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Port St. Lucie highlights Love Your Block year one: mini grants, volunteers and plans to expand
Summary
City and Bloomberg Center officials presented a year‑in‑review for the Love Your Block mini‑grant program, reporting dozens of community projects, roughly $44,000 spent locally, and an added $60,000 from Bloomberg to support year two; residents who received mini‑grants described tangible home and neighborhood improvements.
Port St. Lucie officials on Dec. 1 presented a year‑in‑review of the Love Your Block neighborhood mini‑grant program, describing volunteer‑led cleanups, small infrastructure projects and community‑driven public‑space work in the Whispering Pines neighborhood.
Stephanie Verneau, the city’s community engagement manager, introduced the program presentation and a video that preceded remarks from Renata Confante of the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins. Confante described Love Your Block as a coaching‑plus‑grant model that pairs technical assistance with mini grants; she said participating cities receive staff funding and coaching to scale resident‑led neighborhood…
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