The Center for Community Progress (Community Progress) is a national nonprofit established in 2010 to strengthen neighborhoods and improve lives through its work to ensure communities have the systems and capacity to prevent, maintain, and reuse vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties. Community Progress serves as the leading national resource for local, state, and federal policies and best practices that address the full cycle of property revitalization. Its programming encompasses direct technical assistance, trainings, conferences, and other learning opportunities, policy education and development, and practitioner-oriented research.

Community Progress recognizes the severe negative impact that vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties have on neighborhoods and the people living in them, including economic, social, psychological, environmental, and other harms. Community Progress also recognizes the legacy of unjust laws, policies, and systems that cause some communities to bear an unfair share of this burden. Community Progress’ leadership is strongly committed to the belief that these properties can be tremendous resources if returned to productive uses that benefit the surrounding community.

In all its work, Community Progress seeks to create the conditions for stable and vital neighborhoods over the long-term, for and with the people who live in them by nurturing the vision, leadership, knowledge, and reform required for sustainable, systemic change. For more information, please visit our website at www.communityprogress.net.