Role of Corporations in Urban Community Development

The critical issue that this article examines is the crushing problem of poverty in America's inner cities. Urban areas are plagued by rampant drug traffic, skyrocketing unemployment, marginal economic development opportunities, and overall deterioration. The conditions in many inner cities are no less devastating than conditions in impoverished Third World countries. With the U.S. Olympics right around the corner, a group of local corporate CEOs approached former president Jimmy Carter and urged him to apply some of the successful techniques that The Carter Center had employed around the world to the problems of urban Atlanta. Carter took a look at the urban decay in Atlanta and was shocked at what he saw. With the support of corporate contributions on an unprecedented scale, the former president inititated a partnership of local neighborhoods, government, and business called The Atlanta Project (TAP).

TAP is unique in many ways. First, the breadth

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