We Help COMMUNITIES GROW FROM WITHIN
Thriving Communities is a community accelerator program designed to enhance leadership and community development throughout the region through creative placemaking. Participating teams learn strategic approaches to leverage their artistic and cultural assets in order to spark economic vibrancy and growth from within.
The 10-month program coaches leaders in community revitalization, teaching them to:
Identify cultural assets
Spark collective feedback
Test bold ideas
At the end of the program, each team is eligible to apply for a seed grant from the Lyndhurst Foundation to make their community strategy a reality.
“The Thriving Communities process has been about finding an identity. It was always there, but we needed to make the intangible tangible. We needed to find our voice, and Thrive has given us the platform to stand up and say, ‘This is who we are. This is where we want to go next.”
Partners
ArtsBuild
Chattanooga Design Studio
Southeast Tennessee Development
SouthArts
Georgia Council for the Arts
Northwest Georgia Regional Commission
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Southeast Center for Education in the Arts
Bridge Innovate
Program generously funded by The Lyndhurst Foundation
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