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What's Your Community Impact Business Model?
Introduction  The rain-soaked community meeting I attended back in 2007 wasn't supposed to be revolutionary. Thirty neighbors crowded...
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What Is a Community Quarterback, Really?
Introduction: More Than a Metaphor—Why Neighborhoods Need Quarterbacks Let me take you back to a neighborhood meeting on a muggy Tuesday...
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Centering residents in the story of neighborhood transformation
The work of neighborhood transformation is complex. But too often the organizations and people charged with advancing the work day-to-day...
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Social Cohesion: The Missing Element
Social cohesion is defined as "the strength of relationships and sense of belonging among members of a community." In my 25+ years of...
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Elevating Lived Experience In Our Hiring Practices
In my work of leading social impact efforts for the past 20 years, I have received numerous comments about the diversity and...
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Toxic Stress and Its Impact on Kids
For twenty-five years as my family and I were living alongside our neighbors in a historically disinvested neighborhood in our city, we...
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