When Green Infrastructure Is an Anti-Poverty Strategy
In Portland, inspiring stories of how resident leaders - mostly lower-income, non-English-speaking, stay-at-home mothers- push for change in their community.
5 ways social entrepreneurs are trying to cut food waste
Drought and heat waves are decimating crops around the world in countries like Afghanistan and South Sudan, driving rising hunger crises. The problem of hunger may only get worse as the global population [...]
How Community Development Lenders Work Around the Legacy of Redlining
In Highland Park, a small hamlet surrounded entirely by the city of Detroit, 2014 was not the best time to be thinking about expanding primary care and behavioral health services. [...]
Block party celebrates start of school, calls for end to violence
Just more than a week after Springfield marked its eighth homicide of the year, hundreds of residents flocked to Jaycee Park for a street festival celebrating the upcoming start of [...]
Your Local Library May Have A New Offering In Stock: A Resident Social Worker
Trish doesn't have many places to turn. She's living at her elderly father's home without a job because she can't afford the care he needs. And every day she says [...]
‘Health & Housing’ center proposed to better respond to homelessness
To more effectively prevent homelessness and intervene in the lives of people living on Springfield’s streets, a local social-service agency is proposing a $3 million Center for Health & Housing [...]
Neighborhood Outreach Workers
Our Outreach Workers serve as a direct link between resource providers and underserved populations.
REAP hosts Clean Up Day
The Resident Engagement Action Project hosted a community clean up day on April 13, 2019. The volunteers picked up trash between Martin Luther King Boulevard and Cook Street as part [...]
Sustain Springfield Green Map
Looking for a community garden, farmers market or recycling location? Open the map to start your adventure. […]
MLK Boulevard Clean-ups
Team REAP obtains Adopt-A-Street designation for MLK Boulevard. […]