Community

In the last two years, the City of Dallas’s Loving My Community Neighborhood Improvement Grant (LMC) has leveraged $100,000 in city funds to effectuate more than $600,000 in civic investment. Unfortunately, despite its overwhelming success, a depressed economy and lackluster tax revenue threaten to end this valuable Dallas program. Without significant financial support from the community, Loving My Community will not exist beyond 2011.

 In November 2008, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and...

Two years ago Elizabeth Dry was just a teacher with a dream. Tired of seeing countless students heading down a path toward teenage pregnancy and drug use, Dry envisioned a place where East Dallas youth could channel their energy and time into something greater than themselves. Today, Dry’s vision has become the Promise of Peace Community Garden on East Grand Avenue.

 

Dry had an inspiring vision, but it wasn’t until she received a $10,000 grant from the City of Dallas’...

Amid the wonderful smells of smoked barbeque, and just beyond the music, we managed our second “Better Block” project, where we took a gray, concrete, and car-focused block and converted it into a more humane space that placed people first. First off, big thanks go to SWA Group, and Metheney for providing us with amazing landscaping plans and with 42 trees and 100 shrubs which were strategically placed throughout the area. We started with the 1300 Block of West Davis:

The area is...