How Do You Transform a Community After a Century of Neglect?

This article looks at the work of United Global Outreach, a non-profit group aimed at building up communities in need, in their efforts to transform the town of Bithlo, FL, pop. 8,000. 

Every community can be changed. I think sometimes we’ve had such problems for so long in some neighborhoods that we decide instead to develop over them. Because we’ve given up on them. Then that really only disperses the problem to someone else’s neighborhood. The uniqueness about Bithlo is, we want to help everybody. We work to help them turn around, so that they might become healthy, instead of developed over. Transformation efforts aren’t program-centered, they’re relationship-centered.

http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/new-public-health/2013/11/one_town_transforms.html