The document discusses the past, present, and future of community economic development efforts. It notes that over the past 40 years, non-profit development organizations have emerged to empower marginalized groups and build local voice. Intermediaries now provide support through capacity building, aggregating capital, and developing strategies. However, there are still strong silos between areas like workforce development and economic development. It argues that community economic development needs to be reconceptualized by putting people first, innovating through learning, and recognizing varying local capacities. Moving forward will require defining innovation locally and building robust theories of change.

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

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

3. 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

4. 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)

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

6. 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

7. WE HAVE TO RECONCEPTUALIZE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Reconceptualizing

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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