Current Sponsors
The Center for Community Builders
Background:
The Center for Community Builders (CCB) is the joint effort of six community building organizations to improve outcomes for residents of low-income communities of color by:
- Strengthening the capacities of resident leaders and other practitioners; and
- Elevating their voices and influence in the community building field.
The CCB works to strengthen practitioners' capacities for peer-to-peer support through:
- Providing practitioner-led training and technical assistance
- Supporting practitioners in developing effective program and practice tools
- Developing innovative financing strategies and sustainability planning
- Providing direct financial support to local efforts
Method:
Practitioners are typically their own best resource. For the Center for Community Builders, practitioners are the residents, youth, community-based organization staff, organizers, and service providers who operate on the front lines of community building. Their experience and knowledge is too valuable not to cultivate and harvest. The CCB provides a structure for practitioners to develop tools and resources for community building and a vehicle for them to deliver peer training and technical assistance.
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Background
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., conducts research and demonstration projects, holds conferences, provides education and training, and publishes books and reports on policy issues relating to land. Founded in 1974, the Lincoln Institute provides analysis and evaluation in four major areas: planning and urban form, economic and community development, tax policy, and international land policy with special emphasis on Latin America and China.
Department of Economic & Community Development:
Our work is to inform the research, policy, practice, and dialogue of economic and community development focusing on the multiple interests in land. Our work is organized into four areas: neighborhood planning and development; city, land and the university; fiscal dimensions of planning, and urban economic revitalization. In our research we strive to meet the highest social science research standards. In our training and education we endeavor to reach practitioners, public officials, and engaged citizens with trainers and materials appropriate for each audience.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Background
Founded in 1948, the primary mission of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.
Neighborhood Development
Casey's Neighborhood Development initiative advocates a more comprehensive, responsive approach to community redevelopment. This unique approach focuses on people rather than buildings and on making redevelopment work to improve conditions for low-income families and children that are impacted by these activities. Casey's attention to responsible relocation and redevelopment efforts include not only the processes, practices, and policies of redevelopment, but, moreover, improving opportunities and outcomes for residents of targeted neighborhoods, cities, and regions.