Some projects begin with a grant or a plan. Others begin with a question, a community goal, and the patience to see it through. Launching the Lagoon is the latter, a project that represents the culmination of more than a decade of vision, advocacy, planning, and collaboration in the Miller neighborhood of the City of Gary, Indiana.

Nexus Strategy & Implementation was honored to represent the Fest in the First Committee at the APA-IN Awards Luncheon in Madison, Indiana, this May. We are especially proud to have donated our strategic planning, storytelling, and data-driven evaluation expertise to support the Fest in the First committee once again, this time as they prepare to celebrate their 22nd anniversary.