The present and future of community economic development

PRESENTED BY: ROLAND ANGLIN, PH.D. The Present and Future of Community Economic Development

WHERE ARE WE IN EFFORTS TO JOINTLY DEVELOP POOR PEOPLE AND PLACES?
Where We are Now

Where We Are Now
Over the past 40 years public policy has nurtured the rise of local non profit development organizations
Found in urban and rural communities
Marginalized groups use the model to build individual and collective voice in the development process

Where We Are Now
Intermediaries, national, and regional organizations support local organizations in the following ways:
Capacity building
Aggregating capital
Developing forward looking strategies and thinking
Emergence of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) field
Allows communities to obtain capital and use it to build assets
We have evolved a complement of public policies that bridge the development of people and places (Table 1)

TAKEN TOGETHER THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN PARTS
(SEE TABLE 2&3)
The Whole vs. Parts

Problems
Questions Raised
We have strong silos for areas that could arguably be functionally connected
Why, for example do we put workforce in a silo with little connection to economic development
Why is education not central to CED efforts
Where is neighborhood security in the CED equation?
Whole vs. Parts

WE HAVE TO RECONCEPTUALIZE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Reconceptualizing

What Does Reconceptualization Entail?
Put people first!
Seek to Innovate and Learn
Give adequate attention to sustainable development
Recognition of varying levels of local capacity and figuring out how on that capacity
Creating a CED body of knowledge with commensurate training
Enhanced accountability
Accepting some organizations will go out of existence
Networked community community economic development institutions should be the goal

What Does Reconceptualization Entail?
Sequencing and Networking Strategies
Neighborhood Security
Youth Build
Weed and Seed
School Reform
Chicago
Community Organizing in Texas
CED Efforts
Asset Building
EITC
Neighborhood Stabilization
Workforce Development
Sector development
Sustainability/Adaptive Reuse

Where Do We Go From Here
Define Innovation in Your own Context (own it)
Convince Our Friends and Allies in the Funding Community that the Field is Learning and Changing
Define the Change You Want to See; then build a Theory of Change that is Robust and Unflinchingly Honest

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The present and future of community economic development

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