If you were under the impression that regular people can't bring about change in their communities, consider the case of pedestrian advocate Phyllis Mack.Denver_Housing
"He read the application and everything, and he told me to go for it. I went out of my comfort zone," Mack says, noting that she also got help from Kim McReynolds, a grant writer at the Denver Housing Authority. Going for it paid off: Mack landed the grant money and began her research.
She then submitted the sidewalk-improvement project to the city. To Mack's delight, the project made the final cut for voting, which featured 3,100 submitted digital and physical ballots. And as Mack, Stalls and others rallied people to support the sidewalk project, it became obvious that persuading anyone who knew about the condition of the sidewalks around Walsh Manor to vote in favor of the initiative was going to be easy.
When the results came in, there were nine winners, including Mack's $400,000. One project that won is for a $200,000 allocation to build five more tiny homes in the tiny-home villages run by the. Another winner snagged a $362,500 allocation for new or renovated light fixtures in parks and along trails in Montbello and Green Valley Ranch.
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