Community Centered Economic Inclusion (CCEI)
The Power of Arts and Culture: The Heart of Community Health, Revitalization, and Inclusion
A LISC report highlighting case studies from our work with four local community partners using the arts to strengthen community bonds, celebrate local culture while healing collective trauma, and fight displacement through creative economies.
Advancing Inclusive Development in Rural Towns
A report on actionable strategies for organizations, policy makers, and philanthropists to help strengthen the economic opportunity, quality of life, and quality of place in rural towns. The findings are based on an in-depth, multiyear Brookings Institution and LISC engagement with three diverse, rural communities in Indiana. The findings show that Community Centered Economic Inclusion (CCEI) is adaptable to rural towns, can help them build stronger connections to regional economies, and insures new investment is directed at community-driven solutions.
Building Inclusive and Healthy Neighborhoods, Block by Block: Findings from 11 Neighborhoods Nationwide
A new report from Brookings Metro examines LISC’s community-centered economic inclusion initiative, which centers neighborhoods as the key setting for driving strong regional economies. The lessons in this report make one thing clear: To truly transform the prosperity and well-being of entire cities and regions, it’s past time to abandon top-down or “trickle-down” approaches and embrace the actionable, community-rooted models that have demonstrated impact in cities and neighborhoods nationwide. Image above courtesy of Jana River Medlock Photography
Building Inclusive and Healthy Neighborhoods, Block by Block: Findings from 11 Neighborhoods Nationwide
A new report from Brookings Metro examines LISC’s community-centered economic inclusion initiative, which centers neighborhoods as the key setting for driving strong regional economies. The lessons in this report make one thing clear: To truly transform the prosperity and well-being of entire cities and regions, it’s past time to abandon top-down or “trickle-down” approaches and embrace the actionable, community-rooted models that have demonstrated impact in cities and neighborhoods nationwide. Image courtesy of Jana River Medlock Photography
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Reimagining Economic Development in a Small American City
Major new transit investment is bringing change to Michigan City, a once-powerful industrial hub on the shores of Lake Michigan. To ensure the city’s most neglected neighborhoods share the benefits, local stakeholders, with support from LISC, are taking a whole new approach to economic development and helping create a flexible blueprint for other small American cities emerging from similar histories.
Rebalancing Community Power for More Effective Neighborhood Investment
Even when economic development programs succeed in boosting livelihoods and community investments, they too often fail to benefit the very people and places experiencing the harmful impacts of long-term, systemic economic deprivation. That’s a failure of commitment. Here, LISC program officer Teresa Garcia makes the case for a new approach to economic development that centers the communities most in need—and makes equity its guiding aim.
Ticket to Inclusive Community Building: Puget Sound Neighborhood Organizes to Shape Economic Opportunity
The diverse immigrant community around Casino Road on the south side of Everett, WA, has some tough issues to confront, including how to make its voice heard in regional economic development. But after more than two years of Covid hardship, what people needed was a chance to gather, relax, and rejoice. Their carnival made the work of community organizing feel like a party.