[OKC] Thai CDC & Asian CDC Partner with NACEDA Launching Nationwide Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative

[Alig, Jennifer L.]

Subject: Thai CDC & Asian CDC Partner with NACEDA Launching Nationwide Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative 


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Thai CDC & Asian CDC Partner with NACEDA Launching Nationwide
Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative


The National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations

(NACEDA) has selected Thai CDC in Los Angeles and Asian CDC in Boston as

2 of 3 pilot locations to launch its new Initiative “Managing

Neighborhood Change”, funded through a grant from the Surdna Foundation

and with supporting grants from NeighborWorks America, LISC, Enterprise

Community Partners, Bank of America and Washington Mutual (now Chase

Bank).



The Managing Neighborhood Change (MNC) Initiative is a program to help

Community Development Corporations take the lead in bringing about

positive change in their neighborhoods by building stronger, sustainable

communities and ensuring that neighborhood residents benefit from the

change.  A market-oriented approach to change, it leads local

organizations to analyze neighborhood conditions, collaborate with local

government and other community partners, and develop data-driven,

flexible, strategies for neighborhood change.



“Thai CDC is excited to be part of such an innovative approach to

monitoring and managing changes occurring in the East Hollywood

community in an effort to achieve sound and equitable development.

When it comes to democratizing the planning process, Thai CDC has been

at the forefront in ensuring community participation and engagement

particularly among the most vulnerable and disadvantaged,” said Chancee

Martorell, Executive Director of Thai CDC.



The selected site locations will field test the implementation materials

and proposed technical assistance approach being developed around the

MNC framework before formally launching it nationwide to the country’s

network of roughly 4,600 CDCs.

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Carlton Eley
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation (1807T)
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460

email - eley.carlton at epa.gov
ph - 202-566-2841
fax - 202-566-2868
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Development, Community, and Environment Division:
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth
Vision for Broadway:
http://www.planning.org/divisions/blackcommunity/pdf/garyindinana.pdf


"Smart growth requires having the vision to build great places for us
and our children after us." - - Carlton C. Eley