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When traditional banks turn people away, community lenders like SELF step in. They're helping homeowners make critical repairs — and avoid predatory loans — when it matters most.

Conflict is an opportunity to see what needs our attention in the community. You will explore the relevance and use of restorative practices in community development and examine social development as ...

How Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs) Work Each year, HUD allocates a portion of its budget to fund the CDBG program. HUD uses a formula to allocate funds to so-called “entitlement ...

Bachelor's degree or equivalent with a minimum GPA of 2.70. Minimum one year's paid or unpaid experience in community economic development, defined broadly to include initiatives such as collective ...

Community development was born out of a commitment to practising ways of empowering people to take collective control of their own lives. It requires profound changes in the ways in which societies ...

The city’s plan for spending its Community Development Block Grant money this year includes a project that will start correcting a gnarly, longstanding problem with roots in another city project 42 ...

Community development, under different "names" and approaches, is practised worldwide, and many are primarily focussed on "imposing" their own pre-scheduled plan, strategies and activities upon ...