The 411 on Muncie’s 8twelve Coalition Heather Williams, Building Better Neighborhoods and MAP Task Force 2 reports that Muncie’s 8twelve Coalition is comprised of residents, non-profits and businesses working towards the common goal of revitalization,...
Continue ReadingCreative Crosswalks Coming to a Muncie Neighborhood near You The collaboration of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council, Building Better Neighborhoods, the City of Muncie, and Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning produced a worksho...
Continue ReadingImage: Courtesy – Muncie Timebank Neighborly Bartering System Reinvented through “Muncie Time Bank” Working with MAP Task Force 2’s Neighborhood Presidents Council, Jill Jereb, Gary Dodson, and Laurie Lunsford, are working to develop a “Munc...
Continue ReadingPhoto: Carrie Bale, Executive Director of BY5, courtesy of United Way of Delaware County BY5 Works to Depoliticize and Expand Early Childhood Learning Statewide by Carrie Bale One issue in which Indiana’s gubernatorial candidates found common ground dur...
Continue ReadingMuncie Action Plan Hosts Meridian International Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Brazilian Entrepreneur Andre’ Dumont Meridian International’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI), an elite worldwide entrepreneurial Fellows p...
Continue ReadingAn updated conceptual design of the KPEP development was shared with participants at the meeting Nov. 22. The area outlined in BLUE identifies the former Indiana Steel & Wire property to be developed. Residential properties will not be developed on th...
Continue ReadingMAP Task Force 2 Celebrates Efforts of Neighborhood Presidents Council and Muncie Neighborhoods On June 21, MAP Task Force 2 and Building Better Neighborhoods celebrated Muncie’s neighborhood leadership at the second annual Neighborhood Presidents C...
Continue ReadingPhoto by Robbie Mehling MadJax Maker Force to Help Create a Makers’ District in Muncie’s Gilbert and East Central Neighborhoods MAP has helped facilitate at least two neighborhood plans annually with the leadership expertise of Ball State University U...
Continue ReadingMAP TF 1/BY5’s Tom Kinghorn and Carrie Bale. Photo provided. BY5 and MAP Task Force 1 Lead the Way in the Business Case for Investments in Early Learning; Hosts Indiana Summit for Economic Development via Early Learning Collations “This even...
Continue ReadingMuncie and Lead – What You Need to Know “Muncie has a history with lead, and it seemed possible that people were coming into contact with lead in Muncie’s dirt. In order to keep people safe, MAP decided this would be our first line of explor...
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