Meet a Neighborhood Change-Maker: Jhon Gaytan
Editors Note: Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) is grounded in the belief that every Memphis neighborhood includes people who...
Growing Through Service: The Story of the Us Making It Happen Youth Summer of Service Program
Last fall, Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) provided grants to three Shalom Zones to help them implement projects to improve...
Meet the People of the Binghampton Shalom Zone
Meet some of the people who make up the Binghampton Shalom Zone. Established in 1999, the Binghampton Shalom Zone is one of the oldest...
It's All About Sharing Experience, Knowledge, Love, and Making Friends
Carl Awsumb was so excited on that Saturday in July, when more children showed up than ever before. With fifteen to twenty children and...
Powerful conversations for Memphis’ Carl Awsumb - "I’m excited by what’s going on in this city&
​​ One of the first questions posed to the gathering of 300 community members in Memphis on Nov. 14 urged attendees to consider the gifts...
Sowing the Seeds of Community - Bonds are Formed in a Community Garden
Part way through an interview discussing his experience with urban renewal and community building, Christian Man, puts the journalist on...
Gardening tools in place of firearms? - Community gardens could be social and economic game changers
About six years ago, Carl Awsumb read a front-page article in a Memphis newspaper about the amount of violent crime in the city and how...
