Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

This initiative, led by our Director of Engagement Odetta Macleish-White, creates opportunities for marginalized local developers and promotes equitable development in underserved communities. This program has helped dozens of community members expand their leadership, commitment, and role in strengthening their neighborhoods.

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Center for Community Progress

APRIL 26, 2022

Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals. This work takes a narrow focus specific to community development and identifies barriers to equitable leadership opportunities while offering reparative solutions.

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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. The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania.

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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 Loíza, Puerto Rico.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Expert Generalists That’s because, among other reasons, frontline workers know how AI tools could improve their daily tasks better than leadership or IT specialists probably do. It’s very much a grassroots approach that encourages innovation from the ground up,” he said. And then there’s workforce culture.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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. Whats one thing you love about your community?

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Policy Chats

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women’s Climate Action Agenda', and co-founded the International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative (IWECI), the precursor initiative of WECAN International.

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