Community development corporations are standing at the intersection of preservation and progress, ready and willing to showcase their own neighborhood's unique culture and assets for the city to share in. Randall Garrett of Klondike Smokey City CDC and Michael Cowan of Community LIFT share (in this extended-cut episode) the details of how collaboration, trust, and relationships create pathways for participation within communities to not just build back, but build better.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

• Klondike Smokey City CDC
• Community LIFT
• Community LIFT's Memphis Empowerment Fund
• Northside Square Development
• The Works, Inc.
• River City Capital
• About Community Development Financial Institutions Funds (CDFI Fund)
• BLDG Memphis
• S5E13 "Planning for People and Places" with Charlie Santo
• Engineers Club of Memphis
• PBS documentary "Tom Lee Park: A Riverfront for Everyone"
• "Memphis honors Tom Lee, 100 Years after his heroic river rescue" (Tri-State Defender)
• 2017 High Ground News Article: "Grassroots efforts in Klondike Smokey City stem from one woman"
• "Celebrating heroism of Tom Lee, who saved lives on capsized steamboat 100 years ago" (Commercial Appeal)
• Tom Lee’s Centennial Celebration in Klondike (Choose 901)
• "Tom Lee museum, slave market memorial receive national funding" (The Daily Memphian)

This episode is made possible in partnership with Independent Bank.