Development Grassroots Leadership 
Center for Community Progress
JUNE 22, 2023
These learning exchanges, which include technical and leadership training, are an opportunity for the fellows to learn in and from each other’s communities and tour creative placemaking and revitalization projects. Still other spaces in development: it will be the site of a future Bomba dance studio.
Center for Community Progress
JULY 3, 2024
One highlight has been the generous grant of over $1 million from JP Morgan Chase to support our Developers of Color initiative. This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities.
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Center for Community Progress
APRIL 26, 2022
Community development unites people to take collective action to build stronger, more resilient places to live. Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Ironically one of the influences is a program developed in Pennsylvania, called Elm Street.
Center for Community Progress
MAY 24, 2022
Cohorts of grassroots community leaders from Syracuse, New York ; Braddock/East Pittsburgh/North Braddock (BEN), Pennsylvania ; and Loíza, Puerto Rico will collectively learn revitalization strategies for neighborhoods struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser
Center for Community Progress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The fellows travel to learning exchanges in each other’s communities, receive technical and leadership training, and take neighborhood tours. Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects. Community Voices Project mailer (front).
GovLoop
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Especially for organizations with relatively small development teams, GenAI “is where the immediate, low-hanging fruit is,” said Tony Holmes, Practice Lead for Solutions Consultants, Public Sector in North America, at Pluralsight, which provides skills training through an online data-analytics platform. Barriers But there are challenges.
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