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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities. One highlight has been the generous grant of over $1 million from JP Morgan Chase to support our Developers of Color initiative.

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Meet the 2024-25 Cohort of Community Revitalization Fellows

Center for Community Progress

Each year, Community Progress welcomes grassroots community leaders to our Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) program, where they collectively learn how to help their neighborhoods tackle vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. I stayed involved with the group over the years and became the Coterie Chair in 2019.