Success Stories
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Brittney Millard: Helping Patients and Persevering Through Breast Cancer
Cancer can be many things. Some describe cancer as a journey, a struggle, or a fight. For Brittney Millard, a breast cancer diagnosis was a life-changing event that gave her the passion to help other cancer survivors. “It’s really what’s in your heart. You can [help] people you know in your daily life, just spreading ...
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Brownsville Leaders Turn Tragedy into Garden of Hope
An old, abandoned plot of land sat empty near the site of a triple homicide involving children in Brownsville, Texas. Co…
Healthy Food
Shared Use Agreement Transforms Schoolyard into ‘SPARK Park’
Community, school, and city officials worked together to develop a shared use agreement to use school grounds to create…
Green & Active Spaces
Grassroots group works with rural schools to open recreation spaces
MHP and Alice Independent School District partnered to create a shared use agreement. This would make school-owned recre…
Green & Active Spaces
Young Adult Starts Garden to Connect Neighbors, Boost Healthy Food
Caesar Valdillez loves where he lives—the Southtown neighborhood in San Antonio. He grew up in the neighborhood and even…
Healthy Food
Teamwork Brings Shared Use Agreements and New Park to Earlimart, Calif.
Residents living in the small rural community of Earlimart, Calif., lacked outdoor spaces for the physical activity they…
Education, Green & Active Spaces
Student Helps Launch a Community Walking Program Using a School Track
In San Antonio, Texas, Edison High School students, families, and community members partnered with school officials to o…
Green & Active Spaces
Local Meat Market Gets Fresher, Inside and Out
Atop a hill in East Los Angeles, Ramirez Meat Market has spent three decades as a neighborhood fixture. However, the mar…
Healthy Food
Celebrating Fresh Veggies at Nuevo Leon Meat Market
Jalapenos, cilantro, garlic—“A lot of vegetables in meals and everything has to be hot,” said Sandra Gonzales. Sandra an…
Healthy Food
M&I Meat Market: A True “Tiendita Por Vida”
“Tiendita por Vida” is Spanish for “little store for life.” That’s exactly Irma Bajarro’s M&I Meat Market in the hea…
Healthy Food
Energized Youth Work to Add Healthier Dining Choices in Watsonville, Calif.
“It’s hard to engage the average youth in something where there is no choice.” That’s what Kymberly Lacrosse, a communit…
Healthy Food