Community development is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment as New Labour tries to square expanding the market while supporting the most vulnerable in our society, writes Keith Popple.

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In my journey from a community development funder to a practitioner, I saw that many of us don’t fit within traditional definitions of community development. That exclusion is not by chance; it is ...

In her first public speech as Federal Reserve board chair, Janet Yellen highlighted a new player in in the community development field that we call the “community quarterback.” In her comments, Yellen ...

Communities across the world have been transformed through Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), a strength-based approach to change. ABCD builds community from ...

A good economic-development plan builds on the strengths of residents, not just on physical infrastructure. A small-town mayor describes how his community found new ways to create opportunity. Years ...

Perspectives on appropriate development approaches differ among disciplines, complicating role performance on interdisciplinary rural development projects. We consider here some alternative ...

Governments and nongovernmental organizations around the world utilize community-driven development (CDD) approaches to address complex and overlapping development challenges. CDD approaches have a ...

Since 2013, Myanmar’s National Community Driven Development Project has benefited more than 7 million people in 63 townships (approximately 20 percent of the country) and more than 12,000 villages, ...