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Reclaiming Resilience: How Small Shifts in City Hall Can Empower Communities
October 13, 2025
Across the country, communities of color are pioneering resilience in real time—transforming vacant lots into food forests, converting churches into...
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How City Governments Can Institutionalize Regenerative Principles
June 29, 2025
As climate disruption, economic instability, and social inequities converge, city governments are on the front lines of shaping resilient and...
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New Interactive Protocol Coming in May: Guiding the Next Generation of Community Development
April 23, 2025
Groundbreaking digital framework puts powerful tools in the hands of community development leaders In a significant leap forward for neighborhood-scale...
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The Just Communities Protocol is Launched
January 18, 2024
On January 12, the Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) released the new Just Communities Protocol 1.0, to help communities build...
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Networks ≠Organizations: Let’s all lean into the difference!
November 10, 2020
I spent nearly my whole first year as Executive Director of CONNECT (Congress of Neighboring Communities) in the Greater Pittsburgh...
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Grassroots: Equitable Environmental Leadership By and For the People
November 10, 2020
Photography by Nanci Goldberg Over the past few years, I have had the honor of working with my fellow...
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Community Driven Sustainability in the Rust Belt
February 13, 2020
Pittsburgh and Cleveland projects get big boost with EcoDistricts Incubator It’s Day 1, the first morning of the EcoDistricts...
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The Long and Winding Road: EcoDistricts’ Puts Racial Equity at the Core of its Work
February 13, 2020
Our cities are at a crossroads. Across the world, cities are undergoing massive transformations fueled in part by an unprecedented...
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