Guadalupe Social Services Provides Food for Thanksgiving


Code Enforcment, the Sheriff’s Office and Rural Neighborhoods recently participated in a clean-up in and around the Eden Park neighborhood in Immokalee. Code Enforcement placed dumpsters at Sanders Pines allowing people to dump unwanted items for free. By the end of the day, residents dumped more than 10 tons of garbage and debris. The Sheriff’s…
Rural Neighborhoods Chairperson Arturo Lopez, Executive Director of the Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Farmworker Justice, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1981 that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions. The June 13th reception held in Washington, DC honored Lopez for…
Rural Neighborhoods and residents in the Eden Park neighborhood celebrated the area’s rich diversity with a Cultural Festival at Timber Ridge. DJ Ruben Garza generously donated his time and played a variety of music and games for attendees throughout the afternoon. He was complemented by local band, Caribbean Groove. Residents celebrated their many cultures while…
Un grupo nuevo de residentes se graduaron recientemente de la Academia de Liderazgo patrocinado por Rural Neighborhoods (RLA) en Immokalee. Los estudiantes pasaron tres días aprendiendo comunicación, como formar un equipo y desarrollando sus habilidades como lideres. Su última tarea fue seleccionar un proyecto comunitario en el que les gustaría participar. Carlos y Rocio Salgado…
It seems it was just months ago RN was awarded funds to construct seventeen rental homes on Big Pine Key – Florida’s Ground Zero for the 2017 Hurricane Irma landfall in 2017. That disaster recovery effort is growing larger. Florida Housing Finance Corporation and CenterState Bank pledged $3.3M to construct nine units at Seahorse Cottages…
The Florida Keys Community Land Trust, a land trust founded on Big Pine Key in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, became a corporate affiliate of Rural Neighborhoods in recent weeks bringing 4 nationally-recognized cottages to our growing portfolio of 1,796 unit rentals. But it means much more than numbers! This partnership merges FKCLT Founder Maggie…