Increasing rent prices have left many families struggling to make ends meet, fearing homelessness or displacement.
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The USC Price Center for Social Innovation brings an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to social innovation research. Through relevant, rigorous research, Price Center faculty explore a variety of topics that seek to inform and advance new models of equity and opportunity for low-income children and families.
Trade Associations and the Legitimation of Entrepreneurial Movements: Collective Action in the Emerging Gourmet Food Truck Industry
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Year: 2014
Trade associations are an important topic of investigation for nonprofit and voluntary sector researchers because they serve civic purposes and help to support innovative areas of entrepreneurship. We examine how local trade associations in the emerging gourmet food truck industry … Continue reading
Walking to School: The Experience of Children in Inner City Los Angeles and Implications for Policy
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Year: 2014
Neighborhoods walkability has become an important public health concern. The child’s-eye view of safe and walkable environments is typically remiss from the literature. Particularly the experience of inner-city kids, very different from that of suburban neighborhoods, remains unreported. The study … Continue reading
Positioning Communities for Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Year: 2013
There is an obvious community appeal to transforming a forgotten, vacant lot into a green space filled with food and flowers. Beyond breathing life to forlorn spaces, urban agriculture is associated with a host of social, civic and health benefits. … Continue reading
Increasing the Value of Evaluation to Philanthropic Foundations
American Journal of Evaluation
Year: 2013
This article synthesizes interview data from evaluation directors and top executives of philanthropic foundations on how evaluation might better advance their missions. In key informant interviews, respondents commented on the purposes of evaluation from the foundation’s perspective, challenges to effective … Continue reading
Little Tokyo Community Assessment
Year: 2013
The Sol Price Center for Social Innovation at the University of Southern California collaborated with the Little Tokyo Service Center, a Community Development Corporation, to produce a community assessment of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo neighborhood. The goal of the community … Continue reading