SitemapTen years ago, a partner- ship between the Raymond John Wean Foundation and the city of Youngstown gave birth to a nonprofit community organization dedicated to spreading the early successes in rejuvenating the downtown area of Youngstown to many of its aging, blighted and time-worn neighborhoods.
To many pessimists, that task stood as herculean at best, impossible at worst.
Today, 10 years later, that organization – the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. – rose to the challenge and proved those naysayers wrong. The proof is in the ever-expanding organization’s tangible results clearly visible in transformations of what once were some of the city’s most dingy and neglected residential sections.
We salute the YNDC for its determination, its resilience, its hard work and its forward-thinking mindset toward revitalizing sections of all four quadrants of the city and for its efforts to expand its outreach to achieve even more impressive and broader-based success stories in the near future. To read the full story from The Vindicator, click here.