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This cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice
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PrefaceSection I: Settings and Framework1. What Is Community Economic Development?Case Study: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation2. Social Workers and Community Economic DevelopmentCase Study: New Community Corporation3. The Making and Unmaking of Cities and NeighborhoodsCase Study: Warren/Connor Development Corporation4. History of Community Economic Development: The Nineteenth Century to Lyndon Johnson5. History of Community Economic Development: Richard Nixon to Barack ObamaCase Study: Chicanos por la CausaSection II: Strategy, Organization, and Success6. Choosing a StrategyCase Study: Marshall Heights Community Development Organization7. A Taxonomy of Community Development CorporationsCase Study: Coalition of the Hungry and Homeless of Brevard County, Florida, Inc.Section III: Tools of Development8. Investing in Human CapitalCase Study: New Economics for Women9. Building High-Performance OrganizationsCase Study: East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation10. Real Estate: Developing Physical CapitalCase Study: Intercommunity Mercy Housing11. Financial Capital: Business Development and Financial Infrastructure12. Lobbying and AdvocacySection IV: Putting It All Together13. Expanding Social and Political CapitalCase Study: Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative14. Special Challenges in Community Development: Racism and Regionalism15. Community Building: A New Synthesis16. ConclusionAppendix I: Anymidwest City ExerciseReferencesIndex
About the author
Steven D. Soifer, Ph.D., MSW, is professor and chair of the Department of Social Work at the University of Memphis. He has expertise in a wide array of social welfare, social and economic development, and social movement areas. He has published numerous books, book chapters, and articles on community development, community organization, and social movements. Joseph McNeely, MA, JD, is a Baltimore-based attorney and executive director of the Central Baltimore Partnership. He was the founding executive of Baltimore's South East Community Organization and Southeast Community Development Corporation and for twenty years served as the president of the National Development Training Institute. Cathy Costa, MSW, MPH, is coordinator of the Trauma-Informed Care Initiative at the Baltimore City Health Department, working to implement trauma-informed care across Baltimore's maternal- and child-health programs. Nancy Pickering-Bernheim has been writing professionally for more than two decades on a variety of topics as a published author, featured writer for newspapers and magazines, and a nationally-syndicated blog.
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This cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice
