Delta Bridge Project

Delta Bridge Project announces $90,000 grant to place summer interns with local organizations

July 15th, 2008

Shepherd Delta Alliance partnership designed to build capacity of local community based organizations (CBOs) to engage in community development activities

Delta Bridge Project announces $132,000 grant for Marvell affordable housing

July 3rd, 2008
Source: Southern Financial Partners

Grant and additional financing will fund $196,215 redevelopment of substandard housing, coordinated with city clean-up program funded in 2007 through Delta Bridge

KIPP prepares for expansion - Charter school makes changes and additions

July 2nd, 2008
By Randy Hogan \\ The Helena Daily World

The knowledge is Power Program (KIPP is experiencing growing pains. On Monday, the national organization, based in San Francisco, announced some changes and additions to help with that growth.

Scott Shirey, the founding director of the Delta College Preparatory School in Helena-West Helena, a public charter middle school, has been named executive director of the program’s Delta Region, which may include as many as 12 KIPP schools in three additional KIPP cities.

Boys and Girls Club discussed for county

April 25th, 2008
By Donna Hilton // The Daily Siftings Herald

The formation of a Boys and Girls Club in Arkadelphia is in its first stages thanks to the leadership subcommittee of the Clark County Strategic Planning Committee. The subcommittee and other interested persons met Thursday afternoon with Ben Steinberg and Tim Schuringa of Southern Financial Partners. Schuringa was one of the founding board members of the Boys and Girls Club in Helena.

Place-based Initiative Benefits Phillips County in Delta

April 21st, 2008
Source: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

…Southern’s new approach called for a county-level, bank-centered development strategy that would engage the diverse communities situated around its headquarters in Helena-West Helena, Ark. Southern selected Phillips County, Ark., a highly distressed community deep in the Arkansas Delta, with a poverty rate of 30 percent, one of the highest in the country.

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