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Insightful perspective from Eric Friedman on FOX Charleston about the BTR industry and our fast-growing HARMON by Crescent Communities BTR portfolio!

Have a question about affordable housing and what Lakeshore Habitat and Jubilee are doing to address it? Have other affordable housing questions? Submit your questions and join us!

Are you engaged in your community? 🤔 In 2023, Serve Virginia and the Virginia Service Foundation introduced the Virginia Community Engagement Index (VCEI). This groundbreaking study aims to understand the current state of service, volunteerism, and civic action in Virginia, as well as to identify the community's top priorities. Take a look at some of the interesting highlights such as, "Why we serve," "Where we serve," "how we serve," and more! https://lnkd.in/eQszbxnE

Share a compelling story of a community that came together to strengthen their local housing market, overcoming the bubble by smart investment and community planning. Highlight the lessons learned and how others can replicate this success.

Discover the transformative power of high school alumni associations in our latest blog: "Building Bridges: The Role of High School Alumni Associations in Strengthening Community Connections." Dive into the article to explore how these associations are shaping the future, fostering mentorship, and contributing to community development. Let's celebrate the bonds that connect generations and build a stronger, more supportive educational community together! Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/eQ452rUG

At Anders, we give back because we care. Embracing our core value of generosity, we actively invest in the communities where we work and live by supporting organizations with our time, resources and money throughout the year. See how we made an impact in 2023 through our annual Community Impact Report: https://lnkd.in/dEzF_xz

Something happened to Dearborn County. We used to be the community which let our historic downtowns deteriorate. We ignored -- if not abhorred -- the Ohio River. We didn't see much value in artistic and cultural offerings. We had an aversion to working together. Whether it is the IEDC READI program or the recently relaunched OCRA Stellar Pathways program, we are often told that our communities need to go bigger, bolder, and more transformational with our investments and future planning. If you sit back and take inventory, you will realize Dearborn County is already well down this path. Have you seen East Central High School's new natatorium? The snow-making innovation at Perfect North Slopes? What about the concepts for the City of Lawrenceburg Riverwalk project? Or do we realize the milestone that is the new, state-of-the-art cancer center which St. Elizabeth Healthcare just opened in Greendale? We even have one of the most popular night clubs in the Cincinnati area at Hollywood Casino's Boogie Nights. All this right here in lil' ol' Dearborn County. What got into us? What changed our "Humble Hoosier" mentality? Some might say it is just the result of riverboat gaming or Cincinnati's urban sprawl and population growth spilling over state lines into Dearborn County. If you ask me, it came down to visionary leadership and innovators. People which we at One Dearborn have the fortune to engage with each day. We shouldn't scoff at big ideas which appear beyond our grasp. As our track record shows, with the proper buy-in and prioritization, such ideas are more achievable in Dearborn County and Southeast Indiana than we give ourselves credit for. For Dearborn County to succeed in becoming an Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs #StellarPathways designee, we'll need people of many backgrounds, ideas, and desires for our communities to be thoughtfully engaged. It's a big table. I hope you'll pull up a chair.

Interested in community resilience and taking sides in working with communities? Just had a chapter published 'Community Resilience, Moving from Adaption to Confrontation', in Connections, Resilience and Empowerment, Perspectives on Community Development, Muir and Phillips (Editors), Springer, 2024.

This is one of the ways I fill my 'community bucket' - by volunteering at the Ottawa Community Foundation, on the board, the Grants Committee and the Impact Investing Committee. If you are not familiar - OCF is your community impact broker, helping to bring together so many parts of Ottawa, to pool together our funds and use that to re-invest in our community. We connect people looking for ways to invest their funds for the good of the community (donors), with local nonprofits/charities (service providers) serving those who can really use that investment (community members or causes). And the causes we support are driven by what's needed and what's important to the people who make up our city - so range from social services to health to education to arts and culture to heritage to environment to animal rights. I love volunteering here because it helps me feel connected to the heartbeat of Ottawa across all of our diversity - from grassroots local community groups to donors and funders to business leaders to policy makers. As individuals we are each plugged into to different parts of our city, geographically or sectorally or demographically. But here, we are all united through our common interest in making our city a better place for everyone. So here's a little window into the amazing work that's happening in our city everyday, thanks to all these different folks coming together, each doing our part, to lift each other up. Grant Jameson Susan Scotti Carol Devenny FCPA, FCA, CBV, ICD.D Susan St. Amand, TEP, FEA, ICD.D Tracey Clark Simon Kennedy Tim Redpath Michael Maidment Grace Xin Tais McNeill Rebecca Aird #Ottawa #Community #Leaders #Impact #Volunteering #Giving #Granting #ImpactInvesting #CommunityFoundations