Policies and Planning in Support of Local Businesses
The Pratt Center is working with community partners on new neighborhood-based and citywide strategies to strengthen neighborhood retail as a strategy for community economic development in a worsening economy.
Building Hopeis a one-hour documentary chronicling the history and accomplishments of community development corporations across the nation, based on oral histories conducted with founders, leaders and supporters of 19 influential CDCs. Produced by the Pratt Center and Vanguard Films, Building Hope aired on PBS in 1994. See it here.