Going Comprehensive: Anatomy of an Initiative that Worked. CCRP in the South Bronx.
Date Published: 05/01/2007
Author: Anita Miller and Tom Burns
Two expert practitioners, Anita Miller and Tom Burns, have written a guidebook on comprehensive community development, in particular examining the Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program (CCRP) that produced one of America’s most remarkable urban turnaround stories, that of New York’s once-stricken South Bronx.
Ms. Miller was the Program Director and designer of CCRP, which is now widely recognized as a path-breaking community building program. Its design and operation have inspired other national funder initiatives and countless neighborhood rebuilding efforts in communities across the country. Within LISC, CCRP has repeatedly served as a point of reference for local and national programs intended to reinforce LISC’s core strengths as a real estate investor in neighborhood revitalization efforts. LISC’s National Community Building Initiative during the mid-1990’s and Chicago LISC’s later New Communities Initiative (NCI) and New Communities Program (NCP) are just three of many examples that drew directly upon the CCRP experience.
As LISC moves forward with a new strategic plan that includes more emphasis than ever before on building Sustainable Communities, the principles gleaned from the CCRP approach will continue to provide guidance to LISC staff and to the many collaborators with whom LISC works.
Topics: Economic Development & Safety, Education, Children & Youth, Housing, Land Use & Planning
Type: Guidebook, Case study / model practice