Community Members Help Design New Dos Rios Light Rail Station April 2018 - Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) in partnership with the Portland State University Center for Public Interest Design (CPID) held a design charrette at Smythe Academy Middle School for the new Dos Rios station planned for North 12th Street. The purpose of the charrette was to engage community stakeholders to define key interests and viewpoints, discuss station concepts, and move toward a design direc

Museum Builds Community Sustainability with Opportunities from Artistic Expression to Entrepreneurship April 2018 - The mission of the Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum and Development Center is to foster personal and civic well-being in our community through fine, applied, and performing arts.  We believe that the desire to experience and participate in creativity is essential to optimum human expression and development. ​ We carry out our mission by increasing access

Service Providers Connect Families to Resources and More April 2018 - On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, Urban Strategies and the Sacramento Police Department hosted a BBQ at the Twin Rivers Community that brought together residents for a day of food and fun. The purpose of the BBQ was to give the youth an opportunity for recreation during their Spring Break as well as to build partnership between the Sacramento Police Department and the Twin Rivers Community. Around fifty residen

Disadvantaged Youth Mentored While Learning Skills for Green Jobs March 2018 - Green Technical Education & Employment (Green Tech) was established in 2008 to provide career technical education with an emphasis on environmental protection to youth and young adults from disadvantaged communities. Since its inception, Green Tech has reached more than 400 students in various career training and STEM activities including solar training, agri-business, pre-apprentice construction a

Safe Routes to School Increases Livability and Connectivity at Four South Sacramento Schools February 2018 - WALKSacramento is a community based organization that works to advance health, sustainability, and livability throughout the Sacramento region through advocacy and planning for communities that support greener, healthier forms of transportation such as walking, biking, and public transit. WALKSacramento’s work is centered around community-based planning, where resident

Over 600 Promise Zone Residents Engaged in Community Art Initiative - Block by Block 2.0 February 2018 - The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Sacramento Municipal Utility District and the national Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Crocker Art Museum funding to help launch and support “Block by Block 2.0”, the Crocker’s initiative to increase arts engagement, access, and education in Sacramento’s most vulnerable neighborhoods. ​ While Block by Block had a positiv

Sacramento Promise Zone featured on KVIE STUDIO Sacramento with Scott Syphax Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency(SHRA) Executive Director La Shelle Dozier and Tyrone Roderick Williams, Director of Sacramento Promise Zone/ SHRA Director of Development recently were guests on KVIE’s STUDIO Sacramento program hosted by Scott Syphax. The conversation covered a variety of topics including challenges and opportunities in providing housing that meets the needs of residents a

The Sacramento Promise Zone and other parts of the City of Sacramento have become a huge outdoor art gallery with 40 larger than life murals created by more than 50 artists during the Wide Open Walls event from August 11-20, 2017. Sacramento Promise Zone Director Tyrone Roderick Williams talked with WOW Creator David Sobon about the artistic expression and economic opportunities the murals will inspire. For more information on Wide Open Walls, please visit http://www.wow916.c

Solar Workforce Initiative Creates New Pathways to Green Jobs for Youth and Adults February 2018 - GRID Alternatives North Valley’s Promise Zone Solar Workforce Initiative provides exposure to solar career pathways and solar installation training to area youth and adults resulting in employment in the Clean Economy. ​ Initiative Impacts (to date): 415 kW of installed solar capacity, serving 116 low-income Promise Zone homeowners 22 adult residents of the PZ completed our inte

Young Writers Find Their Voice Through Creating Published Works April 2018 - There is currently a literacy crises occurring in Sacramento, especially in low-income and under-served areas.  According to 2016 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) standardized test results, over half (between 54 percent and 62 percent) of students in 3rd through 8th grade did not meet the achievement standard in English Language Arts and Literacy. Approximately two-t