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Steeped in Georgia history and southern tradition, Macon is at a crossroads. The community is working to increase its population of homeowners and to strengthen city leadership and government to respond more effectively to the needs and goals of its citizens.
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In Macon your first point of contact is Beverly Blake, Program Director/Macon.
Video: College Hill Alliance
The College Hill Alliance is a Knight-funded partnership with Mercer University that has led to reinvigoration of an important central Macon neighborhood.
Macon
The 2009 Soul of the Community Survey explores the link between residents' emotional ties to where they live and the community's economic growth. Three main factors that emotionally attach residents to Macon: social offerings (fun places to gather), openness (how welcoming a place is) and aesthetics (an area’s physical beauty and green spaces). Aesthetics was found to be a community strength. However, the study also determined that residents felt social offerings (especially the nightlife), and openness, (particularly to young, college graduates), need improvement in order to encourage resident attachment to the area.
See survey details for Macon at http://www.soulofthecommunity.org/macon .
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Community Grants in Macon
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Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia, Inc
Amount: $5,000
To honor Beverly Olson at the 2010 Woman of Distinction luncheon -
Area/Code Entertainment LLC
Amount: $492,590
To support the development and implementation of a game in Macon that uses an alternative form of local currency - Macon Money - to literally connect Macon residents to each other and to the College Hill Corridor in new ways -
Middle Georgia Regional Library
Amount: $500,000
To provide improved digital access for library patrons and create a civic gathering place. -
Mercer University
Amount: $2,000,000
To revitalize Macon’s historic neighborhoods and business districts through the establishment of the College Hill Alliance (CHA). -
Community Foundation of Central Georgia
Amount: $3,000,000
To establish the Knight Neighborhood Challenge, an innovative program that brings the best ideas forward for citizen-led neighborhood improvement and ensures funds are available to implement these ideas with disciplined accountability and reporting. -
Mercer University
Amount: $250,000
To help plan revitalization efforts in several historic Macon neighborhoods.
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