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

NonProfit Quarterly

Supported by five national foundations— JPB , Knight , Kresge , Rockefeller , and William Penn —each city received $4 million from the funder collaborative. Today, there are six times more Black-owned businesses downtown than there were five years ago, with 22 percent of downtown retail stores now owned by people of color.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

After decades of urban disinvestment, many urbanites celebrate these schools as “anchor institutions” to help drive their area’s big comeback or renewal. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development. University-driven value capture happens here in a number of ways.