We are hiring the next SoWe Director!! Are you interested in helping to shape a growing and diverse community? Working with residents to build equitable pathways to resources? Have experience building coalitions of organizations, residents, and stakeholders to enhance a community? If so, check out the SoWe Director position! This is a big job in the best way possible! The SoWe Director will work directly with residents and stakeholders to develop solutions to complex and systematic problems that face the SoWe neighborhood. The SoWe Director is a great opportunity for someone interested in non-profit management, community development and social justice issues Jake Thorsen, current SoWe Director, will transition to the Chief Impact Officer at Tenfold in early May. Jake will continue to support the SoWe Director and neighborhood in his work at Tenfold Read the full job description here. Reach out to Jake Thorsen (jthorsen@wearetenfold.org) with any questions or to apply.

At the start of 2021, SoWe acquired a vacant lot on the corner of Filbert and Fremont Sts. in the heart of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood in SoWe. You may remember this site because it housed a large billboard. SoWe first requested the removal of the billboard from the owner as it was beginning to fall. The billboard was unsightly in a dense residential neighborhood. After negotiations Lamar Advertising agreed to remove the billboard and donate the lot to the neighborhood.  The Southwest Revitalization Strategy for parks and public realm calls for creating additional open space amenities for the neighborhood. The SoWe Parks Committee has been diligently working to identify potential open space areas since its inception in 2016. The committee is excited to work with the community to create a small pocket park on this lot.  SoWe Parks Committee worked to engage the neighborhood to gather feedback on the space. The committee held a community engagement session in June…

Follow-up survey launches to track SoWe initiative’s progress and future planning SoWe, an initiative of Tenfold, announced the launch of a follow-up survey that will give Southwest Lancaster residents an opportunity to share their feedback on current neighborhood needs, resource gaps, and the impact of SoWe investments that have occurred since the original survey and SoWe initiative was launched in 2016. This will give the SoWe initiative the opportunity to track progress made over the past five years and shape planning efforts for the next five years. The follow-up survey will mirror the original survey that was conducted as part of the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Neighborhood Planning Grant in 2016. Millersville University’s Center for Public Scholarship and Social Change will work with the SoWe initiative to administer the follow-up survey and complete the data analysis. SoWe residents will receive the survey via a mailing and other activities that are planned over the next couple months. SoWe residents can complete…

Read the guide in ENglish Read the guide in SPanish We want to share some news about resources that Tabor and Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership (LHOP) have put together to help everyone navigate their housing and financial challenges during this time of COVID-19. We know that times are very tough, and we feel for our neighbors. We are rooting for our health care workers, grocery store workers, law enforcement, emergency responders, delivery drivers—people who are on the front lines of this fight. And of course, our team members and our partners at the Homelessness Coalition, who are making sure that individuals who are especially vulnerable—people living in the streets, people living in shelters—are not forgotten and are well supported during this difficult time. Tabor’s website, LHOP’s website, and social media channels, you will find a series of factsheets that will help you to talk to your landlord, talk to your lender, and to make a plan. We are also putting together a series of videos over the next few weeks that will help walk through those materials.…