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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents. In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

I found myself in the middle of a David and Goliath struggle between the citizens of the town and its biggest economic powerhouse: Yale University. 2 While immersed in organizing, this powerful coalition of residents, university wage-workers, city alders, and students were also reading. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

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