Community Engagement Partnerships: New Orleans, San Francisco, and Boston

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
San Francisco

After the Projects

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Hope Vi ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Initiative

At a time when lower-income Americans face a desperate struggle to find affordable rental housing in many cities, After the Projects investigates the contested spatial politics of public housing development and redevelopment. Public housing practices differ markedly from city to city and, collectively, reveal deeply held American attitudes about poverty and how the poorest should be governed. The book exposes the range of outcomes from the US federal government’s HOPE VI program for public housing transformation, focused on nuanced accounts of four very different ways of implementing this same national initiative—in Boston, New Orleans, Tucson, and San Francisco. It draws upon more than two hundred interviews, analysis of internal documents about each project, and nearly fifteen years of visits to these neighborhoods. The central aim is to understand how and why some cities, when redeveloping public housing, have attempted to minimize the presence of the poorest residents in their new mixed-income communities, while other cities have instead tried to serve the maximum number of extremely low-income households. The book shows that these socially and politically revealing decisions are rooted in distinctly different kinds of governance constellations—each yielding quite different sorts of community pressures. These have been forged over many decades in response to each city’s own struggle with previous efforts at urban renewal. In contrast to other books that have focused on housing in a single city, this volume offers comparative analysis and a national picture, while also discussing four emblematic communities with an unprecedented level of detail.

scholarly journals Cui Bono? Assessing Community Engagement in San Francisco Community Benefit Agreements

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Madeline Buitelaar
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Community Benefit ◽  
Payroll Tax ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
Corporate Social

A community benefit agreement (CBA) that provides tax breaks to a company often has provisions to help uplift the area where the business resides. A number of San Francisco companies, especially those in the technology sector, have received tax relief, a tangible benefit granted in exchange for operating in designated blighted areas, the details of which are delineated in publicly available CBAs. One CBA requirement for the tax break—community engagement—defies easy measurement. This paper assesses whether San Francisco companies were held accountable for fulfilling this unclear but core CBA requirement, namely, engagement with disenfranchised community members, an important part of their corporate social responsibility. To assess the community engagement stipulation of CBAs, this paper presents background on CBAs followed by interview data from two anonymous community liaisons who were formerly or are currently responsible for community engagement at companies that received the tax break. Themes found in the interview data highlight the limitations of CBAs that result from the unequal social exchange between companies and the indigent residents of blighted areas where the businesses are located. The study concludes that the benefits of the vague and unenforceable community engagement provision of CBAs do not justify the companies’ payroll tax exclusion. The disproportionality of this quid pro quo risks aggravating impoverished residents’ resentment of companies and their employees. The relevance of this study’s low participation rate among community liaisons is also discussed.

Purposes, Procedures, and Outcomes of the Cooperative Research Project on Convention Delegations

1953 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1116-1129
Author(s):  
Paul T. David
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Brookings Institution ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Draft Proposal

The official beginnings of the Cooperative Research Project on Convention Delegations date from the opening of the project office at the Association's headquarters in Washington on March 10, 1952. But the project had roots reaching far back into previous activities. Two committees of the Association had made suggestions for activities similar to those eventually put under way by the project: the Committee on Political Parties and the Committee for the Advancement of Teaching. In September, 1951, following the Association's meeting in San Francisco, the then chairmen of those committees, Bertram M. Gross and Claude E. Hawley, began actively seeking means of organizing field work and creating teaching materials on the forthcoming preconvention campaigns and national political conventions of 1952. For a time it appeared that a project along those lines might be organized under the auspices of the Brookings Institution; and the director of the present project became involved in the conversations. Later it became clear that if the project were to be organized at all, it would probably need to be under the Association's own auspices, although the cooperation of the Brookings Institution was an important factor in early planning.By November, 1951 the Executive Director of the Association had cleared a draft proposal with the other officers and began negotiations with several foundations. One of those foundations, although uninterested itself, passed on the proposal to Dr. Will W. Alexander, an adviser of a newly established family foundation in New Orleans.

Trailblazing a Movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Mary Roaf
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Student Union ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The 1960S

This essay includes an interview with Black Student Union co-founders Jerry Varnado and James Garrett in which they reflect on their leadership roles and personal experiences at San Francisco State in the 1960s as well as the events around the student-led strike and subsequent founding of the School of Ethnic Studies. They also discuss their wider activism and community engagement in the field of Ethnic Studies as well as their thoughts on the direction of the field today.

Service—and Scholarship—Bound to Action

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Wilson
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
University Students ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Creative Collaboration ◽  
Direct Service ◽  
The Hague

Ann Marie Wilson has continued to pursue an unconventional academic path since receiving the Prelinger Award in 2007. In this chapter she addresses the importance of interweaving academic study with direct service to local communities, both within her own career and in the training of her students. The chapter traces her intellectual and geographic pathway from San Francisco to Boston to The Hague, the Netherlands, where she combines the teaching of history with a community engagement program focused on bringing university students into creative collaboration with local immigrant youth. The chapter also reflects on the themes of health, illness, and self-care.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Lim
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
El Paso ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
The Future

In 1883, the San Antonio Daily Express published a series of letters written by special correspondent Hans Mickle. The reporter was exploring parts of the new transcontinental railway that ran across the American Southwest, connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles to New Orleans. As he followed the route that raced westward across Texas from San Antonio, he entertained his readers with descriptions of the foreign landscape and the assorted passengers that caught his attention, including the “Chinamen” who filled the cars on their way back west, he presumed, to San Francisco and China. Mostly, however, Mickle wrote about El Paso, which according to his report was “the most western point in Texas, and is Texan only in name, as, in almost everything else, it has few Texan characteristics.” If not characteristically Texan, though, El Paso came to represent something even grander for Mickle, for at the “extreme head of an extensive valley,” in a pass flanked by high and rugged mountains, he found himself standing in what he called the “Future Immense.”...

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