“[T]here is plenty of transferable  knowledge here.  Lastly, the analysis comes across as remarkably balanced, considering the
fact that authors played a central role in the programs...Universities can make a real difference, but for that to happen as the
authors put it, “University professors need to get out of the ivory tower and back on the streets. Recommended.
Nick Green, Planning, Practice and Research, Volume 21, Number 1 pp 139-143, February 2006

"[M]ost substantial case study". .."gripping in its narration of the highs and lows involved."..."the book charts a really exciting
first-person analysis of several years of building and sustaining long-term programs in the nineties..."
Journal of Planning Education and Research (Vol. 25, No. 3, 336-338 (2006)

“[D]istinguishing…should be useful for university administrators, who rarely consider all aspects of involvement before they
engage their institutions in a community partnership…the book merits attention as a review of 10 years of community
development work at the University of Louisville, including many accomplishments most universities would be happy to
emulate.  There remains much here to ponder and learn from.”
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2006, Volume 28 Number 2

“HANDS brought together an impressive coalition of government, neighborhood, city and even corporate players to
successfully build affordable housing,  reduce crime, educate children, enhance resident access to technology and provide
social work case managements services…impressive”…those on the university side of the relationship who are trying to do the
right thing will find some important lessons about university politics.”
Randy Stoecker, Shelterforce, Issue 148, Winter 2006

“[H]ighlights the authors’ involvement in a project to improve the impoverished, mostly African -American
neighborhood…provide valuable lessons.”  
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Volume 30, number 2, 2006732-734

“This book by Gilderbloom and Mullins is an important contribution to the field and should be read by university and
community leaders as well as policy makers at all levels.”
Foreword by Dr. Henry Cisneros, Former Secretary of U.S. Housing and Urban Development

“The authors provide a long awaited analysis of where the ties between universities and communities stand today, and the
directions they must be headed in if the American dream of one society is ever to be realized”
Neal Peirce, Washington Post Writers Group.
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