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	CPN - About CPN
		Sandtown residents will, of course, benefit from the physical changes that are going on in their community, but they must be empowered in a much deeper way.
		Sandtown (as residents call the neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester), is a community of approximately twelve thousand people plagued with vacant, boarded-up properties and vacant lots dating back to the early days of urban renewal during the l950s.
		Sandtown is characterized by absentee landlords, housing abandonment, and arson.
	www.cpn.org /topics/religion/baltimore2.html (8639 words)

	Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University : Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Neighborhoods like Sandtown, the cynics argue, are simply too distressed to turn around, and the visionaries active there are engaged in laudable but ultimately futile efforts.
		Sandtown, which covers 72 square blocks and is home to more than 10,300 people, has been the target of a comprehensive revitalization strategy for more than a decade, a period when millions of dollars have gone into the neighborhood from a variety of sources.
		While Sandtown’s trajectory began from a relatively low median value, this increase is over the same period, only one-fourth of all 203 Baltimore City Census tracts experienced any increase in property values.
	www.jhu.edu /~ips/publications/opinions/sandtown.htm (507 words)

	Sandtown - a Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Sandtown is a children’s choir from Baltimore who was discovered while performing with dc Talk several years ago and recently signed to Toby McKeehan’s Gotee Records.
		Composed of about 40 kids ranging in age from 8 to 14, all from the Sandtown neighborhood, the choir exists as a positive influence in the urban culture.
		Sandtown is an extremely talented choir who is at their best when they are given the spotlight.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/reviews/sandtown.html (262 words)

	Welcome to the Official Website of the Sandtown Community Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandtown Community Association made the decision to choose and be proactive.
		Sandtown lobbied the Office of Economic Development for $125, 000 in funding to embark on the Sandtown Visioning/ Master Planning, later to be called “Blueprint Sandtown.” Fulton Board of Commissioners, Fulton County Planning, Public Works, and Parks supported the efforts and participated.
		Sandtown supported her efforts by reiterating the need for a middle school and quality program planning in South County for nearly two years at BOE meetings.
	www.sandtown.org /Introduction.htm (4649 words)

	Welcome to the Sandtown Habitat for Humanity Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		nonprofit Christian housing organization here in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore with the purpose of rebuilding the vacant housing in Sandtown, increasing homeownership and improving the health of the community.
		By having affluent and poor, fl and white, urban and suburban working together in partnership, Habitat serves to build new relationships and an increased sense of community as well as new homes.
		Sandtown Habitat rehabilitates and builds houses in partnership with the homeowners using mostly volunteer labor and private funding, selling the completed homes at cost to low-income families
	www.sandtownhabitat.org (170 words)

	Gospel United (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandtown is a place where every summer night neighbors still sit out on the marble steps of their homes retelling the events of the day.
		SANDTOWN is on a mission to live out and share their destiny.
		Sandtown is an urban collective comprised of children and youth from West Baltimore's Sandtown Community.
	www.brandyland.com /artists.php?Artist_ID=5 (747 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: MUSIC Sandtown's Kid-Tested Hip-Hop Sound Brings Crunk to Contemporary Christian Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This Sandtown was a young gospel choir that played holiday pops shows at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, with O'Malley's March opening for Patti Labelle, at Baltimore-area churches, at local and regional events, at Orioles games, and up and down the East Coast.
		Perhaps inadvertently, Richardson, Smallman, and Sandtown have hit upon a music that modestly reinvents children's sacred music as pop music by and for their age groups and that reflects the world in which they live.
		Sandtown performs at the "Kickin' It With the King" program of the New Psalmist Baptist Church's Kingdom Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center on Friday, July 11.
	www.citypaper.com /music/story.asp?id=8199 (2148 words)

