In town after town, city after city, all across America, people are making their communities better for the next generation.
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A new toolkit helps neighborhoods measure their adaptive capacity.
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What happens when you open your eyes to the stories around you? How does that change the way you see your community?
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Cary Westerbeck brought his neighbors together to collectively build a stronger town.
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Here’s why everyone benefits when faith communities connect their mission and story to their physical place in the neighborhood.
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Small investments in poor neighborhoods are the best way for a community to build wealth. They are also the best way to lift people out of poverty without displacing them from their neighborhood.
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Hacer inversiones pequeñas en barrios pobres es el mejor modo de aumentar la riqueza. También, son el mejor modo de ayudar a la gente a salir de la pobreza sin desplazarse del barrio.
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How one Detroit resident is using Google Maps to chronicle the accelerating disappearance of some of that city’s neighborhoods.
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Don’t underestimate the power of kindness in building stronger, more resilient cities. Its true strength is proven in crisis—as in Oregon’s recent wildfires.
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If your town or city is going to be stronger and more resilient, its neighborhoods need to thrive. Here are 5 ways to help your neighborhood live up to its full potential.
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A trip to the supermarket or a trip to the garden—both can be reminders to see our communities (and the people who live there) as they truly are.
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The story of a neighborhood-led effort to address blight on Detroit’s East Side.
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Here’s what happened when a passionate community advocate in Detroit listened to what residents actually wanted, rather than imposing his will from the outside.
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When you make community-led, incremental redevelopment all but impossible, what you get is the wholesale reinvention of neighborhoods in somebody else’s image instead.
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Want to introduce a child to stories about life in the neighborhood and what it means to be a good neighbor? These great picture books can help.
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Studies show that an alarming number of children experience acute loneliness. Kids need the support of trusted, loving neighbors. Not only that, our neighborhoods need kids!
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Even as more of our lives move online, homemade signage is making a comeback in the neighborhood.
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Just as the pandemic has revealed how interconnected we all are, it has also exposed the extent to which we have dis-integrated and dis-membered our society.
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Building communities where people feel safe and loved is the key to moving our nation forward. There is no other option.
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Are we moving into a “post-suburban experiment” future? There are reasons to believe so. The cities who can successfully adapt will be those who prioritize the neighborhood. Here’s why.
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