This book encourages a more integrated approach to anti-poverty efforts that builds on what we know is working. Through dozens of examples of innovative ideas that are transforming neighborhoods, this book uncovers the new sectors, new financing tools, and new technologies that can be harnessed to bring opportunity to America’s struggling communities.
Foreword (pdf, 51 kb)
Elizabeth A. Duke, Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Section I
Community Development: Past and Present
The Past, Present, and Future of Community Development in the United States (pdf, 539 kb)
Alexander von Hoffman, Harvard University
The Continuing Evolution of American Poverty and Its Implications for Community Development (pdf, 255 kb)
Alan Berube, Brookings Institution
Crossing Over to an Improved Era of Community Development (pdf, 419 kb)
Eric Belsky, Harvard University
Jennifer Fauth, City of New York
Section II
Open Forum: Voices and Opinions from Leaders in Policy, the Field, and Academia
From Leaders in Policy
Fighting Poverty through Community Development (pdf, 331 kb)
Shaun Dovonan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
From Leaders in the Field
America’s Tomorrow: Race, Place, and the Equity Agenda (pdf, 513 kb)
Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink
People Transforming Communities. For Good. (pdf, 169 kb)
Angela Blanchard, Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Future of Community Development: How CDFIs Can Best Ride the Impact Investing Wave (pdf, 81 kb)
Antony Bugg-Levine, Nonprofit Finance Fund
Community Development in Rural America: Collaborative, Regional, and Comprehensive (pdf, 147 kb)
Cynthia M. Duncan, AGree
It Takes a Neighborhood: Purpose Built Communities and Neighborhood Transformation (pdf, 225 kb)
Shirley Franklin, Purpose Built Communities
David Edwards, IBM Corporation
The Future of Community Development (pdf, 150 kb)
Paul Grogan, Boston Foundation
From Community to Prosperity (pdf, 199 kb)
Ben Hecht, Living Cities
Owning Your Own Job Is a Beautiful Thing: Community Wealth Building in Cleveland, Ohio (pdf, 177 kb)
Ted Howard, Democracy Collaborative
Why Health, Poverty, and Community Development Are Inseparable (pdf, 76 kb)
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The World Has Changed and So Must We (pdf, 72 kb)
Clara Miller, F. B. Heron Foundation
Getting to Scale: The Need for a New Model in Housing and Community Development (pdf, 160 kb)
Sister Lillian Murphy, Mercy Housing
Janet Falk, Mercy Housing
What Problem Are We Trying to Solve? (pdf, 126 kb)
Mark A. Pinsky, Opportunity Finance Network
Transit-Oriented Development Is Good Community Development (pdf, 54 kb)
John Robert Smith, Reconnecting America
Allison Brooks, Reconnecting America
Household and Community Financial Stability: Essential and Interconnected (pdf, 174 kb)
Jennifer Tescher, Center for Financial Services Innovation
From Leaders in Academia
Assessing Health Effects of Community Development (pdf, 66 kb)
Nancy E. Adler, University of California, San Francisco
Deep Democracy Is Not Meetings That Last Forever: Community Development Next (pdf, 154 kb)
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Phillip Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rules, Not Resources (pdf, 262 kb)
Mark Calabria, Cato Institute
Our History with Concentrated Poverty (pdf, 191 kb)
Peter Edelman, Georgetown University Law Center
Crime and Community Development (pdf, 122 kb)
Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
Early Childhood Development: Creating Healthy Communities with Greater Efficiency and Effectiveness (pdf, 67 kb)
Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago
James J. Heckman, University of Chicago
Mobilizing Science to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty (pdf, 210 kb)
James M. Radner, University of Toronto
Jack P. Shonkoff, Harvard University
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 (pdf, 304 kb)
Ellen S. Seidman, Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Routinizing the Extraordinary (pdf, 419 kb)
David Erickson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Ian Galloway, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Naomi Cytron, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization (pdf, 213 kb)
Nancy O. Andrews, Low Income Investment Fund
Nicolas Retsinas, Harvard Business School