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The Thriving Neighborhoods Podcast explores what it takes to create lasting transformation in historically disinvested communities. Hosted by Cerca Solutions founders Kirk and Markos Wester-Rivera, each episode features conversations about ideas and innovations working at the intersection of housing, education, economic opportunity, and community leadership.Drawing from decades of lived experience and proven neighborhood development expertise, we unpack practical strategies, challenge conventional approaches, and share promising and effective frameworks to advance the work of inclusive community development. You'll hear Kirk and Markos work through complex questions together, and Kirk's in-depth interviews with practitioners, community leaders, and innovators doing transformative work across the country.What does it really take to stand up a community quarterback organization? How do you build on community strengths while bringing in necessary external resources? How do you measure h
Unknown Host hosts Thriving Neighborhoods Lab, a business show with 11 episodes published.
This episode closes out the series with a conversation between Kirk and Markos about proximity, trust, and what it means to do this work alongside community rather than from a distance. Markos shares his own experience g
Markos and Kirk discuss the difference between asking communities for input and giving them genuine decision-making power. They dig into why the first approach is so common, what it costs organizations and funders to sha
Carol Naughton has spent more than thirty years inside some of the most consequential neighborhood transformation efforts in the country, from leading the East Lake Foundation to helping launch Purpose Built Communities
Investment without protection displaces the people it was supposed to help. Kirk Wester-Rivera sits down with Tony Pickett, CEO of Grounded Solutions Network, to work through the central tension that lives underneath all
Good work done in silos rarely adds up to transformation. Housing organizations build housing. Education groups improve schools. Workforce programs create job pathways. And yet neighborhoods stay stuck. This episode gets
Logan Herring built REACH Riverside after seeing something that practitioners across the country quietly recognize but rarely name: a neighborhood full of good organizations doing good work can still fail to produce tran
Kirk and Markos discuss one of the core tensions in community development: how to build on what a community already has while being honest about what it still needs. They explore why leading with community strengths matt
Neighborhoods occupy a unique position in community development, large enough to address systemic challenges, small enough for residents to have real influence over outcomes. In this episode, Kirk and Markos explore why
What happens to a child's developing brain when their neighborhood is starved of investment? In this episode, Kirk Wester-Rivera sits down with Dr. Doug Jutte to go beyond the social and economic dimensions of place-base
How did concentrated poverty become engineered into specific neighborhoods across America? In this conversation, Kirk sits down with David Edwards, the Policy Advisor for Neighborhoods at the City of Atlanta and Founder
Before we dive into the world of holistic neighborhood development, meet the father-son team behind the Thriving Neighborhoods Lab podcast. Kirk Wester-Rivera brings 28 years of lived experience transforming a historical
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