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Rebuilding Together: How One Baltimore Program Advanced Both Education and Community Development
When Baltimore got funding for a round of school renovations, the state directed it to design schools that would also advance neighborhood revitalization—and it learned some lessons about why that's not always so simple.
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The Assumptions Behind Place-Based Programs Can Hinder Their Success
Examining eight common assumptions underlying place-based work shows that even when avoiding the pitfalls of no change or gentrification, the work is challenging.
Did the Comprehensive Community Initiatives of the 1990s, early 2000s Bring About Change?
Once a must-have for foundations, Comprehensive Community Initiatives found mixed success.
Honing the “Scale-Up” of Community Development Organizations
If specialization and regionalization are essential to being effective and getting to scale, how does the field execute a multi-pronged strategy needed to address the many factors that affect communities?
Community Building Despite Trauma
The trauma caused by poverty and the systems that reinforce it can short-circuit standard efforts to build community. A new method called “trauma-informed community building” aims to change that.
Build Mixed-Income Housing–But Not in Isolation
A focus on housing connected to education and wellness will be needed to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.