	June 9, 2003 - SANDTOWN: based on a true story
		SANDTOWN is a different story…it has incredible musical, vocal, and writing talent, but its message (brought forth by a choir of little angels with attitude) is a powerful one, not to be overshadowed by anything.
		In Sandtown, the Royal Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue was one of the major East Coast stops for artists on their way to the Uptown in Philadelphia, and the Apollo in Harlem.
		SANDTOWN is telling the world that no matter where you come from, no matter who you are, the color of your skin (there are white kids in this group as well), the parents you have, how poor or rich you are, God can be your friend, too.
	www.ninetyandnine.com /Archives/20030609/review.htm (993 words)

	New Song Urban Ministries - Arts
		It is under the name "Sandtown" on the Gotee label.
		Sandtown is a development of New Song Arts, a music program reaching children and youth in west Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester community.
		On April 2nd, 2002, the Sandtown Children of Praise embarked on their annual spring tour on a 57 passenger bus filled with 30 choir members, chaperones, granola bars, movies, and every imaginable hand-held video game.
	www.nsum.org /arts.htm (541 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: NEWS West-Side Activists Question Housing-Rehab Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stokes says it usually takes Sandtown Habitat five to eight months to revitalize a vacant home; she attributes the lag at Calhoun and Gold to the need to raise more money for the arts and media center than for a typical housing rehab.
		But while Muhammad and a spokesperson for the city's housing department blame Sandtown Habitat for the home's lack of boarded windows and the problems that have resulted from it, Stokes says her group has yet to settle on the property.
		Operating on the assumption that Sandtown Habitat is the property's owner, the city cited the group for numerous violations on the site on July 11, then issued a work order to board up the building, which was carried out two days later by city workers.
	www.citypaper.com /news/story.asp?id=4887 (1322 words)

	The Next American City
		Sandtown was intended as a prototype, and as a result resources were often used inefficiently: in devising new systems, grafting together existing systems, and discovering community needs that had long gone unmet.
		Sandtown remains a place where an 89-year-old woman can be knifed to death in her home, or an old man selling snow cones on the sidewalk outside his house can be gunned down at 10:30 in the morning.
		In the end, a Sandtown that maintained the same people in the same place was a Sandtown that could not change dramatically for the better.
	www.americancity.org /article.php?id_article=91 (2826 words)

	Habitat World Online: "Sandtown: A Community in Transformation" By Karen Free
		"Sandtown used to be a thriving community," explains LaVerne Stokes, a life-long resident and co-executive director of Sandtown HFH.
		But the people of Sandtown, according to Stokes and others, have always had a deep sense of community, and while many moved out, many chose to stay -- even though staying meant living within a 72-block area of dilapidated, vacated row houses, and lacking the political and financial clout to rebuild their community.
		To be sure, Sandtown HFH cannot -- and does not -- take credit for all the community development offshoot programs that are meeting the needs of the community.
	www.habitat.org /hw/jun-jul00/Feature/sandtown.html (1255 words)

	Grassroots Music - Music News New Album From Gotees Sandtown Generates High Profile Opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While Sandtown recently sang for over 20,000 people at the Ichthus festival in Kentucky, their upcoming main stage performance at this summer's Creation East will mark new territory for the children.
		Sandtown's music serves as an important part of the community's effort to rebuild, which includes a local Habitat for Humanity chapter, a health center, a job development program, a drug rehabilitation center, and a school.
		Sandtown's Habitat for Humanity chapter provides houses for homeownership for low and very low income families in the neighborhood.
	www.grassrootsmusic.com /magazine/musicnews.php?id=150 (1367 words)

	Sandtown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the 1950s and early 60s Sandtown was a flourishing neighborhood in Baltimore.
		The Royal Theater in Sandtown was one of the major East Coast stops for artists on their way to the Apollo in Harlem.
		SANDTOWN's new album (BASED ON A TRUE STORY) features nine original songs, a standout rendition of "America," and a musical tribute to the life of Dr.
	www.sandtown.com /pride.html (430 words)

