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Blog PostAnnouncing “The Network Effect: The Living Cities Perspective in 2012” | Nadia Owusu
Every year at Living Cities, we pause and reflect on all that we have accomplished and learned in the previous 12 months. This year we have shifted from the traditional annual report style to an…
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McKinsey & Co. and Living Cities Research on Trends in US Cities
Over the last several years, Living Cities has been dedicated to fundamentally adapting how we work in an effort to keep pace with the changing world. Through new partnerships and initiatives, we’re…
What We're ReadingSuburban Poverty Rates Soar Across America|Next City
Bill Bradley: Concentrated poverty is still a markedly urban problem, but the Great Recession exacerbated the rising poverty in suburbia.
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5 Transformational Forces That Should Be Driving The Social Sector (But Aren’t) | Fast.CoExist
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The Hidden Risk to America's Affordable Housing, and How We Can Solve It | Jeremy Hays
Originally posted on The Huffington Post. Reblogged with the author's permission At a time when more and more Americans are struggling to get by, affordable housing has never been more important.…
Blog PostNew Approaches to Seemingly Old Problems: Memphis Collaborates to Unify Community Development Efforts | Juan Sebastian Arias
From the view of national philanthropy, it can be difficult to identify ‘innovation’ across cities facing vastly different circumstances. Yet as we learn about how cities are addressing persistent…
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Lean Impact: Lean Startup meets Social Change | Marc Peters
Last night, Living Cities' Alison Gold was one of three speakers at the Lean Impact DC launch. She took the opportunity to talk about the work that Living Cities is doing across the country and how we…
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Partnering for Impact: Building A National CDFI to Scale Healthy Food Financing | Donna Leuchten
Many Americans do not have proper access to the tools they need to live healthy lives. In fact: 23.5 Million Americans do not have reasonable access to healthy and affordable food; 10 Million…
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Transportation and American Jobs Project Webinar
On April 10th, Living Cities hosted a webinar about the Transportation and American Jobs Project, a national effort to ensure that transportation investments using federal funds create quality jobs…
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Announcing an Important Collaboration: Boys & Men of Color in America | Ben Hecht, Sherrie Deans
Something unusual happened in Chicago last month. Leaders of 26 of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations convened to discuss the very urgent crisis among boys and men of color in the United…
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Oregon Documentation Overview
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West Coast Infrastructure Exchange
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Oregon Briefing (September 2012)
What We're ReadingBoston Fed to Smaller Massachusets Cities: We Want Your Best Ideas for Collaborative Problem-Solving|Next City
A new grant competition for smaller Massachusetts cities launched today, promising up to $700,000 for cross-sector collaborative efforts that can help change the lives of low-income people.
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The Five Elements That Could Fix What Ails America’s Cities | Ben Hecht
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston made an announcement on May 3 that has nothing to do with monetary policy or interest rates. For that reason, it may be the most important statement it makes all…
What We're ReadingHigh Stakes Donor Collaborations|SSIR
Willa Seldon: "At a time when many of society’s problems are too big to tackle alone and with limited resources, donors can accomplish more together than apart."
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From Community to Prosperity | What Works for America
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What Cincinnati Could Teach New York about Hurricane Readiness | Harvard Business Review
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Community Development: Reflecting on What Works | Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Louisville working with national group to engage poor citizens | Business First
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Aligning Grants with Impact Investments | Rooflines
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Catalytic Philanthropy and Private Capital: To Use or Not to Use | Harvard Institute for Responsible Investment
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Stuck on the Bus, or, Civic Engagement in a Networked World | The Slow Hunch
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When Big Givers Pull Together | Barron's
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Whose Responsibility is it to Create Jobs for Low-Income Communities? | Leanne Krueger-Braneky
When leveraging government investment, whose job is it to maximize job creation for low-income people, anyway? This was the big question that emerged from a recent convening of Philadelphia…
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What Would It Take to Fix America’s Infrastructure? 4 Approaches that Would Make a Difference | Robin Hacke
One of the most pressing challenges facing states and municipalities today is the quality and capacity of public infrastructure—the water systems, schools and municipal buildings, transit systems and…
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How to Create Good, Local Jobs by Scaling Business Enterprises | Carmen Rojas
With domestic unemployment and poverty on the rise, it's evident that traditional strategies for building thriving communities and economies are no longer sufficient. New forms of financing, such as…
What We're ReadingSTAYING GREEN AND GROWING JOBS: Green Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance as Career Pathway Stepping Stones
This report reveals that water utilities investing in green infrastructure can outsource O&M work to workforce development programs that train individuals in green infrastructure – in fact, some…
What We're ReadingFresno metro leaders unveil 'Strive' plan to improve student success
Fresno County education, business and government leaders released a baseline report card Thursday that they say is the starting point for a "cradle-to-career" regional movement to improve student…
What We're Reading5 Disruptive Education Trends That Address American Inequality|FastCoExist
Fixing how we teach our children is of paramount importance. What if the solution also started to fix America’s broader socioeconomic problems? New ways of thinking about edtech just might start that…
What We're ReadingThe Transformational Power of Data|Huff Post Impact
Jeff Edmondson of Strive, Living Cities' CEO Ben Hecht, and Willa Seldon of the Bridgespan Group on how data is central to effective collective impact efforts.
What We're ReadingThe Very Busy Process of Delivering Innovation|Governing
Neil Kleiman outlines a week in the life of the director of Chicago's Innovation Delivery Team-- one of five such units that are working within city governments in a project funded by Bloomberg…
What We're ReadingViral video Shows How Wealth is Really Distributed|CNN Money
CNN Money highlights a YouTube video that's gone viral recently showing that our perceptions of who has money and how much they have is quite skewed.
