The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Howard Snyder founded the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation in 1983 with a $20000 loan to purchase an abandoned fire station. From that rough start the CDC grew into a powerful force for community engagement economic reinvestment and job creation.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Rarely has one individual played such a prominent role in one community for such a long time as Howard Snyder on Milwaukee's Northwest Side</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation: A Story of Persistence Adaptation and Luck</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is not only the chronicle of a singular career but a guided tour of our nation's urban policy as it evolved over a period of forty years. -John Gurda author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Making of Milwaukee</em></p>