Stories

For NHS of Baltimore, the road to creating successful and sustainable homeownership in the communities it serves is paved with financial education, training, networking and other resources uniquely designed to help prepare individuals and families reach their homebuying goals. 

Anthony, Vonnie and their daugher, Ava, are celebrating their first Thanksgiving in the home they purchased with down payment assistance from the LIFT program. 

Want a way to combine holiday fun with fundraising and corporate partnerships? Consider launching an "Ugly Sweater Challenge"!

How do you engage and train young professionals so they turbocharge your fundraising and form a line of prospects ready to step into your board when needed? Read about this innovative program adopted by one nonprofit in Richmond, Virginia. 

Affordable housing is a must, and so are jobs, health and education. But what if you can't access any of these due to a lack of transportation. NeighborWorks network member Penquis fills the gap. 

When Johnny Carter moved to his new neighborhood in Moorhead, Mississippi, he found a host of problems. But he stepped up and helped lead the residents in a lawsuit to help residents get the attention and resources they needed to clean up their community. And now Carter is being recognized with a NeighborWorks America Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership. 

Audrey Stubbs of Cleveland, one of NeighborWorks America's Dorothy Richardson Resident Leadership Award recipients, sees it as her mission to help youths find their way to a positive future. 

This Philadelphia recipient of a resident-leadership award from NeighborWorks America has been called the 'mayor' because she knows how to use whatever it takes—from butterflies to prayer—to bring people together.

For Alama Uluave of Salt lake City, service is a way of life. It is this dedication that later led him to be nominated for a NeighborWorks America Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership.

J'Tanya Adams, a Charlotte, North Carolina, recipient of NeighborWorks America's Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership, has led the transformation of her declining African-American neighborhood into a vibrant place to visit.