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Capacity Program
Through the Capacity
Program, PPND supports a strong and effective community
development industry in Pittsburgh . Key components
are multi-year core operating support, training and
technical assistance. Using an outcome-based model
of providing capacity investments to community development
corporations (CDCs), this program focuses on efficiently
achieving positive neighborhood change (blight reduction,
increased tax base, jobs, affordable housing, less crime,
etc.).
Development
Program
PPND
is reinvigorating a program of services to finance planning
and development activities of CDCs. The Development
Program goes hand-in-hand with the Capacity Program
to increase the ability of CDCs to deliver positive
change in their service areas. In 2007, PPND's Board
of Directors finalized an affiliation with the Local
Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation's
leading community development support organization.
As a LISC affiliate, PPND can expand its support for
CDCs with resources such as redevelopment capital; a
network of national experts for technical and management
assistance in strategies such as housing, commercial
development and public safety; and advocates for policies
affecting community development.
Advocacy/Research/Tools
PPND
is committed to bolstering the community development
system as a whole through advocacy and research. By
aligning with government agencies that fund community
development, working with partner organizations to advocate
for effective policies at the state and federal levels
and providing research and policy recommendations on
specific issues of concern in Pittsburgh 's neighborhoods,
PPND can make the system stronger. PPND is currently
leading an effort to create a more formal collaboration
among Pittsburgh 's community development technical
assistance providers/funders in order to better align
resources to create a coordinated and thus more effective
community development system in Pittsburgh.
Regional
Capacity
PPND
aims to transform community development not only in
Pittsburgh , but throughout the region as part of a
regional economic development strategy. Regional community
development infrastructure is quite limited. PPND can
assist in addressing the need for sound community development
practices, working to connect neighborhoods to economic
development and the overall regional plan.
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