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Public safety in numbers: Jacqueline Samuel, Oct 21, 2012; In South Chicago, a local organizer explains that when violence threatens to take over a community, it takes the whole community to fight back.
When policy comes from the neighborhood: Dominique Williams, Jul 30, 2012; A change in perspective came when the City asked for public health policy recommendations from Chicago community groups.
Connecting to regional markets: John McCarron, Jun 25, 2012; Six cities strategize on how to hitch poor neighborhoods to their metro regions’ economic engines
A portrait of the artist as a young real estate developer: Gordon Walek, Jun 4, 2012; On Chicago’s South Side, Theaster Gates—an artist with a background in urban planning—is building a community.
Getting the most from sports, arts and culture: Eileen Figel, Apr 30, 2012; Ten tips to engage residents, reclaim community space and develop leadership.
Thinking through evaluation: Maureen Kelleher, Apr 16, 2012; Program evaluation can be surprisingly complex. Take the time and effort to figure out the what, why and how you’ll do the measurement.
Fresh Food + Exercise – Violence = Healthy Communities: Ed Finkel, Apr 2, 2012; Healthy community initiatives can be a part of programs that focus on everything from economic development to recreation.
Vitals signs — for self, family and community — in Chicago neighborhoods: By Ed Finkel, Oct 11, 2011; Community Grand Rounds in Chicago focused not only on the vital signs of individuals but also on those of families and the community as a whole.
When it comes to community development, we're all working in the same room: By Carl Vogel, Oct 11, 2011; Since the logic of what it takes to help distressed communities, families and individuals leads to a comprehensive approach, every door opens up into the same room.
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.
Walking away — a disturbing trend: By Eileen Figel, Aug 8, 2011; In Chicago, the Woodstock Institute has documented a disturbing trend of mortgage service providers walking away from the foreclosure process and abandoning low value properties throughout the city.
Research Round Up: Mixed-Income But Not Mixing: Reviewed by Sarah Rankin, Jul 20, 2011; The authors draw a fairly pessimistic picture of the state of interaction in these mixed-income developments and its prospects for positive neighborhood effects
Community schools — providing multiple dividends across an entire neighborhood: By John McCarron, May 31, 2011; There is another way, beyond charters, for neighborhood schools to elevate their performance, new research says. And it’s a way that pays multiple dividends across an entire community
How a neighborhood organization is bringing parents and schools together so the whole community benefits: By Elizabeth Duffrin, May 31, 2011; In many neighborhoods, the relationships between school staff and parents are often mistrustful if not downright adversarial. But community organizations can play a vital role in bridging the gap.
"Si, se puede! Yes, we can!" --- how to roll-out a quality-of-life plan: By Patrick T. Reardon, May 23, 2011; Three videos from Providence, RI, and Chicago tell how to prepare and roll out a quality-of-life planning effort.
Comprehensive development -- 'How you approach everything': By Patrick T. Reardon, May 9, 2011; A new video details the history of the New Communities Program and its success as a pioneer of a comprehensive, engagement-oriented approach to neighborhood stabilization.
Can sports build neighborhoods?: By Patrick T. Reardon, May 2, 2011; The mission of Beyond the Ball is "to harness the power of sport to help people transform their community, not escape it."
Using the arts to strengthen neighborhoods: By Jackie Samuel, Apr 25, 2011; What if cultural considerations were as much a part of local and regional planning as economic concerns? Could you imagine what South Chicago, let alone the City of Chicago, would be like?
Building community through art: A report from LISC/Chicago, prepared in 2009, Apr 18, 2011; LISC/Chicago's two-year Building Community for the Arts program was focused on how the arts tie into the larger sphere of comprehensive community development.
Athletic programming is grassroots ... and comprehensive: By Keri Blackwell, Mar 16, 2011; Targeted athletic programming is grassroots, and it’s comprehensive, a strategy that includes real estate, schools and parks, health and safety, the arts and—yes—recreation.
The commercial district manager -- a key piece in the puzzle of neighborhood revitalization: By Malik Elliott. commercial district manager, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, Feb 28, 2011; The task of commercial district managers may seem ambitious given the anemic market for new development in the residential and commercial sectors in the U.S. And it is!
Showcase tours start with Parks & Boulevards: By Ed Finkel, Jan 22, 2011; About a dozen staff from community, environmental and architecture-related nonprofits toured and learned about West Side Parks & Boulevards to kick off Round Two of LISC/Chicago’s Community…
Showcasing one community -- and all communities: By Patrick T. Reardon, Jan 22, 2011; The neighborhood tour in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood was part of the Bold Plans Big Dreams Community Showcase through which six Chicago neighborhoods got to strut their stuff for visitors.
Neighborhood Stabilization Program Chicago: Jan 6, 2011; Helping neighborhoods recover from wave after wave of foreclosures has to be comprehensive in scope, as this useful video details.
Bishop Arthur M. Brazier (1921-2010): By John McCarron, Jan 3, 2011; For a half century, Bishop Arthur M. Brazier, who died Oct. 22, was an inspiration to, and force behind, grassroots community development.