Culture Builds Community
Between 1996 and 2002, SIAP undertook an evaluation of Culture Builds Community (CBC), a three-year community arts initiative of the William Penn Foundation in Greater Philadelphia. During this project, the research team developed and refined a set of empirical methods for studying the relationship between cultural resources and urban communities and produced a series of working papers.
SIAP's summary report provides an overview of the Culture Builds Community initiative, findings concerning the Foundation's success at achieving its goals, and lessons for other efforts to stimulate the community cultural sector. Based on the report, SIAP in collaboration with the Stockton Rush Barton Foundation developed a research brief designed for wide circulation.
Submissions from 2002
Culture Builds Community Research Brief: The Power of Arts and Culture in Community Building, Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP)
Culture Builds Community Evaluation: Summary Report, Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
Submissions from 2001
Housing Markets and Social Capital: The Role of Participation, Institutions, and Diversity in Neighborhood Transformation, Mark J. Stern
Urban Vitality, Diversity, and Culture: Population Growth and Ethnic Change in Philadelphia: 1990-2000, Mark J. Stern
Submissions from 2000
The Geography of Cultural Production in Metropolitan Philadelphia, Mark J. Stern
Cultural Participation and Communities: The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Effects, Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
“Irrational” Organizations: Why Community-Based Organizations Are Really Social Movements, Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
Submissions from 1999
Cultural Organizations in the Network Society, Susan C. Seifert and Mark J. Stern
Is All the World Philadelphia?: A Multi-city Study of Arts and Cultural Organizations, Diversity, and Urban Revitalization, Mark J. Stern
Submissions from 1998
Community Revitalization and the Arts in Philadelphia, Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
Cultural Participation and Civic Engagement In Five Philadelphia Neighborhoods, Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
Submissions from 1997
Art and Social Change: AIDS Activism in Philadelphia, Mary Stuart Petty
Social Citizenship and Urban Poverty, Mark J. Stern