The Winston-Salem Foundation has made six grants totaling $169,600 to support creative solutions to local transportation challenges. These grants were made using a participatory grantmaking approach in which the majority of the decision-making committee was comprised by two audiences: residents with lived experience and those with expertise in local transportation issues.
Last week Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County broke ground in the Stone Terrace neighborhood, where they plan to build more than 70 homes over the next few years.
While scrolling through her Facebook newsfeed a few weeks ago, Arnita Miles came across a video that showed a homeless tent city that had formed on Akron Drive and the hazardous conditions the people were living in. “When I saw the conditions out there, I knew I had to do something to help,” Miles said. And that’s exactly what she did.