(WGHP) — Residents of two Piedmont Triad cities will soon get the chance to help beautify their city’s vacant lots and public spaces and improve their communities.
Greensboro and Winston-Salem received word in September that they were selected for Love Your Block, which is an initiative by the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University that grants the municipalities in the program $70,000 for resident-led projects to help clear properties that may be abandoned or deteriorating, helping improve local neighborhoods.
“This is one of those things where, honestly, we can make an impact,” Community Relations Manager for the City of Greensboro Gary Canapinno said. “A visible, visceral impact on different communities. People have come to us through the program before with ideas, and we were never able to fund them before. Now, with this grant funding, we can do those things.”…