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Model for Success: The Miller’s Court Project

  • This Case Study: Transforming a Brownfield in Baltimore tells the fascinating story of how “Donald and Thibault Manekin have aimed to spark investment in the city through the creative reuse of a brownfield in one of the city’s neglected communities”. The Manekins and their Howard County partners hope to build on this successful model to create Shared Facilities space in Howard County.
  • Two additional articles offer their perspectives on the Miller’s Court project: Enterprise Community Investment writes from the point of view of an investor in New Markets Tax Credits Portfolio: Miller’s Court. The other, on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s website, highlights the preservation aspects in Baltimore Rehab: Socially Responsible Development.

Shared Facilities: Nonprofit Centers

The NonprofitCenters Network website provides a wealth of information on nonprofit centers, including the publication Shared Services: A Guide to Creating Collaborative Solutions for Nonprofits. The article What is a Multi-Tenant Nonprofit Center? defines them as “buildings that house multiple organizations and provide healthy, efficient, quality, mission-enhancing workspace. More than just offices, these facilities can become sustainable centers for strength for communities to dream together, work together, and grow together.” The article goes on to address why these centers enhance the nonprofit community, and six strategic considerations to developing and operating a center.

  • CAPA, the Columbia Association of Performing Arts provides a variety of shared services arrangements for performing arts organizations in Columbus and New Haven. These shared services arrangements allow CAPA’s “partner arts organizations to focus on their missions and the artistic quality of their work”. CAPA’s 2007-2008 Report to the Community makes clear how extensive the collaboration is and the depth of its impact on the community.
  • The nonprofit organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure has joined a shared office facility owned by the Pew Charitable Trusts, as discussed in Komen Takes Space in ‘Nonprofit Village’.

Community Building

  • The Howard County Economic Development Authority is the County’s economic development agency. It assists businesses with land and building selection, financing, employee recruitment and training, permit and regulatory issues, and provides other development support services.
  • Art and culture can be a powerful catalyst for revitalizing the economic, social, and physical conditions in communities. The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture offers successful strategies, best practices, and “how-to” guidance to turn cultural gems into effective community change. This book is in the NRDC library; click here for a complete description. The short article Tapping Local Arts and Culture to Revitalize Communities highlights the handbook’s ten economic and social capital development strategies and provides one example of how a strategy played out.
  • Four Pivot-Points for Rebuilding Local Economies highlights how community-based organizations can turn the four strategies into economic engines for family and community impact. The Community Economic Development Handbook: Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Your Neighborhood expands on these principles in a step-by-step guide to making any community a better place to live. This book is in the NRDC library; click here for a complete description.

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