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M.O.V.E. Gulf Coast CDC Awarded $25,000 Design Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

The Award Will Be Used to Advance Its Africatown Blueprint Initiative

(Mobile, AL January 29, 2024) —M.O.V.E. Gulf Coast Community Development Corporation is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for  a $25,000 Design Grant that will support the continuing efforts of its Africatown Blueprint Initiative. Specifically, it will be used to host a design summit this fall in Mobile to advance community-building strategies — first introduced through The Africatown International Design Idea Competition —  to be from Africatown to other under-served communities across the country, even around the world.

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M.O.V.E. President Vickii Howell Among First Cohort of PolicyLink’s New Spatial Futures Initiative

Eleven Community Leaders Across the Country Chosen to Be Part of Inaugural Class

(Mobile, AL,  January 11, 2024) — PolicyLink, one of the nation’s premier social justice organizations that advances economic and social equity policies for low-income communities and communities of color, recently announced M.O.V.E. Gulf Coast CDC President/CEO Vickii Howell as a member of its Spatial Futures Fellowship.

Howell is one of 11 fellows in its first cohort, chosen from among hundreds of community leaders across the country who applied for PolicyLink’s new Spatial Futures Initiative.

“The Spatial Futures Fellowship aims to support leaders that are visioning these futures — where all Black, Brown, and Indigenous people have a secure place to call home, the opportunity to repair their relationships with the land and gain restitution for centuries of racist policies that have denied them the ability to thrive for generations,” PolicyLink wrote on its web page. “In 2024, the Spatial Futures Fellowship will bring together 11 leaders from across the country who are working to advance reparative spatial justice in their communities.”

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