National Civic Review articles from December 1996

National Civic Review archives from December 1996

Community rebuilding: a quiet revolution.(The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Renewing Community)
December 22, 1996... In 1972, two women from a Washington, DC church approached James w. Rouse, developer of shopping malls and Columbia, Maryland - one of the country's most renowned planned communities - and chief executive officer of The Rouse Company. The women...

Assets-based community development. (The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Renewing Community)
December 22, 1996... No one can doubt that most American cities these days are deeply troubled places. At the root of the problems are the massive economic shifts that have marked the last two decades. Hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs have either disappeared...

Nonprofits, culture, and community renewal.(The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Renewing Community)
December 22, 1996... There was a time when any civics teacher could define the roles of the public, private and nonprofit sectors pretty clearly. Business was concerned with commercial activity. Government maintained the physical infrastructure and delivered public...

Schools as community centers for rebuilding community.(The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Renewing Community)
December 22, 1996... Of all the resources that I have mentioned for building community, why focus on the schools? There are several reasons. First, there is no more dependable stimulus for community building than a common task - some objective that can be achieved if...

Characteristics of the community renewal movement.(The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Renewing Community)(The Culture of Renewal, part 1)
December 22, 1996... Editor's note: The following is the first of a two-part article on signs of community renewal underway across' America. In the following, author Richard Louv explores how renewal is appearing in our neighborhoods, our communications, our...