The University of California, Los Angeles, has established a Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) which provides assistance to neighborhood residents in the development of free-standing, self-sufficient structures in the community that do the work of sustainable urban revitalization. Through Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA), one program started by the university s Outreach Center, community residents are able to procure important information regarding water and tax liens in the immediate neighborhood. This work has been used to advocate for policy change in the neighborhood, prompting the city government to create a committee which specifically addresses the improvement of impoverished areas in the neighborhoods served by the university.
From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy
Website: http://nkla.sppsr.ucla.edu/
