Investing in what works for America's communities
Subtitle: essays on people, place & purpose
By: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco & Low Income Investment Fund ; [Nancy O. Andrews, David J. Erickson, Senior Editors]
Contributors: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Low Income Investment Fund
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco; Low Income Investment Fund
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780615681528
Subjects: Community development; Poverty; Sustainable development; Community organization; Social conditions; Social Change; Social Planning
Description: "This volume, an important resource for those engaged in community development, goes beyond the dichotomy of place-based versus people-based policies to define what makes communities sustainable and resilient"--
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Elizabeth A. Duke; title: Section I. Community development : past and present. The past, present, and future of community development in the United States / Alexander von Hoffman; title: The continuing evolution of American poverty and its implications for community development / Alan Berube; title: Crossing over to an improved era of community development / Eric Belsky, Jennifer Fauth; title: Section II. Open forum : choices and opinions from leaders in policy, the field, and academia. Fighting poverty through community development / Shaun Dovonan, Arne Duncan, Kathleen Sebelius; title: America's tomorrow : race, place, and the equity agenda / Angela Glover Blackwell; title: People transforming communities. For good / Angela Blanchard; title: Future of community development : how CDFIs can best ride the impact investing wave / Antony Bugg-Levine; title: Community development in rural America : collaborative, regional, and comprehensive / Cynthia M. Duncan, AGree; title: It takes a neighborhood : purpose built communities and neighborhood transformation / Shirley Franklin, David Edwards; title: The future of community development / Paul Grogan; title: From community to prosperity / Ben Hecht; title: Owning your own job Is a beautiful thing : community wealth building in Cleveland, Ohio / Ted Howard; title: Why health, poverty, and community development are inseparable / Risa Lavizzo-Mourey; title: The world has changed and so must we / Clara Miller; title: Getting to scale : the need for a new model in housing and community development / Sister Lillian Murphy, Janet Falk; title: What problem are we trying to solve? / Mark A. Pinsky; title: Transit-oriented development Is good community development / John Robert Smith, Allison Brooks; title: Household and community financial stability : essential and interconnected / Jennifer Tescher; title: Assessing health effects of community development / Nancy E. Adler; title: Deep democracy Is not meetings that last forever : community development next / Xavier de Souza Briggs, J. Phillip Thompson; title: Rules, not resources / Mark Calabria; title: Our history with concentrated poverty / Peter Edelman; title: Crime and community development / Ingrid Gould Ellen; title: Early childhood development : creating healthy communities with greater efficiency and effectiveness / Gabriella Conti, James J. Heckman; title: Mobilizing science to reduce intergenerational poverty / James M. Radner, Jack P. Shonkoff; title: Section III. Mapping the future : synthesizing themes and ideas for next steps. Integration and innovation in a time of stress : doing the best for people and place / Ellen S. Seidman; title: Routinizing the extraordinary / David Erickson, Ian Galloway, Naomi Cytron; title: Inflection point : new vision, new strategy, new organization / Nancy O. Andrews, Nicolas Retsinas.