Addressing group members meeting at the Savannah Morning News building, Mayor Otis Johnson said the Step Up Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative was all about building a just and caring community. He noted that Savannah’s poverty rate is between 22 and 27 percent.

To read the full Savannah Morning News article, click here.

Step Up Savannah and its Leadership Board are convening the leaders of area community organizations and agencies to officially sign on as collaborative partners.

Date: Tuesday, February 26th

Time: 10am-11am

Location: Savannah Morning News (located at 1375 Chatham Parkway, between I-16 and Ogeechee Road).
For more information, you may contact the Step Up office at 912-644-6445.

The Step Up Communications Team Meeting is scheduled to meet 9a.m., February 21st at SEDA (PO Box 128
Savannah, GA 31402). For more information, please contact Betsy Yates at 912-819-8139.

The Step Up Resident Team Meeting will be held Wednesday, February 20th at 6pm. For more information, you may contact the Step Up Office at 912-644-6420.

The Step Up Workforce Meeting will be held Wednesday, February 20th, 2pm at The Housing Authority of Savannah. For more information, you may contact Melanie Smith at (912) 443-5883.

The Step Up Education Action Team Meeting is scheduled to meet 3 p.m.-5 p.m., February 19th. For more information, please contact the Step Up Office at 912-644-6420. 

Drive through Detroit’s east side, the north side of Philadelphia, the south side of Chicago or Milwaukee’s near north side. Parts of urban America look like battle zones — burned-out buildings, decaying streets, vacant lots strewn with trash, empty factories and abandoned homes. There are blocks where it’s much easier to buy alcohol than apples, where life expectancy is similar to that in a Third World nation’s, where far more young men go to prison than to college.

To read the full Detroit Free Press editorial and its take on Savannah’s poverty reduction efforts, click here.  

The Transportation Action Team Meeting will be held 10:30am-noon, Friday, February 15th at the MPC office. For more information, you may contact Lee Grimes at 447-9715.

The Step Up Dependent Care Action Team Meeting will be held Thursday, February 14th at 8:30am at GA Power. For more information, you may contact Beth Parr at 912-236-4226.

“Entrepreneurs and small businesses in need of loans have a new resource in Savannah. International microfinance pioneer Accion is opening a new lending office in Savannah.”

to read the full Savannah Morning News article, click here.