Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation on the forefront of working with the public, private, philanthropic and community sectors to advance environmental sustainability, equitable development and global smart growth. Our concentration is achieving quality of life with an emphasis on the environment, health and shared prosperity. We apply our efforts in the particular areas where land use, community and economic development meet environmental quality and public health.

Our special interest is meeting the needs of underserved constituencies – communities of color and low income communities.  We provide technical assistance that builds the capacity of development and redevelopment stakeholders in all sectors to engage on these issues and engage in sustainable redevelopment. Some of our most important work is technical assistance, training and education that strengthens the capacity of interdisciplinary stakeholders – local, state and federal government, elected officials, institutions and organizations, academicians, corporations, foundations and other donors.  We help decision makers identify and assess community needs, develop programming and resources that address those needs and work with communities in ways that recognize their centrality to development and redevelopment of disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Our company is committed to building smart, livable, healthy communities through a process of stakeholder engagement that results in sustainable development and wealth-building.  SCDG serves as an active resource and focal point for foundations, public interest groups, governmental agencies, companies in the private sector and other redevelopment stakeholders working to solve the environmental, social, and economic problems created by environmental contamination, sprawling patterns of development and disinvestments in places around the nation. We are a Washington, DC based not-for-profit corporation organized under Internal Revenue Service section 501c3.  Our goal is education and strategies that help develop leaders who understand how public and private redevelopment works and can be used to address health and environmental concerns as well as social and economic concerns. SCDG’s team delivers expert services at the national level, in the states and international venues. We deliver services in a range of areas including: