Video Library

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Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School
Follow the iterative planning of one of New Schools/Better Neighborhood's model joint-use, community-centered school building projects. Running Time, 9:27.

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Schools as Centers of Neighborhoods - The Promise Being Realized
NSBN demonstrates gains and successess utilizing collaborative planning to best leverage city resources and scarce funding dollars. Running Time, 10:37.

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Schools as Centers of Communities
NSBN demonstrates how collaborative planning (using San Diego's City Heights as a model) can best leverage city resources and scarce funding dollars. Running Time, 8:19.

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Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School, NSBN Planning Workshop, January 2005
NSBN and Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School host a community outreach workshop to assist in the planning of the school facility and community center. Running Time, 3:37.

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A Portfolio of Schools as Centers of Community
NSBN's portfolio of joint use school and family resource projects in LA County were inspired by Price Charities and the master planning of public investment in San Diego's City Heights.

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NSBN Projects Are Shaping Communities: Two Case Studies
As a result of 'silo thinking', government agencies often find themselves competing against one another for public resources. This video provides an overview of two of NSBN's innovative initiatives to break out of this silo-type of thinking. NSBN is working with the City of Paramount and Paramount Unified School District to develop new classrooms and colocated early education and health center at Los Cerritos Elementary School. In Los Angeles, NSBN is partnering with the Los Angeles Unified School District and local agencies to develop the Gratts New Primary Center as a center of its community to include housing, health care and community services.