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  1. Angeline: Currently engaged in a comprehensive community development strategy in collaboration with our local school district, unions, university and nonprofits entitled "Schools as Hubs." Schools as Hubs is a STRATEGY (not a program) for organizing the resources of the community around student success. This initiative is intended to make a school – a place that already acts as a natural anchor for kids – the center of an entire neighborhood. Its integrated focus on academics, services, supports and opportunities leads to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier communities. Therefore, even though this strategy is anchored at schools, it is truly a tool to engage neighborhoods and communities. Not only will kids learn at their school, but that school will become a hub outside of normal schools hours for an entire neighborhood, offering services like…

    • Out-of-school activities and enrichment
    •Parent involvement
    •Medical and dental services
    •Mental health services
    •Social services
    •Adult education
    • Community and economic development

    What does this comprehensive approach create? It creates a neighborhood of people engaged in having their needs met while building community with each other. It is creating a neighborhood that ultimately takes care of one another. Our goal is to transform the way our community provides support for our kids and delivers services to our neighborhoods simultaneously!

  2. Christopher: Involved in youth education training, assisting individuals with physical and mental disabilities and supporting seniors with functional living.

  3. Joan: I'm working on a street promotion for one of the commercial corridors in Southwest Rochester, NY. Also, working to fill vacant commercial space along five commercial streets in the neighborhood.

  4. David: Led the development of a regional food security project: www.shalomfarms.org.

  5. David: * Building “whole” and transformative community relationships.

    * Catalyzing creative discovery of previously unrecognized resources.

    * Connecting people, organizations, institutions, and associations

    * Facilitating and hosting opportunities for mutual learning

    * Developing teams that produce and deliver effective community-transforming projects

    * Advocating for social, economic, physical, political, and spiritual equity and justice

    * Coaching leaders and teams to produce measurable, transformative outcomes

    * Providing national and international ABCD and community organizing training using Shalom Zone Training (www.communitiesofshalom.org)

  6. Sherron D.: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. has partnered with Childrens Defense Fund (CDF) & Quitman County Development Office (QCDO) to address Women in Agriculture (SRBWI).

  7. Sherron D.: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. and Rural People Rural Policy Network have been working on addressing Childhood Obesity in MS, AR, & LA.

  8. Sherron D.: Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. and Mid South Delta LISC have been working on the Greenville Sustainable Community Iniative (GSCI) Quality of Life Plan Phase 2:Implementation.

  9. Grace: Sustainable communities quality of life planning.

  10. Susan: The Zilber Neighborhood Initiative has added the communities of Layton Park, Burnham Park, and Silver City (known collectively as Layton Boulevard) to the mix in Milwaukee. With leadership from Layton Boulevard West Neighbors), quality of life planning is going gangbusters! A public release of the QLP is expected in early November, along with updates from Walnut Way Conservation Corp. in Lindsay Heights, Journey House and the Clarke Square Council in Clarke Square, United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee, and LISC Milwaukee.

  11. Charles: Helping develop a Strategic Implementation Matrix for helping establish a network of CAN DO! Community Economic Development (CED) Empowerment Resource Centers through which development training and successful living skills for the 21st Century will be provided. Also helping create educational programs based on CED Principles of Self-Help, Empowerment and Capacity Building designed to help participants realize more of their potential

  12. Kayla: Project COACH (coaching, organizing and accessing community health) is working to improve the health of a neighborhood in Rochester, NY via the social determinants of health. Right now, we are focusing on increasing connectedness between neighbors in order to reduce stress and help people feel safe at home.

  13. SD: Recent work on commercial/retail center repositioning strategies to increase commerce activities for existing tenants.

    Development projects have been on hold mostly since 2009. However, small re-development projects are beginning to surface in class B and C markets.

  14. Hershel : CRA
    secondary markets
    internal auditing
    comprehensive community development initiatives

  15. Jennifer: Jordan Downs public housing planning initiatives

  16. Matthew: I am taking my experience as a dedicated community development professional and now working as a consultant for a Sustainable Built Environment.

    Services include: Neighborhood Sustainable Strategies; Community Engagement & Trainings; Strategic Planning & Development; Initiative & Project Management; Affordable Housing Analysis & Underwriting; Predevelopment Services; and Asset Service Plans

    Looking for Fully Integrated Urban Projects

  17. Daphne: Wrapping up on a HOME Grant in Mississippi as Co-Grant Administrator.

  18. Daphne: HOME Investment Partnership Grants
    Housing Preservation Grants
    Historic Tax Credit
    Housing Tax Credits
    New Market Tax Credit Certification

  19. Benji: I am just beginning my role as Neighborhood Revitalization Planner for NHS of South Florida. We are the lead agency for a consortium that was awarded a NSP2 grant. I am working on analyzing what neighborhoods we should concentrate our investments in, and identifying what other improvements we can leverage in a neighborhood, beyond affordable housing.

  20. Andy: The Indiana Association for Community Economic Development (IACED) is supporting a Comprehensive Community Development Demonstration Program in Elkhart and Allen counties in Indiana. The goal of the demonstration program is to promote a holistic approach to healthy community building at the neighborhood level that integrates civic, social, physical, and economic development. The demonstration program will showcase a renewed approach to community development activities that promotes holistic and resident-driven improvements which will strengthen and sustain selected neighborhoods.

  21. Bob: I am currently working to raise funds for and complete the design and launch for a comprehensive place based community development initiative in Boston focusing on transit oriented neighorhoods. We hope to make climate change a part of the community conversation in this effort.

  22. Tim: Cross-scale civic engagement; understanding community through complexity theory.

  23. Rosa: Organizing a "Kickbutt" event for middle and high schools. This is an anti-tobacco campaign. Kids are participating in a poster competition. March 20, 2010
    I am also collaborating with a community group in our first Conference Youth Crime Wacth of New England, March 25-26, 2010

  24. Susan: Please visit www.znimilwaukee.org to see copies of phenomenal community plans developed by people in the Lindsay Heights and Clarke Square neighborhoods. Let us know what you think!

  25. marcella: Providing technical assistance and financial resources to support CDCs that produce affordable housing in Connecticut small towns.

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