Success Stories

  • Monday, Jan 22, 2018

    Building a sense of community in Kunia Village

    Kunia, Hawaii – Gov. David Ige can recall spending youthful summers working at the cannery near the once sprawling Del Monte pineapple plantation in Kunia on the island of Oahu. The school bus he rode every day passed Kunia, and when he and his classmates saw a flashing yellow light there, they knew they were close to home. At one time, the plantation employed hundreds of workers.

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  • Wednesday, Dec 13, 2017

    Housing participants move into new Hyrum homes

    HYRUM – After nearly 25,000 hours of blood, sweat and tears, 10 families slept in their new Hyrum homes on Thursday night after celebrating the completion of the city’s first mutual self-help housing community. Neighborhood Housing Solutions just opened up 10 glistening homes with varying styles

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  • Wednesday, Nov 29, 2017

    Fallon Food Hub brings farm-to-fork choices to community

    Fallon, Nev. – When Kelli Kelly arrived in this western Nevada desert community in 2009, the seemingly endless austere landscape might have given her pause. Her boyfriend at the time – who has since become her husband – suspected she might be put off. Fallon has a population of around 9,000 and Kelly recalls his warning that relocating there from her San Diego home could be “a relationship killer.” He asked her to think carefully before joining him at Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon, better known as the “Top Gun” school and the largest single employer in Fallon and Churchill County.

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  • Tuesday, Oct 31, 2017

    Breathing new life into Enterprise, Oregon’s historic OK Theatre

    Back in the day – nearly a century ago – the OK Theatre in Enterprise was a shining light in eastern Oregon, hosting events both unique and routine. There were plays and musicals at the 350-seat, single-screen theatre and traveling Chautauqua, an adult education movement in the early 20th century that brought musicians, preachers and academic lecturers to rural America.

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  • Thursday, Sep 14, 2017

    Self-help housing provides home ownership opportunities for low-income Alaska residents

    Wasilla, Alaska – Last year, Kolten Conan was scrolling through his Facebook page, and he happened upon photos of a house under construction. He already knew a thing or two about building homes: he’s now 21 and when he was just a little boy, he had scampered among laborers at construction sites around his hometown of Wasilla, fetching boards and helping out with seasonal work.

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