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How to Fight Vacancy? Do It All

[…] of a broader vacant-property organizing campaign. In January 2009, the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative released results of the first comprehensive vacancy survey ever completed in Youngstown. The survey, administered by […]

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Roundtable on Evaluation in Community Groups

[…] evaluate our success. We have toiled to find a measurement tool that would give valid results for self-esteem. We’re also looking at how we increased the quality of people’s lives […]

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Redefining Community Development

[…] its structure for different reasons. He expresses concern that Germantown Settlement’s focus on poor communities results in a failure to include individuals and organizations that do have equity or capital […]

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Shifting The Balance of Power

[…] design an “objective” evaluation process, carry out the investigation, analyze the findings, and report the results. If the program is still active, they may develop a plan of action for […]

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Targeted Blight Remediation Yields Big Results

[…] activities help stave off increased tax delinquencies and “unlock” value in neighboring real estate. The results of the study also highlight the power of pairing nonprofit intermediaries and advocates with […]

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Look Close to Home for Construction Cost Savings

[…] to increase affordability. However, these emerging technologies and approaches have yet to produce compelling, sustained results in terms of increasing the speed of development or construction, or reducing the costs […]

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Finding a Comprehensive Vision for Neighborhoods and Families

[…] projects, accountability to the community shouldn’t simply mean “following rules,” Schorr says, but rather “getting results.” Providers waste time filling out useless paperwork when they should be spending time meeting […]

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The American Dream Under Duress?

[…] presentation on the second annual “How Housing Matters” study for the MacArthur Foundation yesterday. The results are based on a national telephone survey done in April polling 1,355 adults. The […]