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Expanding the Mission: The Community Groups Serving Schools

Some community development organizations have added education to their traditional focus on housing and economic development. By partnering with local school districts, they’re looking for ways to support families and children in their neighborhoods. How’s it working?

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Streetside view of the School District of Philadelphia building, of tan brick. Broad steps (about 10) leade up to three double-door entrances. The building number 440 is over the portico.
Opinion

To Make Schools Better for Everyone, Connect Them to Community Development

Schools affect their neighborhoods—if community developers don’t harness that connection for equitable change, someone else will.

Two older woman talk at a table, as part of a busy outreach event.
Reported Article

From an Abandoned Mall to Bustling Community Hub

A medical complex in Mississippi draws on local artists to go beyond doctors’ offices and become a gathering place for those living nearby.

CSI’s former space at 215 Spadina in Toronto
Community Development Field

Nonprofit Centers: Hubs for Connection and Collaboration

To understand nonprofit centers and how they achieve their impact, it’s helpful to think of them in layers: the building as an asset, the building as a program, and the building as a platform for collaboration.

people painting
Arts & Culture

Working Through Growing Pains in Artist/Community Developer Collaborations

At their roots, both the arts and community development amplify a people’s voice. And while this connection makes sense on paper, it can look a lot different in practice. We would like to share three insights from our work together that speak to the promise, and peril, of such collaboration.

Organizing

Cross-Community Collaboration on NYC’s Municipal ID Program

Lack of identification hurts many different groups in different ways—from the homeless to immigrants, and they all need to be considered in the fight for an alternative.

community garden
Community Development Field

Community Development and New Understandings of Health and Wellness

In June 2012, I attended the Institute for the Future’s Health Horizons conference Innovating Information Ecosystems: The Next Decade and Beyond as an expert on the importance of place in […]