Wright State University News Release

For more information, contact Cindy Young, (937) 775-3232.

September 23, 1998

WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY WINS HUD GRANT
FOR NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION

Revitalization of four Dayton inner core neighborhoods will be the focus of a $399,963 grant to Wright State University from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Wright State is one of only 18 universities nationwide, and the only university in Ohio, to receive one of the HUD grants. HUD's Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) initiative provides funds to help universities work collaboratively with neighborhoods and community organizations to address issues of housing, education, poverty, planning and health.

The grant provides funding for the Dayton Community Outreach Partnership. The program will aid the Old Dayton View, Southern Dayton, Wolf Creek, and Twin Towers/Newcom Plain neighborhoods in the city of Dayton and create long-term partnerships between the university and its urban neighbors.

"The Dayton Community Outreach Partnership will provide valuable resources for the university's comprehensive work in targeted Dayton neighborhoods," said Kim Goldenberg, M.D., president of Wright State. "Working collaboratively with local residents, businesses, neighborhood institutions, public agencies and other partners, Wright State University will engage in a long-term strategic effort to enhance the quality of life in the neighborhoods."

DCOP will organize activities into three major partnerships: Community of Learners, Community Building and Community Innovation. They will design each to foster community self-sufficiency through projects such as:

creation of an education advocacy program to monitor students' progress, along with a program to train tutors to help improve students' progress;
development of a community health advocate program to train community residents in ways to help their neighborhoods find health resources;
organization and mobilization of neighborhood residents into effective community organizations;
sponsoring an annual housing fair to highlight community assets and promote the neighborhoods as desirable places to live; and
completing a financial and management assessment of the Twin Towers Food Mart and a plan to continue and improve the grocery store.

Partners in the project include the Affordable Housing Fund, Bank One, the city of Dayton, Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority, Dayton Power and Light, Dayton View Community Development Corp., East End Community Service Corp., Martin Luther King Development Coalition, Neighborhood Investment Resources Corp., Oikos Community Development Corp., Progressive Wolf Creek Community Development Corp. and St. Agnes Church. For more information, contact Jack L. Dustin, Ph.D., director of Wright State's Center for Urban and Public Affairs, at (937) 775-2941.

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