IPR Publications, A Promising Partnership

Community-Based Development and Local Schools: A Promising Partnership (WP-92-14)

by John P. Kretzmann

As the challenges to community-based organizers and developers escalate, so also do the creative new responses that community builders invent. Many of these inventors now recognize that rebuilding low- and moderate-income communities "from the bottom up" requires the mobilization and participation of all of the "assets" at hand. Prominent among these local assets are the local schools. At the same time, local educators are recognizing that successful schools rest on the rock of economically mobile communities.

This report introduces and explores the idea that schools might become important participants, contributors, and benefactors in a process of community development that values the internal assets of neighborhoods. Case studies of school/community partnerships gathered from around the country reveal some clear lessons about what works and what does not.

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