Enterprise has awarded $1.5 million in grants to 32 groups in rural and tribal communities from Dover, Delaware to Anahola, Hawaii.

Look upward in downtown Detroit and you’ll see ornate skyscrapers built even before the city’s automotive-fueled heyday of the 1950s, when it was the richest city in the country. Lower your gaze, and the bevy of cranes offers signs of renewal. At street level, crowded restaurants and busy sidewalks create an urban buzz familiar to any city dweller. For Melinda Clemons, this activity is a positive sign, as her hometown builds back from the national foreclosure crisis in 2008 and municipal bankruptcy five years later.

A Dream Deserved: Realizing Our Collective Emergence is the culmination of intense community engagement and dialogue in the District of Columbia’s Ward 8.