Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development

Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers — 2020-07-10T05:00:00Z

Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages community residents' expertise and resources, as an alternative to “community-based” organizations that can marginalize community voice, limit capacity building, and neglect the underlying causes of community conditions.
Communities in Partnership (CIP), a nonprofit organization in Durham, North Carolina, addresses the structural barriers that impact low-wealth communities of

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Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development