{"id":4297,"date":"2003-09-30T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T11:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2003-09-30T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T11:23:50","slug":"exemplary-projects-in-civic-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4297","title":{"rendered":"exemplary projects in civic renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Henry Tam has just been named &quot;Head of Civil Renewal&quot;<\/p>\n<p>in the British Government&#8217;s Home Affairs Department. He emailed a<\/p>\n<p>list of people to ask their advice about excellent projects in the<\/p>\n<p>US. I gave him my quick &quot;top-ten list&quot; of US projects<\/p>\n<p>in civic renewal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liscnet.org\/\">Local Initiatives Support Corporation<\/a>\n<p>(LISC): support for urban renewal<\/li>\n<li>The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), especially in San Antonio,\n<p>TX: community organizing with a religious flavor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/ipr\/abcd.html\">Asset-Based\n<p>Community Development <\/a>(ABCD)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus-stl.org\/\">Focus St. Louis<\/a>: community\n<p>planning in a metropolitan region<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compact.org\/\">Campus Compact<\/a>: service-learning\n<p>and civic engagement in higher education<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicwork.org\">Public Achivement<\/a>: civic\n<p>education<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaspeaks.org\">America Speaks<\/a>: large-scale\n<p>public deliberations, for example, about how to rebuild the World<\/p>\n<p>Trade Center site in NYC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studycircles.org\/\">Study Circles Resource\n<p>Center<\/a>: organizing deliberation in communities<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qlg.org\/\">The Quincy Library Group<\/a>: just\n<p>an example of local stakeholder negotiations that resolve difficult<\/p>\n<p>regulatory issues in the enviromental field<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ecocommunity\/\">Community Based Approaches<\/a>\n<p>within the Environmental Protection Agency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Henry Tam has just been named &quot;Head of Civil Renewal&quot; in the British Government&#8217;s Home Affairs Department. He emailed a list of people to ask their advice about excellent projects in the US. I gave him my quick &quot;top-ten list&quot; of US projects in civic renewal: Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC): support for urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}