Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way: Community Foundation Assistance to CDCs, 1980D2000

by Jeffrey S. Lowe

Overview

Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way highlights cases of community foundation assistance to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) during the final two decades of the twentieth century in Cleveland, Ohio; Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana. Author Jeffrey S. Lowe describes the influence of these three community foundations on CDC capacity to engage in activities that facilitate the revitalization of urban communities and provides recommendations for other community foundations and policymakers seeking to work with CDCs. This is an essential read for persons involved in the fields of philanthropy and nonprofit organizations and scholars of community development, urban history, and social policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739111574
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/09/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey S. Lowe is assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Social Sciences, at Florida State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Historical Overview
Chapter 3 The Cleveland Foundation
Chapter 4 The Greater New Orleans Foundation
Chapter 5 The Dade Community Foundation
Chapter 6 Conclusions and Recommendations

Editorial Reviews

I found this book to be quite informative...I cannot wait for a sequel...

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly - Cathy L. Martinez

The historic role and function of Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are well analyzed in Jeffrey Lowe’s book Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way. He presents a sober analysis about their sustainability, dependent as they are on foundation support. A number of forces that seem to have strangled the viability and effectiveness of CDCs to being the mechanism through which low income community residents can voice and influence social and economic policies and programs are richly described and made understandable for the lay reader.. .. This book provides nuggets of insights that could frame a hopeful discussion among community development advocates and the philanthropic community that may lead to stronger partnerships against persistent poverty and marginalization.

Ricardo Millet

I found this book to be quite informative...I cannot wait for a sequel...--Cathy L. Martinez, 2008 "Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntary Sector Quarterly "

The historic role and function of Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are well analyzed in Jeffrey Lowe's book Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way. He presents a sober analysis about their sustainability, dependent as they are on foundation support. A number of forces that seem to have strangled the viability and effectiveness of CDCs to being the mechanism through which low income community residents can voice and influence social and economic policies and programs are richly described and made understandable for the lay reader. . . . This book provides nuggets of insights that could frame a hopeful discussion among community development advocates and the philanthropic community that may lead to stronger partnerships against persistent poverty and marginalization.--Ricardo Millet, The Woods Fund of Chicago

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