart & Soul Stories

NEW GRANT PROGRAM TO REVITALIZE U.S. SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS COMMUNITY HEART & SOUL® ANNOUNCES $10K SEED GRANTS SHELBURNE, Vt. (February 10, 2021)—Community Heart & Soul today announced its new…

About this Event Our first free Getting Started with Community Heart & Soul Virtual Workshop Series, started September 29, 2020. This five-part series prepared participants to get started with Community…

#1 There is no such thing as the “general public”. Know who your community is (demographics, stakeholders, networks) and how they get their information. This knowledge is the foundation for how…

Start with People “Start with People” was the theme throughout the 2019 Community Heart & Soul Coach & Champion Gathering. Here’s a look at how that theme developed during the…

The challenges facing small Iowa towns seem to multiply with each passing year. These challenges are not unique to Iowa and Community Heart & Soul, a small and rural community-focused…

To make progress in ending the opioid epidemic the stigma around addiction needs to be lifted. That was the message from Tina Stride, founder of The Hope Dealer Project, and…

Our recent webinar explored the timely issue of how to get Americans talking to each other civilly and get them engaged in government—two vital ingredients to a healthy democracy. Our…

Congratulations to Cumberland County Historical Society and Greater Carlisle Heart & Soul in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The historical society is being recognized for efforts to preserve an historic African American church…

This article from PM Magazine, March 2019, is reposted with permission from International City/County Management Association. By Scott Lazenby When I was in graduate school, I served as editor of…

HOW DO YOU REINVENT A RURAL ECONOMY? $100 AT A TIME This article first appeared in The Daily Yonder, February 13 2019. By Melody Warnick “Explore Elkin” takes small individual…