Tag: community development

In the world of community wealth building, most of us (most of the time) operate in relative obscurity. As a...

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...

Earl Lauer Butz, as the U.S. secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, used this slogan to...

What are our priorities when it comes to neighborhood planning? According to the results of a public opinion poll...

I like chocolate chocolate chip and I like peanut butter and chocolate but I’ll take a stand and say that...

What does it mean when the country's largest community development intermediary opens its first new office in 15 years in...

Let's just come right out and say it: New York City is the best. At everything. We are the smartest,...

I recently stepped down from my role as the executive director of a community development corporation and I'm in the...

No one expects that a one-size-fits-all definition for community development or a blueprint model for effective CD is attainable—it must be tailored to the...

As some cities begin to admit they are shrinking, CDCs in high-abandonment neighborhoods are rethinking their traditional roles, and even their missions.

This entry is the third in a series of attempting to demystify the “new” Congress. My last two posts looked at the membership of...

Last week we looked at the House appropriators, this week we are moving across the Hill to the Senate appropriators who oversee funds made...

Bringing Buildings Back addresses all sides of the abandoned and vacant property problem, from how abandonment can be prevented to how best to bring these properties back into productive reuse.

The 2008 presidential campaign showed us another side of volunteering. It drew literally millions of people, many for the first time, into the electoral process. But beyond political campaigns, can volunteerism provide increased capacity for communities and community organizations?

Wow. Only a week after I wrote a post celebrating how well the Obama administration seems to be getting its...

We’ve been here a while, but this is a great venue for one-stop shopping for national and industry news from...

Urban Essex County, New Jersey, one of the hardest hit areas in the state by the ongoing foreclosure crisis, could be the laboratory for an ostensible reinvention of community development, as a local CDC there announced today the successful acquisition of 47 mortgages on troubled properties with an eye toward stabilizing neighborhoods in some of the oldest suburban communities in New Jersey.

NHI’s latest research report, Toes in the Water: Nonprofit Community Development Real-Estate and Mortgage Brokerage Programs, identifies state regulatory obstacles and assesses the future...

Will Hurricane Katrina change the way intermediaries do business?

One hundred issues and 23 years ago, a group of tenant activists, community organizers, and legal aid attorneys came together to begin a new...