Community Action, Urban Reform, and the Fight against Poverty

O’Connor, Alice

doi:10.1177/009614429602200503

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“…There will be compromises. If community partners want to offer interventions that, unbeknownst to them, have been proven ineffective,73 academics can suggest testing new ideas, or adapting the intervention to address earlier shortcomings. If academics want to conduct a randomized-controlled trial, community members may suggest offering the control group a deferred intervention.…”

Section: Study Selection Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community-Based Participatory Research From the Margin to the Mainstream

2009

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Abstract-Despite an increasing arsenal of effective treatments, there are mounting challenges in developing strategies that prevent and control cardiovascular diseases, and that can be sustained and scaled to meet the needs of those most vulnerable to their impact. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to conducting research by equitably partnering researchers and those directly affected by and knowledgeable of the local circumstances that impact health. To inform research design, implementation and dissemination, this approach challenges academic and community partners to invest in team building, share resources, and mutually exchange ideas and expertise. CBPR has led to a deeper understanding of the myriad factors influencing health and illness, a stream of ideas and innovations, and there are expanding opportunities for funding and academic advancement. To maximize the chance that CBPR will lead to tangible, lasting health benefits for communities, researchers will need to balance rigorous research with routine adoption of its conduct in ways that respectfully, productively and equally involve local partners. If successful, lessons learned should inform policy and inspire structural changes in healthcare systems and in communities.

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Section: Study Selection Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community-Based Participatory Research From the Margin to the Mainstream

2009

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“…The radical potential of this emerging organizational structure was significantly curtailed, however, through a combination of internal and external factors that pushed CBOs and CDCs toward housing and physical development (Bockmeyer 2003;Halpern 1995;McCarthy and Zald 1973;Moy and Okagaki 2001). Internal factors include funding sources and their implications on goals and strategies, the professionalization of CDCs and CBOs, as well as a reorientation away from protest and toward service provision (Berndt 1977;DeFilippis 2004;Halpern 1995;O'Connor 1996). Externally, a larger shift in both the devolution of state practices combined with an emerging regime of foundational support, principally through the restructuring of the tax code, worked to transform what can be loosely thought of as a "political opportunity structure" for nonprofit housing development (Hall 1987;Tilly 1978).…”

Section: Community-based Organizations As Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Façades of Equitable Development

Sarmiento

Sims

2015

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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This article problematizes the development of affordable housing as a form of equity planning. Through both qualitative and quantitative data, the article examines three affordable housing projects within a redevelopment plan in Santa Ana, California. The research finds that a narrow focus on affordable housing, as it is designed and produced within the larger affordable housing complex, facilitates the process of gentrification and displacement. The findings show that equity is more than housing production alone. When affordability is defined at a larger scale, and the planning process is stripped of substantive community participation, affordable housing loses its more equitable underpinnings.

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“…These early foundations were cautious in their approach to philanthropy and while motivated by social justice, they often supported conventional causes such as education. Building on this tradition, private foundations embarked upon more ambitious and comprehensive approaches to community action and urban revitalization by the mid-twentieth century (O'Connor, 1996). The Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty programs of the 1950s and 1960s were catalysts for increased philanthropic support of community development (Green & Haines, 2007).…”

Section: Private Foundations and Ccismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Ford Foundation was one of the first philanthropic entities to engage in these holistic community development initiatives (Fleishman, 2007;O'Connor, 1996). But many others soon followed including the Steans Family Foundation in Chicago, the Riley Foundation in Boston's Dudley Street neighborhood, the Birmingham Foundation in South Pittsburgh, the Rosamond Gifford Charitable Foundation in Syracuse, New York, and the James Ford Bell Foundation in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis.…”

Section: Private Foundations and Ccismentioning

confidence: 99%