Angela Blanchard: Emerging After the Storm

As the President and CEO of Neighborhood Centers Inc., in Houston, Blanchard has made a life out of helping communities pull together under difficult circumstances. With a passion for appreciative inquiry, Blanchard knows, "you can't build on broken". When you start with a community's strength, and refuse to admire problems a new conversation emerges. 

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Angela Blanchard

Angela Blanchard's pioneering work in asset-based community development  focuses on the human, social and cultural strengths of vulnerable populations. As the president and CEO of Houston-based Neighborhood Centers Inc., one of the top 1% of U.S.-based charitable groups that serves 250,000 clients annually through 60 facilities in the Houston and Gulf Coast regions, she has developed a powerful transformational model for community redevelopment with important implications for other efforts throughout the nation.

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