International Economic Development Council (IEDC): Community-rooted Economic Inclusion

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) is hosting a webinar on Community-rooted Economic Inclusion on Monday, July 26^th, from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.

Despite billions of dollars spent on place-based initiatives over the past 25 years, the number of high-poverty neighborhoods in the U.S. doubled between 1980 and 2010—and remains persistently high as metro areas seek to recover from the COVID-19 economic crisis. This webinar will focus on a new playbook from the Brookings Institution’s Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking and LISC, Community-rooted economic inclusion: A strategic action playbook, that argues that now is the time for community, city, and regional leaders to advance bold place-based solutions that foster long-overdue investment and opportunity within disinvested communities—and to do so in a way that benefits existing residents and small businesses within these communities.

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