Article: Head of Northern Communities Land Trust in Duluth honored with $10,000 award
September 24, 2011 - John Lundy, Duluth News Tribune. The McKnight Foundation of Minneapolis named Jeff Corey one of six recipients of this year’s Virginia McKnight Binger Awards in Human Service.
To hear Jeff Corey tell it, the eight years before he was hired to lead the Northern Communities Land Trust were a vital foundation for everything that has come since.
Other people say he took a moribund agency and made it a thriving source of home ownership for low- to middle-income Duluth residents who might otherwise not be able to afford a home...