Community-Driven Development (CDD) is an approach to local development that gives control over planning decisions and investment resources to community groups (including local governments). It is a ...

Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from ...

Residents of Atlanta’s redeveloped East Lake community say the history of their neighborhood is a real-life Cinderella story. East Lake, once known as “Little Vietnam” to the local police because of ...

Empowering everyday community members to lead suicide prevention efforts—by promoting wellness, strengthening relationships and implementing tailored actions—can significantly reduce the risk among ...

I didn’t grow up in a small town. I was born in the Bronx and later moved to the Maryland suburbs, then to Ohio. My training was at large academic centers. Yet today, I practice in the mountains of ...

FEMA published a new document that provides a background on what it means to take a Whole Community Approach to emergency management. See A whole Community Approach to Emergency Management: Principles ...

A group of grassroots organizations from New York City and other parts of the country will be discussing how they are fighting back against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and what they ...

A new study from WCS reveals that community capacity-building interventions, even those with only indirect environmental links, significantly improved perceptions of fisheries management and ...

Dialogue systems built on large language models (LLMs)—language agents or “chatbots”—are rapidly being integrated into a variety of user- and public-facing applications, from commercial applications ...