Neighborhood organizations serve as an important check on City overreach. Why not all NIMBYism is bad Often, neighborhood organizations' objections to a City proposal or development are rejected as NIMBYism, suggesting that any neighborhood opposition is uninformed or simply reactionary (as compared to all City decisions, which are inherently enlightened and well informed). Robert Moses

NonProfit Quarterly reports that Congress is once again considering repeal of the Johnson Amendment. The Johnson Amendment was introduced bythen Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 The Johnson Amendment was introduced by then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954, and is important because it established the prohibition on 'political intervention' by charitable organizations. This rule has been

Neighborhood Organizations can play an important role in City resiliency and recovery.   Neighborhood organizations' rolein New Orleans after Katrina After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005, neighborhood organizations in the City began to flourish as they started to play an important role in the City's recovery efforts. According to one report, Mapping New Orleans:

The International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) recognized two local organizations, the Jefferson Center and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, for their common work on the “Rural Climate Dialogues”, which won the award for “Creativity and Innovation.” I have been a fan of both Jefferson Center and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and believe the award is

The very first question that should be asked by the Roadmap is "What are the unique services provided by neighborhood organizations to residents and the City?" There are many different ways to answer this question, for example, it would be easy to simply provide a list of programmatic services that neighborhood organizations provide--a sort of check list of neighborhood organizations activities. But