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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

In 2003—with the expert guidance of another future Community Progress co-founder, Frank S. Positive impacts of land banks in Michigan All across the country, land banks have documented positive benefits for the communities they serve. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6%

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I call this community building, not revitalization. -- " You gotta have community building ," 2007 -- " Arts-based revitalization, community building, network strengthening, commodification, and Artomatic ," 2009 And like with multi-faceted arts centers, better economic return comes from those that are adaptively reused than built from scratch (" Developing (..)

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). Occupy folks used blogging as a means to tell in-depth stories from the field, photos to document and illustrate the stories, and podcasting to make the voice of the protesters heard and to amplify the message (Tocchi, 2013).