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Evaluating a Community Development Initial Public Offering (IPO): Case Study of Market Creek Partners LLC San Diego, California
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| Victor Rubin,
Policy Link,
vrubin@policylink.org
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| Zoe Clayson,
Abundantia Consulting,
zoeclay@abundantia.net
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| Abstract:
In early 2006 the Department of Corporations for the State of California issued a permit for the sale of securities for Market Creek Partners, LLC, the company that owns Market Creek Plaza. The resulting IPO represented six years of teamwork between the Jacobs Family Foundation and key stakeholders. Based on a double bottom line strategy the goals of this project were to 1) secure 450 community “stakeholders” investing a total of $500,000; 2) create the opportunity for residents to build individual and community assets while rebuilding their neighborhoods; and 3) transfer control of Market Creek Plaza to people who have a stake in the well-being of their communities.
While the baseline evaluation employed four strategies, this paper focuses on the methodology and results of the pathway analysis which identified and analyzed three intersecting paths: the regulations and financing path; 2) resident engagement; and 3) the role of the Jacobs Family Foundation.
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The Indianapolis Local Learning Partnership (LLP): The Story of How Data (Really/Truly) Becomes Power
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| Scott Hebert,
Independent Consultant,
shebert@sustainedimpact.com
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| Cynthia Cunningham,
Cunningham Consulting Inc,
cunninghamconsulting@earthlink.net
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Making Connections-Indianapolis is a 10-year initiative to improve outcomes for vulnerable children in disadvantaged neighborhoods, through strengthening families’ connections to economic opportunity, positive social networks, and effective services and supports. A key component of Making Connections-Indianapolis is its Local Learning Partnership (LLP) -- a consortium of people and organizations created to promote the use of data to inform and propel practice and system improvements that will lead to family strengthening and neighborhood transformation. The paper will examine the experience of the Indianapolis LLP in establishing a learning community that focuses on valid, relevant data to identify better practices, effective policies and other change strategies, and to evaluate the results that are achieved. In particular, the paper will highlight the ways in which the LLP uses data in its advocacy activities, with particular attention to the development of neighborhood-based learning partnerships that empower residents to use data to improve neighborhood conditions.
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