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New video showcases Better South’s Promise Zone trainings

From February to June 2017, the Center for a Better South facilitated seven training sessions in the challenged counties of the S.C. Promise Zone in the lower part of South Carolina.  From lasses on writing compelling grants to full-day sessions to help community leaders understand asset-based community development, the Center trained more than 10 dozen people from Walterboro and Early Branch to Allendale and Blackville thanks in large part to a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  More trainings are planned.

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Center provides more leadership in Promise Zone

MARCH 2016 | A newly-released strategic plan that provides long-term guidance for the S.C. Lowcountry Promise Zone received major input from the Center for a Better South, including production of a four-minute video about the project.

The plan, released earlier this month after town halls, meetings and strategy sessions involving 1,000 people, organizes efforts to reduce poverty in the southern tip of South Carolina through strategic efforts of eight workgroups, each of which has specific goals and all of which seek to achieve transformational goals by working together. Continue reading “Center provides more leadership in Promise Zone”

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A five-year retrospective (2011)

In this 2011 video, we share some of our successes from our founding in 2005 through 2010, when we worked on a project for the Secretary of Navy following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The video highlights how the Center for a Better South is a pragmatic think tank for thinking Southern leaders who want to make a difference. Learn about our Agenda, our annual policy conference, our 2010 report on the Gulf and more.

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Meet the Center (2008)

Here’s a video we first highlighted in 2008 that outlines the mission of the Center for a Better South. Learn about the exciting research projects that have been published and are on tap by the Center for a Better South, a regional nonprofit to provide policy information for thinking Southern leaders.   The video includes clips from Center founders Andy Brack, Leo Fishman and John Simpkins.

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Video: Promoting opportunity (2013)

You can click the image below to see a four-minute video from 2013 that the Southern Crescent, an impoverished area that stretches from Virginia through South Carolina and then swings over to the Mississippi Delta.

It highlights a dozen maps of the area — maps that tell quite a story.

SOURCES

Here are the sources for the maps that appear in the October 2013 video for the Southern Crescent project: