Success Stories
Creating one-of-a-kind bags and accessories from locally sourced materials, like Pendleton® Wool, started as a hobby for Lindsey Phillips. Gradually, she began selling her products through third-party sites. Then she created her own website and sold wholesale to local boutiques.
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The R&B Food Center located in Wessington, South Dakota is the only grocery store located in the community with a population of 177. Vernetta LeGrand has owned and operated this local grocery store since 1987.
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A farm in the very small, rural community of Dairy in southern Oregon had a parcel of high elevation land that was hardly worth the effort to plant. The low soil quality and poor irrigation made the land suitable for hay production and nothing else. More often, the field was simply left fallow.
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Maria no longer felt safe in her own home, where she lives with her daughter, Margarita, in rural Malheur County in eastern Oregon. Wind blew in through the cracks around the windows, and water leaked through the roof. But with her low monthly income, Maria could not afford repairs.
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“My journey to homeownership was not easy,” said Mendiola. It wasn’t just saving up the money, improving her credit, or finding the right lender. Mendiola had never lived in one place very long. She grew up in foster care and is a trafficking survivor.
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Sherry Louise Morgan is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. She has worked hard for two years to obtain her dream of not only homeownership but to complete this dream on her mom and dad’s leased land where she lived as a young girl. In recognizing he
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Rural teachers are heroes. Working tirelessly to educate children and youth, they should not have to worry about where they live after an invigorating day at work. Yet in many areas of rural Nevada, rental inventory is low and sometimes expensive.
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Rosa Cortes was struggling to find work in the rural town of Klamath Falls in southern Oregon. She volunteered at Good Will to build her experience, but found her disabilities made employers reluctant to offer her a job.
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Esther Magdaleno often paid more than $100 per month for electricity before she moved into the farm labor housing community built by Green Valley Homes, developed by Corporation for Better Housing, located in Williams.
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