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Community democracy: Jenifer Wagley, Oct 21, 2012; In Houston, a commitment to new ways of building neighborhood leadership, engagement and civic capacity.
Back from disaster: Eileen Figel, Sep 10, 2012; Recovery efforts work best when they’re strategic, broadly focused and targeted to the communities that need the most help.
Winning over naysayers: Elizabeth Duffrin, Aug 27, 2012; With some smart strategies, a community initiative in Richmond, Va. turned opponents into supporters for redevelopment. Here’s how they did it.
Removing trouble spots: Elizabeth Duffrin, Jul 9, 2012; Neighborhoods in Houston are using safety audits to bring in partners and resources to improve the community in all sorts of ways.
Commitment from the flames: Eileen Figel, May 21, 2012; At the 20-year anniversary of the civil unrest in Los Angeles, the staff of LISC Los Angeles remembers the event and reminds us of what we learned about opportunity.
Community, relationships and the power of place: Eileen Figel, May 7, 2012; Robert Sampson's new book shows that collective efficacy at the neighborhood level is a living entity--and that means place matters.
From isolation to collaboration: By Beth Anne Hendrickson, Feb 13, 2012; Kansas City's Chouteau Courts public housing complex and surrounding Paseo Gateway neighborhood have used the Choice Neighborhood program to expand their vision for change.
The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative: Civic engagement in action: By Hayling Price, Nov 14, 2011; Early on a chilly Saturday morning, over 60 residents of Northeast D.C.’s Parkside-Kenilworth neighborhood gathered to help shape the focus of the DC Promise Neighborhood.
Analyzing "the things that connect them": By Patrick T. Reardon, Oct 31, 2011; On Oct. 18, more than 50 researchers, community organizers and funders grappled with the many questions revolving around how social networks affect neighborhoods and people.
A community cannot develop itself unless it's organized: By Bishop Arthur M. Brazier, Oct 24, 2011; A community organization provides the structure and strategy for developing, implementing and evaluating change. It reduces individualism, while increasing long-term community sustainability.
Being active in your community is a cornerstone of good health: By Elizabeth Duffrin, Oct 3, 2011; In a two-year process, a Minneapolis non-profit has developed a grassroots strategy grounded in the premise that being active in your community is a cornerstone of good health.
Working together works: The San Francisco experience: By Patrick T. Reardon, Sep 26, 2011; Working together works. Not only for neighborhoods, but also for neighborhood businesses. That's the central finding of a new evaluation of the Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative in San Francisco.
Not in our town: By Pearl M. Jones, Sep 19, 2011; "Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness" is a new PBS documentary that tells the story of residents of a Long Island village taking action after a local immigrant was killed in a hate crime attack.
Bridge-Building on Division Street: By John McCarron, Aug 22, 2011; It’s been a neighborhood long divided between have-nots and have-it-alls. Now, many are trying to bridge the old divides and create a diverse-but-unified community on Chicago's Near North Side.
Fort Wayne uses video to promote comprehensive community development effort: Aug 8, 2011; In Fort Wayne, Indiana, the community known as 46807 — named for its zip code — has created a video to encourage residents to get involved and share their ideas for the community's future.
Survival Through Social Networks: Reviewed by Eileen Figel, Jul 20, 2011; Sean Safford tries to explain why Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio, fared so differently after the collapse of their core industry, steel.
'If you're really listening, it will change you': By Patrick T. Reardon, Jul 11, 2011; "The hardest part is surrendering — trusting that this person knows what he's talking about. You leave your issues at the door... You're not probing....You're like a sponge."
A script to listen with: By Patrick T. Reardon, Jul 11, 2011; These interviews are listening sessions for the interviewer, not a dialogue or an exchange of ideas. Still, they need a script.
Collective impact and making the world a better place: By Leo Ries, Jul 11, 2011; The concept of collective impact provides not only a great framework for understanding LISC, but also an approach for attacking many of our complex community problems.
One-on-ones and 'a vision so powerful': By Patrick T. Reardon, Jul 11, 2011; "If everyone begins to come together behind a common vision," said Jim Capraro, "then you can start changing the culture. The vision has to be big enough to include everybody else's vision."
Six tips for keeping the fires of neighborhood improvement blazing: By Elizabeth Duffrin, Apr 25, 2011; The excitement of neighborhood improvement planning can fizzle quickly once it’s time to get those plans implemented. “You have to keep the energy up or folks will drop out.”
Creating "neighborhoods of promise": By Patrick T. Reardon, Feb 11, 2011; The directors of the three lead agencies for the Resilient Communities/Resilient Families initiative in Boston are all hoping to re-brand their communities as "neighborhoods of promise."
"Passion is very important": By Patrick T. Reardon, Jan 10, 2011; Passionate desire for change made a big difference during the four-month process to select participants for Boston LISC's Resilient Communities/Resilient Families initiative.
How Do We Incent and Reward ‘First Followers’?: By Jim Capraro, senior fellow, Institute for Comprehensive Community Development, Dec 8, 2010; My next blog post was going to be about economic development. But that was before an old “organizer” buddy sent me this youtube link: Leadership lessons from the dancing guy .
RESEARCH REVIEW: Social Capital: Reviewed by Chris Walker, Dec 2, 2010; No serious neighborhood revitalization effort can ignore the hard work of creating connections to residents and organization leaders.