Rice farmers tend to their fields in Lombok, Indonesia. Photo: Atet Dwi Pramadia/World Bank. A decade ago, recurring landslides above West Java stripped the forested hillsides bare, and water ...

Carmody's perspective has been shaped through more than five decades working across economic development, placemaking, and ...

1. Communities Develop: The Question is How? / James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert -- PART I. HISTORY AND FUTURE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -- 2. Swimming against the Tide: A Brief History of Federal ...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the disproportionate impact of its economic toll on renters, the federal government allocated an unprecedented $46.55 billion to the U.S. Department of the ...

In Southern California, a partnership between Citizens Energy and SDG&E shows how transmission projects can deliver both clean power and lasting social benefits. Community collaboration models like ...

World Bank's Community and Local Development bridges the youth jobs gap in fragile, conflict-affected countries by empowering communities, women, and micro-enterprises to drive local economic growth.

As we emerge from the pandemic, economic recovery is on everyone’s minds. Cities around the world are grappling with the intersecting challenges of inflation, climate change and deep systemic ...

In my journey from a community development funder to a practitioner, I saw that many of us don’t fit within traditional definitions of community development. That exclusion is not by chance; it is ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – It may come as little surprise to observers of Cleveland’s network of grassroots community development corporations that some are much more successful than others when it comes to ...