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An overview of the literature on community development corporations
Author(s) -
Berger Renee A.,
Kasper Gabriel
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.4130040210
Subject(s) - ideology , doors , openness to experience , capitalism , dream , sociology , democracy , political science , public relations , law , politics , psychology , social psychology , engineering , structural engineering , neuroscience
[The community development] movement, largely invisible to the society at large, is quintessentially American. It mirrors the qualities of our society that so impressed Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s: our penchant for innovative civic association, our belief that individuals can bring about change, our openness to risk taking and to bridging lines of class, ideology, and party. CDCs, in their quiet way, have become a major component of corrective capitalism; in this free‐enterprise nation they are finding ways to open doors to classes and individuals otherwise excluded from the American dream.