“Building Together” in Baltimore? Corporate Megadevelopment and Coalitions for Community Power

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742110213
Author(s):  
P. Nicole King ◽  
Meghan Ashlin Rich
Keyword(s):  
Coalition Building ◽  
Tax Increment Financing ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Community Benefits Agreements ◽  
The City

We consider how various coalitions influence redevelopment projects in cities, especially as communities demand more inclusion in the development process. Based on qualitative research, we investigate the approval process for the 235-acre megadevelopment project at Port Covington in Baltimore, Maryland, and how stakeholders, including developers, community-based organizations, politicians, and impacted community members view the project, the tax increment financing (TIF) granted by the city, and community benefits agreements (CBAs). Community leaders leaned hard on the development corporation, demanding community and city-wide benefits before a TIF could be approved. We analyze the processes of the Port Covington CBA within the context of the political and economic dynamics of Baltimore. This case study adds to our understanding of how communities respond to corporate-led developments through coalition building, effectively gaining power in how elite governing regimes dictate development in cities.

scholarly journals KHF Entrepreneurship Support and the Impact of COVID-19 on Jordanian Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lami Raei
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Impact

The King Hussein Foundation (KHF) partners with Oxfam in the Youth Participation and Employment programme (YPE) to promote entrepreneurship through supporting youth to engage in business start-ups and scale-ups. KHF projects support community-based organizations (CBOs) in establishing revolving funds, training CBOs in microfinance management and building the capacity of potential entrepreneurs. Apprenticeships and shadowing are two examples of popular approaches to facilitating entrepreneurship and self-employment. During the COVID-19 crisis, KHF has continued the implementation of activities virtually. This case study presents examples of young people utilizing financial support, reaching out to new clients using ICT, and eventually exploring ways to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

“You Can’t Evict Community Power”

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-242
Author(s):  
Alison Hope Alkon ◽  
Yahya Josh Cadji ◽  
Frances Moore
Keyword(s):  
Food Justice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Community Garden ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Structural Forces

How can gentrification spur collaborations between new food justice organizations and long-standing residents? This chapter explores this question through an analysis of the partnership and eventual merging of Phat Beets Produce and the Self-Help Hunger Program in North Oakland, California. In 2014, Phat Beets saw a local realtor point to its community garden and farmers’ market in an advertisement video designed to draw new residents to their gentrifying neighborhood. This drove them to resist the upscaling of their food justice work and deepen their alliances with long-term community-based organizations. This collaboration has transformed both organizations and created a strong alliance, but it is not enough to resist the structural forces that drive gentrification.

Student Technology Projects in a Remote First Nations Village

2007 ◽  
pp. 137-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tish Scott
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

This qualitative case study focuses on community members’ observations and perceptions of student multimedia technology projects produced in a grade 6/7 class, particularly in relation to what they affirm is important for their children’s education. The projects are community-based and rooted in the First Nations culture of a remote village in northern British Columbia (Canada).

scholarly journals What small NGOs can deliver: A case study of a Canadian community-based project making fabric scrub caps for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 851-856
Author(s):  
Qiuyu Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Local Healthcare

This essay examines how a small-scale non-governmental organization mobilizes community members in Montreal, Canada, to respond to the city’s shortage of personal protective equipment during COVID-19 by making more than 1600 scrub caps for local healthcare workers. As the CAP-MTL project has progressed, organizers have constantly adjusted how they run the project in order to meet evolving needs through three major phases: (1) centralizing resource allocation, (2) building a self-sufficient production team and (3) pairing volunteers with healthcare workers. This case study highlights how in crisis response projects, organizers must be flexible and adapt to fluid and dynamic situations.

What Coalition Factors Foster Community Capacity? Lessons Learned From the Fighting Back Initiative

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronda C. Zakocs ◽  
Sarah Guckenburg
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Leadership ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Lead Agency ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Quantitative Analyses

Coalitions build community capacity by encouraging local organizations to expand services, programs, or policies (i.e., organizational capacity). The aim of the study was to identify coalition factors—resources, lead agency, governance, and leadership—that foster organizational capacity. Thirteen coalitions funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Fighting Back (FB) Initiative were examined in a multiple-site case study where coalition served as the unit of analysis. Organizational capacity was measured by creating a scale for each community based on changes in programs, services, or policies among eight types of organizations. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted to identify relationships among organizational capacity and coalition factors. FB sites with greater organizational capacity shared seven characteristics: received more funds for coalition building; delayed establishing new lead agencies; were housed in agencies supportive of FB; maintained stable, participatory decision-making bodies; cultivated active involvement of local government; practiced collaborative leadership; and had effective, long-serving project directors.

Re-Branding Community Organizations for the Actualization of Development Goals in the Rural Communities in Nigeria

2014 ◽  
pp. 274-283
Author(s):  
Oyekunle Oyelami
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Development Goals

Community organizations, also known as community-based organizations, are civil society and non-profit social organizations based in the community with the main thrust being benefiting their members and the community at large. Community organizations have their roots in the community members organizing themselves for needs identification and realization of development goals. They are a subset of the wider group of non-profit organizations. Community organizations operate with the locality to ensure the community with sustainable provisions of community-service and action. This chapter highlights some measures for making community organizations more active and alive in the community of operations.

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Community Development: A Case Study from the Perspective of Self-Governance and Public Participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 617
Author(s):  
Yang Fu ◽  
Weihong Ma
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The City

(1) Background: There is a global trend to stimulate sustainable urbanization by updating the hardware of the built environment with green technologies. However, simply greening the city hardware does not ensure a sustainable urban system. In reality, urban communities, as cells of the city, play a crucial role in the sustainable development of the entire city. (2) Methods: This paper conducts a case study by investigating a community in Taipei with semi-structured interviews and other first-hand data. It examines how self-organization, voluntary groups, and the public participation of community members has successfully institutionalized a governing system for the sustainable development of communities; (3) Results: This paper identifies the major actors and mechanisms underpinning the sustainable development of urban communities with a case study in Taipei. The establishment of this more cost-effective form of community governance will possibly provide more benefits to community members; (4) Conclusions: This case study will shed light on the sustainable development of urban community in many other cities, offering possible pathways and epitome for self-organization of urban community in the coming era. Its cost-effective institutional design contributes greatly to sustainable community development, partly solving the current failure to promote urban sustainability.

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