neighborhood

Well-credentialed social-service expertise and everyday, actual, real-life, neighborhood authority.

On the 30th anniversary of substantial, work-based policy revision to social-service delivery, a still-relevant call for grantmakers to look beyond “picking up the slack” and instead strengthen the grassroots institutions that foster self-governing citizenship.

As American philanthropy continues to evolve, may it one day catch up with Bob Woodson.

Donors and their advisors are going to have to come out from behind the desks and get out into the neighborhoods and see first-hand the sort of work that’s being done.