People Incorporated in the News
September 7, 2011
People Incorporated Honored with National Master Innovator Award
People Incorporated was competitively selected as the winner of the first annual Master Innovator Award for Community Economic Development by the Community Action Partnership. The Community Action Partnership is the national membership organization representing over 1,000 Community Action Agencies throughout the United States. People Incorporated won this award in recognition of its outstanding work in promoting community development as a core strategy in promoting economic security and reducing poverty. Read More >
July 8, 2011
People Incorporated Offers Emergency Home Loan Program Mortgage Assistance
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has launched the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program (EHLP) to assist homeowners who are at least 90 days late
on their mortgage, and unemployed or working fewer hours because of the economy or a medical condition with monthly mortgage payments up to $50,000. Click on the flyer to the right for more information.
April 28, 2011
People Incorporated Selected as Best Non-Profit Workplace
Local Community Action Agency recognized by National NonProfit Magazine
Abingdon, Virginia – People Incorporated was recently selected as one of the Best NonProfit Organizations to Work for 2011. The awards program was created in 2010 and is a project of The NonProfit Times and Best Companies Group. Read More >
March 30, 2011
Raising Grundy
For the latest on the project and an archived history of the construction, visit www.raisinggrundy.com
For decades it was deemed far-fetched, an impossibility, pie-in-the-sky. But all of a sudden, it’s real.
A one-time coal boomtown washed away by flooding and long forgotten by progress, Grundy is making a dramatic entrance into the 21st century. Read More >
March 30, 2011
Bristol loan project designed to boost downtown business growth
Representatives from both Bristol cities and several area banks gathered Tuesday to announce the creation of a $135,000 loan fund to help new businesses locate downtown and existing ones upgrade their current sites along the State Street corridor. Read More >
March 16, 2011
Building Futures: Tax help is available, and it’s free
Tax season is quickly passing and most individuals have already met their filing obligations, but there are likely more than just a few people waiting until the last minute to file their federal income tax return. The delay tactic may seem preferable for the taxpayer who anticipates owing money, but that return can be electronically submitted at anytime and the payment can be made with a payment voucher by this year’s extended deadline of April 18. Read More >
February 24, 2011
PEOPLE INCORPORATED AWARDED $14,000,000 TO FUND HIGH IMPACT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
U.S. Treasury award of New Markets Tax Credits will enable non-profit to help finance high-impact projects in communities with high poverty and unemployment
People Incorporated Financial Services, a non-profit community development organization headquartered in Abingdon, VA, has been selected by the CDFI Fund of the U.S. Department of the Treasury to receive a $14,000,000 allocation of New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) to provide financing for high-impact, community development projects throughout Virginia and the southeastern United States. People Incorporated was selected from among 250 community development practitioners that competed for the NMTC in 2010. Read More >
August 30, 2010
People Receives $1 Million Grant
Rick Cohen, Bristol Herald Courier
Give credit to the Abingdon, Virginia nonprofit, People Incorporated, for knowing what it’s doing. It just got a second stimulus grant of $1 million for weatherization, meaning that it must have done well enough on its first $1 million to warrant being refunded. The People Incorporated weatherization program demonstrates the multiple objectives built into the stimulus, hardly the jobs-only measure that stimulus critics are pointing to. Read More >
