Power of the Purse

women walking with a purse on a bright pink background, and giant lips for a head

“Philanthropy is not about the money,” Melinda French Gates, the trailblazing philanthropist, once said. “It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the […]

Placemaking at its Best: Reimaging Historic Eastside

Debs Store, as it looked from its opening in 1921 until the 1980s.

More than 150 years after the community’s inception, the Eastside is Jacksonville’s last cohesive, historically Black neighborhood from the 19th century. Historic Eastside is probably best defined by “The Avenue,” […]