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Driving Change: A Mid-Year Reflection from Community Progress

Center for Community Progress

The City successfully advocated for a change to state law that would open up their ability to use in rem code lien foreclosure, a tool developed by Community Progress in 2019 for the city of Mobile. Implementing policy and practice changes that address vacancy is an enormous task, and many communities can’t do it alone.

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Publication: Championing Leaders of Color

Center for Community Progress

Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals. Its roots are embedded in the backyards, living rooms, and church halls of people who, out of sheer will and perseverance, found ways to advocate for change in their neighborhoods.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation. OWS began as a grassroots protest against the inequality, greed and corruption associated with the financial sector of the economy. CNBC’s Rick Santelli is widely credited with launching the grassroots movement. ning the Tea Party.