The Boys & Girls Club of Phillips county announced today that over the past six months they have successfully solicited nearly $300,000 in challenge grants from a combination of threes local and national foundations, including the Helena Health Foundation (HHF).
Archive: November 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp
Turning the community of Helena-West Helena around is a “multi-stepped” process. According to Ben Steinberg, the president of Bancorp South and head of the Delta Bridge Project, there are many steps that must be taken to ensure job growth will succeed and, in turn, revitalization of the town also succeeds.
Archive: October 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp, Southern Financial Partners
Shawn Payne, Delta Bridge Project Steering Committee member and Jack Hornor, Economic Development Goal Team chairman announced $41,500 in grant funding to the Phillips County Chamber of Commerce to conduct a feasibility study for an oilseed processing facility. The facility would be built adjacent to the bio-diesel facility that is currently being constructed in Phillips County.
Archive: September 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp
City gets DBP grant upgrade financial system.
Archive: September 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp, Southern Financial Partners
I think it is now safe to say that Phillips County and the rest of the Delta is fast becoming more than just a blip on the radar screen.
Archive: July 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp
The Delta Bridge Education Goal Team is holding a public meeting for input related to school improvement in Barton an Lexa area.
Archive: June 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Southern Bancorp
The Delta Bridge Project announced today $400,000 in grants for KIPP Delta College Preparatory School in Helena-West Helena. These funds will provide space to accommodate classes for the next two years while KIPP Delta expands its program to serve students in grades 5 through 12.
Archive: April 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, KIPP School, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp, Southern Financial Partners, Southern Good Faith Fund
While politicians talked Friday about needing an integrated approach to address health care, education and economic development in the Arkansas Delta, Southern Bancorp announced $670,000 in grant funding to help projects that would address some of those needs in one Delta community - Phillips County.
The announcement and discussion came during the annual conference Friday of the Mississippi Delta Grassroots Caucus at the Clinton library in downtown Little Rock.
Archive: January 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County
Bus shelters and signs began going up last week in Helena-West Helena in preparation for the start-up of CitiLink - a new fixed-route bus service for residents of the east Arkansas town.
Archive: January 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp
Even among the dilapidated houses and ghostly storefronts in Helena-West Helena, it’s easy to believe the young Michael Boone when he says his beaten-down hometown will shake off its blues.
“I had a good life here when I was coming up,” says Boone, who went off to play football and basketball at the University of Mississippi and earned a degree in banking and finance.
Archive: January 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp
