On Leadership
If you stop learning today, you stop leading tomorrow. – Dr. Howard Hendricks, theologian. What makes a leader? We all have an image in our mind’s eye. More often […]
Knowledge is (Still) Power
It’s getting harder and harder to call our time a period of record prosperity when the income disparity is as great as it is and so many people are living […]
New Codes for Old Buildings
Rehabilitating old buildings in New Jersey used to be uncertain business. Depending on how much you spent compared to the building’s value, you had to meet the standards for new […]
Town & Gown: Making Research Serve Communities’ Needs
Academics often get a bad reputation for studying poor communities without involving them in study design. But some researchers are doing it differently.
Cardell Cooper
On August 11, 1999, HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development and former mayor of East Orange, New Jersey, Cardell Cooper returned home for a few hours, joining U.S. […]
Business Consultants for Everyone
Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies, Ernesto Sirolli. New Society Publishers, 1999. 151 pp. Cloth: $14.95. As a young man working for an […]
Funding the Resistance
It doesn’t take a great leap of the imagination to deduce that a foundation called simply “Resist” might be a little different than your standard foundation. That is indeed the […]
Grantmaking Power to the People
Foundations that fund grassroots organizing are a rare breed, perhaps because organizing challenges a power structure that includes foundations themselves. A new foundation in the Southeast is taking aim at […]
A Meeting of Movements
In New York City the mayor tries to cast destruction of community gardens as a gain for housing advocates. Along the west coast, on-going battles pitch preservation of old-growth forests […]
Livable Communities: A Shared Goal
On the face of it, the intersections between the sustainability movement and the community development movement are not too hard to identify. We know that low-income communities bear the bulk […]
Divide and Conquer
In its one and a half years, the New York City Coalition for the Preservation of Gardens (known as the Garden Coalition) has worked to unify more than 700 dispersed […]
In Their Own Hands: Colonias Organize
“Complex but doable,” as one organizer put it, is an apt description of the job facing activists in the colonias, poverty-ridden communities along the Texas-Mexico border. The next questions are […]