Notes
1 Christian Seelos, “Changing Systems? Welcome to the Slow Movement,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 2020.
2 Angela Blanchard, “People Transforming Communities for Good,” in Nancy
Andrews and David Erickson, eds., Investing in What Works in America’s Communities, San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Low Income Investment Fund, 2012, 142.
3 Timothy Carney, Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, New York: HarperCollins, 2019, 111.
4 Clea Simon, “Rebooting the Land of Opportunity,” Harvard Gazette, March 7, 2019.
5 Bo Rothstein and Dietlind Stolle, “The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust,” Comparative Politics, vol. 40, no. 4, 2008.
6 Carrie R. Leana, “The Missing Link in School Reform,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, vol. 9, no. 4, 2011.
7 Robert Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013, 152.
8 Ibid., 152.
9 Ibid., 153.
10 Ibid., 158, 160, 172, 178, 199, 200, 402, 409. In addition, Sampson notes that “a communality that stands out beyond residential stability in housing and socioeconomic resources is durable organizational density (or capacity) combined with a strong community identity and commitment to place,” 402.
11 Ibid., 177.
12 Ibid., 169-70, 178, 368.
13 Ibid., 157-58, 178.
14 Ibid., 168.
15 Ibid., 200.
16 Ibid., 371.
17 Eric Klinenberg, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
18 Sampson, Great American City, 250.
19 Anne Snyder, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Social and Moral Renewal, Washington, DC: Philanthropy Roundtable, 2019, 65.
20 Blanchard, “People Transforming Communities for Good,” 142.
21 David Kirp, “What Do the Poor Need? Try Asking Them,” New York Times, August 8, 2015.
22 Blanchard, “People Transforming Communities for Good,” 143.
23 Laura Choi, “Building on the Ambitions and Aspirations of Newcomers: An Interview with Angela Blanchard,” Community Development Investment Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017.
24 Kirp, “What Do the Poor Need?”; Choi, “Building on the Ambitions and Aspirations of Newcomers”; and BakerRipley, 2018 Annual Report.
25 Raj Chetty et al., “The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 25147, October 2018, 44.
26 Nicholas A. Christakis, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2019, 246-47.
27 Snyder, The Fabric of Character, 60.
28 Seelos, “Changing Systems?,” 47.
29 John Kretzmann and John McKnight, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets, Evanston, IL: Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, 1993, 5-6.