The Glenwood Community Development Initiative is an intense collaboration among a wide range of community partners to develop and implement a comprehensive neighborhood stabilization and improvement plan reaching beyond just housing. Habitat for Humanity of Evansville will begin building in Glenwood this summer. MAP

Multiple non-profit organizations and private and public partners have worked intensively with neighborhood residents since the fall of 2008 to create a shared strategy for neighborhood improvement. Below is a list of some of these activities.

• Multiple and ongoing meetings with residents and stakeholders
• Planning Team members attended NeighborWorks America training in August 2008
• Community Block Party in September 2008
• Let’s Make Change — Community Discussion I, November 2008
• Residents attended NeighorWorks America Community Building training in 2008
• Draft Neighborhood Plan shopped for Input, January to March, 2009
• Let’s Make Change — Community Discussion Part II, March 2009
• Let’s Make Change — Community Discussion Part III, August 15, 2009
• Let’s Make Change — Community Discussion Part IV, November 14, 2009
• Let’s Make Change — Community Discussion Part V, February 20, 2010

These engagement activities resulted in the development of six priority areas and a vision that has lead the plans to revitalize the Glenwood neighborhood. In order to continue progress, community leaders are moving toward creating a development corporation that will push the initiative even further. Articles of incorporation were filed in the spring of 2010, and leaders of the initiative are in the process of electing a board of directors and eventually an executive director.  

VISION
Glenwood will be a model neighborhood valued for its improvements and spirit of community.

PRIORITIES
• The neighborhood’s open spaces and structures will be Clean and Green.
• Business and Commerce are of and for the neighborhood—supporting the community spirit.
• Education for adults and children will be the lighthouse of the community. The school will be a multi-purpose facility serving the entire community and supporting excellence in learning and community partnership.
• Neighborhood design and services will promote holistic Health and Wellbeing.
• Housing and Infrastructure will be improved and beautified to create a walkable, healthy and safe community.
• Safety will be of utmost importance and all Glenwood residences, businesses and open spaces will be safe and secure.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS
• Anonymous partners
• Aurora
• Breakfast Rotary Club
• Bussing Construction
• Catholic Charities/Catholic Campaign for Human Development
• City of Evansville
• Crossroads Christian Church
• Evansville Housing Authority
• Evansville Police Department
• Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation
• Glenwood Neighborhood Association
• Habitat for Humanity of Evansville
• Ivy Tech Career and Technical College
• Leadership Evansville Class of 2009
• University of Southern Indiana Center for Applied Research
• VPS Architecture
• Welborn Baptist Foundation
• YMCA of Southwestern Indiana
• Zion Missionary Baptist Church