	Sandtown Habitat for Humanity - Who We Are Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandtown's housing crisis led members of New Song Community Church to initiate an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity in 1989 to respond to the challenge of rebuilding homes and hope.
		Volunteers come from both here in Sandtown and outside the community and include individuals as well as numerous church, civic and corporate groups.
		Sandtown Habitat is committed to completing 350 houses for Sandtown families within the next several years.
	www.sandtownhabitat.org /Whois.htm (344 words)

	Sandtown Cemetery, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandtown is a small community about 25 miles north of the City of Tuscaloosa on the West side of State Highway 69.
		At the time of the 1850 census Lewis and Rachel and children lived in nearby Fayette County, possibly in the general area of Sandtown.
		Lewis is believed to have died while on a trip out of state and is believed to have been buried on the bank of a river.
	members.aol.com /GeneHays3/ST.html (630 words)

	Sandtown-Winchester: Managing Large-Scale Housing Developments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sandtown Habitat for Humanity project, Gilmor Grove and the Nehemiah project are three examples of home ownership developments that have impacted the community.
		Sandtown Habitat for Humanity, for example, has rehabilitated 90 vacant homes in the area since 1989.
		Crosby, whose family has lived in the Sandtown community for nearly 60 years, first became involved in the project because of his ideas and visions of what he wanted for his community.
	www.enterprisefoundation.org /pubsnews/bb/bb.asp?ID=bb1298_1 (2331 words)

	Left Behind in Sandtown
		But by the 1980s, half of Sandtown's households had incomes of less than $11,000 a year, and nearly half the working-age population was unemployed or working only on occasional jobs.
		The Sandtown partners were essentially ignoring a phenomenon that plagues Baltimore and other cities, something planners call “undercrowding.” Simply stated, Baltimore was built for almost a million people at its industrial peak, but now only 700,000 live inside the city limits.
		Sandtown's partners now acknowledge the undercrowding problem and say they are planning strategies for accommodating lower densities in the neighborhood.
	www.barryyeoman.com /articles/sandtown.html (3554 words)

	Gotee Records Reaches Agreement With Sandtown - CMSpin Christian Music News Article
		Sandtown’s Gotee debut—titled BASED ON A TRUE STORY—is being produced by Todd Collins, (Toby Mac, Out of Eden, John Reuben) Steven V. Taylor (Rich Mullins, Truth, Bill Gaither) and Alvin Richardson (Sandtown’s musical director).
		Sandtown is the urban vocal collective New Song has nurtured featuring children and youth from their community.
		Sandtown has shared the stage with dc Talk, Patti Labelle, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Bobby McFerrin, among others, and performed for diverse audiences ranging from the National Olympic Committee to Queen Noor of Jordan.
	www.sporknews.com /newsmanager/anmviewer.asp?a=440&z=1 (472 words)

	Based on a True Story - Sandtown
		To fully appreciate Sandtown's Based on a True Story, one needs to understand the history of this children's choir and the community for which it is named.
		Sandtown has become an ambassador of hope and a symbol of faith for the community, affording them performances throughout the city of Baltimore and beyond.
		Sandtown draws enthusiastic responses from audiences because of their age and their lively stage presence, not because of the caliber of the performance or the music itself.
	www.christianitytoday.com /music/reviews/2003/basedonatruestory.html (1158 words)

	Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Reviews - Sandtown: Based on a True Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandtown seems to be that rarity in the music biz: a genuinely heartwarming story.
		As crafted by producers Steven Taylor, Alvin Richardson and Todd Collins, Sandtown's music is full of youthful energy and optimism.
		It's wonderful that they love their faith and their 'hood, but one wonders what their worlds are really like, what kind of experiences have shaped them, and how this project has affected life in Sandtown, the neighborhood.
	www.hearsay.cc /reviews/albums/06-10-06-03/Sandtown.html (334 words)

	Infomation on Sandtown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandtown Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization, that serves to rebuild the housing in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore.
		The average cost of a Sandtown Habitat house is $35,000, about one- third the cost of other homes in Baltimore.
		Sandtown Habitat for Humanity has completed 80 homes for the residents of Sandtown, with many more under construction at this time.
	habitat.sacredheart.edu /sandinfo.html (400 words)

