An opportunity update for the S.C. Lowcountry Promise Zone
Are you involved with a nonprofit or organization that’s looking for a grant opportunity to benefit folks in the South Carolina Lowcountry Promise Zone? Let us suggest two avenues to pursue:
First, take a look at the federal agencies participating in the Promise Zone program, which awards priority points for groups applying for more than 40 grant programs in 12 agencies. Read more
Local, state and national leaders talked about injecting arts into community development in Walterboro, Nov. 13, 2015.
Excerpted from The (Walterboro) Press and Standard | Read the full story here
DEC. 4, 2015 | All the ink goes to tax breaks and incentives when a community is successful in attracting a new employer, but the recruiting of an economic development prospect involves everything, including arts and culture.
Often potential economic development factors like the arts and culture are overlooked.
Susan DuPlessis of the South Carolina Arts Commission, said, “It is all so knitted together that sometimes it is difficult to tease out all these different pieces.” Culture and the arts, she explained, is a vital part of a community’s quality of life “that helps make a place that people want to be.”
NOV. 13, 2015 — The state affiliate of the Corporation for Community and Economic Development United, Inc., has received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help educate disabled Promise Zone residents deal with housing discrimination.
“We will do outreach and public education programs to raise awareness of the federal fair housing law that protects individuals,” said Patsy Gardner, executive director of the S.C. affiliate of the CCEDU. “We will be targeting families with disabled members in the rural, socially-disadvantaged areas of the Promise Zone as it relates to housing discrimination.” Read more
More than 50 local, state and national leaders will meet Friday in Walterboro to learn how museums and libraries can help to rebuild troubled neighborhoods and drive economic, education and social efforts to raise the standard of living.
The meeting at the Colleton Museum and Farmers Market is being facilitated in the S.C. Lowcountry Promise Zone by a partner, the South Carolina Arts Commission, which has committed to help Promise Zone communities grow by tapping into the arts. Read more
