In 2022, Community Champions...

Overtown

• Continued the community-building Overtown Legacy and GirlTrek intiatives.
• Underdeck advocacy: Successfully increased transparency and community participation in Underdeck project development, including renaming the public space to “Overtown Miami Greenway: The Heart of the City.”
• Co-launched the Overtown Parks Group with Urban Health Partnership to identify and elevate issues impacting
  Overtown’s parks.

North Miami

• Finalized criteria for investors in the North Miami Community Investment Cooperative (NM-CIC).
• Conducted neighborhood outreach for the NM-CIC, resulting in 94 community investor interest forms submitted to Catalyst Miami.

South Dade

• Hosted teacher appreciation events and a South Dade Faith Walk, and distributing 150 disaster preparedness kits.
• Launched a local GirlTrek chapter that will continue to run separately from the official South Dade Champions program.

...and more!