Neighborhood Scaffolding: Building an Infrastructure to Support a City - The Raymond John Wean Foundation

Ian Beniston credits the origins of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. (YNDC) to a specific exchange between a resident and the Wean Foundation.  

It was 2007 and Beniston, who grew up on the north side of Youngstown, was pursuing a graduate degree in city planning at The Ohio State University in Columbus. For the past few months, he had been working with six other graduate students and a number of residents in the Idora neighborhood on the south side of Youngstown to develop a neighborhood plan. 

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