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Communities for a Better Environment. Communities for a Better Environment ( CBE ), previously known as Citizens for a Better Environment, is a policy-focused non-profit organization started in 1971 by Marc Anderson and David Come in Chicago, Illinois. [ 1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, CBE expanded to California, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Relationships build a community: People must be connected in order for sustainable community development to take place. Citizens at the center: Citizens should be viewed as actors—not recipients—in development. Leaders involve others: Community development is strongest when it involves a broad base of community action.
The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." [1] It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local ...
Corporate social responsibility. Employees of a leasing firm taking time off their regular jobs to build a house for Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit that builds homes for needy families using volunteers. Corporate social responsibility ( CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation [ 1] which ...
In Mike Johnston's first six months as mayor of Denver last year, the city moved 1,000 people into hotels, a community of cabin-like structures and other transitional housing.
President Biden promotes his Build Back Better Plan at Germanna Community College, Virginia, on February 10, 2022. The Build Back Better Plan or Build Back Better agenda was a legislative framework proposed by U.S. president Joe Biden between 2020 and 2021. Generally viewed as ambitious in size and scope, it sought the largest nationwide public ...
Community economic development ( CED) is a field of study that actively elicits community involvement when working with government and private sectors to build strong communities, industries, and markets. [ 1] It includes collaborative and participatory involvement of community dwellers in every area of development that affects their standard ...
The anti-nuclear movement has delayed construction or halted commitments to build some new nuclear plants, [30] and has pressured the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to enforce and strengthen the safety regulations for nuclear power plants. [31] Anti-nuclear protests reached a peak in the 1970s and 1980s and grew out of the environmental movement ...