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S.C. Promise Zone to bring more to area

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Jasper County residents discuss big ideas in July.

Jasper County residents discuss big ideas in July.

Excerpted from The (Beaufort, S.C.) Island News, 8/6/15:

90,000 residents. 28% in poverty and 15% unemployment. This is reality for the South Carolina Lowcountry Promise Zone, a federally-designated region encompassing portions of Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper Counties. Through the combined efforts of partners, supporters and local communities, the SC Promise Zone aims to bring millions of dollars in federal funding to spur economic development and improve quality of life for the region. Read more →

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Hundreds attend Promise Zone meetings

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Jasper County residents talk during the July 16 Promise Zone meeting

Jasper County residents talk during the July 16 Promise Zone meeting

Here are some more recent news stories about the July 8-16 town hall meetings on the South Carolina Lowcountry Promise Zone held in a six-county region.  Some excerpts:

Big crowd attends Promise Zone meeting, The (Walterboro) Press and Standard, July 23, 2015

“The Promise Zone is not a big pot of money out there waiting for us to pick it up,” Andy Brack of the Center for a Better South told the standing-room-only crowd at U.S.C. Salkehatchie last Thursday morning.

“But there is a big pot of money out there — we just have to work to get it. We have to work together to get it,” Brack added at the start of the Colleton County workshop attended by approximately 140 people.

Brack and the Center for a Better South worked with the SouthernCarolina Alliance to put together the successful application to have a portion of Colleton County and five other Lowcountry counties designated a Promise Zone by the federal government.

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Town halls attract more than 650 people

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Colleton County residents discuss Promise Zone options in a July 15 town hall meeting.

More than 650 people from Promise Zone counties attended six town hall meetings in six counties in the southern tip of South Carolina.  The sessions, sponsored by the SouthernCarolina Alliance, provided people with information about the Promise Zone designation and allowed them to suggest priorities for the region and their counties.

  • Click here to see some of the county-by-county reports.

The meetings also got significant media coverage.  Here are some links and excerpts: Read more →

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Meetings set this week for Colleton, Hampton, Jasper counties

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15.0624.map_1000Three Promise Zone town hall meetings by the SouthernCarolina Alliance are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties.  The six-county region won a federal Promise Zone designation in late April that will provide organizations with new ways to tap federal resources to help change people’s lives.

Last week, more than 290 people turned out in Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell counties for town hall meetings to share information and glean dreams of the future  (Read more here; photos of meetings are below). Read more →

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