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Civic Innovation Hub Phase 2: Community Based Participatory Research

Residents used community-based participatory research to frame questions and plan local improvements more »

Towards Equitable Electric Mobility

We’re joining other groups across the country to advance racial and environmental justice through equitable electric mobility. more »

RainReady®

RainReady helps individuals, businesses, and communities find solutions to the problem of urban flooding. more »

'I can find out what’s really happening:' Academy provides urban planning insight
April 11, 2025

Urban planning shapes decisions about what gets built, where, and planner-driven policies and processes affect much of how we experience our neighborhoods. But typically, only professionals in the field, know much about urban planning principles and ideas or development processes. One way to change that: spread the knowledge. That’s just what the first Chicago Community Planning Academy that Chicago Architecture Center and Center for Neighborhood Technology, which wrapped in... Continue reading »

 

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Building Capacity and Connecting Communities

by CNT and members of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN)
November 21, 2022

Building Capacity and Connecting Communities provides a guidebook on how to best engage vulnerable communities in transportation knowledge and capacity-building. CNT partnered with six community-based organizations, all members of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN) and all representing the interests of community members who are often excluded in transportation decision-making. The organizations shared their approach to capacity and knowledge building. Common themes included experience and exposure as the best teachers, the importance of increasing transportation literacy, and using lived experiences to better understand projects.

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New Map Tool Shows State-By-State Differences In How States Define 'Disadvantaged Community' For Drinking Water Funding

Water Online | May 25, 2025

A new tool created by Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) and Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) will help advocates and policymakers target funding to communities with the greatest need–and to push back on cuts.

The free-to-all DAC Mapping Tool for Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (DAC Mapping Tool) launches Friday, May 30 at https://dacmappingtool.cnt.org. It will allow advocates, SRF program staff and other policymakers, and others to evaluate how Great Lakes states characterize “disadvantaged communities,” or “DACs,” when it comes to subsidizing construction of drinking water infrastructure

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