What does it take for community ownership to move beyond individual projects and become a lasting force for neighborhood development? This blog explores how practitioners and researchers are building the ecosystems, relationships, and infrastructure needed to help communities shape, own, and benefit from local investment over the long term.

How can hospitals, HBCUs, and faith-based institutions use their economic power to create lasting community wealth? This blog explores how anchor institutions are aligning hiring, procurement, investment, and land use strategies with local priorities to drive long-term economic opportunity and shared prosperity.

Why do so many communities have to prove they are investment-ready before they can access the capital they need to grow? This blog explores how catalytic capital is helping entrepreneurs, institutions, and communities overcome traditional financing barriers by bringing more flexible, patient, and risk-tolerant investment approaches to places often overlooked by conventional markets.

NGIN’s newest report examines how communities engage with technology-based economic development initiatives and explores what it takes to ensure innovation investments create benefits that extend beyond traditional innovation ecosystems. Drawing on research conducted in two NSF Engines regions, it highlights approaches to regional engagement and broad-based outcomes.