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Nature Near Transit

Equitable and Resilient Placekeeping with Nature-Based Solutions and Public Art more »

Chicago Truck Data Portal

CNT and the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization counted trucks and buses throughout Chicagoland. The counts available through this open... more »

Civic Innovation Hub

The Calumet Region is a region in which infrastructure solutions are planned and built with resident and community leadership. 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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Equity in Practice: Strengthening Transit through Community Partnerships

by TransitCenter and CNT
February 29, 2024

TransitCenter, CNT, and six LA-based community organizations worked with LA Metro to implement part of the agency’s strategy for working with CBOs. In our new report, Equity in Practice: Strengthening Transit through Community Partnerships, we reflect on what other agency practitioners can learn about community partnerships from LA Metro. CNT and TransitCenter offered our research expertise and team capacity to the Office of Equity and Race , to aid their implementation of the CBO Partnering Strategy. Our cross-organizational team developed two recommendations from the strategy: a database connecting CBO and LA Metro staff to information about each other and partnership opportunities and a charter process to guide LA Metro-CBO partnerships. This report describes how we developed those two recommendations. In doing so, it demonstrates the process and form that community-driven agency programs can take and illuminates lessons about CBO-agency relationships.

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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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