Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best example of the unconventional approach in action is in Columbus, Ohio. A humane and intelligent Lutheran minister, Rev. Leopold Bernhard, helped set up a "Neighborhood Corporation" in Columbus's ghetto with the help of Washington writer Milton Kotler. The Corporation is, in fact, little more than a simple legal line drawn around a neighborhood of 8,000 people. (Any good lawyer can set one up in a few hours--if a community so wishes...
...Columbus, the Office of Economic Opportunity and others interested in fighting poverty transferred funds directly to the Corporation--to be used in ways the community thought appropriate to its self-improvement...
...course, mistakes were made (as they are in any organization--including the Mayor's office). But in Columbus there is a good way to correct mistakes. The final recourse lies in the fact that these are regular neighborhood meetings and regular Corporation neighborhood elections...
...Columbus example has been tried in dozens of other communities--including New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant, in a project sponsored by Senator Robert Kennedy. But even if the Mayor were to follow the approach, in fact, he would be taking only a very limited step towards the wisdom of the unconventional approach, in fact, on its own it can end up as little more than "shrewd administractive technique" for routine antipoverty efforts...
Thus the Neighborhood Service Corporation, on the model of Columbus, would also own neighborhood businesses. Again, one man, one vote...