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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"anchor institutions"”.
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Anchor institutions, innovation, and inclusion : Cleveland's University Hospitals Vision 2010 as a national example for addressing Affordable Healtbcare Act 990 requirements
… for revitalization. Within these cities, anchor institutions play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of career opportunities and regional development. One such example, in Cleveland, Ohio will be the focus of this Masters Thesis. I will examine Vision 2010, a diversity-driven …
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Anchor institutions and local economic development through procurement : an analysis of strategies to stimulate the growth of local and minority enterprises through supplier linkages
Anchor institutions, such as hospitals and universities are increasingly engaging in community and economic development initiatives in their host cities. Annually, these institutions spend millions of dollar on a variety of goods services. If these dollars were redirected to purchasing local and to …
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Great Expectations? Universities as civic anchors forlocal innovation and development
The relative importance of universities as local anchor institutions, coupled with the prevailing economic conditions since the financial crisis and subsequent austerity era, has led to increasing demands from policy makers for publicly funded universities to be proactive drivers of innovation and …
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Universities, Communities, and Service-Learning for Urban Development: Rethinking the Work of Kaya Clínica in Maputo, Mozambique
… demands of a growing urban population, anchor institutions are called upon to leverage their permanent strategic positions to contribute to social and economic development in their areas of influence. Universities are distinctive anchor institutions with a strategic position to use their …
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University-community relations and the need for a representational discourse : exploring town-gown at the University of Pennsylvania
… around neighborhood change in relation to "anchor institutions," and offers recommendations for points of intervention on the part of communities, planning practitioners, university officials, and theoreticians.
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The Roles of a Basque-inspired Cooperative in the Community Based Economic Development in Cleveland, Ohio
… that involves large-scale worker cooperatives, anchor institutions, and local government. Besides, Cooperative experience in Cleveland demonstrates the feasibility of Mondragon replication outside the Basque Country, a notion that has been debated by scientists in Basque cooperative studies. …
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Town for all, gown for all : a framework for equitable university-led urban development
… in often have contentious relationships. As anchor institutions, urban universities provide significant employment and educational benefits, though their success and expansion often leads to rising housing costs and displacement in surrounding communities. In this project, I set out to …
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In pursuit of continuity : engaged scholarship for personal and institutional transformation
… role of universities and community colleges as anchor institutions in the economic, social, and cultural lives of cities. University-community partnerships funded through the COPC program seek to strengthen the capacity of residents and civic leaders to improve the quality of life in their …
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Beyond Carbon Toward Liberation: An Urban Bioethical Case for a Socially and Environmentally Just University Health System
… environmental injustice has been growing, yet institutions are still working to identify how to respond. How do we transform University Health System infrastructure, in the built environment and affiliated community assets and human capital, to center equity and the lived experience of climate …
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Serving where we stand : specialty health care clinics and community engagement at a faith-based, urban anchor institution
Kerrick, Lizzie A. Anchor institutions play a vital role in their local communities and economies and have increasingly been expected to become active civic participants in improving health and well-being in their surrounding neighborhoods. This multicase study was conducted to understand how an …
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Reading the future : constructing low-carbon imaginaries in urban institutions
… of environmental sustainability is that the institutions that bring stability to society must become agents of transformative change. In an urbanised world characterised by fossil fuel dependency, the stable ‘anchor institutions’ in major cities are likely to play a central role in …
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Producing Authenticity: The Process, Politics and Impacts of Cultural Preservation in Washington, DC
… DUKE Plan, occurs on three scales: neighborhood, anchor institutions, and individual (residents and visitors). Pro-growth strategies that bolstered the marketable "Black Broadway" place brand were supported at each scale rather than opportunities to preserve the neighborhood's identity through the …
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WE ARE HERE: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY’S EXPANSION ON MANTUA AND POWELTON VILLAGE
Drexel University, a private university in Philadelphia, is expanding its campus to attract more students, faculty, and researchers. The current President, John Fry, envisions transforming West Philadelphia into an innovation district. The university is working with real estate developers on a $3.5 …