This case study highlights how Etsy, one of the nation’s leading peer-to-peer e-commerce platforms, teamed up with the City of Rockford, IL to create a training program that teaches low-income and disadvantaged residents how to earn supplemental income by selling their craft goods and products online. Read More

This case study highlights how an anchor institution’s initial efforts around neighborhood revitalization had a snowball effect that ultimately leveraged hundreds of millions of dollars in private investment. The redevelopment and construction of new housing served as the linchpin to a broad-based community effort to stabilize one of Columbus, Ohio’s most distressed inner city communities. Read More

This What Works for Cities case study highlights how the Nashville metro has formed a true public-private partnership across a 10-county region that has led to tremendous economic and population growth in each of the areas served over the past 25 years.  Read More

This What Works for Cities case study describes how a coalition of more than 30 stakeholders helped to re-write the script for downtown Los Angeles – changing the storyline from one about violence, crime and civil unrest to one of a vibrant, prosperous neighborhood – through the use of a Community Benefits Agreement. Read More

This What Works for Cities case study highlights how a successful African-American entrepreneur, recognizing the struggles he faced, founded an entrepreneurship center to meet the needs of minority-owned businesses. Read More