| This study investigates the role that local non-profit organizational networks play in influencing community revitalization, focusing on the conditions that facilitate and shape the development of organizational social capital. These networks of relationships allow organizations to access economic and political resources crucial for marginalized communities. In particular, this study focuses attention on the manner in which local historical, political and socioeconomic contexts shape the development of organizational social capital and the influence of organizational networks within communities by comparing organizational networks and neighborhood regeneration efforts in three Los Angeles neighborhoods. This study demonstrates that diverse patterns of community politics conditioned by local contexts exist across neighborhoods within the city, where differences in organizational capacities, organizing norms and the dynamics of race, class and competing interests have important implications for the prospects of community influence, local empowerment and neighborhood regeneration. |
