Lessons and Implications for Future Community Employment Initiatives
2003. Frieda Molina and Craig Howard.
Unlike traditional employment programs that have tried to address poverty by focusing on efforts that assist individuals, the Neighborhood Jobs Initiative (NJI) took aim at alleviating concentrated poverty by raising employment levels of entire neighborhoods and, thereby, gradually transform low-income communities. Working through community organizations with strong ties to neighborhood residents, NJI helped mobilize public and private partners to identify — and reach — concrete, ambitious employment targets. Drawing upon the experiences of the lead community organizations during the initiative’s implementation phase, this third and final NJI report explores the feasibility and effectiveness of NJI’s novel approach to neighborhood revitalization.
Drawing upon the experiences of the lead community organizations during the initiative’s implementation phase, this third and final NJI report explores the feasibility and effectiveness of NJI’s novel approach to neighborhood revitalization.
