New Friendship House ready to serve the community Community Renewal is expanding its outreach into the community with the summertime completion of its newest Friendship House – the 11th one in the Shreveport-Bossier City area and the first one in North Shreveport’s...
“We know our neighbors have our back” Antwan and Tanesha Butler naturally want a safe and caring environment for their three young boys – and they are willing to put in the effort to make it happen. That love for community led them through friends to Community...
“My life has been forever changed” Barbara Zaffater lives in a beautiful neighborhood in South Shreveport. But the best part of where she lives is not the beautiful houses, but the beautiful friendships she has formed with the people who live inside those houses....
“I could have ended up dead or in jail, but Community Renewal changed my life” When Jordan Sewell and his younger sisters were the new kids in the neighborhood, they found friends, hope, joy and the road to a better future at a Community Renewal Friendship House....
“If I die trying to save this neighborhood, I am ready to go” For most of Community Renewal’s 25-year history, Rosie Chaffold has been a stalwart advocate of her Allendale neighborhood, sharing her story with everyone from governors to gang leaders. A woman who...
