Community Development Digest

Innovation

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Home Matters Names Design Competition Winners

Home Matters, a national advocacy movement dedicated to raising awareness and fund to make home a reality for all, announces three winners of its “Re-Defining Home: A Design Challenge” contest. Winners were selected based on how well their respective designs went beyond typical housing and how effectively they addressed community life.

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Creative Place Making: A Platform for Bringing People Together

Housing and community development organizations across the country are using art projects and festivals to bring diverse groups together while also helping emerging or underrepresented populations showcase their cultures within the wider community. These projects offer people of different races, cultures, and incomes -- people who otherwise might rarely interact -- the opportunity to combine their talents in service of the whole community.

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Building Partnerships: The Reinvention of Oklahoma City

Strong community partnerships have been a key ingredient in the success of Oklahoma City's downtown revitalization efforts. Today, the city is on the rise and poised for a major renaissance.

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NYU Team Wins ‘Student Design & Planning’ Competition

The Department of Housing & Urban Development names a graduate student team from New York University (NYU) the winners of HUD’s second annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition. The NYU team developed a plan for the redevelopment of a senior affordable housing high-rise in Houma, LA.

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Indiana Lt. Gov. Hails Hometown Collaboration Initiative Finalists

Indiana Lt. Governor Sue Ellspermann (R) electronically sends congratulatory announcement videos to the six newly designated finalist communities for the Hometown Collaboration Initiative (HCI).

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20 Startups Selected for Prestigious Academy

Over the course of the year-long program, Academy companies will receive critical market insight, access to consumers, expert mentorship and introductions to pilots, distribution and investors to help them achieve their strategic goals and ultimately improve the lives of older adults around the world.

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Ten Foundations Named 'Secretaries' Award' Winners

These foundations have made significant improvements in housing and neighborhoods, education, health and recreation, transportation, community participation, arts and culture, public safety, sustainability, and economic development across all American geographies – urban, suburban and rural.

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Community Planning Project Targeted for Students

A new initiative will engage Indiana high school students in planning for the future of their local rural communities.

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Innovation Districts Attract Positive Attention

These districts represent a radical departure from traditional economic development and help cities improve global competitiveness by growing the firms, networks and traded sectors that drive broad-based prosperity.

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Maximpact Invites New Impact and Sustainability Projects

Maximpact, a philanthropic, impact-investing network, invites new registrants in the impact and sustainability sectors to list projects using its global reaching, deal-listing portal. Each free (and commission-free) listing directly connects users with partners and potential funders worldwide.

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