Community Development

Brooklyn Community Foundation, which already gets high marks for putting residents' voices at the forefront of its work, is taking that commitment to a new level.

The idea of building a resilient city is not limited to a handful of people, but from workshops being conducted as part of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, people from all walks of life want to be part of the effort.

A new light rail line that connects the downtowns of Saint Paul and Minneapolis for the first time in decades is being hailed by the Ford Foundation as an example of how strategic public investments in transit and transit-oriented development can...

ARTs East New York, the latest group to be featured in the series, is a storefront gallery and neighborhood hub that uses the arts to create community-led change.