Many communities in the United States are riddled with vacancies and foreclosed properties. A researcher explored the efforts of community development practitioners in the United States to prevent the ...

The Community Development Innovation Review (formerly known as the Community Development Investment Review) was in production from 2005-2021 and focused on bridging the gap between theory and practice ...

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 ...

In a recent issue of the journal Planning, Theory and Practice, Laura Wolf-Powers, a professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the responses of community ...

Sandile Hlayisi conducting the Survey with Community Development Practitioners. Community Developers attending a community development workshop. A recent survey conducted from various sectors revealed ...

Every day, community development practitioners work to try to improve conditions in communities across the country. But opposite the fraught racial history of the United States, can we really move ...

Choosing the right career is a crucial decision with far-reaching consequences. It shapes your future, making it essential to make an informed choice. Over the next few weeks, The African Reporter ...

The Local Initiatives Support Corp., a national lending and grantmaking organization better known as LISC, has picked a longtime community-development practitioner to lead its new Cleveland office. As ...