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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Supported by five national foundations— JPB , Knight , Kresge , Rockefeller , and William Penn —each city received $4 million from the funder collaborative. Leveraging Public Investment How does a $4 million foundation investment leverage another $76 million? The initiative spread to four cities, including Akron, the next year.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Although the campaign was lost, the I-Hotel struggle was a foundational political moment for Asian Americans in the United States. Heeding the lessons learned from Manilatown and the I-Hotel, the leadership of CRC recognized the need to change the rules of the physical environment in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Photo courtesy of CCDC.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

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I credit them for my fierce work ethic, which fit right in with the “do more with less” mindset of nonprofit work, but as I rose through the ranks of nonprofit leadership, I wasn’t quite prepared for the toll it took on my mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Smith Reynolds Sabbatical Foundation (ZSR). At a time when HUD (U.S.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. The project earned its name due to the goal of building a mock city on the compound so that the police could practice raids, bomb testing, and other urban warfare tactics.