Robert Ogilvie

Vice president for strategic engagement

Robert Ogilvie is the vice president for strategic engagement at ChangeLab Solutions. Over the past 15 years he has worked extensively in community development and planning to help improve low- and middle-income neighborhoods. Prior to joining ChangeLab Solutions, he served as a faculty member in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, as a consultant to city and county governments, nonprofit organizations, and neighborhood activists, and as director of volunteers at the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City. He is the author of Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic (Indiana University Press, 2004), an examination of why people volunteer and how local organizations create community. Robert graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, University of South Carolina, and holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University.

Articles

Land trusts offer new approach to community redevelopment

In the Sterling neighborhood of Greenville, South Carolina, residents are taking on gentrification by forming a community land trust. The trust has successfully launched an urban farm and has big plans for more community-led redevelopment, but funding is a challenge.

Produce at a farmer's market.

5 Strategies to Create Small-Scale Healthy Food Retail

From Nebraska to New York, neighborhood corner stores are putting healthier food on the shelf, using models that are economically sustainable and good for the community. Here are five key strategies to make such stores healthy and viable.