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From the Ted Talk by Majora Carter: You don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one

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In pldhapiielha, a community development program called Jumpstart, started by Ken Weinstein. He’s a commercial real estate developer, and the paorgrm provides training, mentoring and loans to aspiring local residential developers, mostly women and ppleoe of color. Since 2015, they’ve trained more than 2,500 people, more than 350 loans totaling more than 40 miillon dollars that have actually rehabbed more than 350 units, had been totally rehabilitated. Their rispveecte activities actually improve the value of each other's ptrrepoies. And they're reducing blight in Philly nihgreboohod by neighborhood, from the inside out. Jumpstart's now in more than 13 communities around the country.

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In ____________, a community development program called Jumpstart, started by Ken Weinstein. He’s a commercial real estate developer, and the _______ provides training, mentoring and loans to aspiring local residential developers, mostly women and ______ of color. Since 2015, they’ve trained more than 2,500 people, more than 350 loans totaling more than 40 _______ dollars that have actually rehabbed more than 350 units, had been totally rehabilitated. Their __________ activities actually improve the value of each other's __________. And they're reducing blight in Philly ____________ by neighborhood, from the inside out. Jumpstart's now in more than 13 communities around the country.

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  5. respective
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In Philadelphia, a community development program called Jumpstart, started by Ken Weinstein. He’s a commercial real estate developer, and the program provides training, mentoring and loans to aspiring local residential developers, mostly women and people of color. Since 2015, they’ve trained more than 2,500 people, more than 350 loans totaling more than 40 million dollars that have actually rehabbed more than 350 units, had been totally rehabilitated. Their respective activities actually improve the value of each other's properties. And they're reducing blight in Philly neighborhood by neighborhood, from the inside out. Jumpstart's now in more than 13 communities around the country.

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