ABSTRACT
The next two chapters (Chapters 12 and 13) foreground issues of service provision in community development. As the public sector has increasingly contracted out the provision of services to people in American cities, the role of community-based not-forprofits has correspondingly increased. The first of these two chapters, by Levanthal, Brooks-Gunn, and Kamerman, focuses on social service provision to families and children, and the importance of community in the outcomes that come from their provision and consumption. The second, by Cordero-Guzmán and Quiroz-Becerra, addresses the practices of immigrant community-based organizations. As immigrants transform American cities, and are often in neighborhoods in which community development is needed and/or occurring, it is increasingly important that discussions and analyses of community development understand the particular needs and interests of immigrants.
