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Introduction   Wind-driven rain pelted the library meeting room windows as I watched residents file in for what would become a pivotal...

Introduction   It was a standing-room-only affair at the foundation's annual gathering. The evening's keynote speaker—a nationally...

Introduction   The summer air hung heavy as I walked down the cracked sidewalk of our neighborhood in Tulsa, dodging familiar potholes...

Introduction   The rain-soaked community meeting I attended back in 2007 wasn't supposed to be revolutionary. Thirty neighbors crowded...

Introduction: More Than a Metaphor—Why Neighborhoods Need Quarterbacks Let me take you back to a neighborhood meeting on a muggy Tuesday...

The work of neighborhood transformation is complex. But too often the organizations and people charged with advancing the work day-to-day...

Social cohesion is defined as "the strength of relationships and sense of belonging among members of a community." In my 25+ years of...

In my work of leading social impact efforts for the past 20 years, I have received numerous comments about the diversity and...

For twenty-five years as my family and I were living alongside our neighbors in a historically disinvested neighborhood in our city, we...