Bloomberg Supported Cities of Service Announces Winners of its Love Your Block Competition
Cities of Service today announced 10 U.S. cities as winners of its Cities of Service City Hall AmeriCorps VISTA Love Your Block competition. Love Your Block enables local governments to engage communities in neighborhood revitalization efforts benefiting low-income communities. Each winning city will receive $25,000 to be used for mini-grants and resources to support citizen groups' and local nonprofits' efforts to prevent or eliminate property blight through home repairs, lot transformations, and community clean-ups. In addition, two AmeriCorps VISTA members will serve in each winning city's city hall to build capacity and raise awareness.
This year's Love Your Block competition was specifically targeted to legacy cities – older, industrial cities that have faced substantial population loss. The winning cities were selected based on potential for impact and clarity of vision for their proposed projects...