Supporting & Empowering Consumer Packaged Goods Entrepreneurs – A Toolkit for Business Development Organizations
Supporting Business Development for Child Care Providers: A BDO Playbook
“A Gateway for Possibilities”: Resident Leadership and Community Ownership
In this Spotlight for the Institute for Community Power, we look at three leadership development programs designed and implemented by LISC and local partners: Training the Trainers (T4T) in Houston; the Newark Resident Leadership Academy (NRLA); and Community Connectors in Philadelphia. What follows is not a comprehensive evaluation of the programs. Instead, this is meant to serve as a jumping off point for further exploration, identifying some of the key themes and topics that emerged from interviews with participants and tracing some of the impacts the programs had both on participants and their communities.
Spotlight on Resident Voice and Community Ownership
Community development, at its core, helps residents create their own shared future. This concept of self-determination – also known as community ownership – is fundamental to LISC’s work, as we recognize that both our own investments and others from the public and private sector need to be directed by local voices. This Spotlight for the Institute for Community Power highlights contemporary efforts to advance community ownership by bringing residents together to elevate their voices and decision-making abilities. In it, we look at three programs designed and implemented by LISC and local partners: Training for Trainers (T4T) in Houston; the Newark Resident Leadership Academy (NRLA); and Community Connectors in Philadelphia.
Announcing the New Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Website
The newly launched Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance website celebrates the power of arts and culture in strengthening communities, and offers an abundance of resources for anyone working in creative placemaking or curious about it! Explore the tools and insights initially developed by LISC and our partners, and updated by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance team and our many partners. Whether you’re looking to enhance engagement with residents and artists, navigate partnership dynamics, or plan cross-sector initiatives, we invite you to check out our site and join our community dedicated to community development and planning through arts, culture, and creativity!
Person, Place, Thing: Understanding the Context of Community Violence
This webinar supports the Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), a historic federal investment in community violence intervention programs.