For decades, residents in West Baltimore have had to travel if they wanted to sit down to a restaurant dinner with their families. "Those of us with cars could go somewhere else," recalls Jacqueline Caldwell, who grew up in the area. "But if you didn't have transportation, there was nothing besides the Chicken Box on the corner."

The new Mill on North Food Hall, set to be completed this summer, will change that. 

Each time NeighborWorks America hosts one of its trainings for housing and community development professionals, there are new courses and new ways of looking at and finding solutions to issues. For this week’s Winter Virtual Training Institute, held Feb. 6-10, one of those courses will focus on a topic that has been an integral part of NeighborWorks since its inception – but is now being discussed in new ways.

Building on successes from the past year means that NeighborWorks America is not starting the new year saying, "out with the old." But NeighborWorks'  senior leaders also have lots of new goals and ideas for the year ahead. 

Katie Watts, senior vice president of Field Operations

Through training, grants, research, learning cohorts and more, NeighborWorks America makes a difference in communities across the nation, in partnership with nearly 250 network organizations who do the "work on the ground." As 2022 draws to a close, some of NeighborWorks' senior leaders share what they see as the biggest impacts in 2022.  

Paul Singh, vice president of Community Initiatives 

Through training, grants, research, learning cohorts and more, NeighborWorks America makes a difference in communities across the nation, in partnership with nearly 250 network organizations who do the "work on the ground." As 2022 draws to a close, some of NeighborWorks' senior leaders share what they see as the biggest impacts in 2022.  

Paul Singh, vice president of Community Initiatives 

In Missouri, a NeighborWorks network organization partners with a school district to improve educational outcomes for youth. Another network organization in California preserves cultural assets while combatting gentrification and displacement. In Ohio, they're collaborating with the healthcare sector to improve social determinants of health.