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Excerpt from Hearing on H. R. 818, the Community Services Empowerment Amendments of 1993, and the Role of Community Development Corporations in Rebuilding Low-Income Communities: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; Hearing Held in Washington, DC, April 27, 1993
The process of community economic development is catalyzed and carried out by organizations like the Crenshaw Neighborhood Development Corporation, which is a private nonprofit organization distinguished by its targeting of clearly defined geo graphic area and providing the impetus to rebuilding urban low-income communi ties by creating new jobs through the development of small and medium size busi nesses. I have known Valerie Lynne Shaw over the years. She is with us today represent ing the Crenshaw Neighborhood Development Corporation - a new and emerging CDC. Since 1987, she has served as the district deputy for Los Angeles City Council woman Ruth Galanter, managing a division which provides political assistance to the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles, that has a population of approximately Her duties as district deputy include policy development, community organizing/ outreach, public speaking, constituent services, personnel management, and project development. Valerie Shaw has shown her fervor and propensity towards community develop ment and enrichment since 1972 when she first acted as the administrator for Teen Post Youth Information Center in Los Angeles. She managed a Los Angeles City sponsored juvenile diversion project which serviced over 100 young people, as well as their families. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
