Loose Change and Governance

Approximately 5-years ago, the city of Cleveland, Ohio embarked on a community development collaborative initiative designed to stabilize a declining region that existed at the outer boundary of an economically robust and growing area. The process involved social entrepreneurship engaged in bricolage amongst informal networks and anchor institutions to establish an authorizing environment in the absence of governmental policy. This project explored how the initiative got started and gained traction in the midst of seemingly uncontrollable social change brought on by economic and population decline. We discovered a loosely structured approach of using what wa