
Featured Article | October 10, 2024
The Community-Based Developer Collective: Why Place Matters in Community Development
By: Gabriel Frank-McPheter Acknowledgements: Thank you to Deland Chan and Remy De La Peza for supervising this project, and to Eric Wu for assisting in data collection and producing the graphs and charts in this memo. A special thank you to all of the members of the CBDC for their feedback. This work builds on […]
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