For seven years, Healthy Blue has partnered with Enterprise and Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center to provide programs and resources to Lafitte residents.
Enterprise led a road trip through Louisiana and Mississippi with Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge winners cdcb | come dream. come build and buildingcommunityWORKSHOP.
After months of technical assistance and training, the Rural and Native American Program team and Enterprise's Gulf Coast team led a road trip through Louisiana and Mississippi with CDCB. They visited project sites and held workshop discussions with cohort members on how to culturally introduce the MiCASita home grow model to their communities, and how this model should be scaled on a collaborative basis.
Grants totaling $485,000 were awarded to 12 Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas affordable housing organizations through the HUD Section 4 Capacity Building Program.
Rachelle Defillo has joined our Gulf Coast team as senior program director, managing our community development organization fund, faith-based development and Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center.
All-Black towns used to define the Mississippi Delta. Now, there is an effort to revitalize these communities as places where people can learn more about Mississippi’s history.