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Scholarship Program Yielding Big Results For City

Posted by: Christian Peralta Madera
Thanks to: Keith Schneider
20 November 2006 - 2:00pm

Kalamazoo's bold scholarship program is helping town's students and emerging as an effective economic development tool.

A unique college scholarship program in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is doing far more than helping out disadvantaged kids in a town where two-thirds of public school students qualify for lunch programs.

Known as the Kalamazoo Promise, it is also helping out the school system and the city itself by boosting enrollment and reversing once-falling home prices. In short, the program is helping to put a struggling Rust Belt city back on the road to global competitiveness.

Full Story: A Promise Kept For Kalamazoo
Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, November 18, 2006
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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