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Established July 1974 — the neighborhoods' development corporation
Founding and course: South Bend Heritage Foundation was established in July 1974, in its own account, "to help reverse the physical and social decline taking place in South Bend neighborhoods" — a 501(c)(3) community development corporation that has spent fifty years stabilizing and empowering the city's neighborhoods through housing and community work. It has been a chartered member of NeighborWorks America since 2006 and holds the Community Foundation's Leighton Award among its honors. It is not the Housing Authority of South Bend — a public agency, whose record stands in Government and whose scandal stands in City Controversies — and the distinction is printed because the names invite the confusion: Heritage is a private charity, founded the same season the Community Foundation's federal record opens, and its fifty years of neighborhood work are its own.
Sources:
- South Bend Heritage Foundation (sbheritage.org), About pages — established July 1974; the community development corporation's purpose; the NeighborWorks charter of 2006; the Leighton Award; fifty years of neighborhood work.