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December 17, 2008 | Program Result
Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal seeks to reduce social isolation in distressed areas of Shreveport, La., and adjacent Bossier City and to disseminate its model of renewal to other cities.
December 17, 2008 | Program Result
The position of community coordinator is a demanding one that can take an emotional toll, says Michael B. Leonard, D.D.S., associate coordinator of Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal.
December 17, 2008 | Program Result
Stacy Davis is a resident of Shreveport's Cedar Grove neighborhood who had - past tense, he makes plain - a rough life on the streets.
December 17, 2008 | Program Result
The sign reads 'Cedar Grove Garden of Love,' and on this bright spring day 79-year-old Margaret Myles is planting marigolds. "I want this place to be the prettiest place in the community," says Myles as she finishes her work.
October 17, 2008 | Program Result
The Foundation for the Mid South engaged stakeholders in a planning process to launch the Mid South Health Initiative, designed to identify strategies that would improve the health of people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
June 1, 2005 | Program Result
Friends of the Community Path, a Somerville, Mass., citizens' group, helped raise funds to design a new 2.5-mile extension of a bicycle and pedestrian pathway that, when completed, will connect a popular commuter bikeway to downtown Boston.
November 1, 2004 | Program Result
New Jersey Future, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization, developed a special "Creating Healthy Communities" section on its Smart Growth Gateway Web site (no longer in existence) in April 2003.
November 1, 2004 | Program Result
For its September/October 2003 issue, the American Journal of Health Promotion published a special issue entitled "Health Promoting Community Design."
February 1, 2008 | Program Result
From 2001 to 2006, the American Planning Association provided guidance and tools to urban planners and other planning and design professionals and decision-makers to help them create communities that promote physical activity.
August 25, 2008 | Program Result
The Active Living Network provided experts from disciplines active in community design with information about how community design can promote health and physical activity.