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Network Effectiveness in Neighborhood Collaborations: Learning from the Chicago Community Networks Study

Community initiatives are notoriously difficult to evaluate. This is because neighborhoods are complex and it is hard to untangle and measure causal outcome drivers among the economic, demographic, and institutional…

Transforming Anchor Institutions: A Toolkit for Community Organizers

There is a new hospital being built, a university expansion project, or a large public agency housed in your neighborhood, what is at stake for your community? What could these…

Working Together: Trade union and co-operative innovations for precarious workers

The assumption of a 9 to 5 job has long gone, but as new forms of work create new forms of risk and with no employer necessarily to turn to,…

Government

Fiscal Year 2013 Report to Congress on Community Services Block Grant Discretionary Activities—Community Economic Development and Rural Community Development Programs

This report provides a summary of the accomplishments and activities undertaken by the Community Economic Development Discretionary Grant program (CED) and the Rural Community Development program (RCD) in 2013. These programs are…

Government

Community Services Block Grant: Report to Congress (Fiscal Year 2014)

The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) is authorized at Section 674 of the Community Services Block Grant Act of 1981 (CSBG Act), as amended by the Community Opportunities, Accountability, and…

Building the Capacity to Innovate: A guide for nonprofits

In 2017 we surveyed the leaders of 145 nonprofit organizations. Nearly 80 percent reported that their organizations aspire to innovate. And the majority reported that innovation is critical for their…

A Capability Framework to Guide Community-led Development Practice in Aotearoa

Inspiring Communities is the reference point for community led development (CLD) in New Zealand. Our vision is that all communities flourish. We use our team’s CLD expertise and experience to…

Government

An Introduction to Victoria’s Social Procurement Framework: Building a fair, inclusive and sustainable Victoria through procurement

Victoria’s Social Procurement Framework puts social and sustainable outcomes at the centre of the Government’s procurement activity. By leveraging its significant buying power, the Framework enables Government to increase the value of…

Inclusive Procurement and Contracting: Building a Field of Policy and Practice

This study, co-authored by Emerald Cities and PolicyLink, and generously supported by a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, surveys the current landscape on inclusive procurement and contracting policies…

Anchor Institutions and Urban Economic Development: From Community Benefit to Shared Value

Anchor institutions, such as hospitals, universities, arts and cultural institutions and sports venues, occupy a unique and influential place in America’s inner cities. In 66 of the 100 largest inner…

Community Wealth Building: Eight Basic Principles

Based on Ted Howard’s remarks to the recent Alternative Models of Ownership conference, the Democracy Collaborative has distilled the eight basic principles behind community wealth building—a transformative approach to local…

Funding the Cooperative City: Community Finance and the Economy of Civic Spaces

Funding the Cooperative City explores experiments in community-led urban development in European cities. Situated in the post-welfare transition of European societies within the context defined by austerity measures, unemployment, the…