Cultivating Overlooked Places
What we do
City Fields collaborates with historically overlooked and underserved communities in Cleveland, TN as they work to reach their full potential.
Workforce Development
We partner with local employers, schools, and agencies to offer free training that leads to long-term, stable employment.
Affordable Home Ownership
We want to empower our neighbors to own their own property and set down roots in the community.
Community Engagement
We partner with neighborhood leaders to host get-togethers, events, and foster further community development.
Community Gardens
Our gardens not only nurture healthy food , but also healthy social connections and sense of community.
Our approach
City Fields takes a place-based approach to neighborhood revitalization.
What is a place-based approach?
We seek to empower the residents of a neighborhood with information and resources so they can lead the revitalization of their community. We spend a lot of time listening, providing tools for residents to better understand the forces at work around them, and advocating for change. We live and work in a community for years because we know that’s the kind of commitment required for change.
Our neighborhoods
Blythe Oldfield
Established in the early 1900’s, Blythe Oldfield was a solid middle working-class neighborhood for years. Over time, outside factors led to neighborhood decline resulting in closed or relocated businesses and a decline in owner-occupied home ownership. The residents left behind felt forgotten. Though significant changes have occurred over the past decade, it is still one of Cleveland’s most economically distressed, disadvantaged, and overlooked communities.
College Hill
College Hill is a historically Black neighborhood, that is currently home to approximately 500 families. Segregation and racism brought infrastructure projects that isolated the community during the 1960’s and 70’s, from which they neighborhood never fully recovered. Today, residents are faced with picking up the pieces of the past and dealing with the effects of the present.
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