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NJPPRI partners with a number of individuals and organizations in its work. Our research and convening initiatives encompass both national and state-level activity. Our collaboration with the Robert J. Milano School of Management and Public Policy at New School University places us at the center of an effort supported by a partnership of national foundations and financial institutions called Living Cities. The Living Cities-Milano Collaboration examines the organizational capacity of non-profit community development organizations to accomplish community revitalization as well as the training and technical assistance infrastructure of the community development field. This two-year project will present recommendations on how to improve the impact of community development corporations. Similarly, NJPPRI is working with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on a year-long project that examines policies for improving the effectiveness of community development corporations. Both projects establish NJPPRI as a national force in thinking through the challenging and complex issues that must be addressed in improving the community development field.
At the state level, NJPPRI is part of an effort called the Regional Coalition. The Regional Coalition aims to increase the base of regional knowledge and action in the state of New Jersey. Working with practitioner organizations like Isles, Inc., and others, NJPPRI is looking to improve metropolitan and interregional linkages within the state. The project focuses on addressing one critical question: Can New Jersey communities work across geographic, racial, and other barriers to create a collective state identity and a common mission? Achieving this unified focus will strengthen civic engagement, resulting in better schools for all New Jersey children, stronger communities that are safe and healthy, and a state that is more competitive in the global economy.
NJPPRI continues to work with organizations such as the Black United Fund and various local chapters of the NAACP to raise the level of civic dialogue and engagement in the African American community. We have forged a strong relationship with the New Jersey Work Environment Council to build a base of information on environmental justice issues in New Jersey's communities of color. Our Anchor Institutions Project with Public Service Electric and Gas Company's Division of Corporate Responsibility is charting current activity with its renowned South Ward Neighborhood Partnership in Newark. Through its Strategic Urban Development team, PSE&G has established the Clinton Hill Weed and Seed Partnership that, once its progress has been documented by NJPPRI, will serve as an urban revitalization model for other institutions that have a vested interest in strengthening the communities they serve. The following list represents just a sample of the many organizations and institutions that are continuing partners in and/or sponsors of our efforts:
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