Steve Dubb

This week, The Democracy Collaborative is releasing a new paper that seeks to create a framework for measuring the effectiveness of university and hospital efforts to partner with and improve […]

In response to my earlier post about anchor institutions and community development, Andrew Frishkoff, executive director of LISC Philadelphia, commented “Too often we have seen beneficent anchor institutions acting paternalistically on […]

While eliminating food deserts often involves resources from outside of the community, a neighborhood must maintain control of its assets and identity.

Even if you have not tuned out of the long-running debate about the future of health care in the United States, you can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of […]

Anchor institutions—a term used to describe public and nonprofit hospitals and universities—are today widely recognized for their role in community economic development. But they have the potential to do a […]

While the two major party presidential candidates have many differences, both agree on the primacy of free enterprise.  Mitt Romney in his speech six weeks ago to the Clinton Global […]

In the world of community wealth building, most of us (most of the time) operate in relative obscurity. As a result, “telling our stories” has become a routine conference topic. […]

Last October in New York City, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon officially designated 2012 as the “International Year of the Cooperative.” This marks only the second time in […]

From IDAs to comprehensive community wealth building, the number of strategies to increase personal and collective assets is growing.