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In my journey from a community development funder to a practitioner, I saw that many of us don’t fit within traditional definitions of community development. That exclusion is not by chance; it is ...

In a recent issue of the journal Planning, Theory and Practice, Laura Wolf-Powers, a professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the responses of community ...

Over 1,200 bankers, policymakers, and community development practitioners from around the country recently joined the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Community Development team in Los Angeles, ...

Every day, community development practitioners work to try to improve conditions in communities across the country. But opposite the fraught racial history of the United States, can we really move ...

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The Local Initiatives Support Corp., a national lending and grantmaking organization better known as LISC, has picked a longtime community-development practitioner to lead its new Cleveland office. As ...