I feel two things as I step over the threshold into Rosa’s home: cramped and welcome. Because the living room has been converted into a spare bedroom, the front door is inaccessible. My camera equipment and I come through the back, squeezing through the space between the open door and the refrigerator. Perched in her…

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It’s amazing. No matter how many times we put on a Community Powered Revitalization (CPR) event, you never hear the same story twice. Sure, there are common threads. Veterans. Single moms. Survivors. But the details make every homeowner different. That’s the beauty of CPR. There’s a person behind every hammer and every nail. In the…

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Aside from the rainbow-colored devices behind her ears, you’d never know that there is anything different about Ruth’s daughter. I watch for a while as she reviews vocabulary cards with her mother, sounding out syllables as she traces each word with her fingers. She might have been born deaf, but she runs and plays, giggles…

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If you know anything about 6 Stones, you’re probably familiar with Community-Powered Revitalization (CPR). But knowing that it exists and understanding the program are two very different things. We want everyone who volunteers with us to feel like an invaluable part of the program (because everyone who volunteers is). So, to help you get plugged…

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Every year, I ask myself the same thing: “how can we tell the story of Community-Powered Revitalization again without re-telling it?” There’s only so many ways to show people painting a house before it all starts to feel familiar. But it’s important to me that everyone understands that CPR is anything but commonplace. In the…

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