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    A Decade of Building Community in San Francisco’s Chinatown

    October 6, 2021
    By Cindy Wu
    In 2017-2018, I hit two milestones in my life. The first was my 10-year anniversary of doing place-based, community-based planning work at Chinatown Community Development Center in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The second was that I was pregnant and gave birth...Read More

    EcoDistricts Launches a New Online Course for EcoDistricts APs: Centering Racial Equity in Urban & Community Development

    September 29, 2021
    By Rob Bennett
    “The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of...Read More

    Networks ≠ Organizations: Let’s all lean into the difference!

    November 10, 2020
    By Lydia Morin
    I spent nearly my whole first year as Executive Director of CONNECT (Congress of Neighboring Communities) in the Greater Pittsburgh Region trying to understand it as the nonprofit organization it was portrayed as by its founders and current leadership of...Read More

    Grassroots: Equitable Environmental Leadership By and For the People

    November 10, 2020
    By Brittany Reno
    Photography by Nanci Goldberg   Over the past few years, I have had the honor of working with my fellow Sharpsburg residents to engage our community in a resident-driven EcoDistricts planning process. Sharpsburg, PA, is a small, industrial borough on...Read More

    Healthier Cities for All: Can We Distribute Health and Wellbeing Equitably?

    November 10, 2020
    By Irwin Lowenstein
    There has long been a paradox at the heart of healthcare in Cleveland, Ohio. While home to some of the best medical care in the world, Cleveland’s own neighborhoods experience some of the poorest of health outcomes. Now, one of...Read More

    The Bridge: An Embodiment of EcoDistricts

    September 28, 2020
    By Kristen Fulmer
    “One of the main missions of The Bridge is to set people up for success who normally wouldn’t have the opportunity simply because they didn’t have the basic means to get there- nutritious food, a safe home, a useful education,...Read More

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