What We're ReadingFor Detroit, a Crisis Born of Bad Decisions and Crossed Fingers|New York Times
New York Times: “Detroit is a microcosm of what’s going on in America, except America can still print money and borrow.”
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Announcing “The Network Effect: The Living Cities Perspective in 2012” | Nadia Owusu
Every year at Living Cities, we pause and reflect on all that we have accomplished and learned in the previous 12 months. This year we have shifted from the traditional annual report style to an…
The Hidden Risk to America's Affordable Housing, and How We Can Solve It | Jeremy Hays
Originally posted on The Huffington Post. Reblogged with the author's permission At a time when more and more Americans are struggling to get by, affordable housing has never been more important.…
New Approaches to Seemingly Old Problems: Memphis Collaborates to Unify Community Development Efforts | Juan Sebastian Arias
From the view of national philanthropy, it can be difficult to identify ‘innovation’ across cities facing vastly different circumstances. Yet as we learn about how cities are addressing persistent…
Lean Impact: Lean Startup meets Social Change | Marc Peters
Last night, Living Cities' Alison Gold was one of three speakers at the Lean Impact DC launch. She took the opportunity to talk about the work that Living Cities is doing across the country and how we…
Partnering for Impact: Building A National CDFI to Scale Healthy Food Financing | Donna Leuchten
Many Americans do not have proper access to the tools they need to live healthy lives. In fact: 23.5 Million Americans do not have reasonable access to healthy and affordable food; 10 Million…
Announcing an Important Collaboration: Boys & Men of Color in America | Ben Hecht, Sherrie Deans
Something unusual happened in Chicago last month. Leaders of 26 of the nation’s leading philanthropic organizations convened to discuss the very urgent crisis among boys and men of color in the United…
The Five Elements That Could Fix What Ails America’s Cities | Ben Hecht
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston made an announcement on May 3 that has nothing to do with monetary policy or interest rates. For that reason, it may be the most important statement it makes all…
Whose Responsibility is it to Create Jobs for Low-Income Communities? | Leanne Krueger-Braneky
When leveraging government investment, whose job is it to maximize job creation for low-income people, anyway? This was the big question that emerged from a recent convening of Philadelphia…
What Would It Take to Fix America’s Infrastructure? 4 Approaches that Would Make a Difference | Robin Hacke
One of the most pressing challenges facing states and municipalities today is the quality and capacity of public infrastructure—the water systems, schools and municipal buildings, transit systems and…
How to Create Good, Local Jobs by Scaling Business Enterprises | Carmen Rojas
With domestic unemployment and poverty on the rise, it's evident that traditional strategies for building thriving communities and economies are no longer sufficient. New forms of financing, such as…
Publications
McKinsey & Co. and Living Cities Research on Trends in US Cities
Over the last several years, Living Cities has been dedicated to fundamentally adapting how we work in an effort to keep pace with the changing world. Through new partnerships and initiatives, we’re…
Transportation and American Jobs Project Webinar
On April 10th, Living Cities hosted a webinar about the Transportation and American Jobs Project, a national effort to ensure that transportation investments using federal funds create quality jobs…
What We're Reading
Suburban Poverty Rates Soar Across America|Next City
Bill Bradley: Concentrated poverty is still a markedly urban problem, but the Great Recession exacerbated the rising poverty in suburbia.
Boston Fed to Smaller Massachusets Cities: We Want Your Best Ideas for Collaborative Problem-Solving|Next City
A new grant competition for smaller Massachusetts cities launched today, promising up to $700,000 for cross-sector collaborative efforts that can help change the lives of low-income people.
High Stakes Donor Collaborations|SSIR
Willa Seldon: "At a time when many of society’s problems are too big to tackle alone and with limited resources, donors can accomplish more together than apart."
STAYING GREEN AND GROWING JOBS: Green Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance as Career Pathway Stepping Stones
This report reveals that water utilities investing in green infrastructure can outsource O&M work to workforce development programs that train individuals in green infrastructure – in fact, some…
Fresno metro leaders unveil 'Strive' plan to improve student success
Fresno County education, business and government leaders released a baseline report card Thursday that they say is the starting point for a "cradle-to-career" regional movement to improve student…
5 Disruptive Education Trends That Address American Inequality|FastCoExist
Fixing how we teach our children is of paramount importance. What if the solution also started to fix America’s broader socioeconomic problems? New ways of thinking about edtech just might start that…
The Transformational Power of Data|Huff Post Impact
Jeff Edmondson of Strive, Living Cities' CEO Ben Hecht, and Willa Seldon of the Bridgespan Group on how data is central to effective collective impact efforts.
The Very Busy Process of Delivering Innovation|Governing
Neil Kleiman outlines a week in the life of the director of Chicago's Innovation Delivery Team-- one of five such units that are working within city governments in a project funded by Bloomberg…
Viral video Shows How Wealth is Really Distributed|CNN Money
CNN Money highlights a YouTube video that's gone viral recently showing that our perceptions of who has money and how much they have is quite skewed.
For Detroit, a Crisis Born of Bad Decisions and Crossed Fingers|New York Times
New York Times: “Detroit is a microcosm of what’s going on in America, except America can still print money and borrow.”
Multimedia
Press
From Community to Prosperity | What Works for America
What Cincinnati Could Teach New York about Hurricane Readiness | Harvard Business Review
Community Development: Reflecting on What Works | Stanford Social Innovation Review
Louisville working with national group to engage poor citizens | Business First
Aligning Grants with Impact Investments | Rooflines
Catalytic Philanthropy and Private Capital: To Use or Not to Use | Harvard Institute for Responsible Investment
Stuck on the Bus, or, Civic Engagement in a Networked World | The Slow Hunch
When Big Givers Pull Together | Barron's
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