Urban Community Development: Market, Government, and Social Forces, A symposium at Yale Law School, April 11, 2003


Partners

The Yale Law School gratefully acknowledges the support of the following partner organizations in helping publicize and promote the symposium.

  • Association for Community Design
    ACD's goal is to sustain a multi-disciplinary, community-building tool for civic improvement associations and community development corporations serving the economically distressed neighborhoods of the nation.
  • Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
    We study and learn about cities and regions - the way they function (or don't function) for the people who live and work in them. Since the world's population is rapidly urbanizing, we need citizens and planning professionals with a sophisticated understanding of how and why cities and regions develop as they do.
  • Dwight Hall, the Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale.
    Founded by undergraduates in 1886 as the Young Men’s Christian Association at Yale, Dwight Hall has evolved into a nonsectarian, independent, non-profit umbrella organization with a strong history of social justice work in New Haven and beyond.
  • Economic Development SIG, Yale School of Management
    The economic development student interest group exists to encourage and fulfill student interest in topics that contribute to economic security, justice and prosperity both within the U.S. and internationally. Topics include education and workforce development, community space development, environmental and economic balancing, and others. We are supported by a broad base of alums who have professional and leadership interests in these and other topics.
  • The Next American City
    A new magazine by a new generation of urban leaders and thinkers that takes on the challenging question of how cities, through design, policy, and entrepreneurship, can remain economically competitive while addressing critical environmental and social issues.
  • Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development
    As the oldest university-based advocacy planning organization in the country, PICCED's mission is to enhance the capacity of low- and moderate-income communities to develop innovative solutions to the physical, social, and economic challenges facing them.
  • University at Albany, SUNY
    University at Albany's broad mission of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research and public service engages 17,000 diverse students in nine schools and colleges, including programs in Geography and Planning, Public Affairs and Policy, Social Welfare, and Education.
  • Wiggin & Dana
    Founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 1934, Wiggin & Dana LLP provides first-class legal counsel to an international client base of major corporations and institutions, as well as to private businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and families.
  • Urban and Community Studies Program at the University of Connecticut
    The Urban Studies major at the University of Connecticut is an interdisciplinary degree program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with a focus on educating citizens on the multiple dimensions of life within an urban society.
  • Yale Law School Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
    The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order and in reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. Through lectures, debates, and dialogue, the Federalist Society explores various means of achieving this end for every level of society.
  • Yale Law School Housing and Community Development Clinic
    The housing and community development clinic at Yale Law School is a multidisciplinary workshop involving students from the schools of Law, Management,and Architecture. Under the supervision of faculty and members of the local bar, participants will work on behalf of nonprofit organizations and small businesses to promote job creation, neighborhood revitalization, low-income housing, and social service delivery in the New Haven area. The clinic is a co-sponsor of the symposium.
  • Yale Law and Enterprise Forum
    The mission of the Yale Law and Enterprise Forum is to imagine and encourage a legal system that promotes the common good and the dignity of the human person through free enterprise and personal initiative. The Yale Law and Enterprise Forum is a co-sponsor of the symposium.