RESOURCE LIBRARY

RESEARCH

Core Characteristics Of The Sector

April 12, 2023

High-Level Research Findings

May 4, 2023

A Brief History of Race, Place, and Policy in the Sector

July 14, 2023

Storied Communities, Community Stories

Storied Communities, Community Stories Issue Brief

October 20, 2023

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Storied Communities, Community Stories Data + Methodology Brief

October 20, 2023

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Storied Communities, Community Stories Conversation Guide

October 20, 2023

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By Seth Beattie

Eye on the Prize

Leadership

Promising Practices for Building Equitable Community Development Leadership Supports

By Spire + Base

Workbook Summary

December 18, 2024

Environmental Justice

Promising Practices at the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Racially Equitable Community Development

By Spire + Base

Workbook Summary

Practices

April 1, 2025

Community Safety

Pathways to Equitable Safety Strategy in Community Development

By Spire + Base

Workbook Summary

August 1, 2025

Wealth Building

The Intersection of Wealth-Building
and Community Development

By Spire + Base

Workbook Summary

November 1, 2025

Past and Future

Bringing the Past and Future into Racially Equitable Community Development

By Spire + Base

Workbook Summary

Practices

December 30, 2025

Finance and Funding

Moving Toward Anti-Racist Community Development Funding

By Spire + Base

Workbook Summary

February 2, 2026

Health & Healing

Promising Practices at the Intersection of Health, Healing and Community Development

By Spire + Base

Workbook Summary

October 1, 2025

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Crafting Anti-Racist Narratives For Community Development

September 25, 2023

By Luis Ortega

6 Recommendations for Anti-Racist Community Developersand Supporters

May 1, 2025

By Lyneir Richardson

Conversations in the Field

Change Can’t Wait

This Next City webinar explores the enduring power of an anti-racist community development approach that keeps collaboration at the heart to foster equitable outcomes for communities.

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Moving Toward Healing: Anti-Racist Community Development

Bending The Arc explores the everyday work of creating inclusive, equitable and racially just communities. The People's Practice team joined Dr. Mark Joseph for this episode.

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Webinar: Do the Right Thing

In partnership with Next City, we unpack the history and policy that have shaped the community development sector and creative, anti-racist practices to move forward.

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Webinar: Storied Communities, Community Stories

In partnership with Community Opportunity Alliance, we explored the roles of resident voice in community development, and what it means for anti-racist community development to hold the sanctity of resident voice.

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Webinar: The Real Repair

In partnership with Next City, we unpack just how important health, healing, and reparative work are to advancing anti-racist community development.

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Webinar: The Stories We Tell Ourselves

In partnership with Next City, we examine the dominant narratives operating just under the surface in community development ... and what it takes to change them.

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Podcast: Reckoning with the History of Community Development

This Next City podcast episode explores the layered history of American community development and the policies that have shaped (and torn) the fabric of our communities.

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Podcast: Can Development Be Anti-Racist?

Next City interviews ThirdSpace about the Anti-Racist Community Development research project - what we found and what it means for the future of the sector.

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A Memphis Love Letter

An audio literary piece from T.R. Brown, one of her many contributions as a Storied Communities, Community Stories research partner. The piece is an ode to her respect and adoration I felt for the people and the place that are Memphis.

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Breathe

An audio art piece from Benny Starr, one of his contributions to our exploration of the intersections between environmental justice and anti-racist community development.

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POSTERS

Financing

Community development has to contend with generational, intentional withholding of capital from communities of color. Interviewees offer their thoughts on what that means for the sector today and in an anti-racist future.

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Health

Community development is far more than just real estate - it also has to be about the well-being of the people inside those buildings. Interviewees draw connections between health, healing, healthcare, and community development.

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Leadership

Who leads in community development, how they lead, and how well supported along the way has a profound impact on whether the sector moves in equitable ways or not. Interviewees offer their thoughts on what leadership development looks like ... and what it should look like.

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Narrative

The stories we tell ourselves in community development matter a whole lot to what we do and how we do it. Interviewees identified 11 dominant community development narratives and offered recommendations for doing narrative change work in the sector.

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Past + Future

Community development can't be about just today. Interviewees share thoughts on the role of reckoning with the past and realizing the future for today's sector.

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Policy

Policy has historically played an enormous role in how our country and our communities approach the intersection of race, place, and wealth. Interviewees share their thoughts on the legacy of racism in community development policy and what anti-racist community development policy can look like.

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Principles

Values matter in very real ways. Interviewees identified five anti-racist community development principles and set of additional prompts for exploration.

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Wealth-Building

As the racial wealth gap remains stubbornly persistent despite decades of community development investment, interviewees grapple with what's holding back Black and brown wealth-building and what we can do to catalyze real wealth shifts.

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Artist Gallery

Soni López-Chávez

Soni López-Chávez pulls from her own Chichimeca heritage and lived experience as a first-generation immigrant in her art.

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Derek Abella

Derek Abella is a Cuban-American illustrator and artist based in New York City who creates dream-like work for clients all over the world, big and small.

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Derick Jones

Derick Jones (@skudsink) is a NYC-based cartoonist, specializing in bringing a dynamic edge to everyday life.

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Bria Benjamin

Bria Benjamin is an artist, designer, illustrator, and writer. Whether through prose or illustration, she interrogates Blackness, beauty, gender, and the politics of all these subjects intertwined. Her story "Ghost Hunter" was a finalist in Fugue's 2023 Fiction Contest. While a Texan at heart, she currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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