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Neighborhood
Economic Development Background
Financing
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"At
the very center of the community building challenge is the effort
to revitalize the community's economic life". National and
international economic trends have marginalized many low income
neighborhoods but also hold the potential for redeveloping them.
Social capital is a central concept for neighborhood economic development.
A wide range of local economic development programs and funding
sources are available. A goal is diverse neighborhood places that
reflect and reinforce people's creative identities and provide access
to a wide range of life style amenities.
Readings:
Ch. 4, "The Small Community" in
Murphy and Cunningham, Organizing for Community Controlled Development,
pp.53-77.
Reading
#1
University
of Illinois - Chicago, Center for Urban Economic Development, Community
Economic Development Strategies, A Manual for Local Action,
Chicago, 1987.
Reading
#2 (pdf)
“Rebuilding
the Community Economy” in John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight,
Building Communities from the Inside Out (Evanston: Northwestern
University, 1993), pp. 275-344.
Reading
#7
Chapter
5, Ross Gittell and J. Phillip Thompson, “Making Social Capital
Work: Social Capital and Community Economic Development”,
in Susan Saegert, J. Phillip Thompson, and Mark R. Warren, Social
Capital and Poor Communities (New York: Russell Sage Foundation,
2001.
Reading
#10 (pdf)
Ch.
15. "Workforce Development", in Murphy and Cunningham,
Organizing for Community Controlled Development, pp.292-310.
Reading
#17
Ch.
14. "Business District Renewal" in Murphy and Cunningham,
Organizing for Community Controlled Development, pp.277
- 291.
Reading
#21
Peggy
Clark and Tracy Huston, "Assisting the Smallest Businesses:
Assessing Microenterprise Development as a Strategy for Boosting
Poor Communities, An Interim Report", The Aspen Institute,
Washington, D.C., August, 1993.
Reading
#24 (pdf)
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Economic Development and Financing
Subtopics inside:
Economic development overview
Traditional economics perspective
Assets-based economic development
Social capital and economic development
Community Based Organizations and economic development
Labor force development
Main Street and commercial revitalization
Microenterprise and other business loans
Business incubators
Starting a business / entrepreneurship
Community Reinvestment Act and small business lending
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