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

NonProfit Quarterly

The Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority leveraged the improvements at Summit Lake Park to secure a Choice Neighborhoods planning grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. At a time when community leadership and innovation are sorely needed, this is no small achievement.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

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. At a time when HUD (U.S.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Annual point-in-time data by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development indicates that about one-quarter of families who have experienced homelessness once will succumb to it again.

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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. But in order to fully contextualize what it means to protect Atlanta’s natural habitat, we must first dive deep into Atlanta as a home to Black folks.

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Community Development Must Center Power Building: A San Francisco Story

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Five years later, in 2020, the new 434-unit Ping Yuen developments opened with an award-winning design. Photo courtesy of CCDC.