	Sandtown - Music
		The content of this album isn't likely to stir repeated listens beyond families of young children and youth choir directors, but the production quality and inspiration behind Sandtown is undeniable.
		It is the 1950s and early 60s and Sandtown is a flourishing community.
		As Sandtown delivers their own brand of modern urban music, the world is responding.
	www.christianitytoday.com /music/artists/sandtown.html (821 words)

	GospelFlava.com - Reviews - Sandtown (Based On A True Story)
		Sandtown more than impresses in their national debut on Gotee Records.
		Yes, this Baltimore-based community group is a children's choir, but to leave at that does them no justice.
		But it's the song "Destiny" that best sums up the spirit and the essence of Sandtown —a bold, head-held-high profession of faith and courage.
	www.gospelflava.com /reviews/sandtown.html (493 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Sandtown currently has 1,000 vacant houses, and 200 of those homes are right within the 12-block area that Sandtown Habitat is concentrating their efforts," Keith explained.
		Driving through the streets of Sandtown, one can easily see the big change that Habitat has made in saving this neighborhood and giving people an opportunity to change their lives.
		Keith is giving a lot of himself to the Sandtown community and is receiving a great deal of satisfaction in being able to pursue this calling.
	chppm-www.apgea.army.mil /imo/ddb/dmd/dmd/mar18.htm (637 words)

	Service Learning and FYS 151 (Fall 2000) - Letter to Accompany The Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sandtown is an inner-city neighborhood where most residents live below the poverty line.
		In the parlance of our seminar, Sandtown students are "information-poor." Our goal will be to help narrow the gap between the information haves and have-nots.
		In actuality, Sandtown is a thriving community containing many wonderful people who are building a better neighborhood in the worst of circumstances.
	www.gettysburg.edu /~jwertzbe/fys151/servicelearning/letter.html (516 words)

	Story of Sandtown
		In 1986 Sandtown -Winchester on the West Side of Baltimore was typical of many urban neighborhoods.
		However to those who hear the Sandtown story and visit the neighborhood they see the hand of God - healing, rebuilding and changing lives.
		They learn what Allan and Susan Tibbels and their good friend Pastor Mark Gornik discovered - that Sandtown is filled great people with the same desires for a safe, quiet and prosperous community.
	www.bsu.edu /web/habitat/sandtownStory.htm (479 words)

	Sandtown Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Join us Saturday, June 4 as we welcome Sandtown "Children of Praise", a kid’s hip-hop gospel group, to Seven Rivers.
		The cost for evening is $5 per person, with a $20 family cap.
		Housing is needed for the group Saturday, June 4 after the concert.
	www.sevenrivers.org /concerta.htm (83 words)

	Community Building in Partnership
		He concludes that the neighborhood transformation process in Sandtown has evolved and changed in response to operational realities, opportunities, feedback, missteps and unintended consequences, and presents a number of useful lessons for the broader community building field.
		Although Sandtown residents will undoubtedly benefit from the physical improvements to their community, he argues that residents must be empowered in a much deeper way.
		In Sandtown, where businessmen, politicians, community leaders, social service bureaucrats, and private foundation staff are all struggling to control the development process, broad-based community involvement and comprehensive participation will be necessary to insure accountability to the neighborhood's residents.
	www.commbuild.org /html_pages/showresults.asp?topic_search=primary&logic=or&template=66.htm&box=66 (1031 words)

	Live in Baltimore - Sandtown-Winchester
		Sandtown Winchester is a 72 square block community in West Baltimore.
		By 1990, Sandtown had become a neighborhood challenged by virtually every urban ill: poverty, unemployment, poor health, low student achievement, illiteracy, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, grimeÉmost significantly, Sandtown suffered an almost paralyzing lack of hope.
		Sandtown Winchester has over 20 churches of various denominations.
	www.livebaltimore.com /neighbor/sandtown.html (189 words)

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