2.1.2 Community-based organizations
Community development corporations are a type of community-based organization.
CBOs, which may be public or private, incorporated for tax purposes or not, secular
as well as religious, are non-profit organizations that tend to ‘‘[meet] human,
educational, environmental or public community needs’’ (National Network of
Libraries of Medicine 2013) in regions that are typically considered disadvantaged.
CBOs explicitly reflect social welfare concerns of equity, inequality and local