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Community Center

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Community members holding rakes and shovels pose in front of Fort Lawn, South Carolina town sign.
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  • Local Institutions

How a Community Center Helps a Town Rise Again

  • Ben Speggen
  • February 24, 2023
Residents of Fort Lawn, South Carolina used a community development model to identify 51 actionable goals to improve their town. Today, they’re checking off the list, one by one.
Logo for "Inside Our Towns" with black background.
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  • Local Institutions

Inside Our Towns: Project Fighting Chance

  • Evan Sanford and James Fallows
  • August 8, 2022
Evan Sanford and James Fallows talk with Ian Franklin and Terry Boykins about Project Fighting Chance -- a boxing gym that is more than a boxing gym in San Bernardino. They discuss how it got started, how it has grown, and an immediate challenge it faces today.
Outside of a YMCA building.
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  • Local Institutions

A Community Within A Community

  • Deborah Fallows
  • June 11, 2019
Restoring Spirit and Pride in Danville
1920s Bathing Suit (Wikimedia Commons)
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  • Local Institutions

Gone Swimmin’

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 10, 2015
How public swimming pools show you the heart of a town
Performer at the Great Y Circus in Redlands, California.
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  • Local Institutions

An American Dream: A YMCA with a Circus

  • Deborah Fallows
  • January 2, 2014
For those of you who have always dreamed of running off to join the circus, here is a close second: move to Redlands, California, and join the YMCA.  Not only…

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