Everything We Do Is Built Upon Something Else
The first workshop that I attended this week at Tamarack Institute’s 2016 Community Change Institute demonstrated a simple tool for...
Co-creating Sustainable, Neighborhood Change in Memphis: Nothing about us, without us!
The Tamarack Institute is a keen, thoughtful, and deep observer of how community change happens at the beginning of the 21st century,...
What Role Can Neighborhoods Play in Education? The Power of the Shalom Zone Network
What role can neighborhoods play in education? This question was top of mind when, in early 2015, Center for Transforming Communities...
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...
"For the First Time in Their Lives, Someone Was Listening To Them" - The Story of the Firs
Editor's Note: Last fall, Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) provided grants to three Shalom Zones to help them implement projects...
Everything Needed Was There: The Story of the SMSZ College Readiness Program
Editors Note: Last fall, Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) provided grants to three Shalom Zones to help them implement projects...
Looking Back - The South Memphis Neighborhood Connector One Year Later
A year ago, Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) set off to do something new. We began piloting a new program – a program that would...
Meet the people of The Corners of Highland Heights Community of Shalom
Meet some of the people who make up The Corners of Highland Heights Shalom Zone. This video was created as part of a 5th anniversary...
Lessons from Broadway, Part 1 - Look Intently
At Center for Transforming Communities (CTC), we are always learning. But for the last two weeks, we’ve been doing a lot of learning. On...
Lunch and Learn - Urban Education and Lessons from COSEBOC 2015
Last week, CTC hosted a special Lunch and Learn session inspired by the recent Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC)...
