A Charity Leader Emphasizes Self-Reliance to Gulf Coast Storm Victims

A Local Leader Learns How to Slow Down and Step Back 1

Hope Community Development Agency

Bill Stallworth (front right) has a led a community group that is rebuilding East Biloxi, Miss.

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Hope Community Development Agency

Bill Stallworth (front right) has a led a community group that is rebuilding East Biloxi, Miss.

Bill Stallworth, a Gulf Coast nonprofit leader, says that his biggest challenge in the years since Hurricane Katrina has not been keeping up with the grueling workload but fighting the temptation to try to solve his neighbors’ problems. Instead he has sought to help them learn to tackle challenges on their own.

In the days after the storm inundated East Biloxi, Miss., Mr. Stallworth started the organization that has become Hope Community Development Agency, first to